3 Sep 1897--FROM EBENEZAR--Born, on the 29th, to T. D. Williams and wife, a son. 3 Sep 1897--Clyde Giles and Miss Maud Blythe drove over to Huntsville Sunday, and Monday morning procured a license and were married. They were accompanied by Wm. Smith and his sister, Miss Effie. 3 Sep 1897--Thos. Williams and Miss Maggie Murphy of this place drove over to Huntsville Tuesday and were married, but by whom we could not learn. Their marriage was a surprise to their most intimate friends as none of them knew anything about it until their return. The News joins other friends in congratulations and hopes their fondest expectations may be realized. 3 Sep 1897--Willie Boyd who was accidentally shot some time ago, is able to be up town. 3 Sep 1897--Mrs. G. A. Dougherty was called to Elliott Tuesday by the serious illness of her sister, Mrs. Kate Marshall. 3 Sep 1897--Mrs. E. Fowkes, of Hannibal, accompanied by her niece, Miss Fannie Duffield, of Higbee, left Tuesday for Fulton where she will place the latter in the Christian Orphan home. (compiler's notes: see follow-up article in next week) 3 Sep 1897--Michael Clark, of Moberly, committed suicide Monday by taking an overdose of laudanum. He was 21 years old and leaves a wife and three children. 3 Sep 1897--Born, on the 30th, to Lee Hager and wife, a daughter. 3 Sep 1897--Born, on the 29th, to T. D. Williams and wife, a son. 3 Sep 1897--Joe Wheeler is minus a finger and has his face full of shot, the result of an accidental shot Monday. He was out hunting with a shot gun, when it was in some manner discharged. The index finger of his right hand was badly mangled, and a large number of shot penetrated his face. Dr. T. H. Dinwiddie was called and amputated the finger and dressed the face wounds. At last account the patient was getting along nicely. 3 Sep 1897--Wednesday morning Mr. Shedon Ketchum and Miss Fannie Sum.....drove to Fayette, where th.......cured license and were m........The News extends congratul...... 3 Sep 1897--Rev. Jesse R. Green, pastor of the Baptist church at Monroe City, and well-known here, committed suicide Thursday of last week by cutting his throat with a razor. He had been sick for some time and was delirious for the last day or two. He became despondent over his church work, as he had not been meeting with the success he desired and resigned his pastorate, although his church was well satisfied with his ministry and decided not to accept his resignation. He had been ...unusually close student and the........ding physicians say that this, .....with the brooding over the failure of desired success in his church work, caused his mind to give way resulting in the attempt on his life. 10 Sep 1897--The grand jury ignored the charge against Daniel Rose of shooting J. W. Norris with intent to kill, at Palmyra recently. Dr. Norris is still helpless and unable to move, though he believes he will recover. 10 Sep 1897--Born, on the 6th to Alex Jacobs and wife, a son. The child was born dead. Mrs. Jacobs is getting along very well. 10 Sep 1897--Born, on the 3rd, to Geo. Thorborn and wife, a son. The child only lived a short time. Mrs. Thorborn is getting along nicely. 10 Sep 1897--Sandy White, an old and highly respected farmer living near Sturgeon, died Thursday night of last week, after a short illness. 10 Sep 1897--Mrs. Jane Russell and her daughter, Mrs. John Pilkerton and little grandson, Willie Jones, left Tuesday for a two weeks visit with relatives in Kansas. 10 Sep 1897--Ex-judge D. J. Stamper of Clifton Hill, who has been in poor health for some time, died at his residence Monday evening aged 62 years. The judge had been a resident of the county since 1856. 10 Sep 1897--Died, in Higbee, on the 7th, Leona, the 5-year-old daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Lud Newman. The remains were taken to Roanoke Wednesday evening for interment. The News extends heart-felt sympathy to the bereaved parents. 10 Sep 1897--"Uncle" Tip Pemberton, one of Howard county's pioneers, and one of the oldest settlers in the county, was in town Monday, feeling and looking hale and hearty for one of his age. He will in a few days have reached the 86th mile-post of life. He says and claims what no other man can say or claim--that during his natural life, and in which he has been thrown among all kinds and classes of people, he never had a quarrel or fuss or ever felt that he wanted to strike a fellow man. Uncle Tip says he feels like a two-year-old--in fact, has never in all his life felt old. He has but one defect through-out his anatomy, which is the loss of sight from one eye. With the remaining one he sees to read and write without glasses. He has seen life in all its phases and is quite interesting in his narration's of Southern and Western life in his younger days away back in the 40s. His travels through Old Mexico and California are very interesting. Today he shows the deep-laid scars on his thigh and arm made by a mighty grizzly of the Rockies in which he was master of the fight. Uncle Tip is thinking of moving to town, where, he says, his opportunities will be greater for meeting up with some spry widow who might like to trot in double harness again. The old gentleman says he can yet go all the gaits and if any spry widow doubts the assertion, why, he says, just let her try him on. 10 Sep 1897--Married, in Huntsville, on September 8th, Mr. J. D. Rutherford and Miss Ada L. Jackson. The bride is a sister of Mrs. T. H. Walton of this place. The News extends good wishes. 10 Sep 1897--In reading proof last week we overlooked a very serious mistake which we hasten to correct. In speaking of Mrs. E. Fowkes accompanying Miss Fanny Duffield to Fulton for the purpose of placing her in school at that place, we referred to the school as the Christian Orphan Home, when we should have said Christian Orphan School. This institution is in charge of the Christian Church of the State of Missouri and for every three pay students one orphan can go free of charge, hence the name. Beside a desire to progress fast, the knowledge that she is assisting some poor orphan, will cause Miss Fannie to study diligently and we predict that she will return with honor to herself and credit to relatives and friends. To let the mistake go uncorrected would be gross injustice and would leave the impression with those unacquainted with the facts that Miss Fannie had been thrown upon charity by relatives, but such is not the case by any means. 10 Sep 1897--R. R. Ackert, one of the oldest and most popular conductors on the Wabash, fell from his train Tuesday morning about 2 o'clock and was so badly hurt that he died the following evening. His train left Des Moines on time and everything went well until Belknap was passed, when Ackert was missed. The train was sidetracked and the crew returned to look for him. He was found four miles from Belknap lying unconscious by the side of the track with three ribs broken and a bad scalp wound and bruised about the base of the brain. He was taken to Belknap where his wounds were dressed and was later brought to the hospital at Moberly. He stated some time before death that some one knocked him from the train but the crew is of the opinion that he fell. He had been in the employ of the company 52 years. 10 Sep 1897--In the court docket, #50, Martha Anderson vs. J. Anderson. 17 Sep 1897--FROM HARRISBURG--George Gilvin went to Fayette Monday to see the king cure-all. Joe Dougherty who had lost his hearing returned and informed us he could hear a tick crawl across the road. 17 Sep 1897--FROM HARRISBURG--The wife of John Givens was found dead in bed last Wednesday morning. Heart trouble is supposed to be the cause. She was an ex-slave of Chas. Givens. 17 Sep 1897--RENICK--It is with profound sorrow that we learn of the death of Mrs. Rosa McAdams, nee Hubbard, of Prairie Hill, Mo. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hubbard, and was, until her marriage to Dr. McAdams a little over two years ago, a resident of this place. She was formerly a member of the Methodist church at Renick, a conscientious working member and loved by all who knew her. The grief stricken family have the sympathy of the entire community. 17 Sep 1897--Born, on the 9th, to Wm. Chapman and wife, a daughter. 17 Sep 1897--Born, on the 10th, to Bruce Redmon and wife, a daughter. 17 Sep 1897--Born, on the 11th, to Wm. Campbell and wife, a daughter. 17 Sep 1897--Born, on the 15th, to Wm. Smith and wife, a daughter. 17 Sep 1897--Married, on the 15th, Mr. Frank W. Hayden of near Yates and Miss Dora Whitmore of near McMullin. The News extends good wishes. 17 Sep 1897--Wm. Hursman was arrested here Monday charged with robbing a store at Waverly about a year ago. The sheriff of LaFayette county came down Monday night and took him to Lexington where he will be tried. 17 Sep 1897--Married, on the 7th, at the residence of the bride's parents, W. W. Adams and wife, Miss Nannie Adams and S. C. Scott, of Moberly. Eld. W. B. Anderson, officiating. 17 Sep 1897--Thos. Owings, a prominent Attorney of Fayette, died at that place Monday morning, aged 60 years. 17 Sep 1897--The patients at the Fulton lunatic asylum are to be provided with gray uniforms while the attendants will wear blue. Visitors frequently find difficulty in distinguishing the difference between attendants and lunatics, many of the crazy people having a more intelligent look than their guards.--Centralia Guard. 24 Sept 1897-John Hardin, of Prairie, was in town yesterday. He is being urged to make the race for sheriff and has about consented to do so. Mr. H. is a man of fine business qualities and would make as good an officer as the county ever had. If he enters the race he will make it interesting for all opponents. 24 Sep 1897--F. C. Bottoms has sold his butcher shop to G. A. Dougherty who will take charge the first of the month. Mr. Dougherty has had some experience in the butcher business which will enable him to conduct the business with satisfaction to the patrons and profit to himself. 24 Sep 1897--Born, on the 18th, to John Robb and wife, a son. 24 Sep 1897--Born, on the 18, to Wm. Robb and wife, a daughter. 24 Sep 1897--Chas Martin, who killed Walter Hager at the residence of Allen Terrill near Renick last Spring, has been indicted for murder in the first degree. 24 Sep 1897--Mrs. Magruder, widow of the late Travis Magruder, died at 6:30 o'clock Saturday evening last at the residence of her son-in-law,--. Sunderland near Mt. Ararat church, aged 68 years. There survives her two sons and three daughters all of whom live close around in that neighborhood. Mrs. Magruder was stricken with paralysis on Aug 25, six years ago, from which she recovered so much that she could actively move about among her friends with little, if any, assistance, until about three weeks age when she was again stricken with paralysis, which terminated in her death. She was for 23 years a member of the Mt. Ararat church, having been baptized into its membership in 1874 by Rev. S. Y. Pitts. No member of the church seemed to take greater interest in its working and welfare than she did, and she died with a full assurance of salvation through the grace of her Savior. Her remains were laid to rest in the presence of an immense assembly of friends and neighbors, in the family burial ground one mile east of the church on Sunday. Services were conducted at the church by Elds. Maupin and Rice. Kathy Bowlin, Additions, corrections comments welcome.