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, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 1 Col. 4--THOS. WARFORD HOME--Thos. Warford of Madison, who was recently operated on in a St. Louis hospital for tumor of the brain, and who was rushed back to St. Louis the first of last week, he having developed convulsions, was able to return home Saturday, and was able to make the trip alone. A second operation, we are glad to say, was not found necessary, and unless the surgeon had every reason to believe that Thomas would make the grade it is not likely that he would have let him return home so soon. He expressed confidence, we learn, in Mr. Warford's complete recovery, but that it will not be so soon is indicated by the fact that he put him on a treatment that must be kept up for a year or more. Thomas's remaining on deck is little short of miraculous, and the NEWS along with other friends extends its congratulations, and the wish for his ultimate recovery. (Kathy's notes: Before I extract the next page, I want to explain to the readers a little about the way this page is published. The heading of Our Huntsville Letter, is over two columns, but the articles often continue on for several columns after that. Each separate paragraph is separated by a small bar. In the third column is the heading, "In The Long Ago" and it appears to be about the Huntsville Citizen papers of 1855. Sometimes the date is identified, sometimes not. Again, each paragraph is separated by a small bar. That is also the same separation that the editor makes when he ends this section, so it often very difficult to tell where the Huntsville letter ends and where the current news takes over. I will make every attempt to keep the 1927 news separate from the "In the Long ago" news, but I may not always be successful. This whole section is very, very confusing.) Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 2 Col. 1--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, by W. T. Dameron--John C. Davis, an old and highly respected citizen of Huntsville, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Kelly, here at 2:20 o'clock Monday morning, May 9, 1927, of heart trouble. His wife died here 15 years ago at the same hour and minute. Mr. Davis was born in Wales on May 12, 1844. He came to American about the beginning of the Civil War. He enlisted in the Union Army at the age of 18 years and served through that bloody conflict, being in a number of hard fought battles. He came to Huntsville about 1875 and followed coal mining as long as he was able to work. He was a very religious man and was at one time associated with the Holiness church. Had he lived to Thursday of this week he would have been 83 years old. He leaves eight children, five daughters and three sons: Joe Davis, California; Jim Davis, Chicago; George Davis, Kirksville; Mrs. Thos. Milburn, Moberly; Mrs. John Murray, St. Paul, Minn; Mrs. Frank Yezeh, Johnston City, Ill.; Mrs. Wm. Kelly and Mrs. George W. Eberle, of this city. To away the arrive of one son, Joe Davis, the funeral and burial will not take place until Thursday. Funeral services will be held at his late home, conducted by Rev. F. P. Davidson of the Baptist church. Burial in the city Cemetery. -------------- Cole Barnhart, of Springfield, Mo., is spending a few days with his half-brother, Dr. D. A. Barnhart, here. Mr. Barnhart was reared in this county near Darksville. In 1872 he went to Montana with a bunch of 14 other men. Tom Goram, G. W. Taylor, C. Lamb, and a brother, John Phipps, and other men were in the crowd with him. Tom Goram was their captain. All are dead now, he says, except C. Lamb, of near Jacksonville, who is very feeble, and whom Mr. Barnhart expects to visit this week. He will also visit other friends in the northern part of the county. While most of the crowd who went to Montana at that time returned home, Mr. Barnhart remained there 33 years before locating in Springfield, Mo., 27 years ago. He has no family now, and when his visit is completed here he will start for Montana for an extended visit. Anyhow, he will remain there until after the cyclone season is over, he said. ------------- Mrs. John M. Dameron and little daughter, Margaret, of Vihalia, La., arrived here last week on an extended visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Rutherford, Jr. She says the flooded land down there is awful and the damage great. She and family moved out of Vihalia to Natchez, Miss, before the levee broke near Vihalia. Her husband has been associated with his brother, Chas. H. Dameron, of Port Allen, La., and Howard Kenyon, levee contractors. The firm had to stop work about the 15th of January last, on account of bad weather, and later could not resume work on account of high water. Mrs. Dameron says the firm will lose nothing by the high waters--except the expense of being idle--as the government had received all of their completed work before the high water commenced to do its worst. Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 2 Col. 2&3--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, by W. T. Dameron--Jas. A. Walden, a highly respected citizen of Howard county, died at the home of his son-in-law, W. T. Rutherford Jr., here about 3 o'clock p.m. Friday, May 6, 1927, in the 88th year of his age. Mr. Walden had an attack of "shingles" about a year ago, and did not fully recover from it. He came here last November to visit his daughter, Mrs. W. T. Rutherford, and family, and being quite feeble did not return to his old country home, south of Glasgow. His wife died several years ago, and most of the time since then he has lived with his other daughter, Mrs. Charles Gibbs, at the old home place. Mr. Walden was a native of Howard county, being born there October 15, 1838, and for many years was a prominent and successful farmer. At the breaking out of the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate army and from a private was advanced to Lieutenant Colonel, and served through the war, being wounded once. It is said he was a gallant soldier. For many years prior to his death he was a member of the Christian church and had the reputation of being a fine christian gentleman. Besides his two daughters, Mrs. Rutherford and Mrs. Gibbs, he leaves one son, J. R. Walden, of Columbus, Ohio. A short funeral service was held at the home of Mrs. Rutherford on North Main street at 4 p.m. Saturday, conducted by Rev. E. V. Dabney of the Christian Church. Sunday morning following his remains were conveyed to the Pleasant Green church near his old home, six miles south of Glasgow, where another short service was held, and interment made in the family lot in the community cemetery near by. ----------- Mrs. Nettie Bogie, widow of the late Joe S. Bogie, returned to her home here last week after spending the winter in Kansas City with her daughter, Mrs. Charley Shephard, and family. In conversing with Mrs. Bogie last Friday, she commented on an article that appeared in the Armstrong Herald of April 28th last, concerning the 85th birthday of S. R. Collier, one of Armstrong's highly respected citizens, and confederate soldier under Col. Poindexter during the Civil War. The Herald stated that Mr. Collier was in the battle of Silver Creek, this county, west of Higbee, when Col. Poindexter was attacked by Federal troops while the Confederates were in camp in timberlands along that stream, in which place, when young, I chased the fox many times, and the scars on trees, made mostly by federal bullets, were visible many years after the battle. But the battle which occurred in 1862 was practically a bloodless one, that is, casualties were small, if I recollect correctly. Mrs. Bogie was a small child then, she says, but she has a vivid recollection of the excitement that battle created, and the one that followed near her father's home, a few miles west of Armstrong, between some of Col. Poindexter's men and some federal troops under command of Captain Beard, who was killed in the fight. One confederate, Joe Teeters, of this county, was also killed. Mrs. Bogie says that the body of Captain Beard was carried away for burial, but the body of Mr. Teeters was buried on the Steve Garner farm near her old home. Joe Bogie, her husband, was in the Silver Creek battle under Col. Poindexter, but was not in the second fight near Mrs. Bogie's home. He went to the home of his father, Thos. Bogie, near Randolph Springs, after the Silver Creek fight, to spend a day or two. Then he went south and joined Gen. Price's army. Before the war closed Mr. Bogie went west and joined the U. S. Army, to fight hostile Indians and was in several battles with them. He returned home after a stay in the west of about five years, and in later years married Miss Bettie Harvey, and they resided in Huntsville until his death, which occurred several years ago. A son of Col. Poindexter--Smith Poindexter--resides in Moberly. He married a Huntsville lady, Miss Maude Burge, many years ago. Mr. Collier told the Herald editor that he did not know of a single survivor of that battle residing in this county I do not know who he is. Mrs. Bogie's ancestors came from Kentucky. Her grandfather, John Harvey, and William Harvey, her great-grandfather, were among the first settlers of northern Howard county, locating near where Armstrong now is. She is largely connected. She is a daughter of Jas. E. Harvey, who was a prominent citizen and farmer of Howard county for many years. Dr. W. C. Harvey, a long time practitioner of Roanoke, Robert Harvey, a prominent farmer and school teacher, who resided west of Roanoke, Judge Frank B. Harvey, of this county, and Judge Richard Harvey of Linn county, Mo., were her uncles. Her father, Jas. E. Harvey, became a Republican at the breaking of the Civil War, but all her uncles were Democrats. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. 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