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. 2 Col. 3--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, by W. T. Dameron--Mrs. Maggie Davis, of the Huntsville Times, left last Thursday for Tulsa, Okla., for a few days visit with her sister, Mrs. Nellie Chauncey, and some old Huntsville friends who reside there. She went by way of Webb City, Mo., where she spent a day or so with her daughter, Mrs. Paul A. Grigsby. Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 2 Col. 3&4--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, by W. T. Dameron--IN THE LONG AGO--The Citizen of October 11, 1855........Rev. A. P. Holt was my wife's grandfather. He died in Huntsville about 28 years ago, was about 91 years of age, and was buried at Gallatin, Mo. Quite a number of the ministers whose names appear on the rolls I have heard preach when a boy, and in later years. They are: B. F. Johnson, A. P. Linn, W. Penn, W. F. Bell, Wm. Warren, W. M. Rush, B. H. Spencer, E. K. Miller, and D. H. Root, who received me into the church at Sweet Springs in August 1877. ------------- This announcement appears on the editorial page of the Citizen of October 18, 1855: "Mass Meeting--On last Monday, at the request of a meeting of the members of the Vigilance Committee living in and near Huntsville, we had printed handbills requesting the citizens of Randolph county to assemble in mass meeting on Monday, the 22nd inst., at Huntsville, as a matter of all important to the slave holders will be taken into consideration. All the members of the Randolph Vigilance committee are especially requested to be present. N. B. --Persons knowing of any Abolitionist in the county are requested to report them to the committee on that day. H. Austin, President. Jas. D. Head. Secretary. The editor makes this comment: "We hope the case will be generally responded to by the people of the county. There is no question but what there are individuals in this county who are exercising a very pernicious and ruinous influence over the slave population; and the people owe it to themselves to take the matter into consideration, and adopt such measures as they consider best calculated to render their slave property more secure." The mass meeting was held on the day named by Mr. Austin, at the court house. Hancock Johnson was made chairman of the meeting and J. D. Head secretary. Mr. Jackson explained the object of the meeting in a "brief and appropriate manner." On motion of C. H. Barron a committee of thirteen were appointed to draft suitable resolutions, as follows: C. H. Barron, J. K. Carter, H. L. Rutherford, Col. M. Horner, W. McCampbell, Wm. Sumpter, U. g. Mason, John Henderson, F. K. Collins, May Burton, P. H. Matthews, John R. Hull and J. D. Head. This committee reported seven resolutions to the meeting and which were unanimously adopted. One resolution recommended the expulsion of all "free negroes" from the county by December 1855 which had been sent into the county or set free in the county, or be severely dealt with, except one, John Walker, and family, a free negro living in Prairie township "because of his well known honesty and uprightness." Jas. K. Carter, H L. Rutherford, Col. M. Hornor, F. K. Collins, B. C. Brown, C. H. Barron and U. G. Mason were appointed a committee to carry out the intent and purposes of the resolutions, touching slavery and activities of abolitionists in the county. ------------------- Married on the 14th ult., by Rev. James Barnes, John L. Owens and Miss Eveline E. Adams, both of Randolph county. Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 3 Col. 1--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Nettie Sumpter and son, Eugene, were Sunday dinner guests of her daughter, Mrs. Homer Hargis. Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 3 Col. 1--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Hargis and sons, Lowell and Ralph, were Sunday dinner guests of her mother, Mrs. Frank Blaise. Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 3 Col. 1--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Ivagene Majors and baby are staying with their father, Wm. Warford while Mrs. Warford is in the hospital. Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 3 Col. 1--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Bertha Wheeler and sons, Denver and Dale were Sunday dinner guests of her mother, Mrs. Cynthia Lay of Higbee. Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 3 Col. 1--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--We are so very glad to state that Mrs. Wm. Warford who is at a Moberly hospital, is doing so nicely. Her many friends are so relieved of their anxiety for her to hear such favorable reports, and all are hoping that she will continue to improve rapidly. Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 5 Col. 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Lousetta Dougherty is visiting her son, Claude Lewis, and family, in St. Louis. Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 5 Col. 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mr. and Mrs. James Atkins of Oklahoma are the guests of the former's mother Mrs. Annie Atkins and other relatives. Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 5 Col. 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Jesse Williams, who has been laid up for several weeks with rheumatism, and who was unable to move for a week or more, is now able to navigate under his own steam, we are glad to state, by the aid of a cane. Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 5 Col. 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Claib Dougherty, who returned several weeks ago from a Moberly hospital, where she was a patient for two months for treatment for blood poisoning in her right hand, made her second or third trip to town Tuesday, and for the first time without her hand in a sling. She is rapidly regaining her strength and in a short time will be her old self again. Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 5 Col. 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Members of the Gun Club completed the arrangements of their new location Thursday, and things looked so good that no one could wait until next day, the regular shooting time, to bust a few, but all got busy as soon as the targets could be thrown. Some exceptionally good scores were made, but one shooter falling below 20, while two were lucky enough to get 24. Walter Dougherty, who was one of them, came near breaking up the sport. One of the shooters was lucky enough to be hitting them center, when Walter, as solemn as a minister at a funeral, remarked, "Dust thou art and to dust shalt thou return!" It is unnecessary to add that the shooting was halted for a few minutes. Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 5 Col. 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. J. W. Stone celebrated her 80th birthday yesterday, the 11th. Mr. Stone, if he lives until December 12, will be 84, and if looks will do it, he will make the grade, and then some, for he would pass readily among strangers for about 65, and even those of us who know him have a mighty hard time, sometimes, believing that he is beyond 75. While they have traveled life's pathway together for many, many years, they are not our oldest couple, that honor falling to Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Pitney, the former of whom is 85 and the latter 82. There are not many towns the size of Higbee that can boast two such venerable couples. And here's hoping that all four of them can round out a century if they so desire. Thursday, 12 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 1, Pg. 5 Col. 2&3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Miss Loretta Lessly, 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oren Lessly, graduated from Central College school of music, Fayette, Wednesday of last week. Her numbers "The Indian Lodge," and "To a Wild Rose," and Weber's concerto, accompanied on the second piano by Miss N. Louise Wright, were given in a very artistic manner, and for one so young played as if by a concert pianist. A large audience heard the recital and none enjoyed it more than the party from home. Among those were Mr. and Mrs. Lessly, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lay, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Edwards and son, Harold, Howard Mobley, Mrs. J. J. Pos, Mrs. H. Scott Welch, and Miss Lessly's music class--Velma Lewis, Marion Murphy, Billy Rankin, Harry Pos, Eunice Dennis, Winona Gruber, Alberta Glahn and Ada Harle. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.