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, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 6--GOING OUT OF BUSINESS--The many Higbee friends of Henry and Vint Terrill, the oldest shoe merchants in Moberly, doing business under the name of Terrill Bros., will regret to learn that they are to retire from business. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 2 Col. 1--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--(Edited by compiler)--Former mayor H. L. Rutherford accidentally fell at his home one day last week and injured one of his legs quite severely, but no bones were broken. Mr. Rutherford is in his 86th year and is quite feeble. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 2 Col. 3--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--(Edited by compiler)--We were in error last week when we stated in our letter to the NEWS that "Chester Formento pled guilty to sale of intoxicating liquors under the prohibition law and was given a sentence of two years in the penitentiary by Judge Walker." I understood a court official to make that statement to me in a conversation with him about the disposition of certain criminal cases. But we learned from the same official Thursday last when again conversing with him, that I misunderstood him as to the Formento case, but too late to make the correction in the NEWS. Formento's case, he said, would come up for a hearing at the Moberly court in June. We regret the mistake, innocently made, of course. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 2 Col. 3--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--(Edited by compiler)--The remains of Mrs. Bettie Buchanan, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. Russell Holman, of Jefferson City early Friday morning, May 20, were brought here for burial. A short funeral service was held at the Christian church by the Rev. C. B. Dabney. Mrs. Buchanan was a native of Calloway county, and was born in 1844, and was about three months past 83 years old. In early life she married Perry Buchanan of the same county. The family moved to Huntsville back in the '80's, and for several years Mr. Buchanan was proprietor of the old Rutherford hotel here. He died here about 30 years ago. Since then his widow has resided with her children. She was a good christian old lady. She leaves three daughters--Mrs. W. Leonard Dameron of Kansas City; Mrs. J. R. Holman, Jefferson City, and Mrs. J. G. Dulaney of Huntsville, and one son, Claude Buchanan of Los Vegas, New Mexico. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 2 Col. 5--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--(Edited by compiler)--(Kathy's notes: Mr. Dameron was apparently quoting from an old paper in 1855, but he was rather sloppy about identifying which issues the quotes came from, so I can't cite the original paper, issue or date.) MARRIED--On the 29th of November, 1855, by Rev. Jas. W. Morrow, Thos. B. Reed, Esq., of the firm of Reed & Denny of Huntsville, and Miss Rachael Eliza, daughter of Mr. Jas. Denny of Howard county. At Westwood, on Dec. 5, 1855 , by Rev. Younger R. Pitts of Georgetown, Ky., Alex Finley Denny, Esp., of the law firm of Reed & Denny, Huntsville, and Miss Mattie McDowell, only daughter of Capt. John A. Pitts, of Randolph county. Died--In the city of Stockton, California, on Sunday evening, Sept. 23, 1855, William G. Frazier of Randolph county. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 4 Col. 3--Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bremer and daughters, Misses Helen and Terese are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wheeler. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 4 Col. 3--Mrs. H. B. Shockley returned to her home in Slater yesterday after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Avery. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 4 Col. 3--Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Gruber of Dowell, Ill, announce the birth of a daughter on the 11th, and who has been christened Marion Frances. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 4 Col. 4--Mrs. Thos. Elliott and children returned to their home in Leavenworth, Kas., Monday after a visit with Mrs. Elliott's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Walton, and other relatives and friends. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 4 Col. 5--Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Atkins returned to their home in Oklahoma Thursday after a visit with Mr. Atkins" mother, Mrs. Annie Atkins, and other relatives and friends. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 5 Col 2--Jas. Roberts is at home from Chicago for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Roberts. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 5 Col 2--Ernest Stevenson returned to his home in Marissa, Ill., Sunday, accompanied by his sister, Miss Ruth. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 5 Col 2--Mrs. Joe Hackward and daughters, Misses Vera and Jennie, spent Wednesday with relatives in Moberly. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 5 Col 2--Mrs. Jas. Daggs of Salisbury was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Jones, during the week. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 5 Col 2--Mrs. Francis Newman of Mexico was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Evans, during the week. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 5 Col 2--Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Walton and little daughter, Mary Louise, spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives in Canton. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 5 Col 2--Susie and Junior Dinwiddie, children of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dinwiddie, who were operated on at a Boonville hospital ten days ago for appendicitis, were able to come home Monday, and should be as good as new in a few weeks. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 5 Col 3--Mrs. A. E. Burkhalter returned to her home in Wellsville Friday after a visit with her son, Dr. C. F. Burkhalter, and family. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 7 Col 2--Mrs. Mary B. Rutherford, aged about 47, died at the home of her brother, Harry Hunter, at Bevier Sunday, the body being brought here for burial Tuesday. She was a daughter of Henry Hunter. Funeral services were held at the M. E. church by the Rev. W. L. Meyer of Macon. Mrs. Rutherford and her husband, Hardin Rutherford, had been separated for several years. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 7 Col 2--That was a sad and untimely death of little Louie Elwood Spotts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Spotts, which occurred late Saturday afternoon, May 21st, at their home southeast of Moberly. Louie suffered a horrible death, being drug and stamped to death by a horse. He had been harrowing, and after driving to the lot he unhitched his team and told his father, who was planting corn in a field near by that he had forgotten his working gloves, leaving them in the field which he had finished harrowing, and that he would ride one of the horses back to the field and get them. His father had just started across the field riding a corn planter and had his back to his son when the boy started to a fence where he had hitched the horse which he intended to ride back to get his gloves. It is not known just how the unfortunate accident happened, or rather how it came that Louie first got tangled in the harness, but it is supposed it occurred when he attempted to get on the horse and fell under it, getting tangled in a trace chain and other parts of the harness, as marks on his legs and arm indicated. The body showed that it had been stamped on, wicked or drug, almost to a pulp. His clothing was torn off and most of the skin on his face and other parts of the body was scratched off. If the boy made an outcry before he was killed, his father, who was only a few hundred yards away, did not hear him. A younger brother was the first to discover the body, in a few minutes after the accident had happened, and gave the alarm. Louie was born just a few miles southwest of Huntsville and was past 11 years of age, and it is said of him that he was a model boy. He was a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Burton, near Huntsville, and also grandson of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Spotts, near Moberly. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church here at 2:30 Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. E. V. Lamb of Moberly, and assisted by the pastor, Rev. F. P. Davidson. The auditorium of the church was packed with relatives, friends and acquaintances of the family. The floral offerings were rich and elaborate. The parents and grandparents of the deceased have the sympathy of a large circle of friends in this community. Interment was made in the family lot at the Clifton Hill cemetery. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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