Friday, 31 Dec 1915--QUICK WILL START CAMPAIGN NEW YEARS DAY--Rev. Syclone Quick of Bonnefemme township was a caller at the Advertiser office Monday and he came to say that he will open up the political campaign with the New Year. He says that a big meeting will be held at Lisbon on New Year night and that all of the candidates from the greatest to the least will be invited to participate at the meeting. Rev. Quick preached at Lisbon Sunday when the announcement of the meeting was first made. He wants to be the next representative of Howard county--Fayette Advertiser. (Kathy's notes: Syclone was either a nickname, or his middle name. His first name was Strother Quick.) Friday, 31 Dec 1915--CUTS FINGER OFF BUTCHERING HOG--Woods Dougherty accidentally cut off one of his little fingers as he was butchering hogs one day last week with a huge butcher knife. He was preparing to stick a hog when he was attacked by another hog which caused him to make a bad stroke--Fayette Advertiser. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Warren Welch, one of the few surviving members of Quantrell's gang of guerrillas, died at the home of a son in Kansas City on the 22nd, aged 75 years. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--OVERCOME BY GASOLINE GAS--Vic Vanderbeck, Jr, when at work Sunday afternoon at his duties as engineer of the gasoline engine at Mine 12 was overcome by inhalation of gasoline fumes and narrowly escaped death. A leak in the tank caused the gas to escape in a great quantity and before he knew it he had breathed a great deal of it. Vic felt himself becoming under the influence and dragged himself about 70 feet and cried out as he did so, he fell unconscious. The call was heard by Ben Slaughter who rushed to his assistance and called for other help. A physician was summoned and it was some minutes before Vic was revived. He is suffering no bad effects from what well near proved a fatal accident.--Huntsville Herald. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Former county collector Joe Kirby has gone into the real estate business in Moberly, having purchased a half interest in the Reigal agency. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Will Cave recently drove an automobile to Moberly in 22 minutes, and the roads were not in any too good condition at that. So far as we know, that is the record. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--If you have the mail order habit, brother, draw your chair up to the fire tonight and as the old year is dying taken an inventory of your purchases and sales during 1915. Compare the junk you bought of the mail order concern--and purchased without having been seen and approved, and paid for in cash a week or two before your received it--with the articles bought of your home dealer--the man you ask for credit when you are out of work or when you or some of the family are sick--and if you can figure out that you have saved anything, set the amount down in the largest characters you cane make, and then ask yourself if the home merchant's accommodations to you when you asked for credit weren't worth more. Then make a lift of the none too fresh eggs, the "becky" butter, the speckled applies and the little warty potatoes you sent the mail order concern. You'll probably be able to get the list on a sheet of paper the size of a postage stamp. It will take, perhaps, several large sheets to hold the list you sold the home merchant. Next estimate the amount you would have received from the mail order house if it had bought your stuff, but don't figure for a second that it would have paid you top prices. To sell at the highest price on a city market your offering must be of the highest grade. But what did the home merchant do? Did he tell you that the eggs were too ancient, the butter too "becky," the apples and potatoes too small and inferior? That's what he should have done, but he didn't. He paid you the top price in cash or its equivalent. Now compare what the mail order house would have paid and what the home merchant did pay you and see if the latter hasn't made you more money than the amount you saved by buying inferior goods of the mail order house. Think over these things good and hard and put yourself in the home merchant's place while you are doing the thinking. then as the old year dies let the mail order habit die with it and begin the new year with a strong resolve to buy from the man who is your friend in need, who has the goods to show you before you buy, who can't afford to cheat you even if he so desired, who is here to make good any unsatisfactory purchase, who helps support your county and state, your schools and churches, who deals on the square and who is your friend. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Dr. W. J. Miller, who left here several months ago to practice dentistry at Springfield, was here yesterday from Moberly where he has again located for practice. He and his associates have rented offices over the Bank of Moberly and will be ready for business Jan 1 with three chairs, and will add others as needed. The concern will be know as the union Dentists. See their ad elsewhere. Dr. Miller is an old Higbee boy, and has the best wishes of all for success. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Thos. Turner, colored, informs us that his mother, Aunt Clem, who at the age of 86 cut some new teeth several months ago, now has two more to her credit, they having come through in the past two or three weeks. Aunt Clem is greatly worried about the matter, as her old ones caused her nothing but trouble and she is more than satisfied to finish her days with false teeth. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Thos. Osborn, who recently purchased the Wm. Young property in the east part of town, and who consulted a lawyer with a view of bringing suit for possession of the deed or damages, Mr. Young having received a better offer for the place and wanting to back down, received the deed to the property last week. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--B. F. Ivy, who has been in a critical condition for some time, is no better. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Mrs. and Mrs. Wisdom Burton entertained a number of friends Xmas at dinner. Those present were John Egly and family, Dr. G. M. Nichols and family, Walter Shiflett and family of Moberly, Mrs. Sue Burton, Lizzie Smith, Irene Nichols of Kiowa, Okla, Clayton Smith and Hugh Lincher of Fulton. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Drane, aged 76 years, died at her home near Harrisburg, on the 25th. She is survived by her husband, Clark Drane, three daughters and two sons. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Mrs. M. A. Cloyd, who moved to Montana from near Yates about a year ago, died at Billings on the 9th, aged 70 years. She was a sister of the late A. C. Maupin of near Burton and Ed Maupin of Pine Bluff, Ark. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Mrs. Wm. Longdon is visiting relatives in Springfield, Ill. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Born, on the 29th, to Bert Hughes and wife, a daughter. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Claud Long of St. Charles was here this week, the guest of his mother, Mrs. B. L. Edwards. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--R. W. Compton, who applied for a patent on a variable automobile speed gear about a year ago received word last week that the patent had been allowed. He will go to St. Louis next month to consult a manufacturer, who is interested in the patent. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--An epidemic of mumps and a record-breaking snow almost put the Christmas tree exercises at the several Higbee churches out of business. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Born, on the 15th, to Tip Lewis and wife, a son. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Born, on the 21st to David Sunderland, Jr, and wife, a daughter. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Miss Nora Jones of Bloomington, Ill, is the guest of her uncle, W. F. Jones, and wife. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Mrs. Hattie Morris, aged 74 years, died at her home in Kansas City on the 29th. She was a sister of H. C. Taylor of Armstrong, where interment will be made. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Calvin Magruder, who has been living on the Dr. J. W. Winn farm near Yates, purchased the Miller Warford property in the north part of town Wednesday and moved to same the next day. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Mrs. C. W. Williams spent Sunday in Kansas City with Mr. Williams. She reports his as being a great deal better and that he will be able to come home in a short time. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--DAVIS-BAGBY--Sunday afternoon at the home of the officiating minister, the Rev. C. N. Broadhurst of Moberly, was performed the ceremony which united Carl R. Davis of near Renick and Miss Nadine Bagby in marriage. Following the ceremony the happy couple returned to the bride's home near Higbee, where an elegant six o'clock dinner awaited them. The neighbors and friends of bride and groom were there to wish them joy and brought them many useful presents. The bride is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bagby. She is pretty, refined, and of a sunny disposition, which has won for her many friends, and will make an ideal helpmeet of the happy young man who has won her for his bride. Mr. Davis is the oldest son of Mrs. Talitha Davis of near Renick. He is a young man of exemplary habits, honest, industrious and is in every way worthy of the splendid young girl who has become his bride. They were tendered a sumptuous twelve o'clock dinner by the groom's mother Tuesday. They went to Kirksville Wednesday for a week's visit with relatives of the groom. Upon their return they will go to housekeeping on a farm near Renick. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--MULLIER-TRUBY--Mr. Arthur Mullier and Miss Vera Truby, two of Higbee's most popular young people, were united in marriage at the home of the bride Friday, evening, Dec 24, 1915, Rev. Ben Robson officiating. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Truby and is a most popular and prepossessing young lady. The groom is a son of Thos. Mullier and is one of Higbee's most worthy and reliable young men. The News joins in congratulations and best wishes. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--As a Christmas remembrance to her father, J. B. Tymony, Mrs. Chas. C. Hon had printed and neatly framed a poem written many years ago by her grandfather, the late Frank Tymony. For the benefit of those who remember the author, as well as the rest of our readers, we print the poem in this issue. You will find that it is worthy of a place in your scrap book. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--MRS. LINDSEY WARE DEAD--Mrs. Lindsey Ware, aged about 50 years, died at her home northwest of town late yesterday afternoon after a short illness. She is survived by her husband and three children--Mrs. Edgar Giles, Mrs. Wm. Barton and Edgar Ware. Obituary next week. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--Christmas came near being a very sad and costly one for Walter Davis, whose residence just opposite the Katy depot was discovered on fire about 8:30 Thursday evening of last week. The fire had originated from a defective flue and had damaged the roof considerably when discovered. Mr. Davis, who was sick in bed at the time with abcess of the lung, was carried across the street to the home of his brother-in-law, Wm. Mooney, but suffered no evil consequences from the exposure. Thinking the house was doomed, many turned their attention to taking out the household goods, many of which were badly damaged, and about the time the last piece was taken out the fire was extinguished by the bucket brigade. When the alarm was first given those who came to the city hall after the engines were under the impression that it was the residence of Mrs. Henry Davis in the east part of town that was on fire, and they did not discover their mistake until they arrived at Mrs. Davis' all out of breath from their long run. While all were delighted that there was no fire to fight, what was said would perhaps not look very well in print. Mr. Davis' loss, we understand, is fully covered by insurance. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--ORTON-CHAPMAN--Mr. Henry W. Orton and Miss Ida S. Chapman, two popular young people of Higbee, were married at the home of the bride on Wednesday, December 22, 1915, at 5:50 p.m., Wm. Chapman, father of the bride, officiating. The NEWS joins other friends in congratulations and best wishes. Friday, 31 Dec 1915--REMEMBER THE POOR--F. Tymony The mild, pensive beauties of autumn are o'er, The moorlands and valleys are lovely no more. O'er the bleak landscape dark winter reigns, Fierce Boreas in snow drifts bounds o'er the plains; All varied nature looks sullen and sad, Nor yields a mild beauty to make the heart glad; And many in sorrow and want must endure The pains and distress that she brings to the poor. Oh! you who with riches and plenty possessed, And every enjoyment with which life is blest, Prepared for the season to laugh and to feast, Who think yourselves greatest I count as the least, Unless you have hearts that are kind to bestow The balm that would heal up a poor mortal's woe. Since you have the means that balm to procure, And now is the time to remember the poor. Think how many in wretchedness pine, Think how contrasted their lot is with thine; You have the brightest that earth can bestow, They have the darkest that mortals can know, Toiling and sighing through sickness and care, Through summer's fierce heat and winter's chill air. He that hath blessed thee with much varied store, But lent it to thee to remember the poor. Go seek out the wretched wherever they be; Their vices or follies--what are they to thee! Be careful their wants and their woes to relieve And think yourself blessed if you have something to give. Give as it was given a blessing to be, Give as it was given a blessing to thee, To all who misfortune has made more obscure, For this is the time to remember the poor. Meek Charity's voice is sweet to the ear, All men are her brothers, alike all are dear; She weeps o'er the follies that lead them astray, And lights the lone wanderer on his dark way. She decks not herself until the naked are clad, She eats not herself until the hungry are fed; She looks not to the earth a reward to secure, But knows it is good to remember the poor. Though lifetime is short and winters are few, Man practices not what he knows he should do. >From his nature the milk of his kindness should flow, And he should be happy to make others so, That when his short transit shall draw to a close, When he shall be called to his silent repose, When the cold hand of Death shall knock at his door. He can answer and say, "I was kind to the poor." Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.