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Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Higbee News, 4 July 1924
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:07:25 -0500

Friday, 4 July 1924, Vol 38 No. 11--Higbee 4, Moberly 8--The ball game at Rennolds
Park Sunday between Higbee and Moberly resulted in a victory for the latter by a score of
8 to 4. The home team was weakened by the absence of one or two of its best players
and the fact that Perry Smith, the pitcher, could go but four innings on account of a bad
arm. Will Longdon finished the game for him. The boys, in addition to having the
Moberly team as opponents, also seemed to have a majority of the rooters against them.
Not to stand back of the home team is a poor policy in any kind of a game, and nothing
will demoralize team and game more quickly.

Friday, 4 July 1924, Vol 38 No. 11--Wisdom Burton and son, Eugene, went to Chicago
Saturday night, where Eugene, recently appointed by Congressman Lozier to a cadetship
at Annapolis, took his physical examination at the Great Lakes naval training station, and
which he passed with almost a perfect score. He will leave for Annapolis Saturday to
begin a 4-year course in that great school. As he is one of our most studious young men
with a mentality far above the young men of his age, the probabilities are that in the years
to come he will be plowing the seven seas at the head of a squadron of battleships. The
best wishes of a host of friends go with him.

Friday, 4 July 1924, Vol 38 No. 11--Birthday Dinner--Sunday, June 29, was a very
pleasant day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Reynolds, the occasion being the 51st
birthday of Mrs. Reynolds. At the noon hour dinner was served on the lawn and was
enjoyed by all. Late in the afternoon all departed, wishing the hostess many more happy
birthdays. Those present: Dr. and Mrs. G. M. Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Noel, Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. Burton, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Buckler, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Robb, Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Kirby, Wm. Warford and wife, M. B. Kirby and wife, Will Tucker and wife,
N. J. Fowler and wife, A. B. Lyon and wife, J. W. Pattrick and wife, T. A. Holtzclaw and
wife, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Dougherty, Mr. and Mrs. L. W.
Noel, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Griffin, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Winn, Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Reynolds,
Inola, Ok., R. T. Jones and wife, Kansas City, A. M. Robb and wife, H. W. Burton and
wife, Fred Noel and family, Clarence Buckler and family, Grover Grapes and family,
Aubrey Kirby and family, Mrs. Theodosia Holtzclaw; Misses Lily Gertie, Edna, Marie,
Beulah, Lonella and Reno Kirby, Ethleen, Lois, Eunice, Lucille and Geneva Buckler,
Dora Ancell, Mary Roberts, Claudine Robb, Hazel Warford, Roena Holtzclaw, Oreta
Major, Ivajene Warford, Lucille Dougherty, Leona Dougherty, Virgie Grapes, Ruby and
Thelma Reynolds, Vince and Eugene Kirby, Jack Holtzclaw, Painter Ancell, Joy Earl
Kirby, Forrest Tucker, Lester Grapes, Victor Griffin, Eugene Buckley, F. L. Buckler, St.
Louis, Wm. Knight, Frank Hairl, Brockman Moberly, Moberly, Virgil Shook, Moberly,
Wm. Jobson, Chester Avery, Price Thompson, Leroy Starkey, Geo. Ketchum, Wm.
Buckley, Lamar Grapes, Joe Reynolds and Jas. Warford.

Friday, 4 July 1924, Vol 38 No. 11--Born, June 26th, to Mr. and Mrs. Ob Jones, a son.

Friday, 4 July 1924, Vol 38 No. 11--Born, on June 22, to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Moore, a
son.

Friday, 4 July 1924, Vol 38 No. 11--C. S. (Did) Hargis is driving a new Chevrolet,
purchased this week.

Friday, 4 July 1924, Vol 38 No. 11--Mrs. Anna Dennis left for Kewanee, Ill., Wednesday
for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Turner Warford.

Friday, 4 July 1924, Vol 38 No. 11--D. S. Hare is driving a new model Dodge touring car,
purchased this week. He traded in his old car on the deal.

Friday, 4 July 1924, Vol 38 No. 11--Mrs. Belle Murphy left Saturday for Astoria, Oregon,
after her brother, Irvin Terrill, who has been in poor health for some time, and who, it is
feared, can not live but a short time. Mr. Terrill left Higbee for the West about thirty
years ago.

Friday, 4 July 1924, Vol 38 No. 11--Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Pitney of Ponca City, Okla., and
Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Pitney and children of Hot Springs, Ark., arrived Saturday in their
cars to attend the Pitney family reunion and the golden wedding anniversary of their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Pitney, to be celebrated Sunday.

Friday, 4 July 1924, Vol 38 No. 11--JAMES W. WHEELER--For six thousand years
human life has been a strange mingling of joys and sorrows, pleasure and pain, and every
person has more or less of each as his portion. Our duties, too, are sometimes pleasant,
and sometimes sad and painful. But in any case they must be faced. No responsible
creature may escape. And few duties are sadder than that of having to chronicle the
death of so good a neighbor and friend as was the subject of this sketch.
James W. Wheeler, son of Wm. H. and Elizabeth Wheeler, was born in
Cumberland county, Va., August 28, 1841, and passed to his heavenly reward June 29,
1924 having almost attained the ripe old age of 83 years. At an early age he came with
his parents to Missouri, first settling near Sturgeon. But about 1855 they moved to the
old homestead among the hills of the Moniteau three miles southeast of Higbee. Here he
grew up with his brothers and sisters into useful manhood. The great Civil War soon
came on and like thousands of others he was compelled to serve on one side or the other.
He chose the Union cause and served in Co. D. 1st Prov. En. Mo. Militia. Shortly after
the war, on in 1867, he was married to Miss Anne Frances Duffield, a near-by neighbor
girl. She died in February, 1882. The only child by this union, Mary Jane, died
December 25, 1885. On December 13, 1883, Mr. Wheeler was united in marriage to
Miss Rowena Duffield, a sister to his first wife. To this second union were born two
children, James, Jr., and Georgia, now Mrs. Kuhn, of Moberly. These, with his widow,
five grandchildren and one brother, Charles, of Higbee, still survive him.
Mr. Wheeler was born at a time when large families were the rule. He was one of
sixteen children, eleven brothers and four sisters. These are all gone to their rest with the
exception of Charles, above mentioned. For forty years or more Mr. Wheeler lived
quietly and prosperously on his farm something over a mile east of Higbee. Some five or
six years ago he moved with his wife to Higbee where they lived a short time after which
they went to Colorado for the latter's health. Finding the altitude too high for him, they
were compelled to come back to Missouri, locating near Moberly about eighteen months
ago.
Mr. Wheeler naturally had been failing in health for several years, but his death
was directly due to dropsy, from which he suffered intensely for some time. But knowing
that pain and suffering must needs fall to the lot of all men, he never uttered a single
word of complaint, and humbly submitted to the will of God. He had been a consistent
member of the Baptist church since 1882, being a deacon in the old McMullen church,
while his life was as nearly perfect as human lives ever get to be. No one ever had a
better neighbor and friend, and kinder husband and father never lived.
His last moments were peaceful and without suffering, the end coming at 6:50
o'clock Sunday evening. Funeral services were conducted at the home by the Rev. N. B.
Green, a former pastor of deceased, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Lamb, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Moberly. The earthly form was then tenderly lowered to its final
resting place in Oakland cemetery. A profusion of beautiful flowers, and the presence of
so many old neighbors and friends spoke more eloquently than words of the high esteem
in which Mr. Wheeler was held by all who knew him. The following lines used by this
writer on another occasion are just as appropriate here: (Poem omitted).

Friday, 4 July 1924, Vol 38 No. 11--Thos. Osburn, who has been employed at Kewanee,
Ill., for several months, returned to Higbee the first of the week, accompanied by his son,
Berthel. Mr. Osburn made the trip in his car, being accompanied by three other car loads
of Higbee folks, whose names we failed to get, and informed us that they saw many
evidences of the recent Illinois tornado in the shape of broken trees, broken window
lights, unroofed houses, etc, and also stated that many miles of their trip they made
through water hub deep on the state highways, finally getting into bottom lands where the
water was too deep to navigate, which forced them to detour to Davenport, Ia., and out of
the path of the storm. Mrs. Osburn and son, William, returned to Higbee last week.

Friday, 4 July 1924, Vol 38 No. 11--Ferrill, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. May Spurling,
left one day last week, and unknown to his parents, for Des Moines, Iowa, to see his
brothers, Henry and Joe, and where he hoped to secure employment.

Friday, 4 July 1924, Vol 38 No. 11--RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT--God, in his
infinite wisdom, has gathered another one of His jewels home in the person of Maggie A.
Cadmus, who departed this life June 20, 1924.
Her soul has passed to that bourne from which no traveler returns, and her life's
work, a part of which was in the interest of our order, of which she was a devoted and
zealous member, will long be remembered by the members of Twilight Temple No. 158.
And whereas, He that doeth all things well has chosen Sister Cadmus to enter that
house not built by hands a mansion prepared for her in the Heavenly Kingdom, and she
having been zealous in her work of the teachings of Friendship, Charity and Benevolence,
therefore be it
Resolved, that Twilight Temple No. 158 of the Pythian Sisters in testimony of its
irreparable loss, and to express its teachings of Friendship, Charity and Benevolence,
shall cause the charter to be draped in mourning for thirty days, and that we tender to the
family of our deceased sister our sincere sympathy, and a copy of these resolutions be
place on the minutes of our order, and copy sent to the bereaved family.
Axa Randolph, Lulu Murphy, Lillie Jenkins, Committee.

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Kathy Bowlin
506 W. Ohio St.
Butler, MO 64730
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