It has been a while since I've thanked you, Kathy, for your continuing transcriptions. You have brought much joy into many people's lives as a result of your work with the Higbee News transcriptions. While traveling in Missouri, I can tell you that many times I heard your name and the work you've done mentioned in libraries, historical societies, among researchers and among cousins. So much information has been unearthed! Today, my 91 year old cousin, Fred Warford, was thrilled to learn he had "made the paper." He is not on the internet--or anywhere near a computer--but my mother and I send him articles from time to time about Higbee and his family and friends. Today I told him that his conversion at a tent meeting was covered in the news; his name was among those listed as thereafter being baptised as a member of the Baptist church. A good Baptist still, he very much wants to know the exact date of the tent meeting and thus his conversion. In searching the archives, I see that the details of the meeting were omitted, but names of the converted were published. If anyone would know the date of the meeting, or if Kathy or anyone has access to the Higbee News still for that period, he would like to record this important date in his life. He remembers well being in the back row of the tent, asleep. His foot had been resting on a rope that held up the tent and at some time during the service, the rope snapped up, jerking his leg up and knocking him over. The Lord, he says, woke him up. Then, with some powerful preaching, a bored teenaged boy named Freddie found God, and was forever changed. Here is the excerpt I found in the archives about the meeting. A later issue gave Fred's name as one of the Baptists who was baptised as a result of this conversion. But this article does not give the date of the tent meeting. If I can help Fred find this out, I'd like to do so. And thank you again, Kathy. We are all blessed to have you. -------------------- Friday, 11 Sep. 1925, Vol 39 No. 20, pg. 1, col 1--(Kathy's notes: This was a two column article about a big tent religious meeting, that converted 125 people in one stroke. Those converted will be named, but the article omitted for space.) .... Friday, 25 Sep. 1925, Vol 39 No. 22, pg. 1, col 4--New Baptist Church Members--The following are the new members added to the Baptist church during the recent tabernacle meeting conducted by the Rev. Baker and Brower, as furnished us by the church clerk, Joe Lay: Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Turpin, Wm. Hurshman, Gilbert Claypool, Lilly Claypool, Clara Atkins, Myrtle Atkins, Bettie Warford, Freddie Warford, Ethel Chism, Warren Winn, Donald Woods, Pete Gruber, Georgia Gruber, James Gruber, Alberta Edwards and John D. Edwards. Baptismal services were held at the Alton lake Sunday afternoon, when all of the above who had not united with the church by letter, some twelve or more, were baptized by the pastor, the Rev. L. M. White, a very large crowd being on hand to witness this most solemn rite.