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 and owners were a wonderful man by the name of 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. It is because of my tremendous admiration for this father and son, that I am transcribing this paper and putting it in a more readable format, so that this work may again be brought to light, to entertain, and teach a whole new generation of the descendants of the inhabitants and neighbors of a little town called "Higbee." 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. I wouldn't want my own possible errors in transcription, blamed on the editors of the 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. When the Higbee Historical Society disbanded, their material was donated to the Randolph County Historical Society and is still available there. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 1--Walton Burton Building New Home.--The following from the Maryville Democrat-Forum will be read with interest by Higbee folks, all of whom join the News in congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Burton on this evidence of prosperity: "Construction of the new Kellastone house of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Burton, to be erected at 317 West Third street, will begin as soon as excavating work, which was started recently, is completed. The home will be on the American type of architecture and will contain eight rooms. On the first floor will be living room, sun parlor, dining room and kitchen with a breakfast alcove and front and rear porches. Two large bed rooms, a bath, hall and sleeping porch will be on the second floor. Mr. and Mrs. Burton expect to get possession of their new home next October." Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 1--Two Years for Making Booze--Grundy Adkisson, who was arrested following a raid of his home east of town several months ago by Sheriff McCanne, was given two years in prison in circuit court in Moberly Monday. He gave as his reason for going into the business that he had rheumatism and couldn't work and made the stuff in order to make money. he was informed by Judge Walker that he was being sent to prison rather than given a jail sentence because he had involved his wife and brother in the business with him. A charge against Adkisson for selling liquor was dismissed. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 1--Preaching at Baptist Church Sunday--Stiles Lessly, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. E. Lessly, will fill the pulpit at the Baptist church at the usual hour Sunday evening. Stiles is one of our finest young men as well as one of our most ambitious, and in making the ministry his life's calling has taken up the greatest work any man could possibly take up. He should be greeted by a full house. Since his graduation from William Jewell College he has been attending Chicago University. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 1--C. A. O'Dell Hurt in Fall--While helping take down the old wooden awning in front of the Higbee Savings Bank and the Feland furniture store Monday, C. A. O'Dell fell from a twelve-foot ladder to the pavement, landing like a ton or so of brick, and was pretty well bruised from head to foot, but fortunately breaking no bones. Treating his bruises with iodine, he made matters worse, as he used too much and is now suffering from a mild case of iodine poisoning. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 1--A School Attendance Record--Edwin Barrowman, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Henry, who graduated from the grammar school this year, has a record for attendance at school that few boys of his age can boast, having missed but one-half day since he entered the first grade at the age of 6. If anyone can beat this record we would like to hear from them. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 2--Ribs Injured In Fall--Dr. G. B. Cowley, who put in some spare time last week making a box kite, and at which he is an expert, in taking the kite to the Burkhalter pasture in the east part of town to rest it out, fell over the stile near the old tennis court as he was entering the pasture, completely ruining the kite and more or less damaging several ribs on his left side, and which kept him from work for several days. He is again back on the job, but it will be sometime before the soreness is gone out of his side. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 2--Arm Injured In Fall--W. W. Brundege is carrying his left arm in a sling, the result of a fall Monday while carrying an armload of brick, while working around the new bungalow he is building. While no bones were broken, the injury will be longer in healing, as he tore several ligaments loose. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 3--Dorman-Howell--Mr. Augustus Dorman and Miss Anna Howell, two of Higbee's best known and highly respected young people, were united in marriage Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harris by the Rev. F. V. Brower, pastor of the Methodist church, and left immediately for St. Louis, where each has had employment for several months, and where they will make their home. The bride is the pretty daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Howell and is one of our sweetest, most modest and refined young ladies, and a general favorite with all. The groom is the son of Mr. John Dorman and is generally recognized as one of our best and most industrious young men, and is held in the highest estimation by all who know him. The NEWS joins other friends in congratulations and best wishes. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 4--Mansfield Given $1 Damages--J. M. Mansfield, who was in the bakery business here for a year or two and who moved to Moberly, was awarded $1 damages in circuit court at Moberly Tuesday in his suit against M. A. Romans for $1500 damages for personal injuries. Some time ago Mansfield stepped into the old lobby of the Grand Theater building, which is being rebuilt, at a time when a heavy steel girder was being put in place and was ordered out by Romans, who had charge of the work. He rather resented the haughty command and did not move speedily enough to suit Romans, who informed him that if he did not move he would land on him with a brick, and when he was invited by Mansfield to come and put him out, so we are advised, he picked up a brick and landed it on the side of Mansfield's face and followed it with another which caught him on the point of the jaw. The men then grappled but were separated before they did each other any great damage. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 4--Walter Davies Some Better--Walter Davies, who has been suffering from sciatic rheumatism for the past several weeks, and who has become so weakened from his intense suffering he is scarcely able to talk and can hardly life his hand, was thought to be some better yesterday. He has been unable to lie down since he has been confined to his home, and sits propped up in his chair. His suffering the past week has been such that he has had to be kept under the influence of opiates a great deal of the time. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 6--FARMER STRUCK BY LIGHTNING--Ira Hamilton of Near Moberly Struck Yesterday and Perhaps Fatally Injured--Team Instantly Killed--Ira Hamilton, a well known farmer, aged about 50, a son of the late "Dude" Hamilton, residing just south of Moberly on the Six-Mile Lane, was perhaps fatally injured about 9 a.m. yesterday when he was struck by lightning as he was plowing corn in his field with a cultivator. The bolt came from a very small and insignificant looking cloud that gave no evidence of containing either rain or lightning. An acquaintance passing along the road waved to Mr. Hamilton following a rather sharp clap of thunder just preceding the fatal bolt, and his greeting was returned by Mr. Hamilton. He had hardly done so when there was another loud report, and the man in the road turned and looked in Mr. Hamilton's direction, when he saw him crumpled up on the cultivator and his team of mules lying on the ground. A son of Mr. Hamilton's was working in a field close by and seeing what had happened rushed to his father and with the assistance of the acquaintance lifted him from the cultivator thinking he was dead, but noticed as they laid him down that he was breathing. Mr. Hamilton was taken to his home only a short distance away and Drs. C. F. Burkhalter and G. M. Nichols called, the former remaining most of the day and the latter until 5:30 when a registered nurse arrived from Kansas City. The doctors are quite sure that Mr. Hamilton was struck squarely in the head by the bolt as the back of his head was badly burned and the clothing all but stripped from his body down to the knees. The doctors found his respiration but eight per minute, while the pulse was about 80. After having been worked on for some little time the breathing became more natural but the body remained cold. When Dr. Nicholas left the respiration had dropped back to about eight per minute and in the opinion of the doctors Mr. Hamilton would not live the night out. Mr. Hamilton was quite well known here where he had many friends, all of whom trust that he will recover, but who fear otherwise. Thursday, 17 June 1926, Vol 40 No. 7, pg. 1, Col 6--Joe Robertson returned Monday from a visit with his parents at Marshfield, and left the next day in his car with Lyle Cubbage of Yates for Canada on a fishing and outing trip, and which they had been planning for weeks. Joe advised us that they would go north into Canada some 350 miles or more, which will take them pretty much into the wilds. They are going by way of Chicago, and will return through the East and will stop in Philadelphia and spend several days at the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, now going on. Joe promised to write us a log of their trip, and especially as to their fishing experience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- 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.