MOHOWARD-L Archives

Archiver > MOHOWARD > 2001-03 > 0985142469


From: "Mike & Kathy Bowlin" <>
Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Higbee News, Friday, 25 Dec 1914
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 20:41:09 -0600


Friday, 25 Dec 1914--No Paper Next Week--That we may take a much needed rest
and
enjoy a day or two of Christmas like other folks, no paper will be issued
from this office
next week. We can be found in the office, however, to attend to any
printing you may
want.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--John Warford has malaria fever.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--Lessly Burton and wife were called to Marshall Sunday
by the
death of the latter's brother-in-law, Dr. W. R. Petrey.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--Ed Hawkins, Higbee's efficient and up to date
shoemaker, last
week installed one of the latest improved harness and shoe repairing
machines and a
gasoline engine and is now prepared to turn out work while you wait. The
machine,
which set Mr. Hawkins back about $500, works with almost human intelligence
and will
have to be seen in operation to be appreciated. It will sew on a pair of
half soles in ten
minutes, and will do it neater and better than it is possible to do it by
hand. As it will
sew through an inch or two of leather, it can be used for all kinds of
harness repairing.
We are pleased to note this enterprise on the part of Mr. Hawkins, for it
indicates a
rapidly increasing business. He informs us that owing to the great amount
of time and
labor his new equipment will save him, he can and will make a substantial
reduction in
prices on all kinds of work, and continue to use, as he as in the past,
nothing but the very
best of material.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--DR. W. R. PETREY DIES SUDDENLY--Dr. W. R. Petrey, one
of
Marshall's leading dentists and prominent citizens, died suddenly at his
home in that city
shortly after noon Sunday, Dec 20. He had just finished his dinner and was
suddenly
stricken with heart disease.
Mrs. Petrey, who was visiting at the home of her parents, Rev. Notley
Magruder
and wife, of near town, was almost prostrated when the message came
announcing the
death of her husband, whom she had left only a few days before enjoying
vigorous health
and planning for a happy Christmas. She left for Marshall on the first
train. They had
been married, only about two years.
Mrs. Petrey has the deepest sympathy of all in her great sorrow.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--Higbee people will learn with genuine regret that John
F. Smith and
wife are to leave us. They will leave early in the new year for Spickard,
for a short visit
with relatives and from there they will go to Hot Springs where they will
spend the
balance of the winter, and return to Spickard to spend the summer, and
perhaps reside
permanently, just as the notion strikes them. They are among our oldest
citizens and
have a wide circle of friends who will give them up with genuine regret, and
whose best
wishes will follow them to the ends of the earth. They are making the move
on account
of their health, which has been very poor for the past few months.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--Jody Douglas of Kansas City, who is on the road for a
big soda
fountain concern, is spending the holidays with his parents, J. Q. Douglas
and wife, of
near Rucker, and sisters Mrs. Roy White and Mrs. Edgar Buckler of this
place. He will
leave for a trip through the South about the first of the year, and is
thinking of visiting
Cuba and South America.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--Dr. C. F. Burkhalter and daughters, Misses Francis and
Toinette,
returned Sunday from Wellsville, where they were called Thursday by the
death of the
doctor's niece, Miss Mary Burkhalter, who was stricken with a severe pain in
the head
while at school, and who died in a few minutes after being taken home.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--A marriage license was issued on the 18th to George
Groggs of
this place and Miss Hazel Geer of Sturgeon. We failed to learn when and by
whom they
were married.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--W. H. Welch has been quite sick for several days, being
confined to
his bed.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--John F. Smith, who is only 82 years old, has been
getting around
like an old man of 60 for the past week, having broken a rib in a fall a few
days ago, and
then continuing at work as if nothing had happened.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--Lee Hairl last week purchased the McLain building and
the vacant
lot adjoining it from the Dr. A. J. Brown estate for $1300, and is now
occupying the
building with a jewelry store and watch repairing business.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--Roy Smith, aged 35, living near Gentry, purchased his
first suit of
"store" clothes the other day, being unable to resist the bargains offered
in a clothing
sale. Another demonstration of the fact that it pays to advertise.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Santa--I do not want you
to
forget me. I want you to bring me a printing set, a foot ball, air gun and
a watch fob and
some candy and some nuts, and please don't forget mamma and papa and my
little brother
Tyre--Victor Patterson.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Santa--Please bring me a
flash light and a wagon and a printing set some nuts and candy and do not
forget mamma
and papa and my brother, Victor--Tyre Patterson.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Old Santa--I am a little
girl
4 years old. Please bring me a nice doll with ribbon on her hair, a set of
furs, a ring, a
sled, lots of candy and nuts and an ABC book--Eunice Reed.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Santa--We are two small
children 3 and 5 years old and would like to tell you what we want for
Christmas.
Brother wants a set of blocks, a horse made of iron and a tricycle and candy
and oranges.
I want a doll buggy and a doll with a pink dress on and candy and bananas
and don't
forget little sister Dorothy, she would like a rattler. And don' forget
grandma and
grandpa Comstock at Salisbury and out little cousins at Higbee--Linsy and
Levy
Comstock, Kansas City, Kas.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Santa--I will write and
tell
you what I want for Christmas. Please bring me a tool box, horn, set of
blocks a picture
book and an Indian suit, and don't forget my brother Ellis. Bring him
something nice;
also grandpa and grandma Graves--Jas. Eldridge Dixon, 123 S. Ault, Moberly.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Santa--We are little play
fellows aged 4 years. I want a doll buggy and bed, wagon and chair, a
little red one.
Don't forget my little brother as this is his first Christmas, and don't
forget mamma and
papa. Eugene wants a little pony, watch, train and cars and a gun. Bring
my little brother
Woodrow some play things and a Teddy bear--Clara Starkey and Eugene Kirby.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Santa--Am a little girl of
seven years. Please leave me a nice doll and some pretty clothes for her,
candy, nuts and
fruits and anything else you think nice. Don't forget my sisters Lillie and
Gertie.--Edna
Kirby.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Old Santa--I want for
Christmas a gun, sled, street car, toy lantern, fire crackers, fiddle,
automobile, nuts, candy
and oranges. I will certainly be satisfied with this much--Harry Utley.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Santa--I will write and
tell
you what I want for Christmas. I want a doll, doll buggy, set of dishes,
rocking chair,
candy and nuts--Dollie Redifer.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Santa--I want a gun, hobby
horse, sled, candy, nuts, oranges and bananas.--Kenneth Redifer.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Santa--I want a gun, sled,
watch, knife, candy, oranges and nuts.--Tommie Redifer.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Santa--I want a gun, sled,
oranges, candy, bananas, toy monkey, watch and flying machine--Virgil
Sneddon.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Santa--I want a gun,
automobile, watch, candy, nuts and oranges.--Tommie Sneddon.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Santa--I am a little girl
of 5,
and I don't want you to forget me. Please bring me a big doll, a stove, a
wash tub and
board, little piano, little table, set dishes, rocking chair, doll bed and
buggy, biscuit board
and rolling pin, money bank and some fruit and candy--Velma Mae Gravitt.

Friday, 25 Dec 1914--LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS--Dear Santa--I am a little boy
just
3 years old. I would like a rocking horse and some fruit and candy--Carl
Sneddon.

Kathy Bowlin,
Additions, corrections, comments welcome.















This thread: