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, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 1, Col 3--THE NEWS OUT EARLY--The News is issued a day early this week owing to the fact that Thursday, our regular publication day, is Thanksgiving, when the post office will be closed and the rural carriers off for the day. Then, too, we want to enjoy Thanksgiving like other folks, if possible, (but we've no hopes for turkey) and perhaps take in the big football game at Fayette between Central and Westminster colleges, we never having seen such a battle. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 1, Col 5--DEATH'S HEAVY TOLL--Within the past year the Grim Reaper has had an abundant harvest in Higbee, taking in that time, some of our oldest--both in years and residence--and most beloved citizens, and seems to have picked most of his victims from the membership of the Christian church or a family closely connected with it. The deaths of Hiram Land and E. J. Turner, each of whom was called Sunday in the twinkling of an eye, brings the total to eleven, about eight of whom have passed away this year, and all of whom were called suddenly. Those we can recall, but we cannot give them in the order of their going, are, Mrs. Sallie Jackson, M. O. Fowler, Mrs. H. W. Burton, A. T. Burton, Mrs. S. E. Newman, J. A. Caldwell, H. A. Starkey, M. Murphy, Hiram Land, E. J. Turner and Jas. Shafer. While Mr. Murphy and Mr. Land did not belong to the Christian church, the former's daughter, Miss Lulu, is a member, as is also Mrs. Land and Mrs. Shafer. A peculiar and unusual record when one considers the fact that the membership roll of this church is no greater than that of the Baptist or Methodist. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 1, Col 6--HIRAM LAND PASSES AWAY UNEXPECTEDLY--Dies At His Farm Home Sunday Morning From Heart Failure--"Hiram Land is dead!" Such were the startling words that flew over the telephone wires in Higbee and vicinity Sunday morning, and those who had seen his familiar figure on the streets the day before and exchanged greetings with him, were loathe to believe them, but as Death has been striking here, there and yonder in the town and community for several months, and striking without warning, they reluctantly accepted the sad news, though many refused to believe that it was more than rumor until they had talked with those who knew. Mr. Land, while apparently his usual self, had not been well for a year or more, suffering from an affection of the heart, and only the day before was telling a friend of an attack a night or two before and which caused him to think he said, that his time had come. He was apparently as well as usual Saturday night and retired at the usual hour. Leaving him sleeping peacefully, Mrs. Land got up about 6 the next morning to get breakfast, intending to call him when the meal was ready. While at work she heard him groan or yawn and thinking he was getting up she did not go to awaken him for two or three minutes, and when she did she found him cold in death. Crazed with grief she rushed to the telephone and called central and a physician was speedily on the way to the home, but Mr. Land was beyond all mortal help, the physician giving it as his opinion that death had resulted from heart failure, and that it had been instantaneous and painless. Hiram Land, son of S. J. and Margaret Land, was born on a farm just north of town on January 29, 1861, and was the eldest of the family. The family moved to saline county in the early '80's but Mr. Land elected to remain here, and for many years made his home with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Baker, who then lived on what is now the land farm, and where he had spent practically all of his life. He was married on May 30, 1887, to Miss Corrinnah Lessly, and farmed for many years on the farm that adjoins the Rucker farm on the south, buying and moving to his present farm some twenty years or more ago. He was one of the most indefatigable workers we ever knew, and was never idle a minute as long as there was work to be done and he had the strength to do it, as his well-kept farm proves to all passers by. Being of a mechanical turn, he early learned the carpenter's trade, but worked at it only occasionally in late years, and never as a steady occupation. He was all but an expert with any kind of ordinary machinery, and if he ever tackled a job he didn't complete in a workmanlike manner we never heard of it. On selling his old home place he was employed for several years in the bridge department of the M-K-T railroad, and here, as on his farm, he always turned in an honest day's work, and then some, for he was that kind of a man. We had known him all the years we have been in Higbee, and intimately so since he lived in his residence property next to the NEWS office, and we never knew him to do a little or despicable thing. While he had his faults, like the rest of us, they were not grievous. We ever found him as honest as daylight not only in all business transactions, but in all things. Naturally retiring, he was considered by some as not so very sociable, but to those who really knew him he was the most sociable of men and a boon companion. While he had never united with any church, no man in the community had a higher regard for the truly christian character, and he believed in the church and its work, while he looked with contempt upon the hypocrite. We are indeed glad that it was our privilege to have known him so intimately and to have numbered him among our friends. We feel a personal loss in his going, and shall ever bear him in pleasant remembrance, and especially his visits to the NEWS office, which was one of his favorite loafing places--if it can be truly said that he ever did such a thing. He is survived by his widow and two children--Mrs. Pearl Angleberger and Riley H. Land, of Cleveland, Ohio, and one grandson, Cecil Anglebarger, of the same city. He also leaves four brothers and three sisters--O. P., J. R., and George Land of Saline county, and Lee Land of Kansas City, and Mrs. Maggie Rice and Mrs. Addie Brinkman of St. Louis, and Mrs. Alma Johnson of Cisco, Texas. Funeral services will be held from the Christian church today (Wednesday) by the Rev. W. T. Henson of Moberly at 2 o'clock and interment made in Higbee cemetery. In the passing of Hiram Land, Higbee has lost one of its upright and honorable citizens, and one of its old timers, for "Old Hi," as he was called by some--not in any terms of disrespect, but rather in endearment--grew up with it, and to many outside his immediate family it will never be the same again. When the Call shall come to those of us who remain, may it be that it can be said of us as it can of him, "he lived respected and died regretted." Peace to his ashes. The NEWS joins the community in deepest sympathy to his loved ones. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 4, Col 6--Miss Dorothy Coon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Coon of Montgomery City, and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Cooper of this place, was operated on at a Moberly hospital Friday for appendicitis. She is doing nicely, we are pleased to say. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 5, Col 1--Mr. and Mrs. Luke Haggard and little sons James and Cecil, spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Reuben White, of near Clark. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 5, Col 1--Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dougherty returned Saturday from a visit with their son, George ("Cutter") Dougherty, of Diamond, Okla. They reported real winter weather in that state the day before, stating that the water in the radiator of their car froze while they were on their way to town. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 8, Col 1--SOUTH OF TOWN--Amos Comstock has the measles. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 8, Col 1--SOUTH OF TOWN--Misses Fratie Mead and Hilda Comstock spent Thursday night with Mr. and Mrs. Mart Mead. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 8, Col 1--SOUTH OF TOWN--Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Blansett and children Toinette, Josie and Oscar, were Sunday dinner guests at Mr. and Mrs. Woodie Warford. Thursday, 25 Nov 1926, Vol 40, No 30, Pg. 8, Col 5--Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Pattrick were made the happiest couple in town Sunday by receipt of a message from their son, John H. Pattrick, of Kansas City, advising them that they were grandparents, a son having arrived at his home that day they, and left for the city on the first train. They returned Monday night and advise us that the youngster has been christened Robert Riley, and that Mrs. Patrick is doing fine. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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