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From: "Kathy Bowlin" <>
Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Higbee News, 7 July 1927, pt 2 of 2
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:48:49 -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, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 2. Col. 2,--OUR HUNTSVILLE LETTER,
By W. T. Dameron--"Uncle" Tom Bagby, who resides east of Mt. Airy, was in town
Saturday. While he still feels the effects of a paralytic stroke which he suffered while at
work on his farm three years ago, he is yet quite active for a man of his age--84--and can
do more work on a farm now than a whole lot of younger men. Besides attending to his
stable horses and jacks, he plants twenty-five acres of corn along with other truck
planting. He has ample means to keep him as long as he live without another day's work,
should be live past the century mark, but he says he would soon die if he quit work. He
thinks a man should do some kind of work--if one can move about at all--as long as they
live. Uncle Tom hasn't reached the auto age of travel yet, and comes to town in his old
two-horse buggy, and sometimes rides horseback when he hasn't far to go. Within the
last two years he has lost about $3,000 worth of stock by poison corn and other diseases,
which included two fine stallions and a jack. But he has others just as fine and is not
worrying over his losses. He says he has not much on his books due him from the
services of his stable stock. Uncle Tom is an old ex-Confederate soldier and a "wild and
woolly" Democrat. Before joining Gen. Price's army in 1862 he was with the Bill
Anderson gang--for only three days--he says. He did not like the "military" life that the
noted and dreaded bushwhacker was leading. Uncle Tom is one of the county's best
citizens. He says he expects to keep up his farm work as long as he can get about. He is
a son of the late Owen Bagby, a pioneer of the county.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 3, Col. 1--BIRTHDAY DINNER--Mr. and
Mrs. John Tucker were greatly surprised Sunday, June 26, when a crowd of friends and
relatives gathered at their home, the day being the latter's 43rd birthday. (Long guest list
omitted for space.)

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 3, Col. 1--SOUTH OF TOWN--Mrs. Hazel
Hargis had as Friday dinner guests, Miss Bertha Adler, Mrs. Hazel Lynch and baby,
Harold, and Elwood and Edwin Lynch.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 3, Col. 2--SOUTH OF TOWN--Another
surprise was received in the wedding Sunday of Harley Grapes and Miss Brooksy Atkins
in Moberly. The bride is the pretty and winsome young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jake
Atkins. The groom is an industrious young farmer. The many friends of this youthful
couple extend to them hearty congratulations and best wishes.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 3, Col. 2,3&4--SOUTH OF TOWN--Friends
and close neighbors received a big surprise last week when news was received that Calvin
Dougherty and Miss Eula Mead had slyly slipped off to Moberly Wednesday and were
united in the bonds of matrimony, returning late the same evening to their home the
groom had all in readiness for his bride. The bride is the pretty daughter of John Mead.
She is a young lady who is and has been held in the highest esteem by her many friends
and acquaintances for her sterling womanly attainments, loved by all for her pleasing,
winning disposition. The groom is the only son of Tim Dougherty. He is an industrious,
energetic and prosperous young farmer and one who inspires confidence and holds the
esteem and respect of his many friends and well worthy of the fair bride he has won. May
the gods of fate strew their pathway of life with roses and blessings of happiness and
prosperity is our congratulations extended to them.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 4, Col. 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Miss
Ruth Hayden of Moberly is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. G. D. Lyon.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 4, Col. 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs.
Roy Piper of Slater was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Goin, Monday.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 4, Col. 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs.
John Harriman and daughter, Miss Marjorie, and son, John, returned Saturday from a
visit with relatives in Slater.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 4, Col. 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Paulfrey and son, Curtis, and Foster Kirby spent from Friday until Tuesday
with relatives in Kansas City.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 4, Col. 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs.
Ed Dennis and daughters, Misses Verna Lee and Genelle, returned Thursday from a visit
with relatives in Kekanee, Ill. (Kathy's notes: I think the editor meant, Kewanee, Ill.)

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 4, Col. 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mrs.
John Mure and son, Roy, and Mr. and Mrs. Will Fulton spent Sunday in Jefferson City
with Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Whitmore.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 4, Col. 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mr.
and Mrs. Thos Garrington of Hiteman, Ia, and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Day of Des Moines, Ia,
were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Goin from Friday until Monday.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 4, Col. 3--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Roy
Richards spent from Saturday until Tuesday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Richards,
of Springfield, Ill. He was accompanied home by Mrs. Richards, who has been visiting
relatives in Chicago.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 4, Col. 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mr.
and Mrs. John Farris, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Johns and son, J. T., of East Alton, Ill., and
Mr. and Mrs. Will Hall and son, Herman, of Moberly, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. O.
L. Farris on the Fourth.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 4, Col. 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Shafer and daughter, Anna Mae, J. M. Shafer and daughter, Miss
Flossie, and Mr. and Mrs. Tyre Edwards of Moberly spent Sunday with relatives at
Marshall, and took in the celebration at Boonville on the Fourth.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 4, Col. 4--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--Mr.
and Mrs. John Longdon entertained the following at dinner on the Fourth. Mr. and Mrs.
G. D. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Daiprai and children, Mrs. Manilla Bradley and
children, Misses Helen and Berenice Bray and Maggie Longdon and Pete Donati.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 4, Col. 4&5--LOCAL AND
PERSONAL--Mr. and Mrs. Duke Edwards of Pearl, Ill, were the guests of Higbee
relatives and friends the first of the week. They were accompanied home by their
daughter, Miss Ruby, who has made her home here for several years with Mrs. Cordelia
Rule, and who has been in quite poor health for several months. Mr. Edwards will place
her in a sanitarium in Springfield, Ill. Miss Ruby was one of our most popular girls, and
was a favorite as a member of the High School basketball team, and has a host of friends
who join the NEWS in the hope that she will soon be well and strong again.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 4, Col. 5--LOCAL AND
PERSONAL--Eugene Burton, who recently had to give up his school work in the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Md., on account of his sight, arrived home yesterday for a visit
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wisdom Burton. Since leaving the academy he has been
in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he has a good position with the Heinz Company, the world's
largest pickle concern. While in that city he consulted the best eye specialist there, and
who is said to be the leading specialist of the kind in the world, and learned to his great
relief that his trouble can be corrected to a great extent, but not to the extent, we regret to
say, required by the academy. His trouble, he was advised, was caused by strain from
overstudy.

Thursday, 7 July 1927, Vol 41. No. 9. Page 4, Col. 5--LOCAL AND PERSONAL--D. S.
Hare and Will Lambier spent Tuesday in Moberly serving on the petit jury and wrestling
with the suit of Mrs. Mettie Linn against the estate of John Duffy, deceased. She sued for
$5000 and was awarded half that amount. She had lived in the Duffy home and cared for
the old gentleman for several years before his death, and had been informed by him that
she would be remembered in his will. As he left no heirs and his property would go to
the state, Mr. Hare was in favor of giving the full amount sued for, and which was given
her by the probate court. And we believe Dave was right in the matter. The state needs
money, all right, but we do not believe it should rob the dead in order to get it.

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Kathy Bowlin
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