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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1942
Page
5
Local residents and visitors are listed from Browning and surrounding areas including Linneus Purdin Milan Laredo Shelby Meadville and Kirksville. People attend funerals visit relatives look after business and share travel and employment updates with multiple mentions of families and connections.
The University of Missouri will grant a $1000 scholarship in American Citizenship to the high school senior with the top grade in a competition on May 1 and 2. Examinations occur in high schools statewide. The Missouri Society of Colonial Dames of America funds the award, offered every four years, covering English history civics economics and related subjects.
The piece honors American and Filipino defenders of Bataan, urging continued resolve and national support. It calls on readers to buy War Bonds and Stamps during the I Pledge America campaign, signing the pledge for every dollar available for the war duration.
Mr and Mrs Jess Woodside visited Purdin and Browning while Mrs Jesse Longwell and Mrs Alva Deskins shopped Brookfield. Several families hosted and visited in Brookfield Chillicothe Green Castle North Salem plus Fort Leonard Wood. PFC Allen Lambert and his wife spent Sunday with Kermit Lambert family.
Rain continues to slow potato planting and garden work though needed. Mrs. Will Myers remains ill with poor prospects for recovery while Mr. Myers recovers from a heart attack last week. Miss Rose Chambers was briefly ill but returned to activity over the weekend.
Raymond Moore visited his parents last week. Mr and Mrs Albert Enderly and Frances attended Will Millers funeral. Earnest Pearson traveled to Chicago on business. Mrs Corda Long recovering from pneumonia. Mr and Mrs Nova Richardson spent the weekend with relatives and returned to Kansas City Sunday.
Those coming from a distance to the Will Miller funeral on Sunday included Mr. and Mrs. Jay Burkholder and daughter Virginia of Marceline, Bennie Burkholder and families, Dan and Will Burkholder, Johnnie Burkholder, Albert Enderly and Frances of Brookfield, Charley McNally and Bobby of Des Moines Iowa, and Ray McNally and Peggy of Milan. The Purdin Junior-Senior banquet was Friday night at Brookfield with a very nice evening followed by attendance at the show.
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