Friday, 21 Aug 1914--Warren St. Clair, a Huntsville printer, was brutally murdered at Bemidje, Minn, Wednesday of last week, where he had gone on the 6th to accept a position on a paper there. His assailants, two in number, it is believed, beat, choked and stabbed him, and after stripping his body of clothing threw it in a ditch of running water by the side of the railroad track where it was discovered by the crew of a passing train. Robbery is supposed to have been the motive for the killing. Friday, 21 Aug 1914--A. B. Guerin this week traded his farm of 120 acres in Texas county to E. B. Rowlett of Moberly for a modern residence in that town. Mr. Guerin, it will be remembered, traded an automobile for the land several years ago, and has been shaking hands with himself ever since, although the land is forty miles from a railroad and contains nothing but rocks and scenery and has never brought him a penny. The automobile, known as "Old Hulda," was the first one owned in Higbee, and would do everything but run. Friday, 21 Aug 1914--Ed Foley, living six miles south of town, had his residence, together with its contents, destroyed by fire Tuesday noon. He carried but $325 insurance in the Howard County Mutual. We did not learn the origin of the fire. Friday, 21 Aug 1914--Born, on the 15th, to Rev. G. N. Magruder and wife, a son. Friday, 21 Aug 1914--J. F. Woodridge and wife left Tuesday for Chariton, Ia, where they will locate. Friday, 21 Aug 1914--Mrs. Henry Lay of Rucker is the guest of her sister, Mrs. John Ware. Friday, 21 Aug 1914--Omer Andrews left for Kansas City Wednesday where he will taken a course in automobile repairing. Friday, 21 Aug 1914--Chas. J. Lotter, aged 69 years, one of Moberly's best known citizens, died at his home in that place Tuesday. Friday, 21 Aug 1914--Odus Bradley and wife, who removed to Billings, Montana, last spring, returned Sunday, satisfied that Missouri is the best state on the map. Friday, 21 Aug 1914--Emmett Dennis and wife who left here for Canada last March, intending to make it their home, returned Sunday. They have had all of Canada they want. Friday, 21 Aug 1914--S. M. Hirsch returned Monday from New York. He states that excitement there over the European war, and especially among the foreign population, is simply terrific and that crowds in front of the newspaper offices at times are so great as to block even street car traffic. Kathy Bowlin, Additions, corrections, comments welcome.