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From: "Kathy Bowlin" <>
Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Higbee News, 2 June 1927, Pt 5 of 5
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 22:22:13 -0600


The following are selected articles from a Newspaper titled, "The Higbee News" which
was issued out of the town of Higbee, in Randolph County, Missouri from the years 1888
through 1953. The editors were W. H. Welch and his son H. Scott Welch. This paper covered the Higbee area and also a great deal of
the northeastern part of Howard county. The copyright notice at the end of this transcript is there for the sole purpose of keeping
this work free to the public, and to ensure that it is not
harvested by a fee-based corporate genealogy site, or published in any format for profit. If you decide to use the information from
this transcription, PLEASE LIST ME AS THE SOURCE, rather than the paper. My transcription is another generation removed from the
microfilm, and would thus be a third generation copy of the original paper. For proper documentation, a researcher should obtain a
photocopy of the microfilm for their own permanent records, and use my transcript as a guide or index. The microfilm is available
for interlibrary loan through the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a copy is also on file at the Moberly Public Library,
generously donated by the Higbee Historical Society.
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Thursday, 2 June 1927, Vol 41, No. 4, Pg. 8 Col 2 & 3--TWO KILLED IN AUTO
COLLISION--The NEWS of two weeks ago contained brief mention of an auto accident
in which Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Giles, who, returning from a visit with relatives in the East,
were more or less injured, but particulars of which we were unable to give. Mr. and Mrs.
Giles were able to continue their journey a few days following the accident, going by train
to the home of a daughter in Denver. The following relative to the accident is taken from
a Joliet, Ill., paper:
Two men were killer, a third received minor injuries, and a woman was seriously
injured when two automobiles collided on Route 4, a mile north of Braidwood, late
yesterday afternoon.
"The dead:
"Edward Kopitas, 33 years old, poolroom operator, Quincy, Ill.
"Joseph Goslin, 30 years old, clothier, Quincy, Ill.
"The injured:
"C. T. Giles, New Cambria, Mo., cuts about the face, hands and body.
"Mrs. C. T. Giles, deep cuts on chest, bruised about the head and legs.
"Kopitas was killed instantly and Goslin died enroute St. Joseph's hospital. Both
men had suffered skull fractures, and fatal internal injuries.
"Kopitas was driving north towards Wilmington when his car left the pavement.
As he turned back onto the pavement the rear wheels caught on the concrete shoulder on
the edge of the highway and his car was thrown diagonally across the road, directly into
the path of a sedan in which Mr. and Mrs. Giles were riding south.
"The force of the collision threw Kopitas out of his machine and his head struck
against the side of the Giles car. The force of the blow fractured his skull and he died
instantly. Gelsin was removed from the wreckage by W. G. Bohnstenger. of Plainfield
and Dr. W. C. Frick of Braidwood, both of whom witnessed the accident. He was taken
to St. Joseph's hospital but died on the way.
According to Mr. Bohnstenger, the two machines were driving at a normal rate of
speed and struck each other with full force. A traveling bag in the Giles machine was
thrown 40 feet into a nearby field.
"Mrs. Giles was cut about the chest by flying glass, and suffered several bruises
about the head and legs. Her husband was cut about the hands, face and body, but his
injuries were not pronounced serious.
"Dr. Frick worked for more than two hours restoring Mrs. Giles to consciousness.
It is believed that she will recover.
"Relatives of the two Quincy residents are expected to arrive in Braidwood today.
A coroner's inquest will be held in the Kain undertaking parlor in Braidwood this
afternoon.
"Both machines were demolished."

Thursday, 2 June 1927, Vol 41, No. 4, Pg. 8 Col 6--MUSIC PUPILS WANTED--A
chance to take violin or piano. Violin lessons, 75c and piano 50c. If the lessons are too
expensive I might arrange a class lesson cheaper. See me at Mrs. Jean Little's Monday
morning, June 6, from 9 to 12 o'clock.--Eugenie White.

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Kathy Bowlin
Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

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