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, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 1 Col 6--MOBERLY MAN KILLED BY CAR--Frank Borgmeyer of Moberly, was found fatally injured at the corner of Coates and Fifth street, that city, at 1 a.m. Tuesday, having been struck, presumably, by an automobile. He was found almost in the middle of the street, and his skull was crushed. He was rushed to a hospital and every effort made to restore him to consciousness, but all he was ever heard to utter was the single word "Buick." Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 2 Col 1&2--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER, By W. T. Dameron--I have received a clipping from some newspaper containing an article or rather excerpts from some letters or article written by Dr. Victor C. Vaughn touching the benefits derived from "cold baths," and how such baths saved his life when young. To read some of the Doctor's statements how he liked to plunge into ice-cold water almost made me shiver. Dr. Vaughn is one of the most eminent physicians in this country. He was born and reared at Mt. Airy, this county, within a mile of where I was born and reared. When small boys we attended school at the "John Vaughn school house," a small frame building located on his father's, John Vaughn's, farm, within a few hundred yards of his house, and it is still standing, I believe. The Doctor is a few years older than I. In that school house one night is where I saw my first show, being four or five years old. It was a "Punch and Judy" exhibition given by a ventriloquist. My father carried me to the show. I thought the black faces of Punch and Judy, as they quarreled and fought with their decorated heads above the curtain was the real stuff, and it sure amused me. But back to "cold baths." The Doctor is quoted as saying that "when a young man I developed symptoms which led to a diagnosis of consumption." This is news to me. From a boy up, the Doctor's physical appearance and general makeup indicated nothing but robust health to my young mind. But the writer continues: "Two miles from my home there was a large, deep sulfur spring. Every morning I rode to the spring before breakfast. I stripped in the open air and jumped into the spring. I stood for a few minutes in the ice-cold water up to my neck. As cold weather approached frequently found think ice in cow tracks around the spring box. Soon I began to gain flesh and unfavorable symptoms faded away, and since then the only sign of consumption has been an old scar tissue at the top of one lung." He does not advise consumptives to follow his experience. Their treatment is a matter for their physician to decide. He does not think that he was cured by the sulfur or anything else in the water, but thinks the daily cold baths built up his resistance, stimulated his body vigor and thus indirectly cured him." The writer further says of Dr. Vaughn's love for ice cold baths: "His Ann Arbor, Mich., home had a large grass covered lawn surrounded by a high brick wall. At bedtime the boys and he would go into the yard, strip and turn the hose on, up and down their spines. I have broken the ice to take a plunge, diving into the cold water of Lake Superior, rush from a steam bath into a cold pool, rolled into a bank of snow and fled to a hot bath, but I know nothing more cooling than a garden hose played on the spines in a hot night. I believe the frequent employment of cold baths saved my life." The doctor and I are kinfolk and he is a truthful and a famous physician and all that, and I have great faith in him but when I take a bath in snow or ice cold water somebody will have to throw me into it. It even makes my teeth rattle to think of it. The Sulfur Spring alluded to by the doctor, is situated in the flat between Bagby's Mill and Sam C. Davis' residence. It was known and is now known as Sweet Spring, because of a sweet taste it has. Sweet Spring Creek derived its name from this spring. Long prior to the civil war Robert Smith, Dr. Vaughn's uncle, purchased the spring, including an acre of ground, with the intention of making a health resort there. But he never attempted to carry out that purpose, though lots of people drank the water and bathed there in that day. Dr. Vaughn has traveled extensively in foreign lands. He did his best in the Spanish-American war and the World War. Besides his Ann Arbor home he owns a winter home in Florida. He has two brothers and one sister living in Texas--John P. and Marvin Vaughn, and Mrs. Bettie Stapleton. The last time I heard from John P. Vaughn, about a year ago, he had lost his eyesight, or practically so. To show the grit of Dr. Vaughn when a young man, I relate this circumstance. Some years after the civil war he attended school at old Mount Pleasant College. J. W. Terrill was president of the college at the time. Victor roomed at the home of his uncle, John B. Taylor, in south Huntsville. On this occasion a deep snow was on the ground, and it had not been shoveled off of some of the sidewalks in Huntsville, and there was only a footpath on the walk. One morning Victor met a young buck negro in the path. The negro was evidently feeling his freedom and he refused to give any part of the path, and being larger and stronger than Victor, deliberately shoved him off the walk into the snow, scattering his books, and then beat it. Before going to school next morning Victor procured an old cylinder pistol, loaded it, then took it apart and put it in his coat pocket. One his way to school he saw the same negro coming towards him. By the time the negro got within twenty or thirty feet of him he had gotten the parts of the pistol together, and he leveled the gun on the negro and commenced firing. The negro ran and fell over in the snow and Victor picked up his books and went on to school, thinking he had killed the negro, but the negro proved to be only slightly wounded, or not seriously so. (Kathy's notes: It never ceased to sicken me, to realize how easily people in this time period believed that a minor slight to a man or woman's honor or person, was justification for killing someone. If he had killed this man, he probably would never have served a day in jail.) Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 4 Col 1--Forty years ago next Saturday--February 5, 1887--the first issue of the NEWS made it's appearance before a more or less expectant, curious and anxious world. How much water has passed over the dam since then? It has managed somehow, to live up to the salutation of its founder that it had come to stay. And here's hoping it will still be going at the end of another forty years. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 4 Col 1--Mrs. Thomas McVay, who ran a needle in her left hand five weeks ago, it entering the palm and burying itself just above the bone at the base of the thumb, had to have the hand cut open Monday, and the injury was paining her to such an extent that she had to be given chloroform. When the injury first occurred Mrs. McVay went to a physician who failed to locate the needle after probing and cutting the flesh at the point of entrance, and she went home thinking she might be mistaken, as had been suggested. As the pain continued to increase and the hand to swell worse, and especially within the last week, Mrs. McVay had an x-ray picture made by Dr. Pos, which showed the needle plain as day, and which had embedded itself so deep that it was just above the bone. Dr. J. W. Winn was called to the home and succeeded in getting the needle, but as the hand was so sore and badly swollen, it was not the trivial task one would suppose, since which time Mrs. McVay has been feeling like a new woman and is enjoying the real sleep in weeks. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Born, on January 29, to Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Littlejohn of St. Joseph, a son. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 1--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Walter Dougherty is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Emerson Littlejohn of St. Joseph. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Good were the guests of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Swetnam, during the week. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Misses Goldie and Susie Pitney of Moberly were the week-end guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Pitney. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Born, on January 23, to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gerard, of St. Louis, a son. Mrs. Gerard will be best remembered as Miss Margaret Griggs. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Steven Woods, who has been living on a farm near Moberly for the past year or two, moved back to his farm near Armstrong last week. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--W. L. Grapes, who was taken to a Moberly hospital last week to have a piece of steel from a sledge or chisel which pierced his cheek bone, removed, was able to come home Tuesday. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Frank Heathman, who had a leg broken while at work in the Mariott mine at Moberly four months ago which was his second accident in the mine, was able to return to work Monday. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 2--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. J. W. (Dr.) Winn, who had been in Boonville hospital for two weeks, was able to come home Sunday. She was greatly improved by her stay, we are glad to say, and is now able to be up most of the time. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 3-LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs. Lesslie Burton was very much surprised on opening a letter Sunday from her sister, Mrs. Willie Petrie, of Marshall, to find in it a check for a new automobile, the day being Mrs. Burton's birthday. Some birthday present. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 3-LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Cecil Angleberger returned to his home in Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday, after a visit of several weeks with his grandmother, Mrs. Hiram Land. He was accompanied as far as St. Louis by the latter who will spend two or three weeks with relatives in the city. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 3-LOCAL AND PERSONAL--T. L. Warford's big Studebaker coach went into the ditch with him and his family on the hill just west of Antioch church Sunday. Fortunately none of them were injured and after being pulled out the car was found to be in running order.--Madison Times. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 3-LOCAL AND PERSONAL--We printed bills this week for O. E. Farrell, who will sell a big lot of personal property at his farm near Myers on the 23rd, a list of which will be found in the NEWS of the 17th. Mr. Farrell will return to Moberly, from which place he moved to the farm a year or so ago in order to take off a lot of surplus flesh and put himself in better physical condition. He couldn't have selected a better method. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. 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