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. 1--ROBB-ROGERS--Mr. Ernest Robb and Miss Iva Mae Rogers, two of our popular young people, sprang a surprise on their friends Friday of last week by slipping away to Fayette where they were united in marriage at the home of the officiating minister, the Rev. J. M. Wilcoxon. The bride is the pretty and accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rogers of near town, and was a member of the Higbee High School graduating class this year, and is popular among a wide circle. The groom is the son of Mrs. Chas. Robb of southwest of town and is generally looked upon as one of the most exemplary young men in the community. The NEWS joins other friends in wishing them a long and happy wedded life. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 2--FAREWELL PARTY GIVEN--A farewell party was given by the Busy Bee Club at the home of Mrs. W. D. Burke on last Friday complimentary to Mrs. Geo. B. Walton, who will make her home in Marshall. Many good wishes were presented to her in a wish ball, one to be read each day after her departure. In conjunction with this, initiatory ceremonies were conferred upon seven ladies who were made members of the club. Delightful refreshments were served, and everyone reported a good time, even to the new members, who were forced to ride the "goat." The new members were Mrs. E. L. Dorsett, Mrs. R. S. Gustafson, Mrs. A. R. Cash, Mrs. Ben Wright, Mrs. J. J. Pos, Mrs. Bertha Hall and Mrs. Paul Kelso. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 2--MRS. DUFFIELD TO HOSPITAL--Mrs. W. H. Duffield, who has been seriously ill for several weeks, suffering from a kidney disorder, was taken to a Moberly hospital Saturday for treatment. She was reported some better yesterday, we are glad to say. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 3--G. W. Blansett was quite painfully injured by a fall out of a chair in which he was asleep at his home Thursday afternoon of last week, several vertebra in the region of his neck being more or less dislocated. He at first complained of his arm aching and it was feared that partial paralysis might result, but he is much better, we are glad to state. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 4--C. W. Cubbage, who has been located in Alabama for the past year, where he has been engaged in bridge building writes us from Alton, Ill: "I have finished my work in Mobile and am now located for awhile here at Alton. The Kansas City Bridge Co. has the contract for two bridges in this locality, one over the Mississippi here at Alton, the other over the Missouri at Bellefountain, both highway bridges. The two are about five miles apart by land and fifteen by river. I will be here about two months and get the jobs organized and under good working conditions, and then if the flood waters of the lower Mississippi will permit will have to go south and get our work organized in Louisiana. Myself and family are enjoying pretty good health. The wife and daughter are now visiting in Glasgow. Best regards to old friends. Keep the NEWS coming to me at Alton, Care Alton Mineral Springs Hotel." Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 4--Some advertising coming in at the last minute compels us to omit this week the second article by Pete McNamara, now of New York, telling of old times in Higbee, the first of which was printed last week. The second one will deal with a ball game between the Renick and Higbee kid nines of the long ago, and will be enjoyed, we are sure, as much as was last week's article, which is saying a great deal, from the comment we have heard. So get busy right now, Pete, with that typewriter and start some more this way. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 4--George Walton who has been in Marshall for several months, where he is manager of the Marshall Fuel & Ice Co., moved his family to that place this week. They are given up with the deepest regret by all and will be sadly missed. We recommend them most heartily to the people of Marshall as being folks any town would be proud to claim as residents, and with their legion of friends trust that they will return to us some day to remain. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 4--Mrs. Chas. Binney of Strawn, Tex., and granddaughter, Miss Marguerite Terbet, of Abelene, Texas, on their way home from St. Louis where they had been to attend the wedding of a granddaughter of Mrs. Binney, a daughter of William Goe of that city, stopped off here Tuesday for a short visit with Mrs. Binney's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Pitney, and other relatives and friends. They will return home today. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 5--Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Dorsett, who have been occupying the Mark C. Murphy residence property, have moved to their cottage just completed for them at the strip mine at Russell. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Gustafson, who have been occupying rooms in the John Rankin home, and who have also erected a cottage on another hill close to the Dorsett home, will move soon. These homes, while not elaborate as to building, are modern in every way while the kitchens will be equipped with electric ranges. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 5--Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Marrs and Mrs. Mary Reiter of Moberly were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Marrs Sunday, and the day being Raymond's 33rd birthday, it was fittingly celebrated with a big dinner. Although Raymond has been away from Higbee for several years, he has yet to miss celebrating his birthday with his parents, a somewhat unusual record. And here's hoping that the custom can be kept up for many more years to come. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 5--Dorothy, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hudson, had a very close call Saturday, getting choked on an orange seed. Frantic with fear, Mrs. Hudson grabbed the struggling and gasping child and started on the run with her for a doctor, but had gone about a block when the seed was dislodged. About the first thing that Dorothy said when she could get her breath once more was that she did not want any more oranges. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 5--Miss Berenice, the 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hughes, who developed diphtheria two weeks ago, has entirely recovered, we are glad to say, and the quarantine against the home has been lifted. As in the case of the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lessly, it is not known how the disease was contracted, as there were no cases anywhere in the community. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 5--Higbee friends and acquaintances of Dan Wilkinson, who is suffering from pneumonia at his home in Springfield, Ill., will be glad to know that he is better, word or that effect being received yesterday by Mrs. Robert Harris from Mrs. Wilkinson's mother, Mrs. Mamie Wilkinson, of Moberly, who has been with him for a week. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 5--Miss Addie Lessly, who was stricken with diphtheria seven weeks ago, is now able to sit up part of the time, we are glad to say, but it will be some time before she will be able to be out. The disease has long since spent itself and her trouble now is principally weakness. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 5--Fred Noel, who returned from a government hospital at Kansas City a few weeks ago, and who had not been so well for the past week, returned to the hospital Tuesday for further treatment. Thursday, 26 May 1927, Vol 41, No. 3, Pg. 1 Col. 6--CALEB LYNCH DEAD. Passes Away At Moberly Hospital Monday After Illness of Eleven Weeks--Funeral at Residence Yesterday--Caleb Lynch, whose critical illness was noted in our last issue, despite the fact that it was not thought possible for him to survive through Wednesday night, lingered until Monday, passing peacefully away at 11:30 a.m. Although the physicians had held out no hope whatever from the very first, the fact of his having held to life with such tenacity encouraged his friends in the hope that he might yet survive, but it was not to be, a fact that he himself seemed to realize, for from the day he took sick he stated that he would not get well. Eleven weeks ago he was seized with an attack of appendicitis and against the advice of his physician delayed going to a hospital at Boonville until it was too late for the appendix to be removed, although an operation for the drainage of pus was made. Returning home he was taken to the home of his mother, Mrs. Sarah Lynch, in the east part of town, where everything that medical science and loving care could do for him was done, but as he continued to grow worse, he was taken to a Moberly hospital on the 17th and where an operation was immediately performed for the removal of pus, which had begun to poison his system, and of which more than three pints were removed. He rallied from the operation and for a day or so was thought to be some better, but it was only seemingly so. Deceased was the son of J. W. and Sarah M. Lynch, and was born in Howard county on December 2, 1885, and would have been 42 years old this coming December. He was married on October 4, 1916, to Miss Hazel Thorpe of Armstrong, who, with three children, Helen 9, Elwood, 6 and Edwin, 5, survive. He also leaves his mother, Mrs. Sarah Lynch, one sister, Mrs. Wallace Lockhart, of Moberly, and three brothers, Joshua and Gabriel Lynch of Moberly and John Lynch of this place, and one half-brother, Clement Lynch of Harrisonville; also two half-sisters, Mrs. Wm. Cleeton of Moberly and Mrs. John Pemberton of this place. Caleb Lynch was one of the best known young men in this entire section, and so far as we could ever observe, he numbered his friends by his acquaintances. Always jovial and generous hearted he naturally made friends of all whom he met and his passing is not only a calamity to his loved ones, but to the community, for he was a citizen of the very highest type. He united with the Christian church at Mt. Pleasant when quite a young boy, and lived the Golden Rule seven days a week. We had known him since his childhood and in all our dealings with him ever found him as honest as daylight, and never once in all the years did we see him angry nor hear him speak a word of harm of anyone, and in his going we shall feel a personal loss, as will all who knew him. Funeral services were held at the home yesterday afternoon by Mr. B. F. Andrews, who was associated for years in church work with deceased's father, the late J. W. Lynch, and interment made at Mt. Horeb cemetery. If anyone had any doubt as to the esteem in which Caleb was held, the immense crowd of sorrowing neighbors and friends from far and near assembled to pay him a last tribute of respect, would have dispelled them. The NEWS joins the community in warmest sympathy to the bereaved ones. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. 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