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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
5
Social notes record visits and returns among residents and families in Browning and nearby towns including Chillicothe Milan and St. Joseph. The items note travel for work courtship and wartime duties with relatives and friends visiting in Kellogg lines and nursing posts.
Residents are urged to meet at Schrock Cemetery on August 16 to help with maintenance. By order of Commissioner.
A collage of entries lists visits and movements: B H Barrows and son visit from near Purdin. Linhart and Nickell guests in Milan. Brassfields from Mendon with hosts the Brassfields. Flora Lumsden shops in Cora. Dollie Lowe family return from Kansas City. Grant Dodson of Kansas City visits. Williams and Fleming hosted near Chula. Leo E Jones travels to Chicago to visit son Donald. Bohanons moving to Brookfield farm. Anita Faye Garrett visiting Keokuk grandparents. Johnson sisters from Phoenix visit St Louis. Mrs. Emery Gray spends time in Linneus caring for ill mother. Purdin family adds names to new readers list. St. Louis visitor Herman Smith with relatives.
Hostess Mrs. Genevieve Prather entertained Circle No. 1 of the Methodist church last Friday due to rain, with Mrs. Lila Williams hosting and Mrs. Ila Nevins leading worship. Members present included Mildred Spencer new member, plus Eliza beth Ann Ellsberry and others. next gathering with Mrs. Ruth Lantz.
Slats diary notes Friday remarks claiming Milly Cray is visiting a citizen in town and causing strain at home. The entry describes familys reaction as the writer and their father discuss the situation after afternoon sighting.
The column lists residents and visitors in Purdin including Miss Marie Conley from Brookfield, Roe Conley, Ivan Hedges and two children, Ralph Neal, Guy Davis of Linneus, and Mrs. Jane Hardin visiting Mrs. Mattie Stevenson. Effie Pulliam and Earnest Pearson traveled to Mexico to see J A Cassity who is seriously ill. Leland Cassity stayed with relatives. his family returned to Kansas City. Daisy Allbright and daughter of Kansas City visited Emma Goins and planned to return later in the week.
Dustless Crayon and Erasers and our stock of Paper Pencils Tablets etc is good Built up during summer in line quality and count good ALADDIN LAMPS Table model clear glass 6.00 Shades and tripod 1.75 extra Plenty of genuine mantles wicks and chimneys.
Mrs. Rosetta Wehler and her daughter called on May Ogle's mother in Kansas City during the week as they tend to business interests.
Mrs Leola Lundberg and daughter and Eula May Johnson from Barnard Minnesota visited relatives last week. Urb Johnson and family hosted Rev Slover and others for Sunday dinner. Gene Baskett and family from Linneus spent Sunday with Arthur Griffeth. Delmar Oertwig and sons visited Lucille Hoag in Milan last Thursday. H A Tomlin of Linneus was a dinner guest at Lee Wood’s Friday.
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