Friday, 17 August 1917, Vol. 31, No 20--BIRTHDAY DINNER--Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Wheeler delightfully entertained a number of their relatives and friends at their home Sunday, August 5, in honor of Mr. Wheeler's birthday. All enjoyed a most delightful day, with plenty of good things to eat and refreshments for all. At a late hour all left, wishing Mr. Wheeler many more happy birthdays. Those present: Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. Joel Owen, Mrs. Willard Owen, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wheeler, Miss Mattie Wheeler, Arthur Duffield, Thos. Wheeler, Jr., Jot Morris, Geo. Wheeler, John Smith and May Wheeler of Huntsville. Friday, 17 August 1917, Vol. 31, No 20--MRS. T. H. WILLIAMS DEAD--The many Higbee friends of Mrs. T. H. Williams, who moved from Higbee to Springfield, Ill, some ten years ago, will be pained to learn of her death, which occurred at her home in that city on the 15th. She is survived by her husband and three children. We hope to give a more extended notice next week. Friday, 17 August 1917, Vol. 31, No 20--Born, on the 6th, to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brook, a son. Friday, 17 August 1917, Vol. 31, No 20--Nathan Baker and son returned to their home in Oklahoma, Saturday after a visit with Mr. Baker's sister, Mrs. Jas. Lewis. It was Mr. Baker's first visit to Higbee in twenty-three years, and he found so many changes that he hardly recognized the place. Friday, 17 August 1917, Vol. 31, No 20--W. I. Williams was here from Hannibal Sunday. He is liking his new position with the Katy at that place very much. Friday, 17 August 1917, Vol. 31, No 20--Mrs. Mronson Richards of Ft. Madison, Ia, was the guest of Higbee relatives and friends during the week. Friday, 17 August 1917, Vol. 31, No 20--Carl Duncan, who has been in training in Kansas City since he enlisted in the army several weeks ago, has written to his father, we understand, that he will likely sail for France at an early date. Friday, 17 August 1917, Vol. 31, No 20--Gatha, the nine-year-old son of Wm. Morley of south of town, gave his father a good scare Saturday night, he thinking him lost, and a dozen or more searched for him an hour or so without getting any trace of him. Taking sick in one of the carnival tents, he told his father that he was going outside for a while. That was the last seen of him by anyone. Thinking that perhaps he had gone home with some of the neighbors or had walked home, Mr. Morley decided to go home before having a general alarm turned in, and was overjoyed to find the boy in bed and sound asleep. He had walked the entire distance home, four long miles, in the dark and all alone. Friday, 17 August 1917, Vol. 31, No 20--Mrs. A. T. Burton, on going to her hen house one day last week to see about some hatching chickens, found a big snake in possession of the nest and two hens putting up the best fight against it they possibly could. Although very much afraid of snakes, Mrs. Burton grabbed a club and soon put the snake out of business. It measured five feet long and was over three inches in diameter. Mrs. Burton described the snake as being of a rusty black color and full of large brown spots. As she stepped from the hen house she saw the snake's mate but was afraid to tackle it, thinking it a spread head, but discovered after it had gotten out of her reach that what she took for the snake's large flattened head, was a frog in its mouth. Chicken raising has been anything but profitable to Mrs. Burton this season, for out of 500 hatched she has but 60 left and has not had a fry all summer. But one would never suspicion such a thing to look at A. T. Friday, 17 August 1917, Vol. 31, No 20--MRS. C. J. BROCKMAN DEAD--Mrs. C. J. Brockman, one of the county's most highly respected ladies, died at her home in Clark on the 12th, after a protracted illness. She was the daughter of N. S. Woods and was born near Sturgeon in 1843. In 1868 she was married to C. J. Brockman, who, with six children survives her. Interment was made Thursday in Union cemetery, Boone county. Friday, 17 August 1917, Vol. 31, No 20--Mrs. Andrew Ewing writes us from Hallam, Nebr: "Having had a letter today from my cousin, Miss Bertha Ware, with some clippings from the paper, I feel that I must have the paper, so I am enclosing $1 for a year. I was surely shocked to learn of the deaths of Mr. Terrill and Mrs. Morley, as I had known both of them all my life. Andrew was operated on June 11 and was in a Lincoln hospital until July 2, but is able to work again now. We have had some awful hot weather here for the past two months until the last two weeks, have had some good rains and there will be an extra good corn crop. Best wishes to all." Kathy Bowlin, Additions, corrections, comments welcome.