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From: "Mike & Kathy Bowlin" <>
Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Higbee News, June 1908
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:07:28 -0500


5 June 1908--Martha Hunt, colored, who claimed to be 108 years old, died at her home in
Moberly Thursday of last week. Her husband died several years ago, aged 99 years.

5 June 1908--Quite a number of men left during the week for Iowa and Illinois where
they hope to secure work in the coal fields until the mines here resume operations.

5 June 1908--John Bradley and sister, Miss Lillian, Gordon Rankin and J. H. Pattrick,
who have been attending school in Columbia for the past ten months, are at home.

5 June 1908--Wm. Kirby, a well known citizen of Fayette, died at his home in that place
last Sunday, aged 69 years. He was a former citizen of Huntsville, moving to Fayette in
1883.

5 June 1908--THE NEWS FROM MYERS--MISS MAUDE DOUGHERTY is visiting
Moberly relatives.
MRS. ANN DOUGHERTY returned Friday from a visit to her daughter in
Moberly.
MISSES OZELLA DOUGHERTY and BERTHA ANDREWS, who are attending
school in Fayette, spent Sunday with home folks.
BIRCH DOUGHERTY'S chicken house was blown over Thursday afternoon and
about 200 setting eggs destroyed. This is the only serious damage reported from the
storm in that section.
Chief of police HOWARD WILLIAMS was not out at church Sunday, being laid
up with a busted suspender, the result of his strenuous efforts to find and kill the big
snake before it frightened the surveyors away.
Uncle JESSE COMSTOCK of 4-11-44 north 3rd street is considerably worried
because the railroad is going through his potato patch. Never mind, Uncle Jesse. think
of the market you will have here for what is left.

5 June 1908--Perry Irvin, a well known Paris Negro, committed suicide Tuesday
afternoon in a most horrible manner, blowing the top of his head off with a shot-gun.
The deed was committed at his home near the depot and the suicide laid down on a
pallet in order to do the bloody job. The first shot missed but the second blew away the
entire top of his skull, leaving only his eyes, and dashed his brains against the wall. He
was subject to fits of temporary insanity and had attempted suicide once before--Paris
Mercury.

12 June 1908--Born, on the 11th, to Joe Lowes and wife, a daughter.

12 June 1908--Born, on the 7th, to John W. Carlisle and wife, a son.

12 June 1908--Born, on the 10th, to J. C. Goldsberry and wife, a son.

12 June 1908--J. M. Kirby, who moved from here to Colorado Springs a year or so ago,
has moved to Carney, Oklahoma, and orders the NEWS sent to that address.

12 June 1908--Thieves visited R. R. Jones' chicken house ten days ago and carried off
more than a dozen fat hens. About the same time the chicken coops at the store of W. F.
Jones were visited and several chickens were stolen. Petty thieving is becoming too
common in and about Higbee, and an organized effort should be made to break up the
gang.

12 June 1908--The NEWS is pleased to state that the item appearing in its columns two
weeks ago to the effect that Albert Smith had been killed in Colorado Springs was very
much incorrect, and that Albert is still on earth, alive and well. The report reached
Higbee from two or three sources that he had been killed in the manner stated, and as it
was not contradicted, we presumed it to be correct. From Albert's cousin, Mrs. Gussie
Hendrickson, who is visiting Higbee relatives, we learn that he was only slightly injured.

12 June 1908--THE NEWS FROM MYERS--A few weeks ago Dr. Davidson's double
barreled cannon disappeared from its accustomed place on the clock shelf, and the doctor
being satisfied that it was stolen said nothing, but notified detectives Frank Dougherty
and "Slick" Williams and constable Ernest Mobley. After some clever detective work
the officers struck the trail of the missing smoke pole and were getting so hot after the
culprit that he returned the gun Sunday morning and the doctor promised to call off the
blood hounds of the law.

19 June 1908--Claude Goldsberry received a message Monday from Venice, Illinois,
announcing the death of his oldest brother, Charles. We failed to learn any of the
particulars as to his death.

19 June 1908--Luke Haggard and Will Williams of near Myers were in town Saturday
and while in J. J. Bradley's drug store Haggard missed a pocketbook containing $21.25.
He suspicioned Williams of getting it but when Marshal Cain brought Williams before
him he refused to accuse him and Williams was turned loose. Later, so we learn,
evidence tending to incriminate Williams was discovered and a warrant issued for his
arrest. He had gone home in the meantime and when he learned of the warrant he
returned and gave himself up, being released under bond to appear before Justice Barron
on the 27th. He stoutly denies the charge.

19 June 1908--ANDREW L. NICHOLAS DEAD--It again becomes the duty of the
NEWS to chronicle the death of another old citizen and friend, Andrew L. Nicholas, who
died at his home southwest of town on Tuesday, June 16, 1908, of Bright's disease, aged
64 years, two months and twenty-seven days.
Mr. Nicholas was born March 19, 1844, and in 1865 was married to Miss Elmira
Davis who, with their four children--John T, Robert L, Jonas A, and Mrs. Chas.
Robb--survives him. He united with the Baptist church in 1863 and had since lived a
consistent Christian life, holding his membership with the Mt. Arrarat congregation.
Funeral services were held at the home Wednesday by Rev. Daniel Clifton of Huntsville,
and interment made in the Tucker burying ground near town in the presence of a large
assemblage of friends and neighbors.
The NEWS joins the community in sympathy to the bereaved ones.

26 June 1908--THE NEWS FROM MYERS--Joe F. Andrews and Uncle Jim Dougherty
were in Higbee Saturday helping the "drys" carry Randolph county. (Note: This is in
reference to the vote on prohibition).
Cap Avery informs us that Geo. F. Dougherty is going out of the stock business
and will raise thoroughbred cats. He traded three to Cash Avery last week for a cow and
guaranteed them to be the latest improved, sixteen candle power, hammerless, hand
painted, double action disturbers of rest, and Cash says they are the best cats that ever sat
on a back yard fence.

26 June 1908--We have seen men go wild over the result of an election, but we have
never seen anything to equal the enthusiasm of the women and children of Higbee over
the result of the election. Some 200 or more were congregated in the street in front of the
telephone office and when the vote of the county was learned they simply went wild,
their cheering being heard for over three miles. Farmers living at that distance from town
say they could tell from the cheering how the county had gone. After the cheering had
subsided somewhat, the crowd repaired to the Baptist church where a prayer and praise
service was held. The meeting was in charge of Rev. Chas. H. Swift, and came near
being broken up by a two-year-old baby, daughter of B. F. Andrews. Rev. Swift began
the service by remarking, "I presume all know the result of the election and______"
That was as far as he could get for ten minutes, for little Miss Andrews convulsed the
entire house by remarking with emphasis as if surprised that the question should be
asked, "Why, yes; we're dry."

26 June 1908--Mrs. Isaac Jones is visiting her sister, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Jones, at
Taylorville, Ill.

26 June 1908--Born, on the 18th, to John Sumpter and wife, a son.

26 June 1908--Born, on the 21st, to W. W. Morley and wife, a son.

26 June 1908--Mrs. Thos. Comstock of near Myers was bitten Wednesday by a snake
known as a blowing viper, and at last accounts was in a critical condition. She was
driving some pigs from the garden and in trying to get out of the way of a blacksnake
stepped on the viper.

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Kathy Bowlin
506 W. Ohio St.
Butler, MO 64730
Additions, corrections, comments welcome.


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