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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1925
Page
4
The Brown ing Leader Record in Brown ing Missouri lists its post office entry as second class mail matter on July 8 1897 and prints this issue date Thursday April 23 1925.
Spring weather brings activity as residents like Frank Jennings and Ray Wattenbarger appear in town. Several locals travel to Milan Browning and Regér with visits from G M Spencer, Leo Brinkley, and Dan Brinkley. Others, including James Brinkley and Miss Pansy Spencer, are listed with calls and movements around Sunday and Monday.
Lawrence Reidel and family spent Thursday at L H Edens Lizzie Bailey spent the weekend with her sister Mrs Paul Jenkins Icie Spencer spent Saturday night and Sunday with Eddie Ogle and wife Chas Owens and family spent Sunday at Chas Seals Mr and Mrs Bummer spent Sunday with John Bummer and wife Kathryn Jones spent Saturday night at C M Baileys Mrs John Bummer has been real sick with appendicitis Sylvia Reidel spent a few days with her uncle L H Edens and wife Jack Brown wife and daughter Billie were Friday evening guests with John Bummer and Mrs Eddie Ogle spent Saturday afternoon with Mrs Ed Ogle Wess Bailey and wife spent Sunday at the C M Bailey home Jake Smith and family spent Sunday afternoon at John Bummers North Salem News show at Salem Saturday night well attended Owasco quartet M W A rendered some nice songs Charley Lambert and Harvey Moore finished breaking 100 acres of sod but the way the old creek is rising they will need a boat Sunday 19th relatives and friends of Gene Moore gathered at his home for a surprise dinner He that his wife was doing an unusual amount of cooking but he did not catch on until about 75 guests arrived Mrs Hisel of Linneus spent last week with Mrs Gladys Myers Charley Lambert and son Kermit spent Sunday with Moore Brothers Glen Seymour of Unionville spent the weekend with his parents D G Seymour and wife C L Moore the village smithy made a business trip to Browning Monday evening
Rev Kennedy of Chillicothe will preach at Cross Roads Saturday night Sunday morning and night. Frank Moberly and family of Humphreys were guests at G M Spencer’s Thursday of last week. J A Dodson and wife visited their son Everett at Harris Saturday and Sunday.
Rejoicing over the arrival of a boy and girl twins born April 16. T. Fe Bundridge and family moved to a farm south of Milan last week. Fred Nickell was in the community one day last week.
Perry McCollum family sick with flu. Aunt Maggie Brewer visited F M Cattey. Tom Sill from near Purdin stayed with relatives. Miss Sadie Cattey and Mrs Otho Clapp of Brookfield visited with F M Cattey’s family. Carter and two little daughters visited last week returning Monday. Noah Head plowing sod with mule team. Aunt Dale Sill first to hatch turkeys. Otis McCollum busy baking fence. Robert Cattey home from school and plowing sod.
A free motion picture program arrives Monday April 27 in Linn County via the Farm Bureau. A portable projector powered by three storage batteries will reach communities lacking electric service. Each evening features instructive and entertaining films from the U S Department and State Extension Service to aid Extension and Farm Bureau work at no cost beyond insurance and transport.
The program runs seven years worth of films with themes including The Control of Hog Worms and Anchored Acres. Farm Bureau events accompany screenings with topics Trails That Lure and Zoo Snapshots in Missouri’s Ozark Mountains. Meetings start 8 o clock with St Catherine on May 1 North Salem May 2 Shafter May 4 and New Boston May 7.
A humorous reminiscence notes Chauncey Depew's first watch, an Elgin, stolen on a New York Central train. The speaker quips about Depew's long career, jokes about The Follies, and ponders whether the piece is an Elgin ad, Depew feature, or Bull Durham promotion.
Letters of Administration with the Will annexed granted by Linn County Probate Court Missouri hearing March 30 1925. Claimants must exhibit within six months or be barred from estate benefits. one year to file claims. Administrators W P Peterson and A D Peterson with will annexed. Attest Arthur L Pratt Judge of Probate.
A cemetery sexton in a nearby county seat town received letters from Mr Summers about selling a sample case. Summers insists on no commission and a policy of eight years, stating that paying a commission would force price increases. Letters are on file at Summers’s business.
At the Electric Theatre last Wednesday night Miss Morene Dillinger performed reading Si and I and dancing to lively acclaim. The Brown Brothers offered imitator entertainment, followed by Mack Poole of Milan as a skillful juggler. The one act play The Fatal Wedding featured Ira Peterson Eula Maggart and others and received strong applause along with the cinema showing.
Creditors and others interested in the estate of James A. Nevins deceased are notified that Rachel D. Nevins administratrix will file a final settlement at the next Linn County Missouri Probate Court term in Linneus on May 11 1925.
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