Friday, 11 Oct 1912--RANDOLPH'S PRIZE MULES--The blue ribbon for the best pair of three-year-old mules was awarded to the team belonging to Byrd Marshall, who lives near Renick. This great award was at the State Fair in Sedalia on Thursday. There was sharp competition and the prize winners had to have many points of excellence, all of which were found in the well matched team from Randolph county. Mr. Marshall deserves great credit for his efforts to raise high class mules and should feel very proud of winning the blue ribbon in Missouri, which is noted as a mule raising state--Moberly Democrat. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--J. Frank Miller, wife and son, Howard, who moved to San Angelo, Texas, four years ago, arrived the first of the week for a visit with Mrs. Miller's mother, Mrs. Pauline Terrill, and other relatives and friends. Their oldest one, Lynn, is at Abeline, Texas, where he has all of western Texas he wants, and will likely locate in northern Arkansas. He says people in this section do not know anything about high prices. Potatoes there are $2.25 per bushel, apples 50c a dozen, turnips three for a nickel, four $4 a hundred, coal $12 a ton and wood $9 a cord. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--T. A. Comstock, who traded his farm near Myers several years ago for Salisbury property, moved to that place Monday where he will make his home, living at his ease. Mr. and Mrs. Comstock are mighty good citizens and are given up with regret by all their neighbors and a wide circle of friends. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--Frances Robinson, daughter of W. R. Robinson of Independence, formerly of Huntsville, committed suicide in a Kansas City Hotel Monday of last week by taking poison. Interment was made at Huntsville Friday of last week. Deceased was a granddaughter of John N. Taylor of Columbia, formerly of Huntsville. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--Evan Griffith, son of W. J. Griffith formerly of this place, was killed in a mine at Taylorville, Ill, Tuesday of last week. He had taken the place of one of the drivers for the day and was making his last trip, when a loose rock in an entry fell as he was passing under it, breaking his back. He was rushed to a hospital, but lived only a short time. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--Henry C. Myers, a brother of Porter D. Myers, presiding judge of the county court, died at his home near Moberly on the 4th. He is survived by his wife and daughter, two brothers and two sisters. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--GEORGE O. POWELL IS DEAD--George O. Powell died at 6 o'clock Sunday morning at his home in Renick. He was born in Virginia Feb 23, 1833, and came to Missouri in 1850. After coming to this state he attended Megee college for one year. After completing his studies he taught school for five years, farmed awhile and moved to Renick in 1862. He was appointed agent for the North Missouri railroad and continued with the road which was afterward the Wabash, until 1883, at which time he went into the drug business in Renick. He was commissioned a notary public in 1867 and held the office for many years. The best years of Mr. Powell's long and useful life were spent in Prairie township and he was one of the most highly respected citizens of this county. The surviving relatives are a wife and two children, Charles J. Powell, of Renick and Mrs. Lem Manard, of South fourth street; and ten grand children. The funeral will be conducted by Rev. Rice of Salisbury at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning in the Baptist church at Renick. The remains will then be brought to this city for interment in Oakland cemetery.--Moberly Democrat. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--Geo. Lewis and Ferd Morris, employed in the mine at Elliott, were each quite seriously hurt Tuesday by falls of rock. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--W. C. Burton was here from Roodhouse, Ill, Sunday, the guest of the home folks. He says the new girl baby at his house is the only one on earth. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--Mrs. J. L. Darby returned to her home in Moberly Tuesday after a visit with her parents, G. T. Newman and wife, of near town. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--Mrs. E. J. Thompson returned to her ho me near Slater Sunday after a pleasant visit with her parents, G. T. Newman and wife, of near town. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--J. P. Henderson and Miss Lettie Hersman, two popular young people, were married Sunday by Justice J. C. Elgin. Congratulations and best wishes. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--The little daughter of Jasper Hersman and wife, while playing with a bottle of carbolic acid which she found around the house, was quite badly burned by the fluid. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--Mrs. J. E. Rucker and daughter, Mrs. W. L. Cave, visited Moberly relatives Wednesday. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--Sam Wilson, colored, of Clark, who was accidentally shot in the hip at Moberly one day last week while in a scuffle, and who was said to be only slightly wounded, died Monday. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--John E. Ridgeway, aged 59, committed suicide at Columbia by taking carbolic acid. Burial was made at Sturgeon, his old home. He is survived by his wife, three sons and a daughter. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--Evan Jones is suffering from a severe attack of pneumonia, taking suddenly ill Monday noon. Evan is one of Higbee's finest young men and a host of friends hope for his speedy recovery. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--In the popular young lady contest, Miss Nellie Williams was awarded the diamond ring given away by the medicine show at the opera house Saturday night. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--Judge M. M. Burton who spent the summer with his son, A. C., came to town Wednesday to spend the winter with his son, W. H. Mr. Burton will be 90 years old on November 14th, and as he is in the best of health bids fair to round out a century, and that he may do so is the wish of a wide circle of friends throughout the county. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--Jackson Atkins died, on the 10th at his home near Harrisburg of typhoid fever, aged about 35 years. Interment will be made to-day at New Hope. He was the son of Thos. Atkins of near Myers, and is survived by his wife and four children. (Note: This man was my great-grandfather. His wife had taken typhoid fever, and he nursed her through it. She recovered, then he caught it and died. He left five small children, ages 2-11. My grandmother Roxie, was just 7 years old. His wife Ella would marry four more times before her death in 1955. One marriage ended in divorce, she outlived two others, the last outlived her.) Friday, 11 Oct 1912--William Richards and Miss Jennette Hare sprang a surprise on their friends by going to Huntsville and getting married last Saturday. The event took place at the residence of Mrs. D. L. Rees, sister of the bride, Rev. B. F. Heaton, pastor of the Baptist church officiating. Mrs. Richards is the youngest daughter of the late Henry Hare of this place, where her life has been spent. She is a general favorite in the community, her modesty and winsomeness having won her a host of friends. The groom is the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Richards and is a young man of steady habits, whose reliability and obliging disposition give him a deserved popularity. The NEWS wishes them a long voyage in sunny weather. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--Jas. O. Finks, a prominent citizen of Glasgow, died at his home in that city on the 6th of paralysis, aged 68 years. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--Arch Brooks, a farmer living near Hallsville, Boone county, was killed by a runaway team Saturday, his neck being broken. Friday, 11 Oct 1912--John Tatum, a well known farmer of the Glasgow vicinity, killed himself at the Hiawatha Hotel in that city Wednesday of last week by taking morphine. Despondency over being out of employment and fear that he might become dependent on others is supposed to have been the cause of the act. Kathy Bowlin