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, 7 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 48, Pg. 1 Col. 1--GEORGE CARTER DEAD. One of Our Most Highly Respected Colored Citizens Passes to His Reward After Long Illness.--George Carter, one of our best known and highly respected colored residents, passed away at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday at his home on the Rennolds farm after a long illness, aged 59 years. Deceased was born in Howard county in March, 1868, and had lived in this vicinity most all of his life and for the past forty-five years had been in the employ of G. R. Rennolds, and had lived on and operated the latter's farm just southeast of town for the past twenty-one years. He was the son of Simon Carter, fondly remembered by all as "Uncle Simon," as good and as industrious a man as ever lived among us. George was certainly a chip off the old block, for he worked early and late, was absolutely honest in all things and looked after his employer's interest as conscientiously as if they had been his own. He had been a member of the Christian church since young manhood, and so far as we could observe came as near living up to the golden rule as the next one. He is survived by his wife an done son and one daughter, two sisters and two brothers--Simon Carter of this place, Phil Carter of Kansas City, and Mrs. John Richardson and Lina Carter. Funeral services will be held at the home tomorrow at 2 o'clock and interment will be made in the cemetery of his race southeast of town. Thursday, 7 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 48, Pg. 1 Col. 1--CALEB LYNCH BETTER--Caleb Lynch, who was taken to a hospital at Boonville ten days ago, suffering from appendicitis, from which he had suffered repeated attacks for several years, and where he was operated on, has not done as well as was hoped and at his present rate of progress will not be able to return home as soon as was expected, he having delayed too long in having the operation performed to hope for a speedy recovery and the appendix being in a worse condition than had been expected. He is considered in no danger, we are glad to state, and was believed to be better yesterday. Thursday, 7 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 48, Pg. 1 Col. 2--FRED NOEL HOME--Fred Noel, who went to Kansas City several months ago for a fifth or sixth operation--and to die, many of his friends thought--was able to return home Saturday looking better than he has in a year or so, and despite the fact that the surgeons were of the opinion that he would never leave the hospital, if he did not die on the operating table. But he fooled them, we are mighty glad to state, as he did on three or four other occasions, when he was informed that he didn't have enough stomach left to operate on. Mr. Noel has had very severe stomach trouble since the day in France with a companion he found a load of bread and a tin of beef, the latter pierced by a bullet, on the battlefield, and which they devoured after a fast of almost three days, but not eating any of the meat, however, until that part pierced by the bullet had been cut away. Mr. Noel was taken ill almost immediately and has not seen a well day since, while his companion suffered no ill effects. Fred has put up one of the gamiest fights of anyone we ever knew, and we sincerely hope that he will yet come out of it and confound the doctors still more by getting sound as nails. Thursday, 7 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 48, Pg. 1 Col. 2--MCCUNE-PERKINS--Mr. J. W. McCune of near Clark and Mrs. Carrie Perkins of this place were united in marriage at the home of the officiating minister, the Rev. R. C. Abrams, of Columbia, on the 1st, and after a short visit with Higbee relatives and friends the first of the week left for their home near Clark. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Warford of this place and has followed the profession of teaching for several years, teaching the past year near Columbia. She is a most capable and refined lady and is popular among a wide circle of acquaintances. Mr. McCune is from one of the county's oldest and best families, and is one of our substantial farmers, and a high-class christian gentleman. The NEWS joins other friends in congratulations and best wishes. Thursday, 7 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 48, Pg. 1 Col. 2--JESSE WILLIAMS ILL--Jesse Williams, an employee of the Alton, but who has been idle for several weeks on account of slack business, has been quite ill at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Williams, suffering from inflammatory rheumatism, which put him out of business for months several years ago, and which he had hoped and believed had left him for good. He was some better yesterday, we are glad to state, but it will likely be some time before he will be able to return to work. Thursday, 7 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 48, Pg. 1 Col. 3--A CLOSE CALL--Chas. Comstock, while at work at the trip mine Friday, came near meeting with a fatal accident, one of several heavy poles being handled by the steam shovel slipping and striking him in the back of the neck. The skin was not even broken nor was he knocked down, yet his neck was all but broken, one of the vertebra being thrown out of place, and which was not discovered until he had finished work for the day and went to Dr. C. F. Burkhalter for treatment for a "crick" in his neck. Dr. Burkhalter sent him to a Moberly hospital where his neck was encased in a plaster cast. He should be as good as new in a week or so. Thursday, 7 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 48, Pg. 1 Col. 4--JOHN HOWAT NEAR DEATH--The many friends all over the county of John Howat, our most efficient County Agent, will regret to learn that he is lying at the point of death at his home in Huntsville, suffering from pneumonia. He was just alive at 6 p.m. yesterday, and was not expected to go through the night unless a change for the better came soon. We first heard of the illness of Mr. Howat through Andrew Minor, who was here yesterday on business, and he said that when he left home at noon Mr. Howat was not expected to live an hour. He called us on reaching home at 6 o'clock and reported Mr. Howat's condition as above stated. The NEWS joins his friends in a prayer that he may be spared, for he is too useful a man to have to part with. Thursday, 7 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 48, Pg. 1 Col. 4--MRS. EVA ROBB DEAD--Mrs. Eva Robb died at her home in the east part of town Monday noon, following an illness of a month. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Dougherty, and was born on August 23, 1905, and was united in marriage on May 23, 1925, to Jesse Robb by whom she is survived, as well as her parents and one brother and one sister. Funeral services were conducted at the home Wednesday afternoon by the Rev. Notley Magruder in the presence of a large crowd of sorrowing relatives and friends, and interment made in the Higbee cemetery. The NEWS joins the community in sympathy to the bereaved ones. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.