Friday, 23 Aug 1912--REACH FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY--On Wednesday, Aug 21, 1912 Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Hawkinson will have reached their fiftieth wedding anniversary and we wish to give some facts that will no doubt be of interest to the Herald readers. Capt. A. T. Prewitt, who is now in his 92nd year, attended the wedding and is the only person left in Roanoke who resided here at that time. They have resided at their present home for a period of 50 years having never moved in their wedded life. Mr. Hawkinson, who is in his 77th years, and his wife in her 72nd are, with the exception of Uncle Louis' failing eyesight, enjoying the best of health--Armstrong Herald. Friday, 23 Aug 1912--Miss Lucy Elgin is visiting her sister, Mrs. Robert Alexander, near Landmark. Friday, 23 Aug 1912--Mrs. John McGill returned Thursday of last week from a short visit with relatives at Mystic, Iowa. Friday, 23 Aug 1912--Geo. Harris has been kept from work for several days by a fall of rock on his foot while at work in mine No. 11. Friday, 23 Aug 1912--Jessie and Lucian Jones and sister, Miss Mattie of Bloomington, Ill. are the guests of their uncle W. F. Jones, and wife. Friday, 23 Aug 1912--Mrs. W. R. Pattrick returned Friday from Colorado Springs, where she went a few weeks ago with Mr. Pattrick. She left the latter about as well as he ever was in his life and improving every day. He will remain a few weeks longer that there may be no mistake about the cure being permanent. Friday, 23 Aug 1912--REV. G. W. ELLISTON DEAD--Word came to Higbee early yesterday morning that Rev. G. W. Elliston, former pastor of the Higbee, Clark and Sturgeon Baptist churches, was dead at Excelsior Springs. Wednesday a phone message came from there for some one who could give the address of Mr. Elliston's relatives, which was answered by Deputy Postmaster Joe Jones. He was informed that Mr. Elliston was lying at the point of death at a sanitarium there and that he had been stricken suddenly only a day or two before while walking along the streets, and had been unconscious ever since, his trouble apparently being brain fever. In his ravings Higbee seemed to be the burden of his thoughts, as he kept repeating the name over and over again. Mr. Elliston's mother, so Mr. Jones informs us, lives at Hayti, Mo. The news of Mr.. Elliston's death came as a great shock to his many friends and admirers, as he was in the best of health and engaged in a big meeting in the north part of the state when last heard from two weeks ago. Friday, 23 Aug 1912--AUGUSTUS MILLER DEAD--Augustus Miller, one of the county's most prominent farmers, and one of the most esteemed citizens in this vicinity, died at his home one miles northwest of town at 9:40 p.m. Friday, August 16, 1912, after a week's illness of rheumatism and uremiac poisoning, aged 68 years. He was born in Holmes county, Ohio, on July 6, 1844, where he grew to manhood. He came to this state in 1870, locating about four miles northwest of Higbee, which place he still owned at the time of his death. He was married on Jan 28, 1873, to Miss Ann M. Christian, who preceded him to the great beyond on October 19, 1895. They were the parents of nine children, eight of whom survive, viz: John A, William J, Misses Lizzie, Frances, Eva, Dollie, Mrs. R. R. Quinn and Mrs. R. B. Burckhartt. Their first born, Eugene, died Feb 7, 1877, at the age of four. Some fifteen years ago Mr. Miller purchased the farm just northwest of town and erected a large modern home where he had since resided. he was a hard worker and a man of many admirable traits, and to know him was to like him. He was a thrifty farmer and good trader and as a result of his business acumen he left a comfortable fortune. He was one of the largest land owners in the county, owning over 11,000 acres. Funeral services were held at the home Sunday by Eld. E. L. Mitchell of the Christian church, of which deceased had been a member for almost 20 years. The immense lawn would hardly hold the large assemblage of sorrowing neighbors and friends from far and near who came to pay their last respects to one they esteemed so highly and to shed tears of sympathy for the bereaved children. Interment was made in the city cemetery by the side of his beloved wife. Friday, 23 Aug 1912--DIED--Rufus Conwell, the 19-year-old son of Mrs. A. L. Conwell of south of town, died Monday at the home of his mother, after a week's illness. He was taken sick with something like malarial fever, and gradually grew worse, when blood poison, or something of a similar nature, set up. burial was made at Myers Tuesday. He is survived by his mother, brother and sister, who have the sympathy of all. Friday, 23 Aug 1912--As a result of a personal difficulty Thursday night of last week between Huts Crumpley and A. Bertini of Yates, the former was fined $25 and costs by Justice J. C. Elgin Monday. The trouble, we learn, occurred at old mine No. 6, between here and Yates, and resulted in Bertini getting two beautiful black eyes. He swore out the warrant against Crumpley. Friday, 23 Aug 1912--Thos. Warford, who has been running a bowling alley at Clarence for several weeks, is at home to remain, having sold the outfit and business to a citizen of that place. Mr. Warford, we learn, will attend a school of pharmacy this year. Friday, 23 Aug 1912--THE NORMAL SCHOOL AT KIRKSVILLE--The Normal School at Kirksville has just closed its record breaking year. Fourteen hundred and fifty Missouri teachers were enrolled, with an average daily attendance above seven hundred. Out of more than nine hundred attending the eleven weeks' summer term, about six hundred received certificates or diplomas. Out of the year's enrollment, eight hundred will teach in Missouri schools during the ensuing year. Of these, five hundred will teach in rural schools, two hundred in villages and towns, and about one hundred in high school positions, supervisorships and superintendencies. This vigorous old school is making tremendous strides in the preparation of teachers. Its new Farm and Household Economics Department sets a new pace for practical school education in Missouri. On the School Farm, conducted wholly by students, many practical lessons are exemplified. These are to be carried over into the public schools to fill the boys and girls with greater respect for home industries and home comforts and wholesome rural and village life. In the recent National Education Association at Chicago, President Kirk, of the Normal School at Kirksville, took a bold stand for practical rural education, claiming that if anybody needs a thorough Normal School and College education, it is the teacher in the rural school, for there the possibilities of young life are the best. He called attention to the fact that the rural child learns twice as fast as the village and city child--provided facilities and instruction are what they should be. The Normal School at Kirksville has a great library of 40,000 volumes, selected for and to be used by ambitious young teachers. It has the best laboratories for all kinds of school and college science needed by teachers. Its new laboratories for work in clay and for painting and burning pottery give a new stimulus to the education of the girls; so do the new courses in domestic science and general household economics. The Institution has every variety of academic and pedagogic study that will contribute to the making of good school teachers. The faculty for the ensuing year includes fifty-nine teachers. It is expected that the ensuing term will again break all records. No school anywhere has a more virile and up-to-date faculty than this one. Faculty and students of the Normal School at Kirksville believe in hard work and high enthusiasms. They do the work; they have the enthusiasms. Better send for one of the new illustrated, 250 page Bulletins. It is full of fine pictures and facts worth knowing. JOHN R. KIRK, President. Kathy Bowlin