Weekly Weather Review for Missouri and Iowa
The week ended August 4 brought relief from drought to parts of northern Missouri and southern Iowa with highly uneven rainfall. Official Browning gauge shows 0.77 inch total, Milan 24 hours near Browning, Tarkio 4+ inches. Temperatures ranged from 59 to 100, averaging 81. July precipitation totaled 9.92 inches, with 12 days rain and 17 partly cloudy days, and no severe storms.
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Missouri
Iowa
Official
Weather Bureau
Browning
Milan
Tarkio
Local Families Attend Church and Attend Visits Across Towns
Kirksville residents visit relatives and attend church at the Chapel on Sunday. Families from Kirksville Linneus Macon and Milan share visits, note illnesses and a death in Beloit, with moves announced for Jim King family and Raymond Smith to new properties.
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David Tunnell
Macon
Addie Dell
Wallace Lovell
Lovell
Geo. Pittaway
Beloit
Joseph Pittaway
Walter McKay
Gilbert McKay
Buel McClaren
Allen Webb
Millard Swank
Jim King
Milan
Basil Tipton
Raymond Smith
Herman Tharp
Tharp
Smith
Scottsville
Herbert Williams
Humphreys
C. M. Rogers
Johnnie Stephenson
Stephenson
Stella Holdenbeck
Mida Wright
Fred Tunnell
Town Folks Visit and Plan Music Teaching Return
Local residents recount weekend trips to Kansas City and California relatives. Mrs Clyde Dillinger plans to teach music in Steelville this fall. Visitors include Earl Smith and Geo Artz family, Mrs Shatto and Reger kin, and the Collins from Ozarks with Lyndell Smith due for a two week visit.
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Cora
Addie Dell
Earl Smith
Geo. Artz
Kansas City
Clyde Dillinger
California
Steelville
John Shatto
Milan
Arthur Reger
Old Home Place
Vincent
Shelby county items recount local visits and events
Alex Finney hosted Sunday guests Mrs Mable Rulon and family Homer Finney and family Judge Lee traveled through the neighborhood Saturday Grover Kearns and family shopped in Brookfield Thursday Dora Cornwall assisted Mrs Ben Cattey last Monday Mrs Floyd Finney of Kansas City stayed at the Glen Finney home aiding Mrs Finney since hospital discharge Mr and Mrs Ray Lambert and children attended the funeral of his aunt Mrs Joe Johnson in Browning Sunday Crede Boyles returned from the harvest fields
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Alex Finney
Browning
Crede Boyles
Purdin Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and News
A rain blessed Purdin area as residents shared visits in town. Bob Ross and friends traveled from Brookfield. Merle Pulliam returned from Phoenix for a belated family gathering. Miss Katie Armstrong was ill. Ray Pulliam wrapped up a recent project at home.
Locust Valley Social News Briefs and Local Visits
Locust Valley items include visits by Bowyer Baskett and family, and a fire that destroyed the Sam Turner farm barn after a lightning strike Wednesday night. Other entries note travel, furloughs, family gatherings, telegram updates on Jakie Simmons, and service member George Crooks heading to Hondo Texas with Flight Officer duties.
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Lloyd Bowyer
Trenton
Johnnie Baskett
Milan
Sam Turner
Here
Victor Jones
J. D. Quigley
Thrashers
Helen Simmons
Doris Hall
Steven Basil Lay
Oklahoma
O. L. Lay
Purdin
Ralph Creason
Pearl Creason
Jakie Simmons
States
L. E. Bowyer
Ray Bowyer
Ellis Clawson
Blaine Nickell
Glen Lee
Billie Dean
Earl Chapman
George Crooks
Walter Crooks
Rolla Gooch
Pair work on Mrs Lula Helms home damaged by fire
A report discusses efforts or a plan related to the home of Mrs Lula Helms that suffered fire damage some time earlier. Details are sparse in the readable text.
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Lula
Helms
Barn Fire Claims Crop, Farm Moves Noted In Community
A barn on L. E. Hedges farm burned early Wednesday about 2 a m destroying corn oats harness and other stock as the structure fell in. Mrs Maggie Creason helped thrashers and families noted frequent visiting and farm work across Locust Valley area.
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Maggie Creason
Thrashers
L. E. Hedges
John Mullins
Maurice Lantz
Lantz
Dan Bundies
Lelia Hedges
Mildred Nickell
Lorene Nickell
Francis Schreck
Byron Schreck
Francis
Blaine Nickell
Elbert Jones
Owasco
Dice
Locust Valley Church
Homer Creason
Lawrence
W. T. Nickell
Oliver Lay
Browning
Steve Lay
Shafter Items: Rain Saves Harvest Efforts Across County
Local notes report haying and threshing activity aided by a Friday night rain. Families visit relatives in Meadville Laclede Chillicothe and Chillicothe plus travel and military service updates include Zac Gooch and Herman Gooch overseas. Kenneth Gooch transports cattle to Kansas City and Dale Gooch joins the Merchant Marines.
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Kitty Lynn
Guy Gooch
Victor Gooch
Walter Gooch
Kenneth Gooch
Kansas City
Junior Phillips
Roy Simpson
Carol
Lelia Hicks
Owen Stevenson
Meadville
Warren Gooch
Warren
Lynn Gooch
Laclede
Dale Gooch
Roeland Gooch
Merchant Marines
Herman
Floy Morris
Letha Wood
Everett Crookshanks
Chas. H. Campbell
Dan Pew
Laredo
Mary Isley
Kenneth. Gooch
Norma
Chas. H. Campell
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Browning, Missouri
Weekly Weather Review
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Bob Ross
Lissie Lafoon
Eva Ogal
Brookfield
Dale Falconer
Arkansas
Merle Pailiam
Enlow Wolfe
Jo Ann
Anna Simmith
Katie Armstrong
Merle Pulliam
Cecil Wehler
Ray Pulliam
T. R. McArtor
M. D
DR. Vinton Jones
Office
Schoene's
E. R. Duncan
Burlington Station
Browning, Mo
Darrold Hutchinson
George Phillips
Virgil Molloy
Chillicothe
Lilburn Gilmer
Fred Belcher
Harold Campbell
We At
Gooch’s Store
Electric Theatre
Paulette
Paulette Goddard
Tufts
Mark Sandrich
Beulah Bondi
Barry Fitzgerald
Walter Sande
Mary Treen
Ann Doran
Merk Sendrich
Alias Scote
ST. Louis
Roger ‘N’ Dodger
the Harvest Twins
Angles Baking CO
North Central Missouri Electric Cooperative, Incorporated
Unionville
Linneuls
Circuit Court Room
M.S. Hayle
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North Central Missouri Electric Cooperative, Inc
Milan, Missouri
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