Friday, 28 Apr 1916--Following a quarrel Easter Sunday caused by the alleged extravagance in the purchase of an Easter hat, James Davenport or Wellington, Kansas, shot and perhaps fatally wounded his wife. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--FOUND DEAD IN NEW FRANKLIN--Jerry Aaron, a single man 28 years of age, was found dead in the express office at New Franklin, Thursday morning about 8 o'clock, with a bullet hole in his breast and a pistol on the floor beside him. Aaron was an express messenger on the Hannibal division of the M. K. &. T. railroad, and had come in off his run the night before. His home was in Sedalia--Fayette Advertiser. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--Born, on the 27th, to Ernest Rennolds and wife, a son. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--Born, on the 22, to Mrs. Tyre Palmatary, a son. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--H. T. Howerton of Hurdland was here Saturday, the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Will S. Walton. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--Ben Owens of Moberly was the guest of his sister, Mrs. Joe Hackward, Sunday. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--S. M. Adams and wife of Kirksville were the guests of their son, Dr. E. R. Adams, and wife during the week. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--B. F. and Ira Kirby this week purchased a Ford car each. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--E. R. McCune of east of town is the proud owner of a new Oakland touring car, purchased this week. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--Mrs. E. G. Owen and Mrs. F. W. Pattrick of Moberly were the guests of Higbee friends Wednesday. Mrs. Owen informed us that her father, J. J. Bradley, is now located in Pueblo, Colo. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--Not being able to go to Fall River, Kansas, on the 25th and help his mother celebrate her 83rd birthday anniversary, Lee Hairl did the next best thing and sent her a big dinner by parcel post. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--Floyd Moore purchased a car--a Monroe roadster--from Armstrong parties last week, it being delivered Monday. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--Thos. Williams spent the first of the week in Kansas City with his brother-in-law, Walter Davis, who has been in a hospital there for several weeks. He is still improving, his host of friends will be pleased to learn. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--Lewis Brewer, the 10-year-old grandson of the late G. W. Brewer, was run over by a big automobile at Rennolds Park last Sunday, and it was at first feared that he was fatally hurt. He jumped on the running board of the car as it entered the park and either fell or was pushed off by some of his companions. He fell under the car, the rear wheel passing over his abdomen. He is doing nicely and it is thought he will be out in a few days. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--MRS. A. STAHLMAN DEAD--Mrs. Annie Stahlman, wife of Arch Stahlman, of near Yates, died on the 23rd following an illness of two years. Funeral services were held at the home and interment made in the family cemetery on the old Dysart farm. The large crowd present spoke most eloquently of the high esteem in which she was held by all who knew her, and of the sympathy felt for the bereft husband and children. Deceased was born in Toronto, Canada, August 4, 1870. She was married to Arch Stahlman at Oak Clair, Wisconsin, in 1893 where they resided until 1909, when they moved to Yates, where they had since lived. She was the mother of three sons and one daughter who, with their father, survive, and to each of whom the deepest sympathy goes out. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--Raymond Edwards, who was recently appointed to a cadetship in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., and who has been in a preparatory school there for the past six months, came home Sunday. He took his examinations in Washington, but will not know the result for a week or so. Should he pass, and he hasn 't much fear that he won't, he will enter the naval school in September. Friday, 28 Apr 1916--Gilbert Williams, 55 years old, an inmate of the Howard county infirmary near Myers, was seriously burned one day last week, his clothing catching fire from a lighted pipe he placed in his pocket, and it was at first thought that he was fatally injured, the burns, which were very deep, lacking but a few inches of reaching entirely around his waist. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.