Purdin Pages 4-H Club Holds Postponed March Meeting
The Purdin Pages 4-H Club met at the school house on April 2 for its March 29 gathering postponed due to snow. Fifteen members and twenty one visitors attended with Zelda Yagel presiding and the pledge sung. Beth Lee chosen Junior Council member and Jos Yagel named Market Pig Leader. Members reviewed projects in food preparation sewing and pig and lamb projects. National 4-H Sunday set for April 29 at 11:00 am at the Methodist Church in Purdin. Anella and Phyllis Murrain provided lunch. next meeting scheduled for April 27.
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Purdin Pages 4-H
Zelda Yagel
Beth Lee
Jos. Yagel
Purdin
Anella
Phyllis Murrain
Anella Murrain
Bittersweet Club Hosts April Meeting at Mrs Smiths
Mrs Bob Smith hosted the Bitter sweet Club on Thursday April 5 with ten members present. The gathering opened with God Bless Our Native Land and included readings from Mrs Zimmerman and Mr Garner. Pearl Goins won contest favors and a pink blue shower was given Mrs Ben McKenzie.
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Bob Smith
Pearl Goins
Zimmerman
Garner
Ben McKenzie
Marylyn Palmer
Ollie Palmer
Susan Creason
Ruth Wood
Betty Adams
Clara Oertwig
Lola Moore
Kate Buckman
Martha Smith
Jackie Adams
Terry Smith
Essie Wood
C. R
Menu For Week Of April 12 At Monu School
Weekly lunch menu lists each weekday with a meal plan including steamed hamburgers or baked beans and wieners, meat pie, scalloped potatoes, and assorted sides. Milk and bread with butter accompany each meal and fruit or dessert options appear daily.
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Monu Foy
Happy Homemakers Extension Club Meets April Fifth
The Happy Homemakers Extension Club met at Mrs. Edwin Hanman's home on April 5 with seven members and two visitors. The group sang, prayed, and heard “Making Cleaning Easier” reports by Mrs. Ware and Mrs. Sayre. Minutes were approved. $2 donated to Red Cross and Easter Seals. refreshments provided by the hostess.
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Happy Homemakers Extension Club
Edwin Hanman
Abbott
Red Cross
Ware
Sayre
C. R
Linn County 4-H Council Plans Year Activities
At a March 30 Linn County 4-H Club Council meeting in Linneus forty three officers and leaders outlined the year program. Eleanor Hoover president led the session as proposed activities were set for summer and fall including picnic baby beef tour amateur contest tractor rodeo and cherry pie baking.
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Linn County
Linneus
Eleanor Hoover
4-H Club to Run Contest Flower Show Camp and Market Day
A program Guidance Committee chaired by A. A. McCaghy with Bobby Rulon Norma Gray Mrs Earl Farrar and Mrs Harold Abbott will appoint sub committees to plan and supervise a contest flower show Junior 4-H Camp a 3 day camp for older members and a 4-H Market Day.
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A. A. McCaghy
Bobby Rulon
Norma Gray
Earl Farrar
Harold Abbott
Linn County Farmers to Attend Feeder's Day in Columbia
About 200 Linn County farmers and stockmen will travel to Columbia Missouri for the Feeder's Day program on June 13. The Linn County delegation will gather at the University Livestock Pavilion to hear featured speaker G B Jerry Thorne and study cattle feeding and grain use amid ongoing feed shortages.
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Linn County
John Rulon
County Farm Bureau Livestock Committee
Columbia
Missouri
University Livestock Pavilion
G. B
Jerry” Thorne
Mr. Thorne
Wilson and Company
Chicago
Illinois
College of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry Department
Don Pollock
Unionville
Missouri Livestock Association
Paul I. Guyer
Animal Husbandry Department
Farmers Plant Multiflora Rose Fences This Spring
Seventeen Linn County farmers will establish living fences with multiflora rose, grown in Missouri nurseries, to provide wildlife cover and safe crossing while replacing Osage orange hedges. The plants are hardy and quick to form a fence in a few years.
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Linn County
Missouri Conservation Commission
County Extension Office
Friendly Neighbors Club Celebrates March April Birthdays
The Friendly Neighbors Club met April 1, 1951 at Shelby School to honor members with March and April birthdays. Two guests Bill Bailey and Mary Jo Simpson attended with eight members and families. After supper members visited and played cards. Mrs Harold Foss and Mrs E T Christian received birthday gifts from secret sisters. A May June party is hoped.
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Friendly Neighbors Club
Shelby School
Bill Bailey
Mary Jo Simpson
Harold Foss
E. T. Christian
Carl Tapscott
Local families share visits and health updates this weekend
Mr and Mrs Victor Jones hosted her parents Mr and Mrs Bill Havens and spent the day with Mr and Mrs Wilson Havens. Extended family guests included Mr and Mrs Frank Brown and son and Mr and Mrs Ray Johnson. Roscoe Powell returned from Kansas City in improving health after five weeks of care.
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Victor Jones
Bill Havens
Wilson Havens
Cody
Kenneth Kelley
Roscoe Powell
Kansas City
Delorum Tharp
Clinton Powell
Browning Baptist Church
Evert Dowdy
Deby
Imogene Smith
Karol
Worthie Hart
St. Joseph
Myron Havens
G P Club Plans All Day Meeting With Mrs Fields
The G P Club will meet with Mrs. Robert Fields on Thursday April 12 for an all day gathering. Local notice indicates a full day event with the named participants and date.
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Robert Fields
Sunday School Boost Asked at Church of God
REGER AND VICINITY members are urged to attend Sunday School at the Church of God next Sunday to reach a goal of 75, after 50 attended last week. A blessing is promised. Community social notes include visits from the Smiths of Independence Missouri and various local family gatherings and church appointments.
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Church of God
House of God
George Smith
Independence
Jerome Smith
E. O. Hobbs
Methodist Church
Marvin Stephenson
Trenton
Jack Ransom
Matilda McClaren
Buddy Shepherd
Ellis Shepherd
Farrell Grindstaff
Bill Grindstaff
Doris
Ora
Marjorie Wattenbarger
Junior Collins
Irvin Smith
Kansas
City
Ada Smith
Ida Tunnell
Jay Wattenbarger
Buell McClaren
Robert Stephenson
Leon Swank
Jake Bardon
Purdin News Social Roundup From St Paul to Chillicothe
Local notes record visits and greetings among residents. Garland Hamner and Kathie of St. Paul Minn spent a week with grandmother Etta Cady and aunt K W Gooch. Various families including the Pulliams, Cassitys, Rottmanns, Houser, Warren, Barrows, Smyth and Cokers are noted hosting or visiting through the weekend and weekday evenings. Joe Creason and Mrs Lucy Houser are mentioned with Joe reported not well.
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Garland Hamner
Kathie
St. Paul
Minn
Etta Cady
K. W. Gooch
D. B. Hill
Hill
Lucy Cotter
J. W. Rottmann
Orval Cokerham and
Robert Smyth
Willis Cokerham
Social Security Law Expands Coverage in 1951
A Field Representative from the Federal Social Security Office will visit the Brookfield Employment Office on Tuesday April 24 at 9:00 AM to answer questions and assist with applications for federal Social Security payments. The new law adds several groups including regular farm and household workers and many self employed, with increased payments and credits for World War II service.
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Federal Social Security Office
Federal
St. Joseph
Missouri
Brookfield
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Feeder
Celebrae
Milan Lions Club
Minstrel
TH High School
Browning
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Milan and
Browning Talent
Comedy
Patterson-Sargent
Browning Lumber Company
Browning, Missouri
Purdin News
Farmers Cash Store
Life Post
Collier's Farm Journal
Rexall
Amos 'N
Andy
CBS
United States Rubber Company
Gillette
MFA
MFA Central Cooperative
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