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 Oct 1926, Vol 40, No 23, Pg.1, Col 2--JOHN M. RENNOLDS INJURED--G. R. Rennolds went to Fayette Tuesday to see his brother, John M. Rennolds, who was quite painfully injured Sunday afternoon by being struck and knocked down by a motor car. Mr. Rennolds, who is totally blind, was taking his usual daily walk up and down the block in front of his house, and was struck by the car, driven by a neighbor, who was backing the car out of the driveway, and who could not see Mr. Rennolds who was directly behind the car, on account of the curtain, but was able to stop in time to keep from running over him. It was thought at first that Mr. Rennolds' hip might be broken, but he escaped, we are glad to say with only minor scratches and bruises. Thursday, 7 Oct 1926, Vol 40, No 23, Pg.1, Col 2--MRS. R. B. ALEXANDER DEAD--Mrs. R. B. Alexander, aged 79 years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Manie Pipes, of Rocheport, on the 4th. Deceased was a sister of Miss Lucy Elgin formerly of this place, and will be remembered by many of our older residents. Thursday, 7 Oct 1926, Vol 40, No 23, Pg.1, Col 5--LOSES RESIDENCE BY FIRE--James Dougherty, who lives in the west part of town, just west of the Katy depot, had the misfortune to lose his home by fire early Sunday morning. The alarm was turned in about 11:30 Saturday night and those who were up or who were awakened had a great deal of trouble in locating the fire, as there was no blaze, the fire seemingly being between the walls, the only evidence of fire about the place being the smoke coming through the roof near the chimney. Higbee, generally, has about the best bunch of fire fighters we know of, but in this instance, we are sorry to say, they were far below par, and so far as we could judge, the house was pretty well wrecked, windows and doors being smashed, before the fire was located, if it ever was, and chemicals from the engine thrown into rooms where there was not even any smoke. The fighters probably recalled the burning of the John Robb home a few weeks ago, and perhaps thought the fire had smoldered a long time and that the house would burst into flames and cave in at any moment. In the general excitement and confusion, what household articles were saved were badly damaged, and when the crowd left about 1:30 Mr. Dougherty was likely regretting, from the general mess, that the house had not burned. Wherever the fire was, however, it had not been reached to the extent that it had been entirely extinguished, for about 4 a.m. the alarm was again sounded, and by the time the engine arrived on the scene the house had been pretty well reduced to ashes. It is not known how the fire originated, but it is thought from a defective flue. We are not advised as to what insurance Mr. Dougherty carried, if any. He has the sympathy of all. Thursday, 7 Oct 1926, Vol 40, No 23, Pg.1, Col 5--OLD PARTNERS TO GRAVE TOGETHER--By an unusual coincidence two men who had been business partners, next door neighbors and congenial companions for many years were buried in Paris the same day, the same hour, in the same cemetery this week. They were George W. Seibert and Henry C. Long. Mr. Long, who died in Hannibal, operated a drug store in Paris for a generation or more, during which time Mr. Seibert lived on an adjoining lot and spent most of his spare hours at the store. For several years they were partners in the ice business. Both were buried in Walnut Grove Monday afternoon--Monroe County Appeal. Thursday, 7 Oct 1926, Vol 40, No 23, Pg.1, Col 6--MRS. JULIA BARNES DEAD--Mrs. Julia Barnes, formerly of this place, died at her home in Stratford, Texas, on September 26, aged 72 years. She was the widow of Dow Barnes and moved from this vicinity to Texas some thirty-five years ago. She is survived by four children. She also leaves one brother, W. M. Burton of this place, and four half sisters--Mrs. John Pattrick of near town, Mrs. Lannie Burton, Mrs. Will Smith and Mrs. C. W. Creason, all of Moberly, and a half brother, Julius Ragsdale, of Madison. Interment was made in Kansas City last week. Mrs. Barnes had many friends in this community who learn of her death with the deepest regret. Thursday, 7 Oct 1926, Vol 40, No 23, Pg.2, Col 2&3--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--(Edited by compiler)--Met our old friend, John Pogue, on the street the other day. Evidently John's honest mind must have been basking in the "moonlight" or other days when we chased the fox in the "white oaks" west of Higbee and north of Yates, as he greeted us with "how would you like to chase a fox today?" Bully fine day for the sport if I had a good horse and a pack of fox hounds, as of old, we replied. It's been more than 40 years since I was in a real old time fox chase, and more than 50 years since we commenced to follow such old time foxhounders as the late Capt. Geo. Yates, Robert Smith, Alex Malone, Bill Dawson, and my old friend, John T. Dysart, who is still with us in the flesh in the same territory mentioned above. In fact some of the most inspiring and "hairlifting" music that ever entered my ears was made by a pack of 12 to 15 hounds chasing a fox with those old timers back in the early 70's. Discussing some of those old time chases reminded Mr. Pogue of the first time he ever saw Capt. Yates in a fox chase--about the close of the Civil War. John was born in Sweet Owen County, Ky., in 1854. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Pogue, with their children, came to this county from Owen county in 1858. they came down the Ohio and up the Mississippi rivers to St. Louis by boat, and from there to Renick on the then North Missouri railroad. With household goods and among other things they brought with them six barrels of good old Owen county whiskey for family use and to treat their new neighbors and newly made acquaintances who called to welcome them to a home among them, as was the custom in that day. Just think of it, six barrels of pure whiskey for one family, and not a large family, either. The modern bootlegger would have a real picnic if he could strike something like that now. But that was nothing very striking back there in free whisky days. Every family kept whiskey in their home, more or less, in that day, and nothing strange was thought of it, and there were not as many "crazy" drunks then as now under the full bloom of prohibition and home brew illicit stuff. Well, with the family and the six barrels of "new life," came too blooded Kentucky fox hounds, a male and female. When the old foxhunter, Captain Yates, saw those two hounds, as the elder Pogue started on a hunt with him, the Captain said, "Milton, what are going to do with those two cur dogs? My hounds will lose them in a chase." I think they will keep up with old Boston, replied Mr. Pogue. "Old Boston" was Capt. Yates' favorite leader and trusty in a chase, and in reply to Mr. Pogue the Captain said, "Yes, like h--l they will." "Well, they soon had a fox going," said John, "and after a double or two it was seen that Old Boston was trailing the two Kentucky hounds, and Captain Yates' feathers began to fall, and he could not yell to encourage his pack of runners, old Boston, in particular. After about an hours' chase Mr. Pogue's two hounds caught the fox in the road near the old Hale house on Silver Creek north of Yates, and killed it some time before Mr. Yates' hounds came in sight, as the Captain couldn't establish an alibi in the chase he was greatly crestfallen, and Old Boston, like Dempsey, lost his crown. "Several months after the chase Mr. Pogue's female hound gave birth to a litter of 14 pups," said John, "and Mr. Yates was the first to speak for six of them. He got them, Uncle Bob Smith got two and other parties got four and we kept two. That was some litter of pups. Most of them made fine fox hounds, and were leaders in a chase." Mr. Pogue's elder brother, James, enlisted in the Confederate army in the latter part of 1861, and was a gallant soldier. He was a fine marksman and was a "sharpshooter" in the army. He was wounded seven times in engagements before he was killed in action in the bloody battle at Franklin, Tenn. He and Geo. N. Ratliff, of Moberly, were in the same company, were mess mates and fought side by side, and Mr. Ratliff received a wound in the arm at the same battled in which Mr. Pogue was killed. Mr. Ratliff has often stated that he never saw a better shot nor braver soldier than Jim Pogue. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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