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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1948
Page
4
A digest of local visits, gatherings, and illnesses across Shafter and nearby towns. Residents attended movies, 4-H events, church activities, and family visits while a death at Kirksville Hospital shocked the community.
Mr and Mrs John attended the Community Sa in Chillicothe Saturday afternoon. Ebb Spencer suffered a heart attack last Tokey and is in a serious condition.
Mr and Mrs Donald Leslie and daughter with Franklin Leslie of Detroit were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs Harry Leslie. Mrs James Leslar and son Jimmy plus Miss Catherine Wood and a friend from Kansas City were also present.
Morris Chapel area social happenings include Mr and Mrs Kenneth Murrell and Mr and Mrs Red Gooch aiding Marvin Murrell at the Brown ing cafe. Don Wood hauled hogs to St Joseph for Walter Wood. Roberta Gooch Pearl Goins and Ruth Wood helped at the Lee Wood home for thrashers.
Purdi n items note cool spell and limited rain allowed farmers to harvest. The report highlights pleasant conditions aiding crops and the absence of heavy rainfall.
Ed Pulliam traveled to Marcell Thursday to meet Albert Folch of Colorado on vacation with relatives. Mrs. Roe Conley and daughter Betty returned from two weeks with relatives in Iowa. Frank Lambert hosted Alex Penhale for lunch Sunday. Pulliam and Albert left by bus for Areeline and then Erie to visit Dr. and Mrs. G. H. Kroeger and son. Stanley Murrain starts at new produce and poultry location. Frank and wife visited Minnesota last week to see their son and daughter. Mrs. Vella Bowyer of Brookfield called on Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bowyer Sunday afternoon. Donald Arthur has a job at the Purdin Mercantile.
Mr and Mrs Bruce Collins stayed overnight at the Guy Ford home. Mr and Mrs Lee Marlay and children called on Wednesday at the Tom Ford residence. The Ladies Aid of Roger met with Mrs Will VanFossen for an all day session Thursday. Joe Callihan visited Maurice Lantz in recent days. Janet Hunsaker of Chillicothe visited grandparents Loyd and Mrs Crowdis. Mrs Bill Crowdis and Janet Hunsaker visited Friday with Hulbert and Mrs Dixon near Browning. Neve Crowdis dropped by Eliza Elliott’s Browning home Friday afternoon. Helen Oliver of Kansas City visited relatives in the area over the weekend.
More than 5 000 members visitors and delegates attended the 30th annual Missouri Farmers Association convention at Columbia August 5 and 6. F C Heinkel of Columbia was reelected president and H D Hatcher of Shelbyville was named vice president. The group urged farmers to vote for friends and against enemies of agriculture and to oppose organizations opposing farmers and co operatives. They backed Proposition No 1 Curry Road Amendment and planned donations to a Memorial CROP train.
The list includes Rev. John W. Holland of WLS radio, H. H. Rathbun of the Dairymens League and NCFC, Claude R. Wickard as Rural Electrification Administrator, Missouri Governor Phil M. Donnelly, State Senator J. E. Curry, Ava, and I. W. Duggan, head of the Farm Credit Administration.
A street scene captures drivers shouting for another car to move and the accompanying honk from nearby traffic. The fragment notes noisy interactions and suggests urban friction without naming people or places.
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