The following are selected articles from the Newspaper, "The Higbee News" issued out of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1887 through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is to keep this work free to the public, and to ensure it is not harvested by a fee-based genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use this information, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the microfilm, and is a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a photocopy of the microfilm for their own records, and use my transcript as anindex. 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, 19 July1928, Vol 42. No. 11, Page 1, Col. 2--STOLEN CAR RECOVERED--A new Chevrolet car belonging to a Mr. Jackson of Centralia was found on a side road west of town Sunday morning, stripped of about everything that was removable. Thursday, 19 July1928, Vol 42. No. 11, Page 1, Col. 3--CARL DUNCAN TO LEAVE MARSHALL--Announcement is made today of the resignation of Carl I. Duncan of Missouri Valley College to accept a position at Tulsa University as business manager. He plans to leave about Aug. 15 Negotiations have been pending for this change for several months but only recently did anything develop. Tulsa is planning the building of new units and the accounting will be important. Mr. Duncan has maintained at the college a very efficient system, admired by other colleges, and will fill the new position most ably. His service to Missouri Valley through the past seven years has been a most valuable one. He came to it as a time when his aid was most needed and has made his influence felt in the business affairs and student interests alike. He goes with the good wishes of the college and supported by the high hopes of his many friends. His family, who will follow him later, will be missed in college, church and community, and by the business men of the town.--Marshall Democrat-News. The above will be of special interest to readers of the NEWS, Mr. Duncan being an old Higbee boy, and his legion of friends join us in hearty congratulations on his continued advancement since leaving the old home town. We presume that his removal to Oklahoma will mean that his father, R. D. Duncan, who moved from here to Marshall two years ago, will accompany him, in which case his visits to Higbee will not be as frequent as formerly. Thursday, 19 July1928, Vol 42. No. 11, Page 1, Col. 3--BOLD WORK OF THIEVES--Saturday night about 9:30, while Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Andrews were enjoying a visit with their children who had returned for a family reunion, thieves entered the Andrews garage and took a spare tire, a lap robe and a kit of tools from Mr. Andrews' car. As the floor boards of the car had been removed it is presumed the thieves were also after the batter or the car itself. On putting the car away for the night, Mr. Andrews left the garage door open, as he was expecting his son, Eugene, from Kansas City, and who arrived about 9:30, and evidently while the thieves were at work, for they were seen to run from the alley as his car passed the garage door. Mr. Andrews was notified and an investigation showed the above mentioned articles missing. The same night thieves entered the garage of Wisdom Burton where they secured a spare tire and a shotgun which was kept in the garage. Marshall Cain was notifi! ed about an hour after the Andrews robbery, but he could find no trace of the thieves. As the marauders seem to have been pretty well acquainted with the premises visited, it is quite likely that it was local talent, and that such was the case is a pretty well established fact with pretty strong evidence that it was certain parties, who may save themselves a great lot of trouble by returning the stolen property. Thursday, 19 July1928, Vol 42. No. 11, Page 1, Col. 3--BITTEN BY A MAD DOG--Willard Owens received word Monday that his brother, Charles, and the latter's son, of near Boonville, had been bitten a day or so before by a mad dog, the son being bitten very severely in five different places. Both were given medical attention at once as well as serum treatment, and when last heard from were doing all right. The head of the animal was sent to Columbia for analysis, when it was found that the animal was suffering from the worst case of rabies possible. Thursday, 19 July1928, Vol 42. No. 11, Page 1, Col. 4--HARRIET SNODDY DEAD--Harriet Snoddy, one of the oldest and most highly respected colored residents of the community, died at her home south of town Sunday morning from the infirmities of age. She was 81 years old and is survived by her husband. Interment was made Tuesday. Thursday, 19 July1928, Vol 42. No. 11, Page 1, Col. 4--ERNEST RENNOLDS CRITICALLY ILL--Ernest Rennolds of Mobelry, who has been suffering for the past three weeks from paralysis or something similar, the exact nature of which is a puzzle to his physicians, was reported a great deal worse yesterday and at the hour of going to press it was not thought he could live through the night. Thursday, 19 July1928, Vol 42. No. 11, Page 1, Col. 5--MR. GEORGIA KIMBELL DEAD--The funeral of Mrs. Georgia Kimbell who died in Sedalia yesterday, was conducted at the Parker Memorial Chapel this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial was in Columbia cemetery. Mrs. Kimbell was born in Boone county, February 8, 1863, and was married December 8, 1880, to Thomas Keene, who died here in 1911. Eight children were born of this union, three of whom, Mrs. Mary Sanneback, of Moberly, Thomas Keene, of Indianapolis, Ind., and Fred Keene, of Tulsa, Okla., survive their mother. On September 10, 1917, Mrs. Keene was married to Mr. Kimbell at Higbee, Mo., and in 1920 they moved to Sedalia and both being chiropractors, they jointly opened an office for practice. Mrs. Keene was known to and held in the highest esteem by older Columbians. She was a woman of fine business perception and for many years she operated the Keene hotel on Broadway, which stood where the 23 Transfer Company's offices and warehouses are now located. A short funeral service was held at the Gillispie funeral parlor in Sedalia at 10 o'clock this morning, after which the remains were brought by motor to Columbia--Columbia Tribune, July 14. Thursday, 19 July1928, Vol 42. No. 11, Page 1, Col. 5--CELEBRATED 82ND BIRTHDAY--Sunday was a pleasant and long to be remembered day in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harris, it being the 82nd birthday anniversary of his mother, Mrs. Lousetta Harris, which was appropriately celebrated with a big dinner, and of which Mrs. Harris had been kept in ignorance until the last minute. Needless to say the day was thoroughly enjoyed by all and by none more than by Mrs. Harris, who was the recipient of many remembrances of the day from children and grandchildren. Those present were Ernest Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Rothwell Sweeney and children and E. A. Sweeney, Moberly. Children and grandchildren who could not be present were represented by birthday greetings. Thursday, 19 July1928, Vol 42. No. 11, Page 1, Col. 5--WYATT OUT ON BOND--Carthage, Mo., July 13--J. C. Wyatt, former secretary-treasurer of the Union Trust Co. of Carthage, waived preliminary hearing when arraigned before Justice G. W. Asendorf here and was bound over to the September term of Circuit Court on a charge of embezzling $14,000 of the trust company's funds. He gave $5,000 bond. Wyatt's alleged shortage was responsible for the closing of the institution My 31, but it reopened shortly thereafter. Thursday, 19 July1928, Vol 42. No. 11, Page 1, Col. 6--FRANKLIN NAYLOR DEAD--Franklin Naylor, highly respected citizen of this county, died at his home one-half mile east of Burton Wednesday, July 11, 1928, at the age of 86 years. Mr. Naylor had been in failing health for the past year and for the past several weeks his condition had been critical. Mr. Naylor was born in Howard county and had lived his entire life within its boundaries. He was a farmer and followed this profession until ill health and advanced age forced him to give up active work. He was married to Miss Margaret Campbell and to them was born one son, Oscar Naylor. Both Mrs. Naylor and the son survive. Mr. Naylor was a member of the Christian church and was a man who merited the high esteem in which he was held. Funeral services were held at Old Log Chapel by the Rev. J. M. Wilcoxon of this city. Interment was made in the cemetery there.--Fayette Advertiser. Thursday, 19 July1928, Vol 42. No. 11, Page 1, Col. 6--TO MOBERLY HOSPITAL--Jas. Warford, son of Wm. Warford of south of town, was taken to a Moberly hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from appendicitis or some intestinal trouble, brought on, it was thought, by his having eaten a lot of raw cabbage the day before. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by me. 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Carl Duncan was the son of Richard G. Duncan and Martha (Alexander) Duncan. Martha (Alexander) Duncan was a sister of my great-grandmother Anne Elizabeth "Bettie" (Alexander) Stark who married William Howell Stark. Both were daughters of John Alexander and Martha (Rice) Alexander. Does anyone have additional information on Carl Duncan after 1928? Thanks to Kathy, I have found several articles on the Duncan family including the obituary of Martha Duncan, which is pasted below: 20 Feb 1903--MRS. R. G. DUNCAN DEAD--In this week becomes the NEWS' painful duty to chronicle the death of another of Higbee's noble and Christian woman--Mrs. R. G. Duncan, who died at her home at 6:30 Wednesday evening, February, 18, 1903, of a complication of diseases, after a lingering illness of a year's duration, aged 45 years. She was taken to Kansas City several months ago by her devoted husband and placed under the care of specialists in the hope of regaining her health, but her case was beyond the reach of medical skill and she returned home several weeks ago knowing there was no hope, but as she had long since made peace with her God, the future had no terrors for her save the intense suffering she knew she must endure. Her sufferings were extreme and death came as a welcome relief. In her death Higbee loses one of its noble and Christian women, her husband and little son a devoted wife and loving mother. Besides these she leaves to mourn her death two brothers and three sisters--W. H. and Wesley Alexander and Mesdames Lou Stark, Wm. Stark and Kate Kirkpatrick, and a legion of friends. Funeral services will be conducted at the family residence to-day by Rev. E. C. Surface of the Cumberlain Presbyterian church, of which she was a member, after which the remains will be taken to the Rennold's family burying ground near town and laid to rest. To the heart broken family the NEWS extends its warmest sympathy. Kathy Bowlin <[email protected]> wrote: Thursday, 19 July1928, Vol 42. No. 11, Page 1, Col. 3--CARL DUNCAN TO LEAVE MARSHALL--Announcement is made today of the resignation of Carl I. Duncan of Missouri Valley College to accept a position at Tulsa University as business manager. He plans to leave about Aug. 15 Negotiations have been pending for this change for several months but only recently did anything develop. Tulsa is planning the building of new units and the accounting will be important. Mr. Duncan has maintained at the college a very efficient system, admired by other colleges, and will fill the new position most ably. His service to Missouri Valley through the past seven years has been a most valuable one. He came to it as a time when his aid was most needed and has made his influence felt in the business affairs and student interests alike. He goes with the good wishes of the college and supported by the high hopes of his many friends. His family, who will follow him later, will be missed in college, church and community, and by the business men of the town.--Marshall Democrat-News. The above will be of special interest to readers of the NEWS, Mr. Duncan being an old Higbee boy, and his legion of friends join us in hearty congratulations on his continued advancement since leaving the old home town. We presume that his removal to Oklahoma will mean that his father, R. D. Duncan, who moved from here to Marshall two years ago, will accompany him, in which case his visits to Higbee will not be as frequent as formerly.

R. G. Duncan had stores at Higbee and Yates at different times, as I believe I've read, and he and his wife are buried in the Higbee cemetery.