The Edina Sentinel
Edina, Missouri
Thursday
June 12, 1930SHOOTING AFFAIR AT BARING
Joe Kigar and Millard Atwell Ex-
changed Shots There Sunday.A shooting affair at Baring between 8 and 9 o'clock Sunday morning resulted in the arrest of one man on charges of assault with a dangerous and deadly weapon with intent to kill and carrying a concealed weapon, and the other participant being sought for arrest on similar charges.
The arrested man, Joe Kigar of near Greensburg, is at liberty under bond, but his adversary, Millard Atwell of Baring, is at large.
The affair, as told to Tom B. Brown, prosecuting attorney, took place between the Gordon and Dailing filling stations on the main street, and started with a fist fight. Kigar is said to have run after a few moments, Atwell following with a knife. Then both started shooting.
Kigar told Ralph Kidwell, sheriff, and Mr. Brown he shot at Atwell twice, and bystanders believe the latter shot about five times. Some say he was hit by a bullet from Kigar's gun before he made his escape toward Greensburg in an automobile.
The Edina Sentinel
Edina, Missouri
July 31, 1974Josiah Kigar
Josiah Kigar, 70, of Colton, Calif., formerly of south of Edina and the Pleasant Ridge and Baring communities, died July 19, 1974, in a hospital at San Bernardino, Calif., as the result of being hit by a train April 22, 1974. He had been engaged in farming and had lived in Des Moines, Iowa, several years before going to California.
Graveside services were at 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning, July 25, at the Greensburg Cemetery with the Rev. Mike Coombs of Edina officiating. Burial was under the direction of the Hudson-Rimer Funeral Home of Edina.
Surviving are two sons, Mayo John Kigar of Colton and Joseph Leroy Kigar of Higbee, seven grandchildren and a brother, Raymond Leroy Kigar, of Kirksville.
Mr. Kigar was born Sept. 25, 1903, in Scotland County, the son of John and Minnie F. Bryant Kigar, and was married in 1935 to Mary Harris.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, Mrs. Maude Burrus and Mrs. Alice Saulsbury, and seven brothers, Oscar, Earl, Otto, Lavon, Lewis, Fred and Johnny Kigar.
