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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1941
Page
4
A string of quirky Browning notes covers cars in garages on Sundays, antique virtues, and local jokes about traffic, vacations, bowling, and even model homes. The fragments offer humorous reflections on daily life and public manners in Browning.
Crowded out last week North Salem residents recount weekend visits and travel. Arlo and wife head to Chicago for work while neighbors host gatherings with Custer, Bauer, Jennings, Bailey, and Arthur families. Visitors attend a Browning Methodist concert by the Blackwood Bros. Quartet on Sunday.
Beverly dined Sunday with Mr and Mrs R J McCollum. Afternoon guests included Tatlow and Herman McCollum from Kirksville and three friends Barnes McCollum and Jay Nickell. Ellis Jennings Vernon and Reva traveled to Kirksville Thursday for a check up on Reva’s arm, report favorable. Mrs Versie Bailey and Mrs Stella Baker shopped in Browning Monday. Bertha Lambert visited Cora Brantner Monday evening. Eunice Arthur feeling unwell the last two days.
Robert Jennings of Keokuk Iowa visited daughter Mrs Charley Pipes for two weeks. Troy Sevier lost his new barn to fire on Sunday morning. Mrs May Dunlap died Sunday noon with funeral plans not yet made. The Jennings, Pipes households hosted visitors from Keokuk Mississippi Arkansas and Kansas City as May Dunlap’s condition worsened.
Mr and Mrs Roy Mosley and sons spent Sunday in Marceline with Mr and Mrs Grover Hungate and son. Willard Smith went to Minnesota Thursday to work in harvest. Ed Vroom returned from Colorado. Orville Finney and a Rolla friend visited L B Finney's family. Alvie Walters Hubert visited Chillicothe. Charles Lee Mosley stayed with grandmother Ida Wilson. Ole Blackburn visited Geo Blackburn's family. Shirley Yagel returned from near Purdin. Delbert Dale Russell born weighing 74 lb Wednesday evening.
W H Oliver died in a Columbia hospital after weeks there. Rev Hobbs of Laredo officiated at the Sunday home service with interment in the cemetery. He leaves a wife and two sons Hulan and John.
The Probate Court of Linn County Missouri granted letters testamentary on June 30 1941 to Reba Hummel executrix regarding Lloyd W Hummel estate. All claimants must file within six months for allowance or be barred. one year from letters bars claims. Arthur L Pratt judge of probate attests with seal.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Alexander and Mr and Mrs John Shatto with son Phillip and Miss Maude of Kansas City greet Mrs Allie Stephenson mourns aunt in Kirksville. Keith Pipes welcome baby Jerry Keith in Kirksville hospital. Alpha Lovell of Trenton visits her daughter Addie Dell. Guy Crowdis ships fat hogs to Kansas City. Tom Warwick Nellie Rogers travel to Ozarks for vacation. Donald Hunsaker of Moline Illinois visits daughter with Crowdis grandparents. Sister Bauchman rents Yardley property near church to serve as pastor. Methodist Sunday school plans well filled baskets for a park picnic in Trenton. Sherman Cutsinger weekends with wife and son. employed at Waynesville. Ralph Pipes family visits hospital in Kirksville. U Go I Go Club meets at Pat Green's with two members two visitors. refreshments served.
Several from the Dickinson area attended the chairvari of Mr. and Mrs. Randall Lee Schreckhise at the Woodside home. The piece lists visits, family gatherings, and neighbors dropping in from Detroit to Wapello and Fort Leonard Wood, with numerous Lambert, Browning, Belzer, and Longwell family appearances across a few days.
Linn County will hold a special bond election August 19 1941 to authorize Benton Township to issue 30000 dollars for public roads and culverts. Polls open 6 am to 7 pm at Browning Produce House and Purdin City Hall under the County Court order dated July 22 1941. C S Swinney Clerk confirms by seal.
Evelyn, Mr and Mrs Jesse Longwell, Daniel Gray, Beverly and Barbara Hampton, Anna Belle and Eugene West joined Mr and Mrs Harry Longwell and family at Chula. Also present were Mrs Anna Longwell and Herbert of Chula, S M Longwell and son Rodney of Columbia and Helen Ann West. Helen Ann returned home after ten days in Columbia. Others visited with Edna Lambert as Rosa Kirk Mildred Wilson and Willie Woodside T S Lambert and Alex Purdin also joined.
Winigan vicinity residents including Mr and Mrs Frank Bailey and Mrs Henry Hoskins visited Kirksville on Wednesday. Others visited Green City Ot tumwa Iowa Milan Browning and Green City with trips for family and medical consultation. Bible Institute begins at Loeffler Church August 10 with five services and noon dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar McCollum visited Browning on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cattey spent Thursday with her parents Lon and Mrs. Turner. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Nation and son visited Sunday with her parents John and Mrs. Dimmitt near Pureair. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith were at Kirksville Saturday night to see Mrs. Melvin Craig who is very ill in hospital.
In hot weather reaching near 100 degrees, residents from Cross Roads and Cora report drought concerns. Farmers have most hay in, cornfields suffering, and several pond builders like Ike Reed from Newtown have been active nearby. Local visits include Dodson families, Hunsakas, Booths, Coffman family, and residents from Kirksville and Brookfield. County agent Rolla Baugher was seen in the community Friday.
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