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, 28 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 51, Pg. 1 Col. 1--NOAH WARFORD FIGHTS GUN DUEL WITH BANDIT.--The following, from the Colorado Springs Gazette of the 18th, will be of interest to our readers, Mr. Warford being a former resident of this vicinity, and whose friends join the NEWS in congratulations on his escape from more serious injury: "In a grim face-to-face battle with revolvers, Patrolman Noah S. (Buck) Warford of the police department was creased on the hip by a bullet from the automatic of a lone gunman, but inflicted a serious bullet wound in the thigh of his opponent and frustrated what is believed to have been the plan of the outlaw to rob the Piggly-Wiggly-Grimes store at 132 North Tejon street shortly after 9 o'clock last night. Ten shots were fired by the duelists in one of the most sensational gun battles between the law and the outlaw this city has known in years and which occurred in the alley between Kiowa and Bijou streets west of Tejon street, almost in the heart of the downtown district. "Following his exchange of shots with Patrolman Warford, the gunman then fled to the intersection of Kiowa street and Tejon street where he held up a Chrysler roadster, driven by L. M. Bailey and Roy Stroud and compelled the two men to drive him to safety. "Patrolman Warford was making his rounds in the alley in the rear of the Piggly-Wiggly store at 132 N. Tejon street when he first saw the fugitive, who was coming out of the alley leading into the rear entrance of the chain store. "Hey, there, what are you doing?" shouted Patrolman Warford. The fugitive took to his heels and ran south down the alley towards Kiowa street. "Stop, or I'll fire," Warford yelled, and took up the pursuit. "Hearing his pursuer gaining on him, the fugitive suddenly stopped, turned, and opened fire on the officer. The distance between them was not more than 30 yards. "Warford already had his gun in his hand when this unexpected turn in events occurred, and, neatly face to face, the officer and the outlaw blazed away until their guns were emptied. The fugitive, with a sudden spurt, dashed out of the alley and turned east on Kiowa street and commandeered the Bailey automobile at the point of a gun. "Warford limped to headquarters and reported the shooting to Deputy Chief Fred H. Springer and the station riot squad snatched up sawed-off shotguns and automatic rifles and hurried in pursuit. "While Warford was in the department bandaging the wound made by the bullet, Bailey and Stroud dashed in to report that the gunman had compelled them to drive him around the city, and finally to a point in front of the Alta Vista hotel where he got out and fled across the street. Reserve officers, led by Warford, commandeered automobiles and dashed out in pursuit. Despite an assiduous search by a posse of citizens and officers, numbering more than 30 men, not a trace was found of the wounded gunman. "Bailey and Stroud said the man was bleeding profusely from a wound in one thigh, and had moaned to them that he was "half shot up." ------------------------------ Mr. Warford, in sending us his renewal, says of the above: "I had some excitement Sunday night, which you have probably read about as I sent you a Morning Gazette. It was my first shooting scrape, and I have been on the force ten years, and I hope it is the last, as those automatic Lugers are not very pleasant to look at in the hands of a safe cracker. The paper did not state anything about a safe in one of the stores being broken into. The fellow had just finished the job and came out and ran into me in the alley and then the fun began. One of my bullets hit the pavement or rock wall of the building and glanced and went through a plate glass of the Adams Motor Co. Claude Adams'Garage)." Thursday, 28 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 51, Pg. 1 Col. 2--LANHAM-ZAFFKE--Mr. Estle Lanham of Salisbury and Miss Elsie Maude Zaffke of Oil City were married at Moberly on the 20th at the home of the officiating minister, the Rev. W. T. Henson. Mrs. Lanham is the daughter of F. W. Zaffke of Bakus, Minn., but since the age of four she has made her home with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Houtz, formerly of this place, and is well known here, having gone to school here for two years and also having visited on numerous occasions. Mr. Lanham was formerly of Columbia, but is now an assistant engineer for the Prairie Pipe Line Co., at it's station near Salisbury. They will make their home at Shannondale. The NEWS joins other friends in wishing them a long and happy life. Thursday, 28 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 51, Pg. 1 Col. 2--JAS. MACHETTI CRITICALLY ILL--Jas. Machetti, residing near Yates, who has been sick for some time, took a turn for the worse Monday and yesterday it was thought that he could live but a few days longer at the very most. Mr. Machetti is one of the hard working and substantial residents of the community, and has a host of friends who join the NEWS in the hope for his recovery despite the fact that all hope has about been abandoned. His daughter, Mrs. John Duncan, of Los Angeles, Calif., has been notified of his condition, but as to whether or not she can come, we are not advised. Thursday, 28 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 51, Pg. 1 Col. 2--"THOMPS" WITH US AGAIN.--Higbee friends and acquaintances of W. T. ("Thomps") Dameron, who (line missing) Huntsville Thursday of last week after two months spent in a Moberly hospital, will be delighted to know that he is continuing to improve, and will soon be his old self again. While not able to leave his home as yet, he has written another of his corking good letters for the NEWS, which will be found on page two of this issue. Thursday, 28 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 51, Pg. 1 Col. 2--A. R. HAMMETT MARRIES--Attorney A. R. Hammett and Miss Edith Kellog of Moberly, Mo., were married Easter Sunday, April 17, 1927, at the home of the officiating minister, Rev. W. T. Henson. They were accompanied by the bride's sister-in-law, Mrs. Richard Kellog, and her brother, Lansing Kellog, and her brother, Lansing Kellog, Judge Hammett is one of Randolph County's best lawyers.--Huntsville Times. Thursday, 28 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 51, Pg. 1 Col. 3--MRS. FRANCES C. KEITER DEAD--Mrs. Frances C. Keiter died at the home of her youngest daughter, Mrs. D. H. Myers, at Madison, Mo., at 2:20 p.m., April 25, 1927, where she had been visiting for the past seven months, and had been in failing health most of that time. On Easter Sunday she took to her bed and from that time rapidly failed, until death relieved her from a long, well-served life, to enter into the sweet, eternal rest she so much deserved. Frances Cornelius Light was born in Frederick county, Virginia, on July 1, 1839 and was married to Isaac T. Keiter Dec. 23, 1856. To this union seven children were born, Fannie, the third child, dying at 2 1/2 years of age. The others are, Mrs. Alex Butler, Mrs. S. C. Baker, Mrs. C. B. Dysart, F. G. and E. Y. Keiter, and Mrs. D. H. Myers, all of whom were at her bedside when death came. In 1870 the family came to Randolph county, locating near old College Mount, and a few years later moving to near Moberly where the remainder of the years were spent in two or three neighborhoods. Mr. Keiter died 24 years ago and for the last 20 years the deceased had made her home with her children. Going from one to the other of their homes, she continued her lifelong industrious ways of eternal watchfulness of their welfare and of their children's, loving her grandchildren even more than her own, and of which eleven are living to mourn her death. One of the county's oldest citizens, and rearing her family in the pioneer days, her life was filled with the hardships thereof, and her greatest desire was to live the life of wife and mother. Her one great joy was to seek to have her children enjoy the fruits of church and school, and to this end her family was taken to the old country church regardless of its religious faith and sent to the district schools, and as much as possible, to the higher schools. She was a member of the Presbyterian church, but her chief religious characteristics were her services to loved ones and friends. Blessed with good health, her life was very active, and if her toil of years could be put into one mighty stroke it would lift a mighty oak. The remains were brought to the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. Y. Keiter, 991 South Williams Street, Moberly, from which place funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, by the Rev. E. M. Richmond, who had known her and her family many years. A true pioneer has gone to rest, mourned by her dear ones and remembered by a host of friends. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.