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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1916
Page
6
The Marce line Mirror notes paper costs have doubled in months due to war and tightening supply of wood pulp. Yellow and scarce white paper push publishers to demand higher advances while urging readers to prepaid subscriptions to sustain papers.
The Fairview school closed Friday with attractions and abundant food. a short program by the children followed and prizes awarded to Ethel Houser Vedah Sayers Buel Myrick and Earl Myrick Dean Seaman noted.
Local items report Mr and Mrs John Burwell visiting Jacksonville to tend their farm and Mrs John Neely with Bertha visiting Brookfield to see Mr and Mrs Wm Smith. The Harvey family thanks friends for kindness after the death and burial of Mrs J W Harvey. Notices include a farm loan ad by Burwell and Porter Milan Missouri and church service details for the fifth Sunday at the M E F church with Sunday school at 10 am and sermon at 8 pm plus quarterly meeting Saturday at 3 pm and a reading by Frank C Fay at 8. Also a Miller sale report mentions a freak calf born to John Levasy with three front legs and two hind legs, heart on the right side outside the body, and hair on the inside.
Notice from L. O. Carpenter selling his Browning drug store to A. B. Craine of Strenton. He thanks the Browning people for patronage and asks all debtors to settle promptly at the store as he needs his money.
Mrs Hattie Bench of room three spent Easter in Utica. Several students are absent this week due to sickness. B F Enyeart made a business trip to Carrollton Tuesday returning Wednesday. Miss Marilyn Best of room two was absent this week. Raymond Ford taught in High School during Mr Enyeart's absence. Miss Mable Kraft spent Easter in Laclede with her parents Mr and Mrs Wm Kraft. Clyde R Sayers has his restaurant repainted and rearranged now one of the nicest places in this section. it equals a parlor and draws local pat.
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