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, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Born, on the 15th, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Sunderland, a son. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Born, on the 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Coons, a daughter. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. W. R. Jones returned Wednesday from a visit with her daughter Mrs. Geo. Blankenship, at Moberly. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--George, the 10 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Warford, fell from a ladder Saturday and broke his right arm. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--I will not be responsible for debts contracted by Minnie Ellen Shafer after this date.--Aubrey M. Shafer, Liberty, Mo. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Belle Murphy left Friday for Columbia where she has accepted a position as chaperon in a college fraternity home. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. S. N. Metcalf of Moberly is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. N. J. Fowler, and will likely make her home with the latter. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. J. W. Marshall of Moberly was the guest of her sisters, Mrs. Susie Dinwiddie and Mrs. John Miller, the first of the week. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--As will be seen by his ad in this issue, Wm. Bartee will sell a lot of personal property at his farm near Yates, tomorrow, the 18th. Mr. Bartee, who is quitting the farm, will likely move to St. Louis. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--We printed bills this week for Claude Barron who will sell a lot of personal property at the old Minor farm north of town on the 26th. See bills, or ad in our next issue, for list. Mr. Barron will move to Iowa. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Elbert, the 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hayden, who has been very sick for the past week, at first suffering from tonsillitis, but now from stomach disorder, was no better late yesterday, we are sorry to say. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Joe Hackward went to Moberly Tuesday to be with her brother, Jake Owen, who has been dangerously ill from pneumonia for two weeks, but who is now believed to be out of danger. Mrs. Owen is also suffering from the same malady. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Asa Durnill is laid up at home with a very bad injury to his right ankle, and which will very likely keep him indoors for several weeks. While at work in the Block mine Thursday he got his foot caught by a car of rock, the muscles being torn loose from around the ankle. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Swetnam will be glad to know that their son, Embree, who has been critically ill from pneumonia in Moberly for two weeks, and who was not believed to have a chance Saturday, is very much improved and whose recovery, with no back-set, is now assured. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--J. F. Whitmore, who has been in poor health for some time, suffering from neuritis, left Tuesday for St. Louis where he will enter the Baptist Sanitarium. He stated that he wouldn't be at all surprised to come back with every tooth gone, as he had been advised that bad teeth, and especially two impacted wisdom teeth, were perhaps the cause of his trouble. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--A wind which blew great guns here Tuesday night made folks think that March had arrived ahead of time. It lasted but a few minutes, however, and as a red dust was observed on walks and porches the next morning, it was likely the last gasps of a Kansas or Oklahoma sand storm. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--J. T. Rother, merchant tailor at Moberly for the past twelve years, is to leave that city and will locate in St. Louis, which will leave Moberly, so far as we know, without a tailor, for about the first time in its history. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Nettie Sumpter visited her granddaughter, Valeta Nell Hargis. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Roxie Asbury was "helping guest" of her mother, Mrs. Emma Blaise, Saturday. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--The little six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Westfall, is seriously ill with the measles. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Claib Dougherty who is in a Moberly hospital from blood poisoning, is some improved at this writing. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mr. and Mrs. Marion Hern had as radio guests Friday eve. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hern, Mrs. Lou Fisher and children, Mrs. Jake Atkins and children and Aubrey and Marjorie Avery. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Little Valeta Nell Hargis was ill with the measles last week. She is recovering rapidly now and is celebrating her very first birthday today--Valentine day. She was the recipient of many remembrances. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Robert Palmer is still in St. Joseph hospital at Boonville now much improved. She has not been improved sufficiently enough to sit up yet and her physician says that she will probably not be discharged from the hospital for three weeks or more. Her husband went to Boonville Saturday to visit her. We are very sorry for Eunice and her many friends and relatives of this vicinity are hopeful for a speedier recovery than is rumored. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 7 Col 3--EAST OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Laura Palew of Moberly is visiting her niece, Mrs. Cleve Dougherty. Thursday, 17 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 41, Pg. 8 Col 6--L. T. Burton, known to his familiars as "Old Soc," and a former resident of Higbee, was here from Moberly Tuesday to attend the W. M. Burton sale, and found time to pay the NEWS an appreciated call. Mr. Burton, who recently disposed of his grocery store, and which made him good money for two years, advised that he would leave soon for an auto trip to Oklahoma and Texas, not with a view of locating, but on a pleasure trip. He threw up his hands in horror when several suggested to him that he get in the race for sheriff next year, saying that he is too old now for any such strenuous life and is going to take things as easy as possible from now on, and we see where he is right. Mr. Burton made the race for sheriff many years ago, and went into Moberly with 1600 votes ahead of the bunch, but was defeated--being robbed, his friends always claimed, by the Moberly ring. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. 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