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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1917
Page
1
A Sunday street survey finds many teens from comfortable homes loitering and smoking. The piece urges engaged parenting, welcoming home life, and moral discipline to steer youth away from gambling and vice, highlighting churches as a positive social force.
Advice on avoiding gossip and spreading kindness. It urges helpfulness and self reliance, noting that friends and enemies do not determine success. The message encourages memorizing a guiding thought to study carefully for personal outcomes.
Friday morning H E Creason’s old barn burned after Dan Bundies spotted the blaze. Mrs Creason rescued a few items before the fire spread to a granary and machinery filled building. Much farm machinery was lost while the new barn survived. the loss was partially insured.
A high quality film program is presented each night at the Electric Theatre. The best pictures draw large crowds on Tuesday and Saturday as country folks attend after work. Announcements of each night’s programs appear weekly in this paper. read them and attend.
Jacob G. Watson born in Old Virginia on June 2, 1831 came to Missouri with his mother near Old Scottsville as a youth. He married Mary Ellen Blackwood on November 12, 1850 and they had six children, three sons and three daughters, two of whom survive, William B. Watson among them.
Mrs Laura H Atkins and her husband shared sixty six years four months and seventeen days of marriage before he died at eighty five. They lived on a Scottsville area farm and attended M E Church at Old Scottsville. Funeral services were held at Schrock church with a large turnout as kin and friends mourn the couple who waited for the resurrection morn.
Mary Ellen Blackwood born March 14 1838 in Jackson County Virginia died April 1 1917 aged 79 years and 17 days. She married Jacob G Watson in 1850 and they celebrated sixty years of marriage. The obituary notes their lifelong companionship and shared trials and faith.
The Altus editor recounts a Sunday excursion with Oren Lantz, Altus band director and musician, who assembled a tin covered four cylinder racer from an elder engine found in Eldorado. They travel the town seeking speed, but the engine stalls and resists cranking, delaying the run.
A large crowd gathered as a man rigged a crank at the engine and after a quick pull the tail wire was twisted several times and the machine started. The writer notes the trip home took about one hour, contrasting with others claiming faster runs. Eldorado Oklahoma Courier reported the scene.
Voters approved a new school building at a cost of 12500 with salvage value from the old brick backing. The contract will be let soon and demolition begins after the school year ends to have the new school ready by September. Hurrah for the modernization.
The Tuesday election produced neck and neck school board contenders with J. W. Jones and A. M. Elliott elected for three years. In the city race the marshal contest ended in a split vote in the west ward but J. J. Garrett won east ward by one vote. F. R. Duncan was elected mayor with Thos. McCown as collector and J. J. Garrett on the board in the east ward alongside R. W. Russell in the west ward. Citizens urged support for law and order.
N. J. Wattenbarger the Sullivan county circuit clerk and J. P. Painter of Milan were in town on business last week. The visit included a cordial call at this office from Wattenbarger.
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