Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--J. J. Cline returned to his home in Elizabeth, Ind., Tuesday after a visit with his sisters, Mrs. W. D. Edwards and Mrs. Tim Dougherty. He was accompanied by the latter and daughter, Miss Maggie. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--MINERS WANTED--Forty miners wanted at the Kansas City Midland mine at Novinger, Mo. Brand new bungalow houses with lights and water and cheap rent. Train service to and from mine. Emmett Corrigan, General Manager. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--John W. Franklin, Jr., who has been in the Marines for the past 18 months, and who saw some hard service overseas, came home Tuesday to remain. He came by way of St. Louis to see his brother, Ben, who has been in a hospital for about a year recovering from serious wounds received in France, and was accompanied home by the latter, who will return to the hospital Monday. He is improving nicely, his many friends will be glad to hear, but it will be several months yet before he will be able to come home to remain. He fears that he will always have a stiff knee, but his physicians have hopes of discharging him as good as new. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--Born, on the 20th, to Mr. and Mrs. Hardin Edwards, a daughter. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--Mrs. Jas. Ballentine and daughter Christine, are visiting Renick friends. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--Sam Marrs went to Kansas City Thursday of last week where he has secured a position as mechanic in a garage. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--George Newton who has been in the Navy for the past year, returned home Saturday to remain. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--Ralph Harris left Sunday for Senoca, Wis., where he has secured employment. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--Mr. and Mrs. James Cox of Mystic , IA, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Lloyd, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Cox of Moberly were the guests of their daughter Mrs. James Lloyd Sunday. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--Mrs. Laura McGarvey of Eldorado, Kansas, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Jenkins Williams. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--Mr. and Mrs. George Fulton and children of Cherokee, Kan. are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--LEE LLOYD INJURED--Lee Lloyd was quite seriously injured at the Walton mine about 10 o'clock yesterday morning, and is more than lucky to have escaped with his life. He had just taken down a fall of coal, when a rock, three feet thick, came down without a second's warning completely covering him up with the exception of his head. That his life was not instantly snuffed out was owing to the fact that one end of the rock rested on the coal, most of its weight being held off of him. His scalp was laid open for four or five inches, and he sustained small cuts on the nose and forehead. His worst injury, however was to his left arm, the flesh being torn loose from the shoulder almost to the elbow and from his armpit almost to his waist. He was given prompt medical attention and has since been doing nicely. it will be several weeks before he will again be able to work. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--J. W. Duncan, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Duncan of Yates, returned home last week after a year's service in the navy. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--Miss Mary Gruber returned to her home in Keota, Monday, after a visit with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gruber. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--T. H. WALTON JR., BREAKS ARM--T. H. Walton, Jr., who has been working for a Kansas City wholesale coal dealer for several months, tripped and fell down a stairway at his boarding house Saturday, breaking his right arm, the break being the worst possible, running diagonally through the elbow joint. The break is a very unusual one, and one, doctors say, which frequently leaves the arm stiff. The young man's many Higbee friends join The News in the hope that such will not be his misfortune. Mr. and Mrs. Walton, on receipt of a message telling of the accident, took the first train for Kansas City, returning Sunday night accompanied by their son. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--George Stallman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arch Stallman of Yates, who has been in the Navy the past year, returned home Friday to remain. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--Mrs. Joe Price and two children, Lathiel and Elwood, of Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. George Noble, of Marion, Ohio, who have been visiting their brother, John Howell, the past week, left Monday for Courtland, Kansas, where they will visit their sister, Mrs. Albert Noble, before returning to their home in the East. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--Lieut. Dr. E. D. Edwards, who has been in Uncle Sam's service for the past year or more, stationed at Camp Pike, Ark., arrived Wednesday for a visit with his wife and children and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Edwards, of near town. We could not learn as to whether or not he had received his discharge. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--WHITMORE-BLAKELY--Wm. Whitmore of this place and Mrs. J. W. Blakely were married Sunday, August 17, at the residence of the bride's son, Joe Andrews, of Howard county, by Eld. Wm. Kelso. The NEWS joins others in congratulations. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--ANOTHER DENTIST FOR HIGBEE--Dr. Howard Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Turner, who has been practicing dentistry in Kansas City for the past year or more, has rented offices over Cleeton's Drug Store and will engage in practice here, opening his office about September 1. Howard's numerous friends welcome his return to the old burg, and wish for him abundant success. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--N. J. Garver and son, William, left last week for Seneca, Wis., where they have secured employment. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--(condensed) Oscar S. Fainter, Plaintiff vs. Lizzie Fainter, Defendant....obtaining a decree of divorce from the bonds of matrimony....next regular term of said Court....city of Moberly....13th day of October 1919. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--BURTON ITEMS--Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Naylor and son, Clyde, attended the state fair at Sedalia. Hobert Jackson is on the sick list. Willie Thompson ate his birthday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Naylor last Friday. Shelby Ware attended the Mt. Zion Baptist Association in Boone county last week. Friday, 22 Aug 1919, Vol 33. No 18--A LETTER RELATIVE TO THE LATE DYSART WILSON--Headquarters Fourth Infantry, American Forces in Germany--Plaidt, Germany, July 30, 1919. From the Commanding Officer, 4th U. S. Infantry. To. Mrs. Julie Wilson, Higbee, Mo. Subject, Private Dysart Wilson, 2214789. Many inquiries are daily received in the various offices throughout the Army, from the folks back home, regarding some relative, the battles in which he fought and in particular the one in which he last participated. Realizing that the messages sent out by the War Department were of necessity very meager, I am writing to give you such information as is at hand concerning your son, Private Dysart E. Wilson, 2214789, who last served with Company A, Fourth U. S. Infantry, Third Division. Due to the constant changing of the personnel of each organization, then and now, both officers and enlisted, it is sometimes difficult to obtain all the information desirable regarding many of the boys who made the supreme sacrifice, but a careful inquiry among the officers and men who were acquainted with your son, shows a high regard for him, which means that he was a man among men--a man's man--faithful in the performance of his duties and to the trust reposed in him by you and yours and the Country he so nobly served. Authority has recently been granted by the War Department for the wearing, by all men who served in the present war, of a medal, together with a clasp for each battle in which they participated. In lieu of this medal, which is not yet ready for issue, there is worn, just above the left breast pocket of the blouse, what is known as the Victory Ribbon, and attached to the ribbon is a star to represent each battle clasp. I am enclosing you here with one of these Victory Ribbons with the number of stars which your son would have been entitled to wear. It is a token of esteem and respect for their departed comrade and a message of sympathy to his loved ones at home, sent to you by his regiment. The stars represent the following engagements in which your son participated: The Aisne Defensive. The Champagne-Marne Defensive. The Aisne-Marne Offensive. The St. Mihiel Offensive. The Meuse-Argonne Offensive. It was during the twenty-second day of this latter action, October 21, 1918, that your son was killed. You will also be interested in learning that plans are rapidly being completed for the erection of a monument, at either end of the bridge across the Marne River at Chateau-Thierry, as a memorial to the Third Division's achievement there. To accomplish this each officer and man in the entire Division will donate one day's pay. In these monuments you will have a particular interest in that your son's contribution has been not the salary for one day's labor, but a gift, priceless, peerless and incomparable when measured by things material. We are proud indeed of those who have gone on before, for the victories we have attained have been because of their sacrifice, and it is with keen regret we realize they will not have an opportunity to carry on the work of reconstruction throughout the world with the same spirit of determination which was characteristic of their activities over here. With kindest regards, and extending to you my sincere sympathy at this late date. G. A. HEDBST, Colonel 4th Infantry. Kathy Bowlin, Additions, corrections, comments welcome.