The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 22 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 12, pg. 1, Col 1&2--MRS. H. W. BURTON DIES UNEXPECTEDLY--Spending Happy Day at Big Family Reunion at Huntsville, Dies Few Hours After Reaching Home--Those who had seen her at Sunday school as happy as she ever was in her life, and in a measure enjoying perfect health, and heard her discussing the pleasant day ahead at Huntsville, were struck speechless when word went over town early Monday morning that Mrs. H. W. Burton was dead, and many yet besides those of her immediate family cannot realize that she will be among us with her cheery smile and kindly word no more forever. With Mr. Burton and others of the Burton family she went to Huntsville Sunday, leaving here just after Sunday school was over, to attend the celebration of the 81st birthday of her husband's brother, Judge Thos. Burton, and was one of the gayest of the big gathering, as she always was, such being her nature. The day was extremely hot, and as she seemed to crave ice water, even before leaving here, it is thought that it might have been a symptom of her fatal illness, although she never felt better. Spending the day with relatives and friends and enjoying the occasion as only one of her nature could, and partaking heartily of the big dinner served, she returned home late in the afternoon, cooking a light supper for herself and Mr. Burton after returning. About 8 o'clock she became suddenly violently ill, seeming to be suffering from both ptomaine poisoning and acute indigestion. Dr. Nichols was hurriedly called as was Dr. Burkhalter and each worked heroically with her, using every known means for relief until 2 a.m., when she passed away. The physicians, from the fact that only a slight twitching of the lips could be noticed for an hour preceding her death, are rather of the opinion that she was also stricken with paralysis. Funeral services were conducted yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the tent in which the big union meeting is now being held, as all the seats had been removed from the Christian church. It was fortunate that such was the case, for the tent with three times the capacity of the church was filled to overflowing, while a big crowd, enough to half fill the church stood on the outside. The services were conducted by the Rev. Edgar M. Richmond, assisted by the pastor, the Rev. John M. Lindsey, and was perhaps the greatest sermon on a similar occasion ever heard here. It was the greatest, a least we have ever heard and we have heard many others say the same. Not a word of fulsome flatter did it contain, yet every word of it breathed the truly christian and Christ like life she had lived among us, and of her beautiful and happy home life. He paid her dearly beloved and heartbroken husband the greatest compliment any person ever heard from a pulpit, and to which all--old and young, white and black--could say a hearty, sincere and fervent "amen." Preceding the sermon Rev. Richmond read the following obituary: "Mary George Pattrick-Burton was born November 1st, 1861 near Higbee. She was the daughter of Hezekiah Patrick and Mary Elizabeth Dawkins-Patrick. She was married to H. W. Burton on February 15, 1883. Of this union two children were born--Mrs. Sallie Reynolds, and Addie, who died at the age of five. On November 5, 1892 Sallie was married to James Reynolds. She died March 29, 1924. "Besides her own children she reared a nephew, Shelton Lessly, now of Kansas City, whose mother died when he was four years of age. His father died some years later. When Sister Burton was young she taught school in Higbee. Deceased united with the Christian church in 1885 under the preaching of Rev. McCune. She and her husband went into the church at the same time. They have always been active in the work of the church. Sister Burton was ill only about six hours. While she led an active life she was at times a great sufferer, having had to spend quite a bit of time in the hospital and was operated on several times. She departed this life July 19, 1926 at 2:20 a.m. "She knew from the time she was taken ill, 8 p.m., July 18, that she was dangerously sick and told her husband to call Shelton Lessly, her nephew, and Franklin Reynolds, her grandson; told her friend, Mrs. Roberts that if the doctors could not do something to relieve her soon the Higher Power would. She leaves her husband, grandson, nephew, two brothers, one sister, a number of nephews and nieces, besides many, many friends and neighbors, all of whom will miss her, but perhaps none so much as her devoted husband, to whom her sudden taking off is a heavy blow. "Mary George was at Bible School Sunday in the morning, and with her husband and others went to Huntsville where they attended a reunion of the Burton family at the home of Thomas Burton. She was felling well and enjoyed the day, so her last day on earth was one of pleasant association with loved ones. A good woman, wife, mother, friend and neighbor is gone. Heaven is enriched; earthly friends mourn their loss; loved ones over there welcome her coming." The surviving brothers and sister are W. R. and L. T. Pattrick and Mrs. F. M. Tymony, all of this place. Another as dear to her as was her grandson, Franklin Reynolds, was her nephew Shelton Lessly, of Kansas City, whom she took into her home on the death of his mother when he was four years old, and on whom she bestowed as much affection as if he had been her very own. Nor did a child ever have stronger affection for a mother than he had for her. Besides a large circle of more distant relatives she leaves perhaps as many, or more sincere friends who mourn her passing as sincerely as her dear ones as any woman who ever lived among us. She was indeed all, and more than Rev. Richmond claimed for her, as all know, and her going is not only a calamity to her loved ones, but to her church and the entire community. Our deepest sympathy goes out to her bereft husband, brothers, sister and her other near and dear ones, and along with the community we hope, as we have heard many say, that all of us will be as well prepared to go when the Grim Reaper shall beckon. Interment was made in the Higbee cemetery by the side of her two children who had preceded her to the glory world, the concourse following her mortal remains to their last resting place being the largest seen here in years. Thursday, 22 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 12, pg. 1, Col 2--Frohoch-Feland--Miss Madine Feland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Feland, who has been attending summer school in Columbia and who had been employed as teacher in the Harrisburg high school for the coming year, sprang a surprise on her parents and friends by going to Jefferson City on the 16th, where she was united in marriage to Mr. Lawrence Frohoch of St. Louis. The bride is one of Higbee's most winsome and accomplished daughters and numbers her friends by her acquaintances. The groom, so far as we know, is unknown to anyone here. Likewise, it is unknown what the plans of the young couple for the future may be. The NEWS joins other friends in best wishes for a long life of unalloyed happiness. Thursday, 22 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 12, pg. 1, Col 2--Ira Hamilton Still Improving--Ira Hamilton, who was struck by lightning five weeks ago yesterday, and who was reported as slightly improved last week, continues to gain, we are pleased to state, and was able to be taken in a car to Renick Sunday for a visit with his mother. The trained nurse who has been in charge of the case since the accident was discharged last week, her services being no longer deemed necessary. Mr. Hamilton, however, is yet far from well, and his physician is not at all certain as to the final outcome. Thursday, 22 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 12, pg. 1, Col 3--Waller C. Malone Dead--W. T. Dameron of Huntsville sends us the following relative to the death of W. C. Malone, a former prominent citizen of the county and well known to readers of the NEWS: Waller C. Malone, a former citizen of Huntsville, died at his home in St. Louis early Sunday morning, last, of heart trouble, and his body was buried here Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Malone was a son of Jesse Malone, a pioneer of the county and was born near Mt. Airy nearly 76 years ago. Most of his early life was spent on a farm. Back in the 80's he and two of his brothers, Scott and Labe Malone, entered the butcher business in Huntsville which they conducted for many years. In the 90's the deceased and G. P. Dameron formed a co-partnership in the livery business in Huntsville which they conducted successfully until the automobile took the day. Soon after they sold their stable and livery teams, Mr. Malone moved to St. Louis and engaged in business. Mr. Malone was a good man and a fine citizen, and a lover of fine saddle and harness horses, and an expert in training them. He was deputy sheriff during my term of four years, from 1891 to 1895. He had many friends here and elsewhere in the county. He was married to Miss Carrie Crosswhite of Audrain county, when young. His wife, one son, Dr. Ira Malone of Sapulpa, Okla., and two daughters, Mrs. G. M. Whiting and Mrs. Charley McDonald, both of St. Louis, survive him. He also leaves a large number of relatives in the county. One brother, Labe W. Malone, of Muskogee, Okla., survives him, who was unable to attend the burial. Mr. Malone professed religion when young and united with the Baptist church, but in later years joined the Christian church. Funeral services were held in the open, under the shade of trees, near the city cemetery, conducted by Elder C. B. Dabney of the Christian church in the presence of a large number of relatives and friends. Burial in the family lot in the city cemetery. Thursday, 22 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 12, pg. 1, Col 3--Homer Cleeton to Leave--The legion of friends of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Cleeton will regret exceedingly to learn that they are to leave Higbee, and as will be seen by an ad in this issue, will sell all of their household goods at auction Saturday. We are not advised as to where they will locate, but understand that they will move to St. Louis. They have a buyer, we understand, for their bakery business. Thursday, 22 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 12, pg. 1, Col 3--Mr. and Mrs. Tyre Harris left Thursday of last week for Milwaukee, Wis., where Mr. Harris has secured employment, and where they will likely make their home. Thursday, 22 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 12, pg. 1, Col 6--Celebrated 81st Birthday--The home of Judge Thos. Burton of Huntsville was the scene of a most pleasant gathering last Sunday when relatives and friends to the number of a hundred or two assembled to celebrate his 81st birthday. Judge Burton is the son of the late Joseph W. Burton of this place, who died some twenty years ago at the ripe old age of 95, and whose name is still revered, and was born on the old home place just southwest of town, but who has lived in Huntsville and vicinity for many years. No finer man exists than Judge Burton, and those lucky enough to be at his home Sunday not only considered it a great privilege but an honor. His legion of friends join the NEWS in the hope that he may retain his health and faculties and be granted many more useful and happy years. Those from here to attend the celebration were: Mr. and Mrs. Medley Burton, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Burton, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Walton and children, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hawkins and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Burton and perhaps others whose names we failed to get. Thursday, 22 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 12, pg. 2, Col 4--Birthday Dinner--Sunday was a most pleasant day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Buckler and family, the occasion being the celebration of the fifty-first birthday anniversary of Mr. Buckler. About 9 o'clock the guests began to arrive with well filled baskets. At the noon hour a dinner was spread out under a large shade fit for a king. The day was spent in conversation and music, the music being furnished by Charley Buckler of Mexico and Joe Andrews of Higbee. (Guest list omitted). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 1, Col 6--H. A. STARKEY FOUND DEAD IN BED--H. A. Starkey Passes Away Suddenly From Paralysis--Interment in Higbee Cemetery.--H. A. Starkey, one of our oldest and most highly respected citizens, who had been in failing health for a year or more, suffering from high blood pressure as well as the infirmities of age, died suddenly from paralysis about 11 o'clock Friday morning, July 9th, at his home in the north part of town. He had been in bed for a few days, but that morning seemed to be (appears to be a line missing) went about her work as usual, stepping into the room every few minutes to see about him. When Dr. J. W. Winn, the family physician, called about 11 o'clock or a little later, he was informed by Mrs. Starkey who had not visited the sick room for a half hour or more, that Mr. Starkey was about the same. Going to the bed, Dr. Winn found that Mr. Starkey had passed away and thought that it had been within the hour. Henry Anderson Starkey was born in Ohio on February 27, 1849, and was in his 78th year. At the age of 26 he moved to Illinois, coming to Missouri in 1874, locating in Macon county, and where he was married. Living in Macon county a few years, he returned to Illinois, remaining five years and returning to Missouri, where he had since resided, living most of the time in Higbee and vicinity, first coming here about thirty years or more ago. He is survived by his widow and one son, Clarence Starkey, of south of town, and six grandchildren, besides a wide circle of friends. Funeral services were conducted at the Christian church, of which deceased had long been a member, Sunday by the Rev. Notley Magruder, in the presence of a crowd that filled the building and which spoke most eloquently of the esteem in which he was held. Interment was made in the Higbee cemetery. We had known Mr. Starkey since the day he came to the vicinity, and can truthfully say of him that a more conscientious, truthful, honest and industrious man never lived among us. In his death not only his family but the community has suffered a distinct loss. Our deepest sympathy with that of the community goes out to the bereaved ones. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 1, Col 6--ARM BROKEN IN FALL--While working about her home Tuesday, Mrs. Chas. Deering fell and broke her right arm near the shoulder and dislocated the latter quite severely. Mrs. Deering doesn't know whether the fall was caused by her tripping over something or having fainted. She was given prompt medical treatment and is doing nicely, but it will likely be several weeks before she will be able to use her arm, owing to the injury to her shoulder. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 5, Col 1, LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--O. F. Pitney and son, Ivan spent from Friday until Sunday in Kansas City on business. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 5, Col 1, LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jeffries left Saturday for St. Joseph where they have employment. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 5, Col 1, LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Lucy Keller of Burlington, Ia., is the guest of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Blansett. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 5, Col 1, LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Alice Stone left Saturday for an extended visit with her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Roberts, of Midwest, Wyo. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 5, Col 1, LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Miller Robb and daughter, Miss Claudine, Miss Mary Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Ware and Thos. Durnil returned Wednesday from a fishing and camping trip on Current river near Van Buren. They report a delightful time. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 5, Col 2, LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. E. J. Turner returned Monday from a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Ed. Seibert, of Paris. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 5, Col 2, LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Geo. Cox and son, Alfred, of Union, Iowa, were the guests of the former's daughter, Mrs. Will Longdon, Tuesday. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 5, Col 2, LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Paul and James Haggard of east of town spent Saturday and Sunday with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Stone. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 5, Col 2, LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Bert Reggini of St. Louis were the guests of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Guerri, during the week. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 5, Col 2, LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Misses Virginia and June Edwards of St. Louis are the guests of their grandfather, W. D. Edwards, and other relatives and friends. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 5, Col 2, LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Alberta Andrews, who is spending the summer in California, writes her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Andrews, that she has secured a position in the Kansas City Public schools and will teach in that city the coming year. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 5, Col 5, LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--The many friends of Mrs. Ann Dysart of Yates will regret to learn that she has been quite sick for the past week, but all will be delighted to know that she was reported much better yesterday. Her sister, Mrs. Alice Tuggle, who has also been quite sick, is better. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 8, Col 2--Birthday Celebration--Sunday, June 27th, was a most pleasant day at the home of W. T. Roberts of south of town, when some eighty-five or more relatives and friends assembled to celebrate his birthday, which occurred on the 25th. The latter date was also the birthday of his grandson, Thomas Brown, while the 27th was the birthday of his granddaughter, Miss Ethel Roberts. At noon a big basket dinner was spread, and like all dinners given by folks of the Myers vicinity, it was a real one, and was enjoyed by all. The afternoon was equally enjoyable, being spent in music and conversation. All departed at a late hour wishing Mr. Roberts and his grandchildren many more such happy occasions. (Guest list omitted.) Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 8, Col 2--Born on the 8th, to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lynch of Armstrong, a son. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 8, Col 2--Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Stroup left yesterday for Shelbyville, Ind., where they will make their home. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 8, Col 2--Naylor school opened Monday with seventeen enrolled and with Miss Tressie Mae Avery teacher. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 8, Col 2--Mr. and Mrs. Bob Noel returned Monday from a visit with their son, Lib Noel, and wife of Brookfield. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 8, Col 3--Alberta, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Glahn, fell out of a swing Friday and sprained her right arm very severely. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 8, Col 3--Mr. and Mrs. Owen Asbury and baby, Rodney, Mrs. F. M. Blaise and Mrs. C. T. Hargis and son, Lowell, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lynch of Armstrong. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 8, Col 4--Mr. and Mrs. Will Little of Windsor are the guests of Higbee relatives and friends. Mr. Little, who got his right leg crushed below the knee at Moberly over a year ago, has not been able to lay aside his crutches, but hopes to do so in a few more weeks. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 8, Col 4--Mrs. Thos. Giles received a letter yesterday from her son, Rich Griffith, of Divernon, Ill., in which he stated, among other things, that his son, Eugene, 17 years old, who graduated with honors this year from the Divernon high school, had secured a good position with one of Chicago's big banks. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 8, Col 4--Sunday being the birthday anniversary of Mrs. Roy Richards as well as that of the little daughter of her guest, Mrs. Will Longdon, the occasion was fittingly celebrated with a big dinner. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. John Goin, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Goin, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Towles, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mullier, Mrs. W. H. Chaney, Pauline Lewis, Moberly; and Marjorie Harriman, Marissa, Ill. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 1, Col 1&2--J. F. CALDWELL DROPS DEAD AT SUPPER TABLE--Died Instantly While Seated at Supper Table Tuesday Evening--Funeral tomorrow at 10 A.M.--Interment in Boone County.--Higbee was given a shock, such as it had not experienced in years, when word went out over town about 6:30 o'clock Tuesday evening that J. F. Caldwell was dead at his home on Bradley street, and those who had seen him only a few moments before when he quit work for the day at the store of Walton & Lambier, where he had charge of the shoe department, were loath to believe it, but it proved only too true. So far as known he was in his usual health, and so far as appearances went, at least, was enjoying perfect health, and was the last person in town one would have expected to die of apoplexy. While seated at the table opposite Mrs. Caldwell eating his supper and conversing with her, his head suddenly dropped as if he had gone to sleep, while he made not a sound. Seeing that something was wrong Mrs. Caldwell began to scream and at the same time placed a pillow on the floor and was placing his head on it, when neighbors who has been attracted by her cries, rushed in. Dr. G. M. Nichols was hastily called, and gave it as his opinion that death had been instantaneous, the discoloration of the face showing that a blood vessel in the brain had bursted and that death was caused from apoplexy. James F. Caldwell was born in Boone county, five miles north of Columbia, on July 16th, 1849 and had he lived until tomorrow he would have been 67 years old. Marrying soon after reaching his majority, he followed farming until the death of his wife in 1898, when he moved to St. Louis, where he lived for several years, and where he was married to Miss Lydia Bowen, who survives him ,as do two sons, Marvin, of Centralia, and R. W., of Rock Springs, Wyo., both sons of his first wife. He also leaves eight grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and four sisters--Mrs. Loretta King, California; Mrs. Lee Wilhite, Mrs. Daisy Crosswhite and Mrs. Ella Farris, Columbia, and Wilson, of near Hallsville. Following his marriage in St. Louis, Mr. Caldwell came to this county, locating in Clark, where he was engaged in the grocery business for several years. Selling out the business, he clerked for a number of years for the Shores Mercantile Co., of that place, coming to Higbee in 1918, since which time he has held the position of salesman with Walton & Lambier, having charge of the shoe and gents' furnishing departments. No firm ever had a more loyal or zealous employee, each member of which, as well as all of the other employees, feel a personal loss, and mourn his passing with a sorrow that is real. Quiet and unassuming, and ready to go out of his way to accommodate one, with always a good word for everyone, he had a friend in all who knew him, and in his passing all are sure that a just man has gone to his reward. He had served as superintendent of the Christian church Sunday school several times, and was holding that responsible position at the time of his death. He had been a member of that church for several years, and transferred his membership to the Higbee church at the very first opportunity after moving here, and had since taken an active part in all departments of church work. Joining the Masonic lodge at Clark, he served as Master one term, moving his membership to Higbee on coming here, and at the time of his death was Chaplain of the Higbee lodge. He had filled other offices in that body during his residence here and was also Past Patron of Clark Chapter of Eastern Star. Funeral services will be held at the Christian church tomorrow (Friday) morning at 10 o'clock by the Rev. E. Y. Keiter, and all business houses will be closed during the hour of the funeral. Interment will be made in Locust Grove cemetery, near Hallsville, Boone county, where short services will be held at the church, and he will be laid to rest with the full honors of the Masonic order, which will be in charge of the Higbee lodge. In the passing of this good and kindly man, Higbee has lost one of the best men who ever lived among us, and that his life was in a great measure what it should have been is attested by the sadness his death has caused the children of the town, not only among the members of his Sunday school, but of the children in general. It was our good fortune to have known him intimately since the day he landed in Higbee, and to have numbered him as a friend. We have seen him tried in all sorts of ways, but never did we see him display anger nor did we ever hear him speak a word of harm of anyone--a pretty good start, itself, on the path of a christian life. The NEWS joins in deepest sympathy to his lonely companion, the children, brothers and sisters. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 1, Col 2--Negro Killed In Car Crash Sunday--Wayland Dibble, a negro living at Glasgow, was instantly killed Sunday morning at about two-thirty when the car in which he was riding turned over about two miles outside of Armstrong. Dibble was in a rented Buick with four others returning from Roanoke where they had attended a picnic. John Cason, also of Glasgow, was driving. Just out of Armstrong they met a Studebaker belonging to Rev. Wright of Moberly, which was coming from Kansas City to Moberly, containing two men, Ora Lynch of Moberly driving. Lynch, seeing the Buick going at an unsafe speed and operating a spot light, pulled over to the side of the road to let it pass. Cason seemed to have poor control over his car and just as he came up to the Studebaker swerved over and hit its front wheel. The impact caused his car to turn over, and Dibble's head was crushed and his neck broken as a result. The other four men in his car were uninjured as were the two occupants of the Studebaker. Tyre Burton, prosecuting attorney, went to Armstrong yesterday to investigate the charge that Cason was driving with a spot light, such being against the law in Missouri--Fayette Democrat-Leader. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 1, Col 2--Fred Noel to Hospital--Fred Noel, who has been suffering from stomach trouble since before his return from overseas, and who has been operated on several times, was taken to Kansas City yesterday by Dr. C. F. Burkhalter where he will enter a government hospital for treatment, and perhaps for another operation, provided he is strong enough to stand it. Mr. Noel had been in bed a week or more and had to be placed on a cot in the baggage car. As he has come through at other times when his case seemed all but hopeless, his many friends are in hopes that he will soon be able to return, if not well, at least in a condition that no more operations will be necessary. Mr. Noel's trouble dates from the day in France when, not having any food for 48 hours, he ate part of a can of tinned beef, which had been pierced with a bullet, and some stale bread, which he found on the battle field. A companion, with whom he shared the food, suffered no ill effects. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 1, Col 2--Card of Thanks--We wish to extend our sincere thanks to neighbors and friends for their acts of sympathy and kindness on the death of my husband, and especially do we thank those who sent flowers and furnished cars. May God's blessing be on each and every one. Sadly missed by his wife.--Mrs. Frances Lusby. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 1, Col 3--Ira Hamilton Improving--Dr. G. M. Nichols the attending physician, informs us that Ira Hamilton, who was struck by lightning a month ago yesterday, and who has been delirious most of the time since, save for a few seconds at a time, showed decided improvement Monday, being conscious for quite an interval and recognizing him and all those about him and conversing with them as to the farm work. Just what will be the outcome of the case is not known, nor can it be guessed, as the extent of the injuries are not known nor can they be determined. However, as Mr. Hamilton has shown this decided improvement his family and friends are much encouraged to believe in his ultimate recovery. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 1, Col 3--A Close Call for Fingers--Will Warford of south of town came within an ace of having all the fingers of his right hand torn or ground off Tuesday while working with a hay baler. He was attempting to start the gasoline engine, pulling a sprocket chain to set it in motion, and at the first explosion of the engine his fingers were jerked into the gearing, and only by giving a tremendous jerk as quick as thought did Mr. Warford save his hand and perhaps his arm. The flesh was mashed off the ends of all of his fingers, as were the nails, but fortunately the bones were not injured. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 1, Col 4--A PLEASANT GATHERING--The home of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Shiflett east of town, was the scene of a very pleasant gathering Sunday when a lot of Huntsville relatives and friends came with well filled baskets for a day's outing and a social good time, and to listen to Henry Taylor, the champion fiddler of the state. As might have been expected, Mr. Taylor gave the crowd the best he had, with the result that it heard such old-time music as it had not heard in years. He was assisted in entertaining the crowd by Finis Lyons and son, Frank, and Mr. Shiflett, who is "some" banjo picker, but who makes no claims along that line. Needless to add that the music was the best and that the dinner was as good, or that all enjoyed the occasion. Those present: Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Robertson and daughter Ula May, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Taylor and daughter and son Bessie and Ashby, Mr. and Mrs. George Shiflett and daughter and son Nellie and George, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Shiflett and son and daughter, Edwards and Lorine, Mr. and Mrs. Dysart Million son and two daughters Morris, Ruth and Vernell, Mr. and Mrs. Blair Gooch and daughter Nadine, Mr. and Mrs. Preston Lyons and daughter, Lorine, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Frazier, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Thompson, Mrs. James Shiflett and son Walter Lee, Mrs. Lou Salmons and two daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Finis Lyons and daughter Rozelle, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lyons and daughter Mildred, Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Shiflett and son John, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hamilton and "Hi" Million. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 1, Col 5--Arrested for Chicken Stealing--A young man apparently about 17 or 18 years old, and giving his name as Arthur Hobart and claiming Muskogee, Okla., as his home, was arrested here Tuesday about noon and is now in jail at Huntsville charged with stealing chickens. As they were taken at night, their purloining may go hard with him, as chicken stealing at night in Missouri is a penitentiary offense. The chickens were the property of T. H. Walton and John Howell, two being taken from the former and one from the latter. Mr. Walton had purchased the chickens for use that day and missed them as soon as he got up, and on coming down town inquired the first thing of R. A. Reynolds, manager of the Co-Operative Association, as to whether he had purchased any chickens that morning, and on being informed that he had bought three, started out to look for the thief, who had been seen prowling around town the day before, but no trace of him could be found. Thinking the fellow would likely go out on the first train, Mr. Reynolds went to the Katy depot when the train from the south came in, and saw his man, apparently hiding and waiting a chance to beat his way out of town, and calling him took him back to his place of business and called up Marshal Cain who took him in charge. Hobart had his preliminary hearing here yesterday before Judge Magruder and was bound over to the circuit court for trial. He is now in jail at Huntsville awaiting trial. Thursday, 15 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 11, pg. 1, Col 5--Ora Lee Duncan Dead--Ora Lee Duncan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry White, living in the Rucker vicinity, died at the home of his parents on the 9th, following a long illness form tuberculosis, at the age of 22 years, 6 months and 11 days. A brother and father preceded him to the Great Beyond. One more day of life and Ora would have died on the 9th anniversary of his father's death. He is survived by his mother and step-father and four step-sisters. He was a grandson of Mrs. Martha Duncan of this place. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Fairview, where interment was made. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. 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Dear Lord..Every single evening as I'm lying here in bed This tiny little prayer keeps running through my head. God bless all my family wherever they may be Keep them warm and safe from harm for they're so close to me. And God there is one more thing I wish that you could do Hope you don't mind me asking Bless my computer too. Now I know that it's not normal to bless a mother board But listen just a second while I explain to you "My Lord". You see, that little metal box holds more than odds and ends Indside those small compartments rest so many of my FRIENDS. I know so much about them by the kindness that they give And this little scrap of metal takes me in to where they live. By faith is how I know them much the same as you We share in what life brings us and from that our friendship grew Please take an extra minute from your duties up above To bless those in my address book that's filled with so much love! Wherever else this prayer may reach to each and every friend Bless each e-mail inbox and the person who hits SEND When you update your heavenly list on your own CD-Rom Remember each who've said this prayer sent up to God.com. Amen Benny and Mary McCune Cass Co Mo HAPPY HOLIDAYS !

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Born on the 4th, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jones, a son. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Geo Longdon left Friday for Chicago where he has employment. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. William Longdon of Chicago is the guest of Higbee relatives and friends. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Roy Piper of Slater is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Goin. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hurshman of Vandalia are the guests of Mrs. W. D. Lloyd. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. F. H. Finn of Lapunta, Ark., is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Pauline Terrill. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Lib Noel of Brookfield; formerly of this place, report the birth of a son on the 2nd. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. E. H. Schultz of Overland, Mo., is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Warford. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Odra Short and W. I. Lloyd of Council Bluffs, Ia, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Lloyd. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Hugh Daggs of Springfield, IL, is the guest of his parents Mr. and Mrs. James Daggs of near town. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Jennie Miles is visiting her sister and brother, Miss Jewell and Thurber Miles, in Mexico. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Mattie Dougherty spent the first of the week in Moberly with her sister, Mrs. Walter Shiftlett. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--George Lloyd and son, George, of Kansas City were called here yesterday by the death of Elmer Lusby. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Bertha Brundege and son Audrie of Moberly were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Nicholas. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Leonard Ancell and little son, Edwin, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lilburn Hawkins in St. Louis. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. L. R. Weiser of Anacortes, Wash., is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Williams. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Margaret Harriman of Marissa, Ill, is the guest of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Goin. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Calvin Magruder and daughter, Miss Ella Mae, spent the first of the week with friends in Moberly. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kelso spent Sunday and Monday in Boonville with the former's sister, Miss Fay, who underwent a very serious surgical operation in a hospital there Wednesday of last week. They report her as doing nicely. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dougherty returned Tuesday from a visit with their daughter, Mrs. Emerson Littlejohn, of St. Joseph. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Rev. Kellis Magruder and family of Vandalia are the guests of his mother, Mrs. Joan Magruder, and other relatives and friends. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Leona Anderson and son, Louis, returned to their home in Kansas City yesterday after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Omar Andrews. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hartman returned to their home in St. Joseph Monday after a visit with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Williams. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Walton spent Sunday near Huntsville with Warren and Scott Turner and Mrs. Miller Turner, uncles and aunt of Mrs. Walton. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Wind storms are proving quite unlucky for J. Edgar Smith. The one of several weeks ago broke the large east plate glass in his barbershop, and the one of Tuesday evening shattered the glass in the door when the latter was blown open suddenly. The next one, we presume, will take the west plate glass. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Francis Newman of Mexico was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Evans, the first of the week. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. E. J. Turner returned yesterday from a visit with her son, Dr. Howard Turner, of Arkansas City, Kans. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Allen Harris and son, Billy, of Bloomington, Ill., Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harris of Joliet, Ill., and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harris and brother, Edwin, of Detroit, Mich., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harris. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--As will be seen by an ad in this issue, Mrs. Will Longdon, who is here from Chicago, will sell all of her household goods at auction Saturday, July 10. Mr. Longdon having decided to remain in Chicago, for some time, at least. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Patterson Bros. department store at Centralia, one of the oldest firms in the town, which closed its doors two weeks ago, will satisfy creditors, who were unduly alarmed, it is said, and remain in business, says the Courier. The town's oldest firm, however, Ragsdale & Holmes, will close out and leave that they may devote all of their capital and energy to their chain of three stores in southwest Missouri. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--W. B. Hairl, mechanic at Murphy's garage for the past year resigned on the first and is visiting in the north part of the state. He will leave in about ten days, we learn, for Wyoming, his old home, and will likely locate there, permanently, as he, like all the rest who spend any time in the West, has never been satisfied with this section. He is a fine workman and a most pleasant gentleman and will be given up with regret, not only by Mr. Murphy, but by all who know him. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Jas. Shook writes us from Colorado Springs under date of June 28: "We are sending you the announcement of the marriage of another of our daughters, Mary Catherine, who was married on the 27th to W. Erman Wallace, the Rev. W. G. Schaefer performing the ceremony. They are at home at 809 N. Wahsatch St., Colorado Springs. Mary is the one who was the baby when we left Higbee. Dorothy, whose marriage you announced last week, is our Colorado baby, and is just 17. This leaves us just one girl now." The NEWS joins other friends in best wishes. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 4--HOUSEHOLD GOODS AT AUCTION--I will sell to the highest bidder for cash on the vacant lot just south of the Gem Theater, on SATURDAY, JULY 10th, beginning at 1 o'clock, the following household goods: Duofold and 2 pads. 2 rocking chairs. Library table. Iron bed, mattress and springs. Dresser. Rag rug. Washstand. Large kitchen cabinet. Round dining table. Six dining chairs. 2 kitchen chairs. Linoleum, 12X13. 6-cap steel range. 3-burner oil stove. Coal heating stove. A lot of dishes and cooking utensils and other items too numerous to mention. MRS. WILLIAM LONGDON. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 6--Burton Items--Mr. and Mrs. Otis Jackson are the proud parents of a fine baby boy, born on the 3rd. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 5, Col 6--WEST POINT ITEMS--Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lewis were the guests of their daughter, Mrs. O. A. Fountain, Sunday. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 1, Col 2--DEATH RECALLS OLD JOKE--The death of Joe Smith, who killed himself at Moberly Thursday night of last week, will recall to mind a joke on Wood Burton, long since dead, and which he enjoyed, jovial and big-hearted fellow that he was, as much as anyone. He was clerking for Tymony & Parrill, it will be remembered, when Smith came in to make some purchases. When he came to charge the goods, Wood, who knew Smith as well as he did anyone, could not think of his name to save his life, and to save himself as well as Smith embarrassment by asking his name, took out his note book and asked, "Let's see, how do you spell your name?" Smith looked at Wood in dumb amazement, and with a voice that had a great deal of fire in it, began to spell his name "S-M-I-T-H," putting plenty of accent on each letter and with quite a pause between each, and further embarrassing Wood, who had turned as red as a beet, by following the spelling with the remark, as he looked daggers, "damn it, can't you spell "Smith?" Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 1, Col 3--FORMER CITIZEN A SUICIDE--Joe Smith Takes Poison From Unknown Cause at Moberly--Burial at Armstrong--Joe Smith, a former well-known resident of Higbee, but who had been residing at Armstrong for several years, killed himself at a Moberly hotel Thursday night of last week by drinking carbolic acid. He left no note or writing of any kind to explain his act, nor can any of his friends imagine any reason other than that he was mentally unbalanced for the time being. Deceased was 55 years old and came to Higbee from Virginia some thirty or thirty-five years ago and worked for many years for the late John Harlow, who owned what is now known as the John Miller farm. Interment was made at Armstrong. In commenting on the death of Mr. Smith, the Armstrong Herald says: "Some of Mr. Smith's friends say that in place of suicide it may have been murder. The deceased was known to have at all times carried several hundred dollars in cash with him, and a very fine revolver. The revolver was gone and there was only a small amount of change in his pocket. One time Mr. Smith was seen to draw $1500 in cash from a bank here, and put it into his pockets. His friends say he was never known to leave town unless he had a roll of several hundred dollars in bills on his person." Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 1, Col 3--Higbee Girl Wins Honors--Miss Thelma Reynolds, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Reynolds, who has been attending a commercial college in Oklahoma City for the last year, and who completed the course a few days ago, writes to her parents that she was recently selected, with two other members of the student body, to represent the school in a typewriting rapid calculating contest which will be held by the business colleges of Oklahoma at the State Fair, to be held some time in September. Along with other friends the NEWS extends congratulations to both Thelma and her parents. In Thelma's case the honor is somewhat of a distinction, due to the fact that when a baby she was afflicted with infantile paralysis which left her with a useless arm. We trust and hope that she will win the contest and we join her legion of Higbee friends in wishing her success. She is expected home this month for a short visit before entering the contest. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 1, Col 3--Dougherty-Egly--Mr. J. B. Dougherty and Miss Thelma Egly, two of our most popular young folks, stole a march on their friends, and also on the families of each, by slipping away to Moberly last Friday, the 2nd, where they were united in marriage by the Rev. E. Y. Keiter, leaving immediately on their return home for Joliet, Ill., where they will likely locate for a time, at least. The bride is the winsome daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Egly and is generally conceded to be one of the prettiest young ladies of the town. Of a sunny disposition and with a smile for all, she was a general favorite and will be sadly missed. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dougherty, and is one of our most popular and substantial young men as well as one of our most deserving, and has a host of friends. The NEWS joins others in congratulations and best wishes. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 1, Col 4--Preliminary Postponed--The preliminary hearing of Clate Ransdall and Joe Hardwick, in jail at Huntsville charged with first degree murder for the killing of Oliver Broaddus at Moberly in April, 1921, and which was to have come up at Moberly Wednesday, had to be postponed indefinitely, or until such time as Tom Barnes, the chief witness, it is said, can be returned from Arkansas, where he is now serving a term in the penitentiary. And just when that will be nobody knows, as the Governor of Arkansas may be a little slow in honoring requisition papers on account of a misunderstanding between the governors of the two states over a St. Louis murder case. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 1, Col 4--Lessly-Hitt--Mr. Carl Lessly and Miss Gladys Hitt, two popular young people of Higbee, were united in marriage in Moberly on Saturday, July 3, but by whom we could not learn. The bride is the pretty daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hitt and is one of our sweetest and most popular young ladies. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Lessly and is a most capable and deserving young man and one who has the confidence and respect of all. The NEWS joins other friends in congratulations and best wishes. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 1, Col 4--Car Stolen and Stripped--A Ford car belonging to Mrs. Robert Fisher of south of town was stolen by unknown parties while she was attending church one night last week and taken to a by-road where it was stripped of about everything removable, and where it was found a day or two later. There is no clue to the thieves. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 1, Col 5--Ira Hamilton No Better--Dr. G. M. Nichols advises us that Ira Hamilton, who was struck by lightning three weeks ago yesterday, was no better at the hour of going to press, if as well. He had a very restless day yesterday. He has had flashes of consciousness at long intervals, and yesterday in one of those periods he complained of pains in his limbs, which may or may not have been a sign of mental or physical improvement. On the whole, however, Mr. Hamilton, it is feared, is losing ground, as he is gradually losing in weight. Thursday, 8 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 10, pg. 1, Col 6--ENDS LIFE BY TAKING POISON--Elmer Lusby Ends Life By Taking Strychnine Refuses to Give Reason--Funeral Today. Friends and acquaintances of Elmer Lusby were shocked beyond measure when word went over town about eight o'clock Tuesday morning that he was dead at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Lloyd in the north part of town, he having been seen by several at the post office and other places a few minutes before, and dead by his own hand, having taken strychnine, taking it presumably, while down town. On reaching the Lloyd home he complained of feeling ill, but kept his own council as to what was wrong, and as his condition became alarming, Mrs. Lloyd called Drs. Burkhalter and Nichols. He had taken so much of the drug, however, that all efforts of the physicians were futile and he died within a few minutes after they arrived at the home. He was conscious when they arrived and told them what he had taken and how much, from a small bottle, measuring the amount on his finger, and which, the doctors say, was enough to have killed a dozen or more. He left no note in explanation of his act, and refused, so we are informed, to make any explanation before losing consciousness. He had been working at Armstrong for some time and came home the first of the week, going to Moberly Monday, presumably to see his wife, from whom he had been separated, it is said, for some time. Several who noticed him in the Katy Depot Monday morning, when he took the train for Moberly, say that he seemed to have a pre-occupied air, and smoked one cigarette after another, consuming them about three times as fast as usual. It is not known where he purchased the poison, or when, but it is presumed that he bought it in Moberly, as it is known that he did not purchase it here. A brother who was at the depot in Moberly when the train arrived, says he is quite positive that he did not get off with other passengers and is of the opinion that he left the train before it reached the depot, which would indicated, if true, that the trip might have been made especially for the poison. Just where he was when he took the poison down town is not known, but he was seen by several going up the Katy track to the Lloyd home, walking very fast and smoking cigarettes as fast as one could possibly be smoked. Coroner McLellan was called here from Moberly and it was developed that deceased had been despondent and was rather disappointed at not receiving a letter from Armstrong in which he expected money due him. He was to have gone to Wichita, Kansas, that day, it was said, in search of employment. Deceased was 31 years of age and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Lusby of south of town, and was born in Howard County in August, 1895. He was married to Edith Cadmus on December 22, 1923, and is survived by her as well as his parents. He also leaves five brothers and three sisters, vis: John, Will Thompson, Edwin and George of Higbee, Mrs. Henry Apel, Armstrong; Mrs. Virgil Lyon and Mrs. Elbert Fuhrman of near town. Funeral services will be conducted today at 2 p.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Lloyd, grandparents of his wife, by the Rev. F. V. Brower, pastor of the Methodist church, and of which deceased had been a member for several years. Interment will be made at the city cemetery. The news joins the community in sympathy for the bereaved ones. Some of Mr. Lusby's family not being satisfied that all had been found out about his death that might be found had Coroner McLellan called again late yesterday evening when another jury was impaneled, the jury going to the home and viewing the body, but no witnesses were called. The coroner returned to Moberly soon after saying that if anybody had any evidence bearing on the case that had not been heard at the inquest Tuesday the jury would be called together today before the hour for the funeral. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Geo. Barnett of Moberly was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Davis, during the week. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Robert Lander of Slater was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Williams, the first of the week. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Merle Deskin of Moberly was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Deskin, the first of the week. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Bryan Swetnam left Saturday for his home in Fresno, Calif, after a month's visit with his sister, Mrs. Chas. Kirby. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Joe Hackward spent Sunday in Fayette with her daughters, Misses Vera and Jennie, who are attending summer school there. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Houtz, Miss Elsie Maude Zaffke, Mrs. Jesse Strong, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lambier and daughter, Doris, Mr. and Mrs. Elerd Baker and daughter, Mildred, spent Sunday in Jefferson City. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Miller Robb and daughter, Miss Claudine, Miss Mary Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Ware and Thos. Durnil left Tuesday for a fishing and camping trip on Current river near Van Buren, Mo. They will also visit relatives in St. Louis before their return. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 4--Miss Fay Kelso, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brook, went to Boonville Tuesday for an examination by a specialist, but whether or not he advised an operation we did not learn. Miss Kelso was operated on some four years ago for appendicitis, it being a pus case, since which time her side has given her more or less trouble, and at times seems to be in as bad condition as before the operation. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 4--Higbee now has one less barbershop and pool hall, E. J. Turner, who left Tuesday for a visit of several weeks in Oklahoma, having moved his chairs and tables to the residence property he owns in the east part of town. As to whether or not he intends reopening his shop when he returns or whether he will look out another location, we are not advised. He will probably reopen his shop here when business peps up a bit, it is said. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 4&5--Butler B. Brown, was here Saturday from Sturgeon and paid the NEWS an appreciated call. He has been a reader of the NEWS for many years and says it is by far the best paper that comes into his home, and that he could not keep house without it. Forty years ago Mr. Brown hauled the original outfit with which the NEWS began business, consisting of a small hand press and a few cases of type, to Higbee from Sturgeon, it being purchased from his father-in-law, the late Thos. S. Carter, and which had been used to print the Boone County Advertiser, a paper started in Sturgeon by W. I. Webster to buck Carter's Sturgeon Leader. The Advertiser went under after a struggle of about three months. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 5&6--The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Edwards who moved to Brookfield several months ago, will be delighted to know that they are again residents of Higbee, having moved back last week. Mr. Edwards has been in the garage business with Lib Noel, also of this place, at Brookfield, for a year or more, and recently moved to Brunswick, they having the Chevrolet agency for both Linn and Chariton counties, but decided to sell out while the selling was good, and while they were still able to dispose of cars faster than they could get them. Like many other people, Mr. Edwards thinks the saturation point has about been reached in the industry. If not, it will finally arrive, and when it does, others besides those who own cars are going to be hard hit. We are no prophet, but it is our guess that in a very few years the price of cars will be cut in half, and that they will be sold direct from factory to buyer. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 6, Col 1--The following guests entertained Martin Robb at the home of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Fowler with a basket dinner Sunday, June 27th, it being his 24th birthday: Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Warford, Mrs. and Mrs. John Sumpter and daughter, Grace, Mr. and Mrs. Birch Dougherty and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Noel, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Noel and family, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Carey and son T. J., Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Newman and children, Mr. and Mrs. Omer Newman, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Andrews and son Donel, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Pitney, Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Pitney, Mr. and Mrs. Chas Atkins and son Glenwood, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Naylor and son Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fowler and family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dougherty and children, Mrs. Bertha Tulous and daughter of Texas, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Dennis, Mr. and Mrs. Miller Robb, J. W. Robb, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Magruder, Mr. and Mrs., Mr. and Mrs. John Ware, Mr. and Mrs. Grover Atkins and family, Mrs. Carrie Perkins, Arthur Kirby, Mrs. Thos. Holtzclaw, Mrs. Martin Robb and son Billy, Misses Marie Kirby, Virgie Sumpter, Juanita Atkins, Messrs. Cleo Blakemore, Linley Dougherty, Amos Comstock, Roy Quick, John Burkley, Earl Kirby, Forrest Atkins, Raymond and Leroy Starkey, Vincent and Eugene Kirby, Irvin Fowler, Richard and Austin Sumpter. All spent a very enjoyable day and wished Mr. Robb many more such birthdays. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 8, Col 1--Mrs. Wm. Short returned to Brown's Station Sunday after a visit with Higbee relatives. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 8, Col 2--Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Reed and daughter, Maxine, and Mrs. H. K. Boyd, returned to Tilden, Ill., Saturday after a visit with Higbee relatives and friends. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 8, Col 2--SURPRISE BIRTHDAY DINNER--Mr. and Mrs. Jas. E. Carter, who returned last week from a visit of several weeks with relatives in Illinois, were given a delightful surprise Sunday when neighbors and friends, each bearing a big basket of good things to eat, the delegation arriving unannounced and uninvited to help Mr. Carter celebrate his 72nd birthday. Needless to add, the day was a most pleasant one, and enjoyed by none more than by Mr. Carter. (Guest list omitted). Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 8, Col 3--Mrs. Foster Enochs and daughter, Miss Virginia, and Miss Lorena Coleman, of Springfield, Ill., are the guests of Mrs. Lon Coleman and other relatives and friends. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 1, Col 4--"Thomps" Dameron to Return to the County--In a personal letter to the editor of the NEWS yesterday, W. T. ("Thomps") Dameron, who has been located in Tulsa, Okla., for about a year, advises us that he will return to Randolph county to his old home in Huntsville, and will leave Tulsa on the 7th. The county never had a better citizen than Mr. Dameron, measured by any standard that could be applied, and his legion of friends will be more than delighted to learn that he is to again live among us. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 1, Col 5--Lyon-Burckhartt--Mr. Odie Lyon and Miss Louise Burckhartt, two of our best known young people, sprang a surprise on their friends Wednesday of last week by quietly slipping away to Armstrong where they were united in marriage by the Rev. A. B. Craig. They were accompanied by Miller Burckhartt, brother of the bride, and Miss Alma Barron. The bride is the pretty and accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes B. Burckhartt of near town, and is one of our sweetest and most refined young ladies, and a member of the 1926 High School graduating class. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Lyon of west of town, is reliability itself, a hard worker and a most exemplary young man in every particular, and who is held in the highest, esteem by all who know him. The NEWS joins other friends in congratulations and best wishes. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 1, Col 5--The Fourth at Burton--As will be seen by an ad in this issue, Ivan Robb and Oscar Naylor will give a big picnic at Burton on Monday. Music and dancing will be the chief amusements of the day, and barbecued mutton will be the piece de resistance. There will also be plenty of other good things to eat and all kinds of cooling drinks served. In the afternoon the Burton Gun Club will hold a shoot and will award prizes suitable for the program. Everybody is invited. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 1, Col 5--To Ask New Trial--Price Childers, given ten years in prison in circuit court at Moberly last week for the murder of his brother, Jack Childers, at New Franklin, about a year ago, and who took a change of venue to this county, has filed a motion for a new trial, his attorneys claiming that new and vital evidence has been discovered. The motion will be heard next week, and in the event it is overruled an appeal will be taken. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 1, Col 5--Ira Hamilton About the Same--Ira Hamilton of near Moberly, who was struck by lightning three weeks ago, and who has been unconscious most of the time since, being rational for only a few seconds at a time, remains about the same, although he is said to have shown some slight improvement the past week. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 1, Col 6--Broaddus Murder Solved?--At the instance of prosecuting attorney Stringer, Clate Ransdall and Joe Hardwick of Moberly were arrested Saturday charged with the murder of Oliver Broaddus in Moberly on April 5, 1921, and whose body was found floating in Forest Park lake the next morning. Every indication at the time pointed strongly to murder, but it proved a baffling mystery. Ransdall and Hardwick are in jail charged with first degree murder, as is also Rosa Wingate, who ran a house of ill fame, it is said, and who is supposed to have had something to do with the murder, which, it is generally supposed, was the result of a gamblers' war, Broaddus, it is said, having threatened to go before the grand jury in session at the time, and tell all her knew. Broaddus' stomach was sent to Kansas City for chemical analysis and traces of poisoning were found. At the time of the murder, it will be remembered, bloodhounds traced Broaddus to the rooms of Mary Woods, also of the underworld stripe, and some cotton was found in a coal bucket which gave off a very peculiar odor. Many were of the opinion that Broaddus came to his death in her rooms from poison and that his body was conveyed to the park in an automobile and dumped into the lake. Tracks of a car not far away and the finding of Broaddus' glasses near the lake seemed to prove the theory, especially as the autopsy showed that he was not drowned. Mr. Stringer says the case has never been off his mind and that he has investigated every possible clue in the hope that he could eventually bring the guilty parties to justice. From his action, it would seem that he is certain he has the right parties. Both Ransdall and Hardwick protest their innocence. The former says it is nothing but a "frame-up" on the part of one Barnes, now serving a term in the Arkansas penitentiary, who, following some trouble with Ransdall, made the threat, so Ransdall says, that he would live to see him behind the bars also. Ransdall's family, it is said, lived on the G. R. Rennolds farm just southeast of town about twenty years ago, moving to Moberly. Hardwick, who is but 22 years old, is the son of Job Hardwick, a former resident of Higbee, and one of the best and hardest working men we ever knew, and who has been living in Moberly for twenty-five years or more. We hope for the sake to Mr. and Mrs. Hardwick's sake, as well as for the boy's that the latter can prove his innocence beyond question. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Thos Robb left Tuesday for a visit with his sister, Mrs. Wash Cook, of Springfield, Mo. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Clarence Andrews and son, Walter Jack. are visiting relatives in Moberly and Renick. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. E. Dulany and daughter, Mrs. Harvey Howell, spent Sunday with relatives in Audrain county. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. W. V. Tullans and daughter, Mildred arrived Friday from mesa Az for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Andrews. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Wilford Ware, who went to Alton, Ill., recently in search of employment, returned Thursday, being unable to find anything at the present time. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Ruth True, who has been suffering from typhoid fever since the 10th of March, was able to be up for a meal for the first time yesterday. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Fowler returned Friday of last week from Colorado Springs, Colo., where they went several weeks ago for a visit with relatives and for the benefit of Mr. Fowler's health. He was much benefited by the trip, but was not altogether very favorably impressed with the country, although he fell in love with the city. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Doris Radford of Memphis, a the guest of her sister, Mrs. Roy Lessly. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Lousetta Dougherty returned Thursday from a visit with her son, Claude Lewis, of Jefferson City. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Misses Mary Diana Miller and Bessie Feland and Messrs. Thos. Hall and Hubert Farris spent Sunday afternoon in Huntsville. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Delano and children of Eldorado, Arkansas, are the guests of Mrs. Delano's mother, Mrs. Fanny Barron, and other relatives and friends. Thursday, 1 July 1926, Vol 40 No. 9, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Ben Feland had as dinner guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. John Miller, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Mobley, Mr. and Mrs. Omer Andrews, Miss Mary Diana Miller and Messrs. Hubert Farris and Thos. Hall. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 1, (Kathy's notes: Although this issue was obviously the next week, it was still titled as No. 7, and had the date June 17, even though the first article was a reprint from a Washington paper of June 19. I have taken the liberty of correcting both the volume number and date.) Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 1, Col 2--Ira Hamilton Still Living--Ira Hamilton of near Moberly who was struck by lightning while plowing corn Wednesday of last week, and whose team was instantly killed, is still alive, his many friends will be glad to hear, but as to whether or not he will live is only a matter of guess work. He has regained consciousness now and then, but only for a short time, once to recognize and speak to Dr. Nichols and another time to greet James Newman. At times he is quiet and talks at random, while at others it takes several to hold him in bed. While he is in a very serious condition and it is not believed to be much improved, if at all, there are no symptoms of paralysis, so far as we can learn, which is that much in his favor. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 1, Col 3--Walton-Stoner--Mr. Thomas H. Walton, Jr., of this place and Miss Edith Stone of Kansas City were united in marriage at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Dwain Stanley, in that city on Saturday, June 19, 1926, by the Rev. Geo. P. Baity, pastor of the Westport Presbyterian church, the ring ceremony being used. The only witnesses to the ceremony were the immediate relatives of the contracting parties. Immediately following the ceremony the happy couple left for Pratt, Kas., where Mr. Walton recently located to engage in the garage business, and where he is prospering beyond his expectations, his many friends will be glad to hear. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Idella Stone of Kansas City, and is known to many here, where she has visited. She is extremely pretty, is refined and accomplished and possesses all those womanly virtues calculated to make her home all that a home should be . The groom is the son and only child of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Walton of this place, but whom folks have seen little of since his school days here, as he has been located in Kansas City since his days at the University of Missouri several years ago. He is generally recognized as one of our most capable and reliable young men, as well as one of our most deserving, and has a host of friends who join the NEWS in hearty congratulations and best wishes. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 1, Col 4--Dangerously Gored by Cow--Mrs. Peter McGirk, residing near Elliott, was dangerously gored by the family cow one day last week, the animal's horns penetrating her abdomen, we learn, inflicting very serious and dangerous wounds. Mrs. McGirk was given prompt surgical attention, several stitches being required to close the wound, since which time she has been doing nicely. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Fay Kelso of Moberly was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Jane Kelso, Saturday and Sunday. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Frances Newman of Mexico was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Evans, Sunday. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. May Spurling and son, Henry, were the guests of friends in Fayette the latter part of last week. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Reese and daughters, Misses Bernice, Helen and Elsie, and Mrs. Lon Coleman spent Sunday with relatives in Columbia. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Joe E. Jones of Independence, who has been spending his vacation at Chillicothe, was the guest of his brothers, W. R. and Isaac, Saturday and Sunday. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Ruth Burton returned to her home in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sunday after a visit with her grandmother, Mrs. Sue Burton, and other relatives and friends. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Frances Warren, who went to Kansas City for treatment for her throat two weeks ago, and who underwent a slight operation while there, was able to return home Saturday night. She was greatly improved, we are glad to say, and in a short time will be sound and well. She has not been troubled once since her return by the loss of her voice. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Evans and children of Emporia, Ill., were the guests of Higbee relatives and friends the latter part of last week. Mr. Evans moved to Emporia seven years ago where he took up electrical work, and is now engaged in business for himself. His many friends will be glad to learn that he is prospering. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. William Short of Brown's Station is the guest of Higbee relatives. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Homer Cleeton and daughter, Frances, are visiting relatives in St. Louis. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Sarah Stiles of Clark was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Lessly, Sunday. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Susie Foster of Moberly was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Kirby, Sunday. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 5, Col 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--George Robinson and sisters, Misses Mary, Lizzie and Frances, of Huntsville, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hackward Sunday. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 5, Col 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Will Fulton and little daughter returned to her home in Minnesota Monday after a visit with her mother, Mrs. John Mure, and other relatives and friends. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 7, Col 4--(Kathy's notes: This was a divorce action of Ollie Allen, by David H. Dunivent her next friend, Plaintiff vs. George Allen, defendant. Grounds were desertion, action scheduled for first Monday in September, 1926, in Huntsville, Missouri.) Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 8, Col 3--Mr. and Mrs. Omer Andrews returned Tuesday from a visit with Mr. Andrews' father, "Pole" Andrews, of Olathe, Kan. Mr. Andrews states that corn and wheat in that section of Kansas is far in advance of those crops here. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 8, Col 3--Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Shook of Colorado Springs, Colo., announce the marriage of their daughter, Dorothy Margaret, to Mr. Clifford D. Ryden, also of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Shook are former residents of Higbee, and the marriage of their daughter, a baby when they left Higbee, will recall to old friends how time is flying. Along with other friends the NEWS extends best wishes to the happy pair. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 8, Col 5--Mr. and Mrs. Paul Murphy of Clark are the proud parents of a daughter, born on the 16th. Thursday, 24 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 8, pg. 8, Col 6--Seventh Birthday Celebrated.--Thelma Lavern Atkins celebrated her seventh birthday with a party at the home of her parents Tuesday afternoon. Games were played and refreshments were served. Those present: Marion Murphy, Pearl Carson, Alma, Ruth and Lillian Bradley, Ada and Aleen Harl. All departed wishing the little Miss many more happy birthdays. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Lucille Humphrey has been employed as teacher in the Dover district the coming year. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Joe Gruber returned to Illinois Saturday after a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gruber. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Fred Phelan of Moberly was the guest of her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Notley Magruder, the first of the week. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--J. B. Dougherty returned Saturday from Kenosha, Wis., where he had gone in the hope of finding employment. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. W. D. Burke, who had been in a Kansas City hospital for several weeks was able to return home Monday night. Her malady was diagnosed as a stomach trouble, but not of a very serious nature, we are glad to say. She has been advised to remain in bed for several weeks. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Tom Chism is driving a new Ford, purchased last week. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Joe Gerard of St. Louis is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Griggs. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Robert Chism and sons, Thomas, James and Joe, spent the week (with rela) tives in Fulton. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Misses Esther and Ruth Jones spent Tuesday in Moberly with their sister, Mrs. George Blankenship. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Effie Lewis returned to her home in Mexico Sunday after a short visit with her daughter, Mrs. Mark C. Murphy. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Lon Coleman returned to Springfield, Ill., Sunday, after a few weeks at home, and where he has secured employment. Mrs. Coleman will likely remain in Higbee for the greater part of the summer. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Among those on the Honor Roll of Central College, Fayette, this year, were two Higbee young people, Miss Jennie Hackward and Warren Winn. Only those who make the highest grades are placed on this roll. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Hopper of Fargo, ND., accompanied by Misses Ruth Burton of Council Bluffs, Ia., and Marjorie Burton of Guthrie Center, Iowa, arrived in their car Tuesday for a visit with Mrs. Hopper's mother, Mrs. Lizzie Bottoms, and other relatives and friends. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bradley and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lambier returned Saturday from Florida where they had been for the past six months. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Waldo Thomas returned to Chicago Sunday night after a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Thomas, and other relatives and friends. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Nadine Bradley, who is taking a course in nursing in a Moberly hospital, is spending the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bradley. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Bert Reese of Columbia was called here the first of the week by the serious illness of her brother, Walter Davies, who is suffering from sciatic rheumatism. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Harrison Harvey, better known as "Hack," one of the our most industrious and reliable colored citizens, who moved to Vandalia last fall, moved back to Higbee Friday. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Leroy Crump, 22, of Centralia, was drowned in Salt River, near Paris, Sunday, while fishing. He was "running" a trot line, when a pair of hip boots he was wearing filled with water and he sank. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--The marriage, Sunday, of Gusta Dorman and Miss Anna Howell was quite an event not only in their lives but in that of the officiating minister, the Rev. Floyd V. Brower, it being the first such ceremony he had ever performed. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Barton of Tulsa, Okla., are the proud parents of a son, born on June 8th, which was also Mrs. Barton's birthday. The new arrival has been christened Jerry David. Mrs. Barton will be best remembered as Miss Emma Truby of this place. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 5, Col 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Dr. C. F. Burkhalter went to Kansas City Sunday to see his daughter, Mrs. Frances Warren, who is in the city for treatment for her throat, and who also underwent a slight operation. He reports her as doing nicely and says that she will likely be at home in a few days, although her physicians want her to remain for a week or so longer. Dr. Burkhalter returned Monday night, accompanied by his daughter, Miss Charlotte, who had been visiting her sister, Mrs. Otto Dorman, for a week. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 8, Col 5--A. J. Lynch of Armstrong, Mrs. Ernest Dinwiddie and Miss Mary Blessing Dougherty spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Fisher. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 1--Walton Burton Building New Home.--The following from the Maryville Democrat-Forum will be read with interest by Higbee folks, all of whom join the News in congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Burton on this evidence of prosperity: "Construction of the new Kellastone house of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Burton, to be erected at 317 West Third street, will begin as soon as excavating work, which was started recently, is completed. The home will be on the American type of architecture and will contain eight rooms. On the first floor will be living room, sun parlor, dining room and kitchen with a breakfast alcove and front and rear porches. Two large bed rooms, a bath, hall and sleeping porch will be on the second floor. Mr. and Mrs. Burton expect to get possession of their new home next October." Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 1--Two Years for Making Booze--Grundy Adkisson, who was arrested following a raid of his home east of town several months ago by Sheriff McCanne, was given two years in prison in circuit court in Moberly Monday. He gave as his reason for going into the business that he had rheumatism and couldn't work and made the stuff in order to make money. he was informed by Judge Walker that he was being sent to prison rather than given a jail sentence because he had involved his wife and brother in the business with him. A charge against Adkisson for selling liquor was dismissed. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 1--Preaching at Baptist Church Sunday--Stiles Lessly, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. E. Lessly, will fill the pulpit at the Baptist church at the usual hour Sunday evening. Stiles is one of our finest young men as well as one of our most ambitious, and in making the ministry his life's calling has taken up the greatest work any man could possibly take up. He should be greeted by a full house. Since his graduation from William Jewell College he has been attending Chicago University. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 1--C. A. O'Dell Hurt in Fall--While helping take down the old wooden awning in front of the Higbee Savings Bank and the Feland furniture store Monday, C. A. O'Dell fell from a twelve-foot ladder to the pavement, landing like a ton or so of brick, and was pretty well bruised from head to foot, but fortunately breaking no bones. Treating his bruises with iodine, he made matters worse, as he used too much and is now suffering from a mild case of iodine poisoning. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 1--A School Attendance Record--Edwin Barrowman, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Henry, who graduated from the grammar school this year, has a record for attendance at school that few boys of his age can boast, having missed but one-half day since he entered the first grade at the age of 6. If anyone can beat this record we would like to hear from them. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 2--Ribs Injured In Fall--Dr. G. B. Cowley, who put in some spare time last week making a box kite, and at which he is an expert, in taking the kite to the Burkhalter pasture in the east part of town to rest it out, fell over the stile near the old tennis court as he was entering the pasture, completely ruining the kite and more or less damaging several ribs on his left side, and which kept him from work for several days. He is again back on the job, but it will be sometime before the soreness is gone out of his side. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 2--Arm Injured In Fall--W. W. Brundege is carrying his left arm in a sling, the result of a fall Monday while carrying an armload of brick, while working around the new bungalow he is building. While no bones were broken, the injury will be longer in healing, as he tore several ligaments loose. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 3--Dorman-Howell--Mr. Augustus Dorman and Miss Anna Howell, two of Higbee's best known and highly respected young people, were united in marriage Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harris by the Rev. F. V. Brower, pastor of the Methodist church, and left immediately for St. Louis, where each has had employment for several months, and where they will make their home. The bride is the pretty daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Howell and is one of our sweetest, most modest and refined young ladies, and a general favorite with all. The groom is the son of Mr. John Dorman and is generally recognized as one of our best and most industrious young men, and is held in the highest estimation by all who know him. The NEWS joins other friends in congratulations and best wishes. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 4--Mansfield Given $1 Damages--J. M. Mansfield, who was in the bakery business here for a year or two and who moved to Moberly, was awarded $1 damages in circuit court at Moberly Tuesday in his suit against M. A. Romans for $1500 damages for personal injuries. Some time ago Mansfield stepped into the old lobby of the Grand Theater building, which is being rebuilt, at a time when a heavy steel girder was being put in place and was ordered out by Romans, who had charge of the work. He rather resented the haughty command and did not move speedily enough to suit Romans, who informed him that if he did not move he would land on him with a brick, and when he was invited by Mansfield to come and put him out, so we are advised, he picked up a brick and landed it on the side of Mansfield's face and followed it with another which caught him on the point of the jaw. The men then grappled but were separated before they did each other any great damage. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 4--Walter Davies Some Better--Walter Davies, who has been suffering from sciatic rheumatism for the past several weeks, and who has become so weakened from his intense suffering he is scarcely able to talk and can hardly life his hand, was thought to be some better yesterday. He has been unable to lie down since he has been confined to his home, and sits propped up in his chair. His suffering the past week has been such that he has had to be kept under the influence of opiates a great deal of the time. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 6--FARMER STRUCK BY LIGHTNING--Ira Hamilton of Near Moberly Struck Yesterday and Perhaps Fatally Injured--Team Instantly Killed--Ira Hamilton, a well known farmer, aged about 50, a son of the late "Dude" Hamilton, residing just south of Moberly on the Six-Mile Lane, was perhaps fatally injured about 9 a.m. yesterday when he was struck by lightning as he was plowing corn in his field with a cultivator. The bolt came from a very small and insignificant looking cloud that gave no evidence of containing either rain or lightning. An acquaintance passing along the road waved to Mr. Hamilton following a rather sharp clap of thunder just preceding the fatal bolt, and his greeting was returned by Mr. Hamilton. He had hardly done so when there was another loud report, and the man in the road turned and looked in Mr. Hamilton's direction, when he saw him crumpled up on the cultivator and his team of mules lying on the ground. A son of Mr. Hamilton's was working in a field close by and seeing what had happened rushed to his father and with the assistance of the acquaintance lifted him from the cultivator thinking he was dead, but noticed as they laid him down that he was breathing. Mr. Hamilton was taken to his home only a short distance away and Drs. C. F. Burkhalter and G. M. Nichols called, the former remaining most of the day and the latter until 5:30 when a registered nurse arrived from Kansas City. The doctors are quite sure that Mr. Hamilton was struck squarely in the head by the bolt as the back of his head was badly burned and the clothing all but stripped from his body down to the knees. The doctors found his respiration but eight per minute, while the pulse was about 80. After having been worked on for some little time the breathing became more natural but the body remained cold. When Dr. Nicholas left the respiration had dropped back to about eight per minute and in the opinion of the doctors Mr. Hamilton would not live the night out. Mr. Hamilton was quite well known here where he had many friends, all of whom trust that he will recover, but who fear otherwise. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 6--Joe Robertson returned Monday from a visit with his parents at Marshfield, and left the next day in his car with Lyle Cubbage of Yates for Canada on a fishing and outing trip, and which they had been planning for weeks. Joe advised us that they would go north into Canada some 350 miles or more, which will take them pretty much into the wilds. They are going by way of Chicago, and will return through the East and will stop in Philadelphia and spend several days at the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, now going on. Joe promised to write us a log of their trip, and especially as to their fishing experience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

Hi Cousins, For those of you who have had enough of Joe Will Dougherty, just delete this message. For some, it may be old news, but for me, I think I have finally figured out why this was such a tangled mess. It all started with the Howard County Cemetery Book. The New Hope Cemetery, pg 439 shows the following two names on the same headstone: Joe Will b 1-5-1882 d 9-22-1908 "Gone but not forgotten" Daisy b 11-21-1884 d 6-2-1897 w Joe Will "Beloved in life, lamented in death" We had already debunked Daisy as being the wife of Joe Will with the following obituary: >From "The Higbee News" dated 4 June 1897--Died, near Myres, on the 2nd, Daisy, the 12-year-old daughter of Robert Dougherty. Since Daisy died in 1897, at the age of 12, she never showed up on any census records. The question was, why was Daisy, the 12 year old daughter of Robert Dougherty, on the same headstone with Joe Will Dougherty, the son of John David Dougherty? The answer is.....she isn't. It's a double stone all right, but on very close examination of the photograph of the headstone, with a magnifying glass, it reveals that the stone DOES NOT SAY JOE WILL. It simply says, J. W. Dougherty. J. W. Dougherty is James W. Dougherty, Daisy's brother, who is shown to have been born in January of 1882 on the 1900 census records. This matches the birth date given on the headstone. Now as to the death date. The following notice was in the Higbee News: >From "The Higbee News" dated 25 Sep 1908--Robert Dougherty of near Myers received a message from Topeka, Kas, Tuesday informing him of the dangerous illness of his son, Richard. Mr. Dougherty left on the first train and in a few hours a second message came saying that the young man was dead. We have not been able to learn the cause of his death. Young Dougherty enlisted in the army a year or more ago, and the news of his sickness and death, we learn, is the first his parents had heard from him. The editor of the paper, gave the name of the son as Richard. There is no evidence that a "Richard" ever existed as a son of Robert Dougherty. However, the death date of the headstone for J. W. Dougherty, does coincide with the death of the son of Robert in the above mentioned article. In short, the editor screwed up the kid's name! The notice above is actually the death notice for James W. Dougherty, the son of Robert, and the same man buried on the double headstone with his sister, Daisy. It makes sense that if he were single, he could have been buried beside his sister and the cost of another headstone could be saved, by simply engraving his information on her stone. Of course, the way to prove this, would be to send off for the death certificate from the state of Kansas for James W. Dougherty, or to contact the Department of the Army for his service record. Either would prove his date of death, and put, once and for all, this question of Joe Will being buried at New Hope, to rest. So at this point, I still have Joe Will, born about 1875, and vanishing off the face of the earth. Even his own siblings didn't know if he was alive or dead in 1922..............From "the Higbee News" Friday, 18 Aug 1922, Vol 36, No 18--ORDER OF PUBLICATION--Amanda J. Dougherty, James A. Dougherty, Annie Stetson, Arthur Dougherty, Rosie Fuller, Charlie Dougherty, Pearl McMullen, John C. Dougherty, Elizabeth Gardner and Hawkins Dougherty---Plaintiffs, vs. Joseph Dougherty, if living, and if not living, the unknown heirs, devisees, of Joseph Dougherty, deceased---Defendants. To those of you who own the Howard County Cemetery Book, by Boggs and Coutts, you might want to make the correction on pg. 439, and perhaps stop others who might read the book later from making this error go on forever. It was a simple mistake, and one that would be easy for anyone to make, but boy, did it send me on endless hours of research and frustration trying to put the pieces together. Kathy Bowlin

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 4, Col 5&6--THIS WEEK IN MISSOURI HISTORY--Compiled by The State Historical Society of Missouri. Floyd Shoemaker, Secretary, Columbia, Mo.--Sixty-five years ago on June 12, Governor Claiborne F. Jackson issued his proclamation calling 50,000 militia into active service "to protect the state." This action was his reply to Lincoln's call for four regiments, and the immediate reply to Lyon's words, "This means war," uttered at the famous Planters House conference the day before. With the hounds of war snarling at the leash, Missouri's best representatives of both causes halted in instant to parley. Francis P. Blair, Jr., who believed that Missouri belonged with the North, had led the fight, and had been successful at every point. They had foiled the Southern sympathizers in the control of the invaluable arsenal at St. Louis. They had organized 10,000 soldiers at St. Louis; they had captured Camp Jackson and disarmed the militia; and they had displaced the conservative General Harney with Lyon himself as commander of the Department of the West. They had won President Lincoln to their plans, and had so managed that Kansas and United States troops at Ft. Leavenworth, Iowa regiments on the northern border, and Illinois troops at Cairo, Alton, and Quincy were ready to strike. Governor Jackson realized the military helplessness of Missouri. Material destruction would ensue to the state, if any movement were made to help the South. As the hope of armed neutrality dissolved, men were drawn to opposite poles. Relatively few Missourians fought either for slavery or for abolition. There were those whose conviction lay with the preservation of the Union; those whose belief was in taking a stand with their Southern kinsmen, and those who, doubly torn by these considerations, thought it best to save the state from invasion and internal war by staying in the Union. Increasingly these latter were called upon to make their decisions. Sterling Price presided over the state convention which declared against secession in March; he became major-general of the state militia and went with Jackson to St. Louis to confer with Blair and Lyon. They met at the Planters' House under the Stars and Stripes. Thomas L. Snead, aide-de-camp of the governor, describes the close of the conference thus: "Finally, when the conference had lasted four or five hours, Lyon closed it as he opened it. "Rather," said he, (he was still seated and spoke deliberately, slowly, and with a peculiar emphasis) "rather than concede to the State of Missouri the right to demand that my government shall not enlist troops within her limits, or bring troops into the State whenever it pleased, or move its troops at its own will into, out of, or through the State; rather than to concede to the State of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my Government in any matter however unimportant, I would' (rising as he said this, and pointing in turn to every one in the room) "see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the State, dead and buried." Then turning to the Governor, he said: "This means war. In an hour one of my officers will call for you and conduct you out of my lines." Gov. Jackson burned the bridges behind him as he went back to Jefferson City that night. By daybreak, on June 12, his proclamation was going to press. "A series of unprovoked and unparalleled outrages have been inflicted upon the peace and dignity of this Commonwealth and upon the rights and liberties of its people by wicked and unprincipled men, professing to act under the authority of the United States Government. The solemn enactment's of your Legislature have been nullified; your volunteer soldiers have been taken prisoners; your commerce with your sister States has been suspended; your trade with your own fellow citizens has been, and is, subjected to the harassing control of an armed soldiery; peaceful citizens have been imprisoned without warrant of law; unoffending and defenseless men, women and children have been ruthlessly shot down and murdered; and other unbearable indignities have been heaped upon your State and yourselves." The proclamation then takes up the Price-Harney agreement; the conference with Blair and Lyon; and the proposals offered by both sides. "Nothing but the most earnest desire to avert the horrors of civil war from our state, could have tempted me to propose these humiliating terms. Fellow-citizens, all our effort toward conciliation have failed.... "Now, therefore, I, Claiborne F. Jackson, Governor of the State of Missouri, do, in view of the foregoing facts and by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth, issue this my proclamation, calling the militia of the state to the number of 50,000 into the active service of the State, for the purpose of repelling said invasion, and for the protection of the lives, liberties and property of the citizens of the State....." In Missouri was there actual civil war. Sixty percent of her men capable of bearing arms participated, a higher percent than that of any other state. It is estimated that 110, 000 fought for the union; and between 30,000 and 40,000 for the Confederacy. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Bryan Swetnam of Fresno, Calif, is the guest of his sister, Mrs. Chas. Kirby. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Wilford Ware left Monday for Alton, Ill., where he hoped to secure employment. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Annie Howell of St. Louis is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Howell. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Fred Buckler of Kansas City is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Reynolds. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Frances Newman of Mexico was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Evans, Sunday. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Ethel Roberts of Moberly was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roberts, Sunday. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Ben Wright returned Saturday from a week's visit with her daughter, Mrs. Geo. H. Ewell, of Kansas City. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Alberta Andrews of Maryville was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Andrews, the latter part of last week. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Eddie Gruber and children returned to their home in Dowell, Ill., Friday, after a visit with Higbee relatives and friends. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. T. D. Jenkins and son Raymond, arrived yesterday from Los Angeles, Calif., for a visit with Higbee relatives and friends. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Jas. F. Whitmore, who has been attending the Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City for several months, returned home Saturday. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. H. C. Boyd and Mrs. Clyde Reed and little daughter, Maxine, of New Baden, Ill., were called here yesterday by the death of Miss Jennie Robb. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--B. B. Pyle, who was called here three weeks ago by the death of his brother-in-law, A. T. Burton, returned to his home in Denison, Texas, Saturday. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Ermon Hare left Sunday for Kenosha, Wis., for a visit with relatives, and from there will go to Urbana, Ill., where he will attend school this summer. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Thos. Williams returned to her home in Divernon, Ill., Sunday after a visit of several weeks with her mother, Mrs. Mary Williams, and other relatives and friends. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Walter Davies, who has been suffering from sciatic rheumatism for several weeks, has not been nearly so well the past few days, but was thought to be perhaps some better yesterday. He can neither walk nor lie down and has to get what rest he can, which is very little, seated in a chair. His legion of friends hope for his early and complete recovery. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Inez Andrews, who attended Christian College, Columbia, the past year, after a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Andrews, left Sunday for Maryville, where she will attend summer school. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Will Harlow and children left the first of the week for Springfield, Ill. for a visit with relatives before leaving for their home in Torrington, Wy. They will also visit relatives in Centralia, Columbia, and Odessa. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--While in Kansas City Tuesday, Dr. C. F. Burkhalter was called to see Mrs. Mamie Paulfrey, formerly of this place who has been quite sick for several weeks. he reports her as doing nicely and says that she should be able to be out in a short time. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Henry Spurling of Des Moines, Ia., is at home for a two weeks' visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. May Spurling. His brother, Joe, who has been in Des Moines for a year or so, working for a printing firm, went to Chicago several months ago where he took a two-months' course in the Mergenthaler Linotype School, mastering the intricacies of these wonderful machines, and is now employed as linotype operator on the paper at Sibley, Iowa. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 5, Col 4--Dr. C. F. Burkhalter, accompanied by his daughters, Mrs. Frances Warren and Miss Charlotte, went to Kansas City Sunday, where Mrs. Warren went for an examination by a specialist, her throat having given her more or less trouble for a year or more, the trouble possibly having been brought about by the auto accident in which Mrs. Charlotte Brooks-Hulen was killed. Mrs. Warren, it will be remembered, was thown out of the car, being struck across the throat by something as she was thrown from the car, and which caused her neck to be swollen for several weeks, during which time she could talk only in a whisper. This condition of her voice frequently returns, when she sometimes experiences a choking sensation. Dr. Burkhalter returned Tuesday night and stated that the specialists had not yet finished the examination, and that they wanted Mrs. Warren to remain for a week or two. It was their opinion, we are glad to state, that, so far as their examination had gone, nothing was very seriously wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 1, Col 3--HARVEY ROBB LOSES SUIT--A case that drew quite a crowd and created no little interest, and more or less fun for the spectators, who all but filled the city hall, came up in Justice T. B. Magruder's court Tuesday, it being a suit of Harvey Robb against Roy Lessly for something like $300, the suit originating over the sale of the residence property of Mr. Lessly, recently sold under deed of trust, the note being held by Mr. Robb. The note, we understand, was for $800 and at the sale the property brought but $500, being bid in by Mr. Robb, the suit being for the difference between the face of the note and the amount the property brought. Mr. Robb was represented by W. P. Cave, and Mr. Lessly by Edmund Burke, both of Moberly. The case was fought bitterly by each, and in their speeches before the jury each did some real "orating," while their sparring for points before the court resulted in much acrimony, Mr. Cave, we are told, calling Mr. Burke a liar, while the latter came back with interest, referring to his honorable opponent as a damned liar. both escaped any fine for contempt of court, and both were sorry when the case came to an end that they had let their tempers get the best of them. The case went to the jury about 4 o'clock and in about ten minutes it was ready to report, which was a verdict in favor of Mr. Lessly, the vote being unanimous. We are not advised as to whether or not Mr. Robb will take an appeal. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 1, Col 3--Dorman-Burkhalter--Mr. Otto Dorman and Miss Lucille Burkhalter, two of our best known young people, but who have been in Kansas City for several months were they have good positions, and where Mr. Dorman is attending a school of pharmacy, were united in marriage in that city on June 1. While they took no one into their confidence, and no one was aware of their marriage until the announcements were received, it came as no surprise to their many Higbee friends and acquaintances. The bride is the pretty daughter of Dr. C. F. Burkhalter and is a very sweet and accomplished young lady. The groom is the son of John Dorman of this place and is one of our very best young men in every sense of the word, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who know him. The NEWS joins other friends in hearty congratulations and best wishes. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 1, Col 4--Yates Boy Wins State Fair Honor--Geo. Yates, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. P. (Bud) Yates of Yates was the successful competitor in the examination held at Moberly last Saturday by County School Superintendent Robertson to ascertain what school boy of Randolph county would be awarded the honor of representing the county at the Boys' State Fair at the big state fair at Sedalia this fall. Young Yates made the highest grades of any of the boys competing, the entrants being held to the district schools of the county, and is to be congratulated not only on the honors won, but also on the fine trip before him. He will get to see the whole show, elephant included, and all at the expense of the great state of Missouri. Our congratulations to George, and also to his parents. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 1, Col 4--Sustains Broken Ankle--Geo. Wright while at work at mine No. 11 Wednesday, was caught by a fall of rock which broke his left ankle and bruised the leg and foot. He will be off duty for some time. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 1, Col 5--Had Close Call--H. N. Hobbs, east of Paris, had a close call Saturday afternoon when he was trapped in the blazing loft of his barn. Noticing smoke issuing from the cracks he climbed into the loft and tried to extinguish a fire that seemed to be smoldering under the hay. Almost instantly he was cut off from the exit by flames and so dazed that he cannot recall how he escaped. The barn was destroyed, together with three sets of harness, 50 Leghorn hens a lot of corn, seven setting turkey hens and other things. Mrs. Hobbs, who had been unable to walk for some time, managed to get to the barn and turn the horses and mules out. No insurance was carried.--Paris Appeal. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 1, Col 5--Dr. Chas. Binney, who had been called to Illinois by the illness of a brother, and who stopped off here to see his mother-in-law, Mrs. W. S. Pitney, returned to his home in Strawn, Texas, Friday. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 1, Col 6--MISS JENNIE ROBB PASSES ON--Dies in Colorado Springs Hospital After Illness of Nine Years--Interment in Tucker Cemetery.--The many Higbee friends and acquaintances of Miss Jennie Robb were pained beyond measure when word was received on Saturday that she had passed away in Colorado Springs, yet all were glad, too, for they realized that she could never recover, and knew that Death was but a kind messenger sent to relieve her from suffering and to waft her spirit to a brighter and better world. Nine years ago, her health failing, she went West, where she had remained, the last three years of which had been spent in Glochner Hospital, Colorado Springs. Separated from family and old friends, she never lost courage, although she lost ground, even if at time she seemed to gain, and not once during the long, weary, hopeless days, weeks and years did she ever utter one word of complaint. On the contrary, she was cheerful and brave--bravest, it seemed, when death appeared nearest, which was many times. While she longed to live that she might be with those she loved, she was not afraid to die, and passed on in the certain knowledge that all would be well. Her trust in God was implicit and absolute--so much so, in fact, that even ministers and church people, who did all they could for her, were astonished. Growing weaker as the years went by, she finally had to go to a hospital, and which she was never able to leave. About a year or more ago, and at a time when it was said she could live but a few weeks at the outside, following a religious service at her bedside, she conceived the idea that God would cure her if she only continued to trust Him, and from that day on, and for several months, she seemed to improve, and to such an extent that friends had begun to hope for her recovery. But it was not be. Her great faith in the Father of us all never diminished, however, and when she saw that she must go she was perfectly reconciled, and passed out in the certain belief that God was only calling her home. And all who knew this sweet, consecrated christian character are sure such was the case. Jennie Ray Robb was the daughter of Emmett Robb of this place and was born on the home place near town, on August 9, 1896, and is survived by him and her step-mother who was as good and kind to her as her own mother could have been. Two brothers--Grover Robb of St. Louis and Dawson Robb now in the U. S. Army in the Philippines, and two sisters--Mrs. R. W. Boyd of Shreveport, La., and Mrs. Guy Moter, Quantico, Va. She also leaves many more distant relatives and a legion of friends. The body arrived Tuesday and was taken to the home, where funeral services will be held. Interment will be in Tucker cemetery by the side of her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Moter arrived in their car yesterday, being on their way to Colorado, and did not know of the death until their arrival. Mrs. Boyd and Grover Robb arrived Tuesday. Funeral services will be conducted today at 3 p.m. at the home just southwest of town. Our deepest sympathy, along with that of the community, goes out to the bereaved ones in this sad hour, for Jennie was all the dearer to them because of her affliction, her love and concern for them, and the fact that they could not be with her. Truly, her life was a benediction, and we trust that when death beckons all of us will be as well prepared to answer the summons as she was. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 1, Col 6--Mrs. Finis Cloyd and children will leave today for their home in Sheridan, Wyo., after an extended visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walker Magruder, and other relatives and friends. Thursday, 10 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 6, pg. 2, Col 3--Born, on the 4th, in Moberly, to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Shover, a daughter. Mrs. Shover will be best remembered as Miss Edna Lessly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Reese and Mrs. Frank Goin and son, Robson, returned to their home in Springfield, Ill., Tuesday after a visit with Higbee relatives and friends. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Margaret, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. R. Jones, of west of town, is the happiest girl in the community, her parents presenting her with a fine piano this week. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Mobley and son, Harold of Higbee, and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mobley and family were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Mobley Sunday.--Fayette Advertiser. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Brundege of St. Louis and Mrs. J. W. Brundege and daughter, Mrs. Cloe Lowe, of Eureka, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Brundege during the week. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Clyde Giles, who is working in Macon county, left here in his car yesterday for Denver, Colo., for a visit with his daughter, and will be accompanied home by Mrs. Giles, who has been in Denver for several months. He was accompanied by his father, Thos. Giles, who will visit his daughter, Mrs. Morgan Griffith. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilkinson and Mrs. Emmett Dennis and daughters, Misses Beatrice and Dorothy, returned to their home in Springfield, Ill., Monday, after a short visit with Higbee relatives and friends. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 4&5--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Nadine Feland, who is attending summer school in Columbia, and who will teach at Harrisburg the coming year, was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Feland, the first of the week. She was accompanied by her aunt, Miss Elizabeth Goldsberry. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 5--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--A little ad in the NEWS last week found R. M. Avery's dog, "Doc," which had gone to the home of a neighbor. As the dog had never left home before, Mr. Avery had every reason to think it had been stolen. We congratulate Mr. Avery on his good luck. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 6--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Lon Coleman, who have been in Springfield, Ill., for several months, came home Friday and will remain, likely, for the summer. Their many friends are glad to have them back in the old town. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 6--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--W. D. Burke spent Sunday in Kansas City with Mrs. Burke, who has been in a hospital in that city for several weeks for treatment. He reports her as doing nicely and thinks she will be able to be at home in a short time. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 6--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--The following from here left Saturday for Kirksville, where they will attend summer school: Misses Mary Embree, Rena Heathman, Thelma Fullington, Willmuth Baker, Edna Kirby and Bessie Burton. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 6--Dr. and Mrs. Jas. Paulfrey were here from St. Louis the first of the week, the guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Palfrey. "Jimmy," as Dr. Paulfrey is best known to Higbee folks, after four long years in a St. Louis medical college, will graduate this week as a full fledged M. D. He advised us that he will go to Chicago where he will put in two years or more as an intern in the Cook County Hospital, where he will acquire all kinds of experience, as thousands of patients are treated weekly for almost all kinds of disease. He is undecided as yet, of course, as to where he will locate. He has a host of friends here who hope that he will finally decide to come back to the old home town. The NEWS joins other friends in congratulating Dr. Paulfrey on the successful completion of the long hard grind, and hopes and predicts for him a successful career. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 8, Col 1--Dr. G. M. Nichols returned Monday from Kansas City where he had gone the day before for further treatment for a growth on his lower lip, and was delighted to be told that no further treatment was necessary, and he returned on the first train happier than he has been in a long time. Radium treatment removed the lump as if by magic, and the lip is now apparently as healthy as it ever was, with only a small depression in the top. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 8, Col 1--J. T. Randolph and Pete Gruber went to Moberly Tuesday to take part in the Grotto Band concert, which is given every Tuesday evening at Tannehill Park. These concerts are proving very popular, especially as the band is one of the best in the state outside of the cities, as well as the largest and are drawing big crowds from all sections of the county. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 8, Col 2&3--Allen Harris of Bloomington, Ill., spent from Saturday until Monday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harris, and other relatives and friends. Allen, who has a responsible position as foreman in the Alton shops, on being asked as to what he thought of the Alton-Katy merger, laughed and said it was getting to be an old story, but that so far as he knew, it seemed to be the opinion of the employees of the road that the merger would go through but only time would tell, and then announcement would not be made until after the merger was accomplished fact. The Bloomington Pantagraph, which makes a specialty of railroad news, carries articles every few days Mr. Harris stated, relative to the merger, indicating that the consolidation was still being talked and was sure to come. If so, it may mean a great deal to Higbee, and again it may mean no more than a union depot. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 8, Col 4--Henry Hargis, who holds a good position in the postal service at Dodge City, Kansas, arrived Thursday of last week for a visit of ten days with his father, C. S. Hargis, and family. He reports present prospect for a wonderful wheat crop as never better, and says harvest will begin about June 20. Kidding him about the great hullabaloo Kansas puts up every year about not being able to get enough men to harvest her wheat crop, he admitted that part of it was done for advertising purposes, but the main purpose, he had an idea, was to secure a supply of labor that wages would not be prohibitive. He informed us that A. L. Dye, who at one time ran a drug store in Higbee, moving here from Stoutsville or Paris, was a resident of Dodge City and that he was prospering. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 8, Col 5--Everett Hendricks, 27 years old, a farmer residing near Columbia, shot his sister, Miss Mary, aged 30, through the groin Wednesday of last week and then killed himself instantly with the same shotgun. A rumor that his sister was about to become a mother had reached Hendricks and going to the home of a brother he asked his sister if the story were true, and on her denying it, he seized the gun and told her that he would kill her anyway. She pressed the muzzle down as he fired. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 8, Col 5--Jas. Barron, who was taken suddenly ill Saturday, and who had one of the worst spells in the seven long years he has been an invalid, is much better, we are glad to state. Jim's case is a complete puzzle to medical science, and according to all the rules of the latter he should have died at least six years ago. Here's hoping and praying and betting the cigars at the same time that he will yet come out of it and be well and strong again. Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 1, Col 1--NEGRO SHOT AT GLASGOW--Ollie Johnson Kills George Henderson in Gun Fight at Glasgow Saturday Afternoon--Ollie Johnson, colored, shot and killed George Henderson, another negro late Saturday afternoon at Glasgow. It was brought out in the coroner's inquest that the shooting was over $1.65 which Johnson claimed Henderson had stolen from him. Johnson fired four shots but only the last took effect, striking Henderson in the left cheek, and killing him. Johnson's preliminary hearing has been set for today. It is said that he will plead self defense. Reports give it that the two were gambling when the argument arose--Fayette Advertiser. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 1, Col 1--Wounded Six at One Shot--A shotgun belonging to Bud Dugeon, a former colored citizen of Higbee now residing in Moberly, injured six children when it was accidentally discharged by Franklin Williams, a 9-year-old negro boy, who was carrying it from the barn to the house Tuesday. It was housecleaning day at the Dugeon home the Williams child was asked to take the gun to the barn as a precaution against accident. As he rounded the corner of the house on his way to the barn, the gun was accidentally discharged, the shot striking six children, ranging from 5 to 15 years, playing near, most of them being struck in the face and neck, one of them being probably fatally injured. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 1, Col 1--Clarence Cubbage on Crutches.--Clarence Cubbage, who is living on the old home place west of town, the H. B. Cubbage farm, has been on crutches for the past two weeks, having been attacked by a vicious sow a few days ago while on a visit to a neighbor. The animal sank her long tusks in Mr. Cubbage's left knee, inflicting not only a painful, but a very dangerous wound. It is not thought that the knee will be stiff. Mr. Cubbage is improving rapidly. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 1, Col 2--Given Degree and Life Certificate--The University of Missouri at the June commencement exercises this year conferred 679 degrees as compared with 621 last year. Besides the degrees, 166 were given life certificates in education. Among the latter was Miss Alberta Andrews of this place, who was also awarded the B. S. degree. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 1, Col 3--Man Attacked by Wolf--A big timber wolf made a vicious attack upon Frank Ramsey, a farmer who lives about seven miles of Marceline on Yellow Creek. Mr. Ramsey was building a fire in the kitchen stove last Thursday morning when his attention was attracted to a dog fight on the front porch. The snarling and barking of the dog caused him to open the door, and as he did so a hug gray timber wolf made a lunge for his throat. Mr. Ramsey jumped to one side and the wolf passed on, only to turn and renew the attack. In order to save himself Mr. Ramsey was forced to grab the animal with his bare hands, and in the struggle was bitten in several places. The family dog, although badly wounded, came to his master's rescue, tearing at the wolf and doing all that it could to distract the savage beast's attention. The infuriated wolf was still a dangerous antagonist until Ramsey's son, Omar, came to the rescue in the nick of time, armed with a rifle. Selecting a moment of vantage the youth fired a shot striking the wolf squarely in the head. The animal relaxed its hold and fell over dead. After the struggle Ramsey went to Brookfield to consult a physician. The head of the wolf was cut off and sent to the state authorities in Jefferson City for examination. It was feared that the animal had rabies. Mr. Ramsey was given emergency treatment and so was the faithful dog who did everything he could to withstand the attack of the infuriated wild beast--Marceline Journal-Mirror. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 1, Col 3--Longbottom-Bottoms--Mr. Darwin Longbottom of Moberly and Miss Clair Bottoms of this place surprised family and friends Saturday evening of last week by slipping away in Fayette where they were united in marriage at the home of the officiating minister, whose name we could not learn. The bride is the youngest child and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Bottoms of this place and is one of our sweetest young ladies, and one whose always pleasant smile and kindly greeting made her a general favorite. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Longbottom of Moberly, and is a graduate of the Moberly high school. At present he has a good position as district manager for a vacuum cleaner company. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 1, Col 4--D. L. (Lass) Bradley for County Collector--In this issue will be found the announcement of D. L. (Lass) Bradley for county collector of Randolph county, subject to the Democratic primary, August 3, 1926. Mr. Bradley is the son of D. T. Bradley, a former and highly respected citizen of this county. He was born and raised in Sugar Creek township, near Moberly. He was graduated from the Moberly High School in 1909 and has spent the time since then in farming and operating the Bradley coal mine. He taught school in 1912. Mr. Bradley is a man of good habits and character. He stands for better schools and churches, lower taxes and the more economical expenditure of the public's money. If elected to this important office he pledges himself that he will conduct the affairs of this office in all fairness and to the best of his judgment, knowledge and ability. He is asking that due consideration be given him and if found acceptable, will appreciate any support that may be given. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 1, Col 5--He Knew This Section--The following by an unknown writer appeared in the Chicago Tribune's "A Line o' type" column recently: "An I will add that I, too, have memories of Missouri, and hard by Columbia--memories of Renick, which in my boyhood was called "Hell's Half-Acre" by the hardy Welsh miners: of Moberly, then the "Prairie City," with its 4,000 people; of Higbee and Elliott, mining towns where I played baseball; of Sturgeon, where my grandfather raced the original "Red Maria" on the old Buena Vista straightway in the days before the Civil War; of Centralia, where "Pap" Price's outriders did an Iowa company to death; of Switzler, where I played on the pit-dump and looked longingly at the university town--Columbia--through the haze of autumn days; and of Columbia itself, where my own school--Drake--tried in later years to twist the "Tiger's" tail and sometimes did. Yes, Dick, I, too, knew Missouri in dear, dead days before Iowa adopted me to sing "Marching through Georgia" instead of "Dixie"--Iowa, that always sing "Dixie" itself with wet eyes--I, too, knew Missouri and all up and down the Wabash railroad, from Moberly, where the "Katy" used to cross, St. Louis, where I was a paddock boy on the old south-side racetrack, where they raced at night and a Negro band always played "Washington Post;" and, Dick, I yet love Missouri, where my people sleep in its yellow soil; where "stonewall" Jackson is yet a hero; where autumn is one long avenue of rainbow colors; and where the Kansas football team is still looked upon as Jim Lane's devoted followers and treated accordingly. I, too, love Missouri, and its mark will be upon me at death." Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 1, Col 5--Barn Burned by Lightning--A barn on the Hamilton farm east of town was struck by lightning and burned with its contents during the storm Saturday evening. A Mr. Thomas, who lives on the farm, had just turned his mules out of the barn and gone to the house when the bolt struck. Besides losing the barn and a big lot of feed, harness, etc., Mr. Thomas lost two cows and a calf. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Born on May 20, to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Dennis, a son. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Born, on May 28, to Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Major, a daughter. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Geo. Blankenship of Moberly is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Jones. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Harry Allen of Chicago is the guest of her father, Arthur Hudson, and other relatives and friends. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. J. L. Dougherty returned to Fayette Tuesday after a visit with her son, W. B. Dougherty, and family. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--J. F. Smith returned to his home in Clark Saturday after a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Jasper Roberts. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Waldo Thomas is at home from Chicago for a week's visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Thomas. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. E. D. Martin returned to Kirksville Friday after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Little. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Roy Richards returned Saturday from a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Evans of Chicago. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Ben Grapes of Columbia spent from Saturday until Tuesday with Higbee relatives and friends. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mr. and Mrs. Will Harlow and two little daughters, of Parco, Wyo., are the guests of Higbee relatives and friends. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Mamie Wilkerson of Moberly was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Fannie Barron, and other relatives, Sunday. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Lucile Dougherty left Tuesday for Canton, Mo., where she will enter Culver-Stockton college for the summer term. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--The Rev. and Mrs. J. N. Magruder of Eldon are the guests of the former's parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Notley Magruder. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. R. M. Angell returned to her home in Chicago yesterday after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Towles. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Wood Burton returned to Quincy, Ill., Wednesday after a visit of two weeks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Burton. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Williams of Vandalia were the guests of Mrs. Williams' father, W. D. Edwards, Saturday and Sunday. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Thos. Reese and daughters, Misses Lois and Dorothy, of Springfield, Ill., are the guests of Higbee relatives and friends. Thursday, 3 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 5, pg. 5, Col 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Wm. Wytcherly and daughter, Miss Evelyn, of Peoria, Ill., are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Pos and other relatives and friends. Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--R. R. Jones of Independence is the guest of his sons, W. R. and Isaac, and families. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. E. D. Martin of Kirksville is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Little. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Harley Chesser returned to Hannibal Wednesday after a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Chesser. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Frank Harris returned to Joliet, Ill., Tuesday after a few days' visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harris. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Jerome Compton returned to Chicago Saturday night after a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Compton. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Geo. Hulett and son Clifford, returned to their home in Marshall yesterday after a visit with Higbee relatives. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 5, Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Wisdom Burton and daughter, Miss Marjorie, Mrs. John Hudson, Mrs. G. M. Nichols and Glen Burke spent Friday with friends in Columbia. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Miss Edna Kirby, a member of the high school graduating class this year, has been employed to teach in the Oakland district near Cairo the coming year. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 5, Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION--Mrs. Angelina Bottino and Miss Rosena Roselli returned Sunday from a week's visit with relatives and friends in St. Louis and Benld, Ill. They attended the funeral of Mrs. Bottino's cousin at Benld. She met old friends and relatives she hadn't seen for thirty years. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 5, Col 3--Bettie Jane, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Patterson, is a stronger believer in the NEWS than ever, since her dog "Snubby," gone for a week or more, and whose disappearance was mentioned in our last issue, came home a few hours after the paper was out, and from marks on his neck, had evidently been tied up with a rope. She says the next time she wants anything and her dad won't get it, she is going to try the NEWS. Please, Betty Jane, be careful, for we have our limit. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 5, Col 3--Joe Robertson, who, we are glad to state, is to be superintendent of the Yates school again next year, left Sunday for his home in Marshfield, and about June 15, in company with Lyle Cubbage, cashier of the Yates Savings Bank, will leave in his car for Canada where they will spend several weeks on a fishing and camping trip. What a wonderful trip is before them. We would give a leg to go along, for the companionship of such gentlemen would be as great a pleasure as the fishing. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 5, Col 3--Uncle John Sinclair, despite his 96 years, was in town yesterday, hitting on all four as usual, and stopped in long enough to tell us that we were due for a tremendous rain tomorrow. he based his prediction on a certain phase of the moon. About an hour later Dr. G. B. Cowley hit the door with the remark, "rain inside of 48 hours." Asked as to what he based his prediction on, he replied in one word, "teeth," advising us that he had spent most of the day treating teeth for first one and then another, all of whom had the toothache. He says that more than the usual run of toothaches always means an approaching rain. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 5, Col 4--May M. and W. Christian Burton, who were here from Iowa last week to attend the funeral of their brother, A. T. Burton, say that Missouri has no monopoly on the bank failure business, that the failures there are as large in proportion. In one town three banks went under and the town was without a bank for several months. May, who is one of the highest salaried shoe salesmen employed by the Brown Shoe Co., and W. C., who has made a wonderful success as a retail shoe dealer, report business as fairly good--better, in fact, than one would expect. They attribute the bank failures and the depression to readjustment following the war. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 5, Col 5&6--Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Lay went to Marshall Monday to see their son, Cecil, who is in college there and to attend some of the commencement exercises. Mr. Lay informs us that Cecil, who seems to want to specialize in the mercantile business, will remain in Marshall this summer where he will work for the J. C. Penney Co., with the end in view of eventually becoming manager of one of their stores. The Penney Co. is the world's largest chain store organization, having almost 700 stores from coast to coast. The concern trains its own help and all managers, at one time or another, began at the bottom as clerks. The company, we understand, requires that each manager own one-third interest in the store he is to manage, and if he hasn't the money will loan it to him when he is ready for the job. Cecil is one of our best and farseeing young men, and if he doesn't make a success and reach a managership, if he likes the business as well as he thinks he will, we will miss our guess. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 8, Col 4--Farewell and Surprise Party--As R. C. Robb and family are leaving for Liberty, Mo., to make their home, the following friends and neighbors gathered at their home last Monday night, May 17. Mr. Robb and family were away. When they came home about 9 o'clock they found their friends and neighbors there with delicious cakes and ice cream. Mr. Robb soon lit the yard up with Delco lights and the evening was spent in playing croquet and other games. (Guest list omitted.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 2, Col 1, 2 &3--A LETTER FROM W. T. DAMERON--Writes Entertainingly of Former Randolph County Citizen--Tulsa, Okla, May 20, 1926. To the Higbee News. I spent last Sunday at the pleasant and hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. D. Crist, 1212 S. Florence Ave., Tulsa. Mr. and Mrs. Crist are formerly of Moberly. Mrs. Christ's father, Thomas Henry Holloway, who is now nearly 85 years old, also a former Randolph citizen, resides in the Crist home. Mr. Holloway's wife died April 3, last, aged nearly 79 years. Her remains were conveyed to Centralia, Mo., for burial. Her maiden name was Matilda J. Crosswhite, and she was born in Audrain county, Mo., on May 14, 1847. She was a sister of Mrs. Frank K. Collins or Moberly and Mrs. Waller C. Malone, now of St. Louis. Mr. Holloway is a native of Boone county, Mo., being born near Hinton, of October 9, 1841, and where he grew to manhood. His father, Calvin G. Holloway, was one of the pioneers of Boone county, having emigrated there from Kentucky. T. H. Holloway's father, as did his grandfather, died in 1848 of cholera, an epidemic that raged in that community at the time, within three days of each other. Mr. Holloway was married to Miss Matilda J. Croswhite on June 23, 1867, by Rev. W. T. Ellington, a prominent Southern Methodist minister of that day, who was living at that time at Sturgeon. Mr. Holloway says he and his bride traveled many miles that day on horseback from her parents' home to Sturgeon and to his old home, and says it was sure a hot day, too. Before his marriage Mr. Holloway had leased a 160 acres tract of "wild" land from Major Jas. S. Rollins of Columbia, fenced it and put some cattle on it to graze. But he and his bride however, went to housekeeping in a little hut on an 80-acre tract he purchased from a Mr. Culp, some miles away from the leased land. their household goods and cooking utensils were very scant, and occupied only a small portion of the space in the little hut, and with a small supply of food their "honeymoon" was spent happily in that little rustic home. Mr. Holloway says the day he took his bride to the hut to live he had to leave her to look after his cattle on the leased land. He left his bride sitting in the doorway with two faithful dogs lying on the ground near, the only living thing to keep her company. Wolves inhabited that neighborhood at that time. When he returned home some three or four hours later his bride was still sitting in the same place anxiously awaiting his return. She told him that wolves had made two attempts to reach the hut, but the faithful dogs fought them off each time. Of their marriage eleven children were born. Five are still living--Wm. D., Jesse D., and Thos. J. Holloway and Mrs. Goldie Brown and Mrs. Katherine Crist. After remaining on the 80 acres for about two years they moved on a farm over in Randolph county and later to a farm in Macon county, residing there about six years, then moved back to a farm in Randolph north of Clark, where they resided many years. About nine years ago they moved to Moberly, lived there seven years. In 1924 they moved to Tulsa to spend their remaining years with their daughter, Mrs. Crist. The 23rd of last June they celebrated their 58th marriage anniversary. Mr. Holloway says he and his wife in all their married life never had a quarrel. Very few couples that lived together for nearly 59 years can say as much. Like most men of his age, Mr. Holloway is failing some. But says if he can keep his present health he would like to live to be 100 just to see how a man of that age would feel. He says the first time he ever visited Huntsville was when Hade Brown was hung. He and his wife united with the Christian church at old Macedonia. His wife joined in 1866 and he in 1867. His membership is now with the Clark Christian church. Mr. Holloway was a warm personal friend of W. H. Welch, one of the founders of the NEWS, and father of its present editor. He says national prohibition has turned out as he expected--in endless litigation and with no improvement in the morals of the nation. In my talk with Mr. Holloway, our conversation drifted back to Civil War days. He had about 10 months' service in the Confederate army, and was in a federal prison for about eight months. In speaking of this he said, in substance: "Along in 1862-3 the war spirit was at times pretty rampant and exciting in our county and many of the boys of my age were organizing and going south to join Gen. Sterling Price's army. November 1, 1863, I with, other boys of Boone, Howard and Randolph counties joined a company under command of Capt. June Porter and later were attached to a small regiment under Col. Joe Porter, brother of June Porter. We started south with the expectation of uniting with Gen. Price's army. None, or few of us, had any arms at all. While passing through Morgan county south of the Missouri river, and while in camp preparing a snack to eat, a company of "shirt-tail" militia attacked us very unexpectedly. Most of us had good horses, and no arms, and all we could do was to outrun them or be killed or captured. Joshua Lumpkin and Asa Stone, an uncle of mine, were killed in this skirmish. Several other of our men never did show up, they being killed or captured. those of us who escaped went to West Plains Mo., went into camp and reorganized. We remained there about a week and then marched to Batesville, Ark., and went into winter quarters, and remained there until the spring of '64. By this time most of us had been furnished with arms of one kind or another. I was given an old rifle. Our next march was into Eastern Arkansas where we remained for several months. A lot of federals had come in from Iron Mountain, Mo., and in a skirmish with them we captured about fifteen commissary wagons drawn by mules rigged in new harness. We had plenty of bacon, such as it was, crackers and some other edibles then to last us for a good while. We moved north and Col. Joe Porter was killed in a fight with federals at Hartsville, Mo. My horse was killed and I had to foot it for awhile. "Among the mule teams we captured was a big white mule. My Captain said to me. "take that white mule and come on." I said all right, but that it would make a good target for the federals. (When Mr. Holloway mentioned "white mule" I smiled, and he said that mule, while it had a "kick," was no kin or type of the modern white mule "rode and sold" by bootleggers nowadays). On our march further north we came across a regiment of Confederate troops from Texas on the hunt of General Neil and his troops. But Gen. Neil, better known as "butcher Neil," made his escape north. Our company continued on to Southeast Missouri and got into a skirmish with some federal troops near Jackson, Mo., and six of us who had been cut off from the main body of our troops were captured and that was the last I saw of my white mule. We were taken to Jefferson City and confined in Gen. Parson's house as prisoners and kept under heavy guard for several months, and most of the grub they fed us on was sure hard. Later, they put me into a hospital there as a nurse, and in the way of eats I fared much better. On April 16, 1865 Major Jas. S. Rollins of Columbia, Mo., succeeded in having me released from prison; also Tom Baley of Randolph county. After arriving home, or soon thereafter, I leased the 160 acres of land from Major Rollins as I have mentioned," "Some years after the war," continued Mr. Holloway, "I met Charley Hance, who was circuit clerk and recorder of Randolph county many years, and in our conversation he alluded to a fight his company had with federal troops in Boone county in 1862, I believe, in which he was shot and lost an arm, and I learned from that that he was the wounded man who camped out in our woodland pasture for a while with some other confederates who were in the same battle." Mr. Holloway still wears a long white beard, stands erect and has the cast of a patriarch. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 2, Col 3--Birthday Dinner--Relatives and friends gathered Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Hamilton of near Clark. All came with well filled baskets. The occasion was the celebration of Mr. Hamilton's 46th birthday. All left at a late hour wishing Mr. Hamilton many more happy birthdays. Thursday, 27 May 1926--Miss Alberta Andrews, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Andrews, who taught in the high school at Sutherland, Nebr, the past year, and who was re-elected for the coming year, but who declined to accept, desiring to go to a larger place, left last week for Los Angeles, Cal, where she will spend the summer. (Guest list omitted). Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 2, Col 5--WEST POINT NEWS--Miss Jewel Chism, who is attending school in Kirksville, is visiting her parents this week. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 4, Col 1--Jas. A. Cox and family lived on an Arizona desert ranch. In the desert neighbors are few and miles apart. Cox had to leave the ranch for an absence of ten days and left his wife and two babies alone. Upon his return he found his family dead--al shot through the heart. A note left by the wife explained the tragedy. After the husband's departure the wife was bitten by a rattlesnake. To save her life she slashed the wound with a knife, and, cutting too deep, severed an artery. Sick from the snake poison and dying from the loss of blood the woman was unable to go for aid. Knowing that at her death the children would suffer the death of starvation, she took her rifle and shot each child through the heart and then turned the weapon upon herself. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 4, Col 2--To Spend Summer in California--Miss Albert Andrews, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Andrews, who taught in the high school at Sutherland, Nebr., the past year, and who was re-elected for the coming year, but who declined to accept, desiring to go to a larger place, left last week for Los Angeles, Calif., where she will spend the summer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

Hi folks, I tried to send part 2, of the Higbee News, 27 May 1926, and apparently, it was too long to go through. Usually, 5 pages of type is about all that Rootsweb will accept as an email. So I've broken it down into two parts and resent it as Parts 2 and 3. My apology to all of you, if the original transmission goes through and you receive this information twice. I just wanted to make sure that you didn't miss it altogether. Kathy Bowlin

The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888 through 1953. The editors and owners were a wonderful man by the name of W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of the northeastern part of Howard county. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library, generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 1, Col 1--DEATH OF ED. RENNOLDS--Killed in Rock Island Yards at Silvis, Ill., While Repairing Air Hose.--The following particulars relative to the death of Ed Rennolds, mention of which was made in our last issue, is taken from the Hunnewell, Mo., Graphic: "Edward B. Rennolds, aged 53 years, of Rock Island, Ill., was instantly killed Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, when he was mangled under the wheels of a freight car, in the Silvis yards of the Rock Island railroad. Mr. Rennolds was air inspector for the Rock Island lines, and was repairing an airhose when the accident occurred. He was standing between two box cars in a string of cars which had been switched to a sidetrack and was thrown on to the tracks. Switchmen were unaware that Mr. Rennolds was working on the cars. One leg and one arm was cut off, his skull was fractured and he was otherwise badly mangled. "Mr. Rennolds formerly lived at Lakeman. He was married to Mrs. Mary Hightower, of Lakeman, in 1904. For 15 years he was in the employ of the street car service of Rock Island, and in 1918 he entered the employ of the Rock Island railroad as an air inspector. "He leaves his widow and three stepchildren, Mrs. Frank Baker and Mrs. Eva Hendricks, of Moline, and Lloyd Hightower, of Rock Island; also two brothers, G. W. Rennolds, of Higbee, Mo., F. W. Rennolds and a sister, Mrs. Susan Dennis, of Slater, Mo. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Rock Island and his remains were laid to rest there." Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 1, Col 1--A. T. Burton's Funeral--No more fitting proof of the esteem in which he was held could have been offered than the large crowd from far and near which attended the funeral of A. T. Burton Thursday of last week. The flowers, of which there seemed no end and which were the most beautiful ever seen here, also bore their testimony of love and esteem. It has been a long, long time since the Christian church has held such a crowd, the building being filled to capacity, extra room being made by chairs placed in the aisles, while many stood and others remained outside. The services were delayed about an hour, awaiting the arrival of Mr. Burton's brother-in-law, Miller Pyle, who drove through from Sterling, Colo. Following the sermon by the Rev. J. J. Hutchison, a former pastor, a short talk was made by the Rev. E. Y. Keiter, another brother-in-law. Neither engaged in fulsome flattery, but spoke in simple language of his many virtues and sterling worth stating nothing, by the way, but what was known and recognized by the entire community. His remains were followed to their last resting place by a very large cortege of sorrowing relatives, neighbors and friends and laid to rest with the simple but beautiful rites of the Masonic fraternity. Deceased was also a charter member of the Eastern Star, which also turned out in a body. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 1, Col 1--B. M. Avery to Armstrong--B. M. Avery, who has been operating a country store near Myers, south of here, for two or three years, has taken a position with an Armstrong firm as a Ford salesman, and will move to that place as soon as he can dispose of his stock. As will be seen by his ad in this issue, he is offering the entire stock at actual cost and all goods not sold by June 5 will go that day at auction. Mr. Avery would like to sell the entire stock, good will, etc., to one person and have the business continued as the store has proved a great convenience to the community, and will make money for the right party. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 1, Col 1--Harrisburg Teachers Employed--At a meeting of the Harrisburg school board Saturday, all vacancies in the faculty of the high school were filled. Alfred Jackson, who was superintendent last year, and who was recently re-employed, will be assisted by the following: Clay Frye of Columbia will teach social science and will coach basketball, and Miss Nadine Feland of this place will teach English and household arts. Misses Alma Long and Helen Beasley and a Mr. Evans will teach the grades. Harold Powell and Roy Long and Misses Lucille Eaton, Fern Henning and Lucile Dougherty will teach the rural schools in the consolidated district. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 1, Col 3--Mrs. Pete Bottino and little son and Miss Nelda Blum returned to their home in Marissa, Ill., Tuesday, after a visit with Higbee relatives and friends. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 1, Col 4--Rolla Adams--Rolla Adams, brief mention of whose death was made in our last issue, was the youngest son and child of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Adams, and was born on the Adams farm just north of town on November 26, 1883, and was therefore in his 43rd year. His death, as stated, followed an operation for gall stones, from which he had suffered for some time, and for which surgeons at Miami, Florida, undertook to operate some six weeks ago. He was in no condition for an operation, suffering also from yellow jaundice, and the work of the Florida doctors likely hastened his death, if not directly responsible for it. Mrs. Adams, who had accompanied him to Florida, was advised, so we are informed, that the operation had been performed and that Mr. Adams was doing nicely. As soon as she learned differently she wired Mr. Adams' father, and the latter's son, Roy, accompanied by a Moberly doctor, went to Miami on the first train and returned with Rolla three weeks ago. Dr. Jabez Jackson, of Kansas City, one of the greatest surgeons in the country, and president of the National Medical Society, was called and he stated that an operation was absolutely necessary, and it was performed as soon as it was thought Mr. Adams had gained sufficient strength to undergo the shock. Although he was a man of powerful physique, standing six feet and five inches, and built in proportion, the former attempted operation had left him weaker than it was thought, and he passed peacefully away at 5 o'clock Wednesday, May 19. Funeral services were conducted from the Mahan parlors in Moberly Friday afternoon, the sermon being preached by the Rev. E. Y. Keiter in the presence of a very large crowd of sorrowing friends, dozens going from here. The flowers were more profuse than any seen in Moberly on a similar occasion in years, which spoke most eloquently of the esteem in which Rolla was held by those who knew him best. Interment was made in Oakland cemetery. The deepest sympathy of all goes out to the widow and especially to the parents, brothers and sisters, whose grief is all the harder to bear because Rolla's going makes the first break in the family circle. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 1, Col 4--Boy Killed by Freight Train--On Saturday night about eleven o'clock at the Salt Springs Crossing, one mile from Glasgow, Marion Frederick was instantly killed when a west bound freight train ran over him, cutting his body to pieces. Frederick, in company with two other boys, was hiking through the country. They had been in Fayette during the earlier part of the day Saturday: Going towards Glasgow, they had grown tired and had sat down on the rails to rest. The boys fell asleep, two awakening just in time to get out of the way of the approaching train, the other, Frederick, being cut up by the train. James Frederick, the father of the boys, from Casco, Minnesota, arrived at Glasgow yesterday to take the body back to Minnesota for burial. One of the boys who was with Frederick was from Minnesota, the other was from Hannibal, Missouri. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 1, Col 4--Rooms Rented and Meals Served--Having purchased and moved to the Isaac Jones residence property, conveniently located between the two railway stations, I am prepared to furnish lodging and meals. Nice clean rooms and home cooking. Reasonable rates.--Mrs. W. H. Wheeler. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 1, Col 5--Two Negroes Shot at Clifton Hill--Two negroes were shot in a pitched battle at a point on the Wabash railroad a short distance west of town early Thursday morning. Both were shot in the back but neither is dangerously wounded. A pick ax was also used in the affray, it is claimed. Chariton county officials took the men to Keytesville at noon, where they will be held in the county jail. The men were members of a gang of workmen employed by a St. Louis track construction company, repairing the road between Salisbury and Moberly--Clifton Hill Rustler. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 1, Col 6--Some Great (?) Scores--Having moved their shooting ground to the J. S. Graves pasture at the southeast corner of town, the members of the Gun Club on last Friday faced the trap in full confidence that, now that a real shooting ground had been secured, they would make some decent scores. Their consternation, surprise and disgust can better be imagined than described when each shooter, with the exception of Mark Murphy, turned in the worst score they ever made, and about the worst, on the whole, since trapshooting was invented. The leather medal went to R. M. ("Buster") Avery, while Mark C. Murphy was awarded the box of shells. The awards are based on the highest score each member of the club has made this year, the one making the highest percentage of his high score being awarded the shells and the one making the lowest being doomed to wear the leather medal. The following are the scores, the first figures representing the shooter's highest score, and the second the number broken out of a possible 25: Baker 24X15 Welch, 21X13 Chism, 22X13 Cooper, 21X14 Walter Dougherty, 22X12 Claib Dougherty, 17X12 Land, 20X10 Murphy, 20X17. Andrews, 17X11 Avery, 19X5 Wisdom Burton, 19X11. Most of the bunch, not being satisfied, and knowing that something was wrong--they couldn't figure out what--tried another round with even worse results, and which for the good name and reputation of the club we shall not give. Others not members of the club, and one of whom (Dr. Pos) had never shot at the trap, had equally as bad luck. The score: Joe Burton, 5; Pos, 3; Feland, 7; T. J. Cooper, 12; Will Reed, 14. As the club has a big shoot staged for tomorrow, and to account for their poor scores, if possible, as well as to get a little practice, several members shot again Tuesday afternoon, and with much better results, we are glad to state, and as all felt would be the case, as not a cloud was in sight, whereas, on the day the record low scores were made the sky was dark. It was also found that the targets were not being thrown high enough to keep a plowed field from appearing in the background. It was found too, that the trap was throwing targets too fast and too far. Now that the trouble has been discovered, all are confidently hoping for half way decent scores from now on, although no one is expecting to make a "killing" at the shoot Friday. Thursday, 27 May 1926, Vol 40 No. 4, pg. 1, Col 6--A Letter From Mrs. Jennie Griffith--Mrs. Jennie Griffith writes us from Denver, Colo., under date of the 24th: I am sending you today a vacation number issued by the Denver Post, telling all about the wonders and beauties of Colorado. I thought you would enjoy reading it. I was grieved, as I always am, on receiving last week's paper to note the passing of Arthur Burton, an old schoolmate, and, I believe, the first one of us of his age who attended Hickory Grove at that time to break the ranks and go over to the other side and to the land to which we are all journeying, and where so many we have loved and known have taken as their abode. No finer man ever lived. As a boy in school I have always remembered his cheery smile and I never remember of his saying or doing an unkind act toward one of his schoolmates, boy or girl. when my father and mother moved to where the family home now is, I remember how we, as children always do, dreaded to go to a strange school and among strange children. But from the first day the Burton children, and Annie Robb, now Mrs. Reuben Reynolds, was kindness itself to us all, and especially do I remember their kindness to my dear sister, Lydia, long since dead. She was preparing at the time of her death to go to the Burton home to spend a week where she had been invited to share their hospitality and love, for which they were known, always. My deepest sympathy goes out to this dear family in their great loss, and to all families in my dear home town who have suffered similar losses in recent months. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathy Bowlin. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. 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