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 were 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. 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. 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: We are three little girls living about two miles south of town. We have been good little girls and don't ask for much. Santa, please bring us a doll, doll buggy, some dishes and anything else you think nice for us. Also bring us some candy, nuts and fruits. Please do not forget June Rose, and other little boys and girls. Your little friends, Toinette, Elmona and Connie. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Old Santa: I want you to bring me a rocking horse, a big gun, and please don't forget my sled and a lot of candy.--Mark Charles Murphy. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Old Santa: I am a little boy two years old. I am going to tell you what I want for Christmas. A tooto train, ball and a horn and also some candy and nuts and some fruit.--William Edwin Robb. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Old Santa Claus: I am a little girl five years old. I want you to bring me a big doll and rocking chair and pocketbook and a string of beads some candy and nuts and oranges. Don't forget daddy and mother and little brother.--Voncille Cooper. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Old Santa: I am a little boy 4 years old and have tried to be a good little boy. I live in the north end of town, and now Santa when you come up that way don't forget to stop, as I am sure looking for you. Please bring me a little red wagon, watch, popgun, and a little knife with a chain on it. Also candy, oranges and nuts, and please don't forget all the other little boys and girls--Donald Sharp. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Old Santa: I am a little girl five years old. I go to Oak Grove school and am in the second grade. I want you to bring me a wrist watch that will run, a box of paints, a little doll, a doll buggy, a doll table, a little stove, a doll bed, a doll house, also some candy, nuts and oranges. Please come to our Christmas program December 22.--Clara Moore. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa Claus: Please don't forget your little friend, Thelma Orton. I am going to Oak Grove school and Miss Willmuth Baker is my good teacher. I want you to bring me a diamond ring, a wrist watch, doll bed, doll stove, a horn, a little doll, a pencil box, a pencil and please Santa Claus don't forget to bring me some candy and bananas for I like them.--Thelma Orton. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am in the second grade and go to Oak Grove school. I want a cap pistol, a knife, box of colors and candy and grapes, oranges. I have been very good all year. Please don't forget our teacher, Miss Willmuth Baker.--Roscoe Duncan. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa Claus: I am 6 years old and in the second grade. I want you to bring me a sack of marbles, rubber ball and a knife life Dad's; also candy, gum, nuts, oranges and dear Santa, please don't forget my mother, father and sisters. Bring my teacher, Miss Baker, a lot of nice presents.--Eldor Moore. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am nine years old and in the fifth grade. I go to Oak Grove school and want you to bring me a doll, gold bracelet, a green linen dress, candy, nuts, oranges, apples and grapes. Please do not forget mother, daddy and brother; also my teacher, Miss Baker.--Ethel Jobson. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: Please do not forget me because I think I have been a pretty good little boy. I want a coaster wagon and some candy and some nuts and oranges and bananas. Please bring these to me because I want them very bad.--Marshall Baker. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 1--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 8 years old and am in the third grade. I go to school at Oak Grove and I want you to bring me a box of colors, a horn, and plenty of candy, oranges, nuts, bananas, and a slate. Don't forget our Christmas program is December 22.--Herbert Caliner. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am a good boy 6 years old. My teacher says I am good anyway. I want a small slate, a big sack of marbles and plenty of candy. Anything else that you can bring.--Lawrence Summers. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am a little boy 9 years old. I go to Oak Grove school. Will you please bring me a pearl handle knife, a coat, also candy, nuts oranges, grapes. We are also preparing for a program it will be the 22nd of December, so Santa, be sure and come to our Christmas program.--Charles Orton. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am 9 years old and go to school every day. Will you bring me a box of candy with great big nuts on top, story book, slate, box of colors, also bring my brother and sister a lot of nice things. Also my teacher, Miss Baker, she has been so nice to us, so don't miss her.--Kenneth Sly. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy six years old. I go to school most every day. I want you to bring me a horn, a wagon, toy pony, all kinds of fruit, candy, and please don't forget my mother, daddy and little Aleen. My cousin Miss Willmuth Baker is my teacher and you can write to her and she will tell you how good I am and how well I get my lessons. So bring her a lot of nice things.--Junior Duffield. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am 8 years old and go to Oak Grove school. My teacher's name is Miss Willmuth Baker. I want you to bring me a box of colors and candy, nuts, oranges and bananas and also a doll.--Virginia Duncan. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am ten years old. I want you to bring me a pearl handle knife, harp, gun, candy, nuts, oranges, and don't forget mother, daddy, sister and brothers. Don't forget our teacher, Miss Baker.--Wilson Moore. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am 11 years old in 4th grade. I have been a good boy. Bring me a horn, pencil box, knife, B. B. gun, nuts, oranges and candy.--Ralph Moore. Thursday, 23 Dec 1926, Vol 40, No 34, Pg 8, Col. 2--SANTA CLAUS LETTERS--Dear Santa: I am a little boy 8 years old, and am in the fifth grade at Oak Grove school. I will be glad when the night of December 24 comes so I can hang up my stocking. Well, I will begin to tell you what I want because it might take a long time. Please bring me an air rifle, electric train, a top, an aeroplane. Don't forget mother, daddy and sister, and please don't forget Miss Baker, our good teacher.--Urbane Sumpter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.