Friday, 16 Jan 1914--BAXTER DAVIS DEAD--At 9 o'clock Saturday night Joseph Baxter Davis, one of the oldest residents of Randolph county, died at his home two and one half miles northeast of Renick. Mr. Davis was born in this county, January 8, 1829, and had lived near Renick all his life. The surviving relatives are three children: Chas. Davis and Mrs. Nettie McKinney of near Renick, and Mrs. Sallie Seifer of Waco, Texas; three sisters, Mrs. Martin L. Martin, of near Moberly; Mrs. James Barnes this city and Mrs. J. H. Burkholder. One brother, T. W. Davis resides in Salem Springs, Ark. Funeral services over the remains will be held from the Christian church at Renick at 11 a.m. tomorrow morning, conducted by Rev. E. Y. Keiter of this city, and burial will be made in Oakland cemetery--Moberly Monitor. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--At a meeting of the Howard county court at Fayette last week it was voted to refuse a license to any and all pool halls in that county after present licenses have expired. Fayette now has but one such hall, and its license will expire March 29. The license of the hall at New Franklin will expire in November and the one in Glasgow in September. The court followed the lead of the Adair and Knox county courts which recently refused to renew such licenses on the grounds that such places were nuisances and led many young men astray. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--Robert Robb, aged 60 years, was instantly killed in a mine near Kirksville on the 8th by a fall of rock. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--John Bogie of Muskogee, OK was called here Tuesday by the death of his sister, Mrs. Diana Jones. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--Dr. J. W. Winn this week sold his residence property in Yates to Asa Thompson of Armstrong. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--Edwin Edwards, more familiarly known as Uncle Brick, who has been very sick at the home of his son, W. D. Edwards, west of town, is some better, we are glad to state. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--Benjamin Crump, a former citizen of Prairie township, residing near Renick, was killed by a fall of rock in a mine at Victor, Colo, on the 4th. Interment was made at Pisgah, near Sturgeon. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--J. H. West, more familiarly known as Jack, and Miss Ora Robb, sprang a surprise on their friends Monday by going to Moberly where they were united in marriage by Justice O. R. O'Bryan. The bride is the daughter of Jonas Robb, and is a most winsome and popular young lady. The groom has been a citizen of Higbee for three or four years and is quite popular with all who know him. Congratulations and best wishes. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--S. E. MARRS SELLS OUT--S. E. Marrs, for the past twelve or fifteen years a member of the firm of Bottoms, Marrs, & Co, this week sold his interest in this popular hardware establishment to the other members of the firm, Will and Frank Bottoms, who will continue the business at the old stand under the name of the Bottoms Hardware Co. We are not advised as to what Mr. Marrs intends doing, but we are very glad to state that he is not to leave Higbee. He has been in business here almost 30 years, and is an entirely too good a citizens to give up, and we rejoice with the rest of the community that he is to remain among us. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--MRS. DIANA JONES DEAD--Mrs. Diana Jones died at her home in this place Wednesday morning, Jan 14, 1914, after a long illness, aged 73 years. Mrs. Jones, whose maiden name was Bogie, was born in Kentucky and removed to Missouri with her husband, the late William Jones, about 40 years ago, locating on a farm near Myers, where she resided, with the exception of a year or two in Fayette, until five years ago when she moved to Higbee. She is survived by six children, viz: Mrs. T. H. Dinwiddie, Joe B, Mrs. Jas. W. Marshall, Mrs. J. A. Miller, Mrs. N. E. Myers and Mrs. Floyd Moore, all of this place. Funeral services were conducted at New Hope church, near her old home, and interment made in the cemetery there by the side of her husband. An extended obituary will appear next week. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--Mrs. F. C. Bardott, who was called here by the illness and death of her father, Wm. Burke, returned to her home in St. Louis Tuesday. She was accompanied by her brother, Edmund Burke, who is attending a law school there. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--H. S. Lay, who has been running store at Rucker for the past year, traded his stock of goods last week to O. K. Evans for the latter's farm near Rucker. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--PERHAPS FATALLY BURNED--An accident that shocked the community as nothing has in a long time, happened early last Sunday morning at the home of Amos Sunderland southwest of town, it being the perhaps fatal burning of his 18-year-old daughter, Miss Scottie, and the serious burning of Mr. Sunderland. As had been his custom, Mr. Sunderland arose at the usual hour and after starting a fire in the heating and cook stove, called his daughter to prepare breakfast while he went to feed. In a few minutes he was horrified by the screaming of his daughter and started to her aid. Before he reached the house he discovered the cause of the screams, Miss Sunderland having run out of the house, a literal pillar of flame, and started for a pond a short distance away. Mr. Sunderland overtook her and after tearing the clothing from her body carried her into the house and telephoned for a doctor. It was found that she was burned almost to a crisp from her knees up, even the flesh under her waistband being burned as deep as the rest of her body. Her sufferings have been beyond the power of words to describe or the mind conceive. Dr. G. M. Nichols says that in all of his experience it is the most pitiful case with which he has ever had to deal. Mr. Sunderland received fearful burns from his hands to his elbows, each arm being literally cooked, and all of his nails being burned off. The supposition is that Miss Sunderland's skirts caught from the stove near which she was standing and to which she had her back turned. At a late hour yesterday Miss Sunderland was still alive, but not much hope of her recovery was entertained. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--MISS JOSEPHINE JONES DEAD--Miss Josephine Jones, died at her home west of town at 6:30 Sunday evening, Jan 11, 1914, after an illness of several weeks from liver trouble. She was the daughter of the late John L. Jones, and was born in Lee county, Iowa, and was in her 39th year. She came to Higbee with her parents when quite young and something like twenty years ago moved to the farm with the family where she had since resided. She united with the Baptist church several years ago under the preaching of Rev. L. M. White, and was a truly consecrated Christian woman. When she was first taken sick she informed her brother, George, that she would never get well, and felt the approach of the grim reaper without fear. She realized her condition better than anyone else and Sunday afternoon told her brother how she wanted her property divided, and of things she wanted given certain friends as tokens of remembrance. Funeral services were conducted at the Baptist church Wednesday by Rev. L. M. White, and the large crowd spoke eloquently of the esteem in which she was held. Interment was made in the city cemetery by the side of her parents. Her only immediate surviving relatives are her brother, George, and sister, Mrs. ______Myers of Minnesota. They have the sympathy of all in their sad bereavement. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--IS WISER NOW--Quite a good story is told on Constable Henry Owens. In his early boyhood days he lived at Higbee and at times hauled goods from this city to his home town. On one occasion a prominent German of Moberly, among other things, sent a package of limberger cheese. When Henry got out in the fresh air of the country he concluded this particular package was spoiled and threw it in the corner of an old rail fence. When he reported what he had done to the German friend in Higbee, Henry had to beat it to keep from getting licked. He says thereafter he never depended upon his sense of smell to determine whether any of his goods were of value or not--Moberly Democrat. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--DAVID LEWIS REES--David Rees, who died at his home in Huntsville on Jan 8, 1914, was born in Wilksbarre, Pa, Dec 15, 1877, and was therefore in his 38th year. He moved with his parents to this state when he was two years of age and had since spent most of his life in Higbee and Huntsville, and had resided at the latter place for the past eight or ten years. He was married on March 15, 1899, to Miss Elizabeth Hare of this place, who, with their two sons, William and David L, aged 14 and 10 years, respectively, survives him. At the age of 12 years deceased united with the Baptist church at Huntsville, and had since been an exemplary member. His health began to fail him four years ago and most of the time he was confined to his bed, but he bore his long suffering with Christian fortitude and made no complaint at his hard lot. Funeral services were held in the Baptist church in Huntsville Sunday by the pastor B. F. Heaton, and the large crowd in attendance spoke more forcibly than words of the esteem in which he was held. Following the services the body was taken in charge by the Odd Fellows, of which order he had long been a member, holding his membership with the Higbee lodge, and laid to rest in the Huntsville cemetery with the full honors of the fraternity. Besides his wife and children, he is survived by his mother and one brother, Thomas, of this place, and a wide circle of friends, all of whom join THE NEWS in condolence to the bereaved. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--D. F. Carpenter, one of Moberly's leading jewelers and one of her best citizens, died at his home in that city on the 10th, aged 66 years. Friday, 16 Jan 1914--The 8-year-old son of Rev. and Mrs. F. T. Mussell, of Bevier, and quite well known here, died on the 12th from a fall while playing with a playmate. The cause of death was pronounced cerebral hemorrhage. Kathy Bowlin, Additions, corrections, comments, welcome.