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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1940
Page
4
Fern N Woodward and G T Woodward publishers are identified in a rural weekly notice. It warns, Anyone found near my chicken house at night, will be found there next morning. The notice appears under a 1940 publication date and a Bible verse quotation.
Cool rainy weather keeps farmers busy with spring plowing for corn. Residents from Cora and nearby areas visit Milan and Humphreys. Local families attend events, trade livestock, and help with mail routes while noting a lost milk cow and new harness purchases.
Crowded out last week. D Lt Eady and Mrs A W Cotter drove to Kansas City to join Mr and Mrs Landon Hamacr who were called from St Paul Minn by the death of his father. Lydia Seals visited cousin Mrs Paul Buchanan in Hamden Mo. D L Cady and Garland Hamner visited Charley Pulliam. Will Pulliam visited Brookfield. Mrs Wilson Schrock is ill and friends wish her recovery. George Pulliam visited Tren ton with sister and Victor Cassity family. Cotter and Houser visited D L Cady. Edgar Cassity from Meadville visited his sister Mrs Fred Armstrong. Cherley Grice and Joe Deason ill this week.
Arthur Watson and wife spent Sunday evening at Elba Hasleton's. Sam Franklin and family visited Perry Christian's in Sunny. Ora Tallman and sons Lavern and Jacob were at Orla Wilson's. Emerson Cordray and family with mother visited Johnnie Bailey's. Edgar McCollum and family along with Glen Demery and wife were visiting Russell Crist and family Saturday night. Lloyd Cordray and family Elmer McLeod and wife Clifford Ween and family also spent Sunday at Orlo Glen Demery and wife and Edgar McCollum and family were
J B Harmon Lora Carter and Hinda Rush bought new genuine rubberoid asphalt shingles this week for home roofs. Roy Haley finishes Eden farm repairs after winter. C A Johnson fixes Linhart farm east of Browning. Ray Bauer builds a warehouse and feed room behind his North Salem store. Yard offers screens and galvanized wire and free screen fitting.
A large crowd gathered Sunday at Lon Turner’s home for a surprise sixty sixth birthday dinner. Guests included families with Turner surnames and friends from Kirksville and Winigan, plus many local residents. Several residents traveled to Kirksville on business or visits, and two school appointments were noted for next term. Charles Carmack, 20, died after falling from a tank car near Waldorf Iowa while riding with a companion. funeral services were held in Winigan.
Aunt Let Maciee Rottmann and W E Sayers spent several days in Kansas City. J W Rottmann and Miss Yvonne Wood visited home folks. Numerous local families hosted or visited Sunday including Lane Orson Hammock Sayers Warren Holser Crookshanks Young Shafer Rettmann Holser Jennings Phillips Smith Browning Dennis Grimes Tripplett Quigley McMickle Kirksville visitors.
Local brief notes Mary I Scott of Kirksville is mentioned in a Winigan vicinity notice. The item records a brief community reference and potential civic detail without further context.
I B O Hardinger as administrator will seek final settlement at Linn County Probate Court Linneus on May 13 1940. Creditors and interested parties should appear or file objections.
Notice of the sixth annual stockholders meeting of Citizens Savings Bank of Browning Missouri. The meeting at the Browning banking house on May 14, 1949, at 9:00 AM will last at least three hours. Purpose is to elect seven directors for the ensuing year and transact any other business. M. L. Haning President. Attest Joseph W. Woodward Secretary.
Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Sallada from Stahl joined locals to celebrate Mrs. Sarah Hughes's 82nd birthday. Several relatives and neighbors visited, including the Maggarts, Yardleys, Hollenbeck, and Trammels, with travel to nearby towns for greetings and meals.
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