Friday, 15 Mar 1912--The combined ages of Mr. and Mrs. A. Spicer, who live near Moberly, is but 28 years. The bride, who is a daughter of Thos. Grabbitt, is but 11 years old, and the bridegroom is six years her senior. They were married at Hager 's chapel near Moberly by a minister who had been conducting a series of revival meetings in that vicinity. The parents of both consented to the marriage. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--MARRIED UNDER DIFFICULTIES--J. E. Genola, a prominent young merchant of Renick, and Miss Eliza Ash, of Madison, were married at the home of the bride's parents at that place Sunday afternoon. Mr. Genola and his bride were at Renick Sunday morning when they decided to get married. They hired a carriage and drove to Higbee to catch the Katy passenger train to Madison. This move was made in order to fool their Renick friends. Before reaching Higbee their driver ran the team into a creek and both were thrown out of the buggy. Mr. Genola landed on the creek bottom and got slightly damp. After their arrival in Madison they were married by Rev. E. Y. Keiter of Hannibal. Then it was learned no train came from Madison to Moberly during the night. Mr. Genola had to be in Renick this morning to open his store, so phoned to a local liveryman to come to Madison with a carriage. This was done and he and his bride later secured another carriage here and drove to their home in Renick--Moberly Monitor, March 11. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--HENRY A. SLAUGHTER DEAD--Henry A. Slaughter, of near Renick, whose serious illness was reported in our last issue, died Saturday evening, March 9, 1912, after several years' illness form cancer of the stomach, aged 61 years. He was born in Jackson county, Mo, on October 18, 1851, but had resided in this county most all of his life, and for the last thirty years had resided on the farm where he died. He was married to Miss Agnes A. Asbury on September 17, 1871. They were the parents of eleven children, nine of whom are living. One died in infancy, and Harry, the youngest, died two years ago from the effects of a powder explosion. The children are, Mrs. George Harris, Higbee; W. H. Slaughter, Columbia; Mrs. Ernest Mitchell, Mrs. Geo. Wheeler, Mrs. Riley Douglass, Mrs. Cal Winn, James, Joseph and Thomas Slaughter, all of near Renick. Deceased was a consistent member of the Christian church with which he united some twenty-three years ago. Funeral services were held at the home Monday by Eld. E. Y. Keiter of Hannibal, and interment made at Mt. Pleasant cemetery, Howard county. Mr. Slaughter was a good man and good citizen in every sense of the term and in his death the community has suffered a distinct loss. To the bereaved wife and children we extend sympathy. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--GIVEN HOURS TO LEAVE--In the last few weeks there has been a lot of petty stealing going on in the Fort Henry neighborhood, west of this city, and the good, honest, law abiding citizens of that neighborhood got mighty tired of it. While they were unable to catch the thief or thieves, in the act or with the goods, they were satisfied they knew who the guilty parties were, and they concluded to make them move out of the neighborhood. Last Wednesday night twenty-five citizens of the vicinity congregated at a certain point and marched in a body to a certain white fellow's home, who had been in the neighborhood only a few months, called him out and gave him to understand that they knew he was the man who was doing the neighborhood stealing and that they would give him just 48 hours to leave the neighborhood, and if he did not do so, he would have to abide the consequences, and that the county would be charged up with no costs, in the case, either, unless it be the expense of a coroner's inquest. The fellow is a tie chopper, mill hand, etc, and pretends to be pretty brave, and keeps a small arsenal about his home. He denied the charge and rather intimated that he would leave when he got ready. But Friday morning, before the 48 hour limit was up, he loaded his household goods in a wagon and "hit the grit." He came to this city and spent most of the day hunting a house to store his goods for the present. The Times withholds his name--Huntsville Times. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--THE NEWS FROM BONNEFEMME--Mrs. W. H. Long and two little children spent the past week with her sister Mrs. Della Lapping at Minden Mines. A fine boy was born on the 9th to Forest Radford and wife of St. Louis at the home of Mrs. Radford's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Mooney. W. B. Dougherty's sale on the 12th was fairly well attended considering the inclement weather. Most everything sold well. Corn brought record breaking prices by selling at 90cts. Miss Bertha Andrews of Glasgow and her brother John Linsey of Moberly came home Friday to say good bye to their sister Mrs. W. B. Dougherty who left for Arizona in the 14th. Mr. Carl Asbury of near McMullin and Miss Zuela White were married March 3. The bride is the daughter of W. B. White a prominent stock buyer of near Rucker. Henry Slaughter a well known citizen of near Renick died of cancer of the stomach on the 9th. He was about 62 years of age. he leaves a widow and several children to mourn his departure. The deceased was once a resident of this township. Interment on the 11th at the Mt. Pleasant cemetery. The bereaved have the sympathy of the entire community. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--John Barron was quite painfully hurt at the Block mine yesterday by a fall of rock and will be kept from work for several days. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--W. B. Dougherty and family of near Myers left yesterday for Ash Fork, Arizona, where they will make their future home. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--Through an oversight last week we failed to note the marriage of Miss Gertie, daughter of George Wilson and wife, and John McCormack of near Huntsville, which took place at the residence of Rev. Ben Robson on March 2nd. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--Those who failed to go to the GEM Monday night missed some good pictures. One was the capturing of bears in the polar regions. Another was an X-ray picture showing the human stomach in operation. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--John Dennis and family, Walter Dennis and wife and Roy Dennis and wife left Monday for Western Canada where they will make their future home. The best wishes of a host of friends follow them. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--Mrs. Robert Summers of Huntsville was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Mary Williams, during the week. She orders the address of her papers changed to Moberly, where Mr. Summers moved this week. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--A party of twenty or more pupils of the Higbee public school were delightfully entertained at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cubbage Monday evening. The trip was made in bob sleds and all had a delightful time. The party was chaperoned by Mrs. A. J. Brown, Mrs. Belle Cole and Mrs. Ollie Duncan. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--The Higbee lodge of Rebekah Sisters held a special meeting Friday evening of last week in honor of Mrs. John Dennis, one of the order's most faithful members, who left this week for Canada to make her home. A big banquet was served and the only thing to mar the pleasure of the occasion was the thought of giving up such a faithful and congenial worker. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--Mrs. Virginia McDavitt died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bettie Hicks, in Armstrong on the 11th, of pneumonia, aged 85 years. She was a former resident of this county, residing near Clifton Hill, moving here from St. Louis county where she was born, when three years of age. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--Wm. Rankin and son, Robert, of Kansas City, Jas. Cox and family of Orrick, Geo. Manuel and wife and Geo. Cox and wife of Moberly were those from a distance to attend the funeral here Saturday of Mrs. J. P. Rankin. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--Deputy sheriff Hughes of Novinger was shot in the head and probably fatally injured Sunday while attempting to capture Landon Campbell. The latter was a paroled convict, having been sentenced to the pen for forgery. Hughes had deputized three citizens and had posted them at the front and back of Campbell's house while he went inside. Campbell was in the garret and shot Hughes through a trap door. he made his escape but was captured the next day. Hughes may recover, although the ball lodged in his brain. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--MRS. JOHN P. RANKIN--We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life kept ebbing to and fro. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died. Thus passed into eternal rest Mrs. Margaret Rankin, beloved wife of Postmaster John P. Rankin at her home in this place at 9:30 o'clock Thursday night, March 7, 1912. She had been in failing health for several years and for the past year had been confined to her home, but was able to be up most of the time till three weeks preceding her death. She had rallied from several severe spells, and the family had hopes that such would be the case this time, but it was not to be. All that was possible to be done for her was done, and not until she was peacefully drawing her last breath did her family and loved ones give up hope. Mrs. Rankin, whose maiden name was Black, was born on September 11, 1844, at Kelsyth, Sterlingshire, Scotland, and was therefore in her 68th year. She was united in marriage to John P. Rankin on December 31, 1869, and came with him to this country in 1881, locating at Huntsville, from which place the family moved to Higbee about twenty years ago. They were the parents of seven children, one of whom died in infancy. They are Mrs. Jas. Cox, William, John, James, Mrs. John Little and Gordon H. Besides her husband and children she is survived by two brothers, two sisters and six grandchildren. She was converted at the age of 22 and united with the old school Presbyterian church. On her removal to Huntsville she united with the Baptist church, transferring her membership to the church here. Her religion was not the Sunday only kind, but she lived it in her everyday life seven days a week, and was happiest when attempting her church duties or doing something for the happiness of others. She long ago realized that she could not recover and was perfectly resigned to go--in fact, prayed that death might come and relieve her of all further suffering. Funeral services were held at the home at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon by Rev. Ben Robson, assisted by Rev. W. L. Halberstadt, it being her wish that Mr. Robson conduct the services in the event that Rev. L. M. White, former pastor of the Baptist church, was unable to come. The sermon was one of the most touching we ever listened to and at the same time one of the most consoling. The large crowd of sorrowing friends present spoke more eloquently than words of the love and esteem in which she was held. Interment was made in the city cemetery. In her death her family and the community have suffered an irreparable loss, and the NEWS joins the community in warmest sympathy to the bereft ones. Friday, 15 March 1912--Joe E Jones, our efficient deputy postmaster, had an experience one evening last week he is not anxious to have repeated. He was down town after supper when he heard the rumor--started, the Lord only knows how,--that his father, R. R. Jones, was dead. He ran all the way home, almost three quarters of a mile, through the snow, and was so overjoyed to find the rumor "greatly exaggerated," as Mark Twain would say, that he forgot all about being provoked. He found his father as he had left him at supper time, hale and hearty and enjoying better health than in years. As Mr. Jones hadn't even been sick, it is a mystery how the report originated. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--Mr. and Mrs. Luke Haggard of near Renick are the proud parents of triplets, which arrived at their home on the 12th. Mrs. Haggard is the daughter of John Stone of east of town. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--Mrs. Jas.. Payton of Shanondale, who was struck by a Wabash train while crossing the track at that place one day last week, died of her injuries in the hospital at Moberly on the 7th. Friday, 15 Mar 1912--Delia Edwards, an inmate of the Fulton insane asylum from this county, was killed there Thursday of last week. She eluded her guards and fell from the building, landing on a granitoid walk. Friday, 22 Mar 1912--Mrs. John S. Elliott of Boonville died at St. Luke's Hospital in St. Louis on the 15th. Interment was made at Boonville Monday. She is survived by her husband and one son. Friday, 22 Mar 1912--Feejiv (his actual name) Williams, a Moberly negro, was drowned in the Wabash tank pond there Saturday. With another negro boy he was walking on the ice, and as he called to his sister on the bank, "God be with you till we meet again; I am going to cut some didoes," the ice broke and he went to the bottom. His companion escaped. Friday, 22 Mar 1912--TRAGIC DEATH OF YOUNG MAN--Weaver Lindsay fell from No. 28 at about 10:15 o'clock last night and was killed. He was riding between the engine tank and mail car and when the cars uncoupled, the escaping steam burned his face so that he lost his balance and fell between the cars. The accident happened near mile post No. 64 about two miles west of Evansville. When No. 28 pulled out of Moberly at 9:55 last night Weaver Lindsay, Denny Lindsay, Roy Hardwick and Ward Neil were riding blind baggage. the four men expected to visit in Hannibal. The Lindsay brothers were very close together and when Weaver fell from the train his brother crawled over the car and told their two companions. One of the men then made his way to the engine and informed the engineer. The engineer said that the next stop was Paris so when they got to Paris they telephoned to Evansville and the section foreman took his crew out and found the remains. They also telephoned to Moberly. This morning a hand car was sent to Evansville for the body. The men in charge of the handcar encountered many hardships and had to push the car over a long stretch of the track. Coroner Adams came over from Huntsville and took the depositions of the companions of the deceased and the men who found the body. It was decided that death was the result of an unavoidable accident. Weaver Lindsay was 26 years old the twenty-ninth of last August. The surviving relatives are a mother, Mrs. Hattie Lindsay, of West Coates street, two brothers, Denny Lindsay of this city, and Harry Lindsay, of Sedalia. His father, Joe Lindsay, lives in Moravia, Iowa. Deceased was a coal miner and had played ball on many of the local base ball teams. He was a splendid specimen of physical manhood, being over six feet in height.--Moberly Democrat. Friday, 22 Mar 1912--America Wright, colored, probably the oldest person in the country, died at her home in Moberly Monday. She was between 102 and 108 years of age. Friday, 22 Mar 1912--George Page and family will leave Saturday for Muskogee, Okla, where they will make their home. They are mighty good citizens and their departure is a matter of regret. Friday, 22 Mar 1912--Born, on the 13th, to Thos. D. Spurling and wife, a daughter. Friday, 22 Mar 1912--Mrs. G. B. Baker of Mena, Ark, is the guest of her father, Joseph Lessly, and other relatives. Friday, 22 Mar 1912--Will Tippit of McAlister, Ok, was here Saturday, the guest of his sister, Mrs. John Rankin, and other relatives. He had been in the Katy hospital at Sedalia for a week. Friday, 22 Mar 1912--J. H. and W. H. Ryle of near Yates left here Monday for Durant, Ok, to see their brother, Robert, who was reported seriously ill at that place. Friday, 22 Mar 1912--D. P. Woods sold his farm of 80 acres five miles southwest of town yesterday to Frank Dougherty for $2500 and will give possession immediately following his sale on the 27th. See list elsewhere. Friday, 22 Mar 1912--WM BUSH DEAD--Wm. Bush, aged 84 years, died at his home in this place at 5 o'clock yesterday evening of general debility. Funeral services will be held at the residence today about 1 o'clock and the body taken to Fayette, his old home, for interment. Deceased is survived by his wife and two daughters, Miss Emma and Mrs. C. R. Moore. An extended notice will be given next week. Friday, 22 Mar 1912--T. D. Sayre and wife of Clark who were divorced some three or four years ago, were remarried one day last week at Marshall. Kathy Bowlin