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 5 Col 3-LOCAL AND PERSONAL--S. C. Blythe, who has been making his home in Denver, Colo., for the past year or two, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Laight. We had thought uncle John Stone was about the most remarkable man in the whole country for holding his age, but his ability in this respect is equaled by Mr. Blythe, who, despite his 80 years, is as young looking, and is apparently as stout as when he used to wield the hammer in the blacksmith shop at the old mine west of town forty years ago. He would have a hard time convincing any but those who have known him all these years that he has reached such a great age. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 3-LOCAL AND PERSONAL--The many Higbee friends of Ernest Foley, who has been connected with the Ford agency at Fayette for a year or two, will be glad to learn that he is now in the business for himself having formed a partnership with Mayor Geo. Todd of that city and will handle the Chevrolet, the fastest selling car on the market today, and which seems destined, at the present rate, to put Ford on the rocks if he persists in his refusal to make any material changes in his car. The new firm, it is said, will likely open a sub-agency in Armstrong. The NEWS joins Mr. Foley's legion of friends in best wishes for success. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 3-LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hamilton of near Moberly were Higbee visitors Thursday of last week, making a special trip in order to subscribe for the NEWS. Mr. Hamilton, who was struck by lightning while at work on his farm last summer, and who was unconscious for many weeks, is slowly improving, his many friends will be glad to learn. The accident caused him to lose his hearing, and it was at first feared that his ear drums had been bursted, but as he can distinguish sound now and then, and can almost always hear the ringing of a bell, it is believed that some nerve may have been paralyzed and that his hearing will be eventually restored as the nerve grows stronger, and all who know Mr. Hamilton earnestly trust that such will be the case, for he is one of the best men in the county, as well as one of its most industrious ones, and is in the prime of life. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 5 Col 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Sergeant Dewey Miles returned to Detroit, Mich., Monday after a visit of a month with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Miles, of south of town. (Kathy's Notes: For the last several months of the paper, they have been printing serialized novels, on pages 6 & &. That's why there is no news from those pages.) Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 1--MT. PLEASANT ITEMS--Charley Dougherty who was quite seriously burned by the explosion of a gasoline stove several days ago, was getting along nicely when last heard from. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 1--MT. PLEASANT ITEMS--Paul Naylor and wife and Mrs. Ezra Newman attended the funeral of their grandfather, Thos. Metcalf, Friday. His death occurred at his home in Moberly January 25 after an illness of several months. He is survived by his widow, three sons and four daughters, a host of grandchildren and several great and great-great grandchildren. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 1--FAIRVIEW ITEMS--Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Franklin and family and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bradley attended the birthday dinner of Richard White Friday. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 1--EAST OF TOWN ITEMS--Walter Haggard spent Saturday night with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Stone. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 1--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Measles! Measles! Measles! Lowell, Ralph and Howard Hargis, Hilda and Junior Comstock are all confined in their homes with the measles. They are getting along nicely. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 1--SOUTH OF TOWN ITEMS--Mrs. Eunice Palmer, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Atkins, was taken suddenly ill with appendicitis at her home Wednesday night. A physician was called and she was rushed to the hospital at Boonville, and immediately operated on. She is in a serious condition, but is slightly improved at this writing. We truly hope she will soon be much better. Her small son is at the home of his grandparents, ill with the measles. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 2--In mentioning the difficulties we labored under last week in getting out the NEWS, we didn't tell the half of it, for the item was written as the first run was being printed. When the second run was put on the press at 4 a.m., the real trouble began. The paper curled at the edges about as bad as wall paper, making feeding it almost impossible, and resulting in two dozen or more getting on the rollers, black and sticky with ink, and which had to be picked off, in pieces, some of them, no larger than a postage stamp. While press and paper were doing their stuff, the folder joined in in adding to the blue smoke in the office, when many more copies were ruined and the balance folded in all shapes, as you might have noticed, while others were sent out soiled and damaged and which, being on the inside pages, we did not catch, while about the most aggravating thing of all occurred when the mailing machine went wrong, although there wasn't a thing that matter with it, it refusing to work through pure cussedness. And on top of all, the night was one of the coldest of the winter, or so it seemed. It's a great game, this newspaper business, if you can manage to hold out and keep you religion. Thursday, 3 Feb 1927, Vol 40, No 39, Pg 8 Col 3--Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Woods had as dinner guests last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Woods and children, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Ryle, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Deaton and two grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Carter and Mr. and Mrs. Willard Ridgway. (Kathy's notes: Only in a small town paper, where human obituaries were often overlooked, would a dog's obituary make the front page, first column. Since the editor accorded this good friend such a high place of honor, I didn't feel I should leave it out, either. So I transcribed it in it's entirety, including the poetry.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.