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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1946
Page
2
The writer urges Christians to find strength in Easter as a path to a healed world. They lament ongoing conflict, greed, and fear, and call for a moral renewal, humility, and a return to the promise of everlasting life through Christ. Peace be unto you guides renewed purpose.
Community notices list Sunday dinners with the Barclay Brantners and Brittons, visits to Hale Tucker and Riley households, mumps among Juniors, and locals like Mary Tucker and Effie Pulliam making calls in Purdin and Brookfield. Multiple families, shoppers, and hospital trips are noted.
Frost touched the area last week with little damage reported. A heavy rain Sunday night brought one and three fourths inches of precipitation. Professor Bowman was greeting friends in Purdin on Saturday.
A fragment mentions a person named Lee Baird associated with a Monday night event. Limited readable text leaves the context unclear.
Mrs Benford Watson spent last week with daughter Mrs Willie Watson and was Monday guest of Mr and Mrs Austin Watson. The Tharp family and Roger stayed over at the Powells. Smith school closed Friday. Miss Phyllis Bardon led a pleasant program. Visitors included Buster and Leona Watson of Kansas City. Buster Rinehart and son Donald Gene visited the Rinehart home. Jake Watson visited from Kansas City. G P Club plans an Easter party at Warren school house on Sunday April 21.
Mr and Mrs Clay Stubbean were in Purdin Saturday Grover Kearn family shopped in Brookfield Saturday Mrs Homer Finney helped Mrs Hadley Rulen paper Friday Nile Bauer Homer Finney and Bill Rulen went to Kirksville Saturday Mr Rulen consulted a doctor Mrs Dora Cornawall and Mrs Nellie Jaynes visited Shelby Saturday The Shelby Merchant moved to a new store at the old location Bear Branch Church Sunday School drew a nice crowd Vina McDonnal is getting weaker Wayne Rulon’s sister wired he leaves Fears Harbor April 8 Jerald Rulon is in a Sam Holston Texas hospital hoping to be home soon Jerald Finney home on furlough Dean Finney discharged.
Local notes record visits among area families with Meadvill e and Chillicothe connections. Mrs. Cliff Alkire welcomed a baby girl at Chillicothe Hospital and former Miss Ramah Hess. Obituaries note the passing of Mrs. Bessie Foster as rain continues.
Robert Fields and sons visited. Mr. and Mrs. J T Heselton were Milan visitors Saturday. Mrs. Fainter and Lois Wickham came Saturday to spend a few days at Lyle Wickham's.
Local residents attend gatherings and celebrate birthdays in Dickinson area. Families including Lamberts and Woodsidees visit, host, or travel between Shelby Brookfield Laclede and North Salem. Rodney Longwell and others receive leaves from Merchant Marines. illness improves for Theodore Steele and Larry Hale.
Attendance at Schrock Sunday School was 51 with a collection of 7.30 dollars. The next Sun School will close at the Warren on Friday, April 19. Julia Ann Lantz is visiting her family. Miss Christhit VanFeasen teaches in Aynesville Missouri and spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Will Van Ossen. The Smith school closed yesterday and several families attended a birthday dinner at Vern Sedington’s.
Last week Gooch and Frances Dun kin helped Fssie Maye Oertwig with paper in three rooms. Babe Kimbrough shopped in Brookfield. Ollie Johnson spent the weekend in Linneus with Floy Johnson's family. Brooks Buckman Urb Johnson were in Brookfield on business. Gus and Delmar Oertwig families attended services in Brookfield. Joe Moore visited Loren Gowen in Purdin.
Mrs. Marjorie Smith who works in Chillicothe visited two days last week with her parents Mr and Mrs Urb Johnson. Miss Betty Kimbrough spent the weekend at the Babe Kimbrough home. Mr and Mrs J D Gall from Kansas City stayed Saturday night at the C M Goins home. Mr and Mrs Leonard Richardson visited the Emmett Palmer home on Monday.
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