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, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 1 Col 6--Walter Dougherty went to Marshall Tuesday and saw the Missouri Valley team clean up on the Culver-Stockton basketball team 40 to 31. It was all the more pleasing to him as Culver-Stockton had given the strong Central College team a severe beating only a night or two before and as many Marshall fans feared a similar defeat. Walter, on remarking that it would take three or four to stop the Culver-Stockton star if he played as well as he did in Fayette, was made to feel good all over by some stranger, who didn't know him from Adam, remarking that if Dougherty (Mr. Dougherty's son) couldn't stop him he couldn't be stopped. And "Demus" did that very thing, playing the greatest game of his career. Marshall went wild following the victory, Walter states. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 3 Col 1--SOUTH OF TOWN--Frank Friedman of Kansas City came in Saturday for a week's visit with his sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Blaise and Mrs. Emma Blaise. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 3 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN--Mrs. Robert Palmer improves slowly at a Boonville hospital. Her small son, staying at his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Atkins, who was so sick Sunday, is some better now. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 3 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN--Omer Foley, who is attending school at Kirksville came in Saturday for a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Foley. Theodore Mead and wife brought him in their car from Moberly and spent the night at the Foley home. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 3 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN--Dave Comstock who has been working in Moberly came home Friday and took a peep at his children through the window. They were convalescing from the measles. Dave has never had the measles and don't want to run any risk catching them. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 3 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN--Mrs. Emma Ridgway has decided the virtue of long tresses is not as of old and has shorn her long pretty locks which she had carefully groomed for the past six months, and the impartial consent of her husband was very eagerly given this time. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 3 Col 2--SOUTH OF TOWN--Mrs. Claib Dougherty, who has been seriously ill from blood poisoning since last Thursday, was taken to a Moberly hospital for treatment the first of the week. She was placed on a bed in a wagon and four horses hitched to it and conveyed to Higbee where she took the train for Moberly. The roads were so deep with mud that no car could run. She was suffering intense pain when she left home. We hope that she has long since found relief and that all danger of the loss of the arm has passed. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Jas. Rice, who went to Indiana several weeks ago where he had employment, returned Friday and is again at work at the new strip mine. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--W. M. (Shy) Burton, as will be seen by an ad in this issue, will sell a lot of surplus farm machinery and feed at his farm south of town on the 15th. See bills, also, for list. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--J. H. Wagner, engineer of the big steam shovel at the strip mine, moved his family here from Minneapolis Tuesday and is occupying the old Dudley Bottoms residence property. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Joe Hackward spent most of the week in Moberly at the bedside of her brother, Jake Owen, who has been critically ill for ten days from pneumonia. He was better when last heard from yesterday. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Embree Swetnam, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Swetnam of near town, who has been critically ill for a week or more at Moberly, suffering from pneumonia, was little, if any, better, when last heard from yesterday. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mike Papagi, an employee at the strip mine, had the misfortune to break two ribs yesterday in a fall. He was using a heavy bar to move a log when the bar slipped and he was thrown with great violence against the log. He was brought to town and taken to the West Side hotel and given prompt medical treatment. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--S. H. Harlan, who has been living on the Hamilton farm east of town for the past year, has decided to give up farming and will return to Moberly, and later will likely go to California to locate, will sell a big lot of property at the farm on the 14th, a list of which will be found in this issue. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--We printed bills this week for H. N. Todd, who will sell a big lot of property at the Uriah Thompson farm 7 miles southwest of town on the 16th, a list of which can be seen in this issue. Mr. Todd will return to Moberly where he was engaged in the restaurant business before going to the farm. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--J. S. Warford and Leonard Ancell returned yesterday from Kansas city where they had been to see Fred Noel, who underwent his sixth operation in a government hospital in that city Friday. The physicians did not give him any encouragement, we are sorry to say, but as Fred has fooled them on five other occasions, his legion of friends join the NEWS in the hope that he will do so again. His visitors left him cheerful and full of pep and confident that he would be up in a short time. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Miss Genevieve Antonelli entertained at the home of her mother, Mrs. Joella Biswell, on Thursday, the 3rd, her teacher, Miss Lucile Humphrey and three of her school mates, Miss Berenice Hughes, Clay Wilson and T. Borden. Mrs. Biswell had a six o'clock dinner and after dinner dance which was enjoyed by a number of friends. They made candies, popped corn, played carts and numerous games. Music was furnished by the colored musicians of Glasgow, Hicks and Ward. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Will Thompson purchased a new Chevrolet truck Monday and will leave with his family for New Mexico and Texas for the benefit of his health as soon as the roads make travel possible. He will go to Plattsburg for a week's visit with his sister and then on to Kansas for a visit with his father, and then on into the Southwest. His many friends join the NEWS in the hope that he will soon be fully restored, and that peace and prosperity may ever attend him. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 1--MT. PLEASANT ITEMS--Mrs. Sam Naylor who has been ill for some time, is not quite so well. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 1--MT. PLEASANT ITEMS--Ed Wilhite and wife, who have been visiting Mrs. Wilhite's father, Wm. Lyle, the past several weeks, left last week for a visit with relatives in Kansas City. Should they like it there, they may locate. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 1--MT. PLEASANT ITEMS--The two-weeks-old infant daughter of Robert Bailey and wife died Sunday and was buried in the Perche cemetery Monday. The entire family have the flue and it is thought that the flu was the cause of the baby's death. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 2--NAYLOR ITEMS--Mrs. Orpha Fainter of Mexico is visiting her father, Tom Bailey. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 2--NAYLOR ITEMS--The two-weeks-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bailey, died Sunday February 6, of the flu. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 2--NAYLOR ITEMS--Edward Walker, Milton Walker and Archie Walker spent the weekend with their brother, Vernett Walker of Fayette. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 2--NAYLOR ITEMS--Mrs. Claibe Dougherty was taken to a Moberly hospital the first of the week suffering from a severe case of blood poisoning. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 2--NAYLOR ITEMS--Elgie Sinclair went to Moberly Saturday of last week to have some teeth pulled. His doctor told him he could do him no good until the teeth were out. Thursday, 10 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 40, Pg 8 Col 4--Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Woods and two little sons, Clifford and J. B., were Sunday guests of Mrs. Woods' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bowen. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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