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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1934
Page
5
A local notice lists Dr Hanna optometrist at Owl Pharmac, August 27, and various social updates. It records visits and family trips from Pur din to Des Moines, Kirksville, Kansas City, and Milan plus school terms and wedding related remarks. It notes hog trading requests, paint offers, and thanks to Everett Holland for subscriptions.
Mrs. Lee Tomlin traveled to Milan for her mother Rebecca Prather’s illness and obituary. G T Carter, in Kansas City, suffered heat prostration but is recovering well. Alvin Kirk Duckworth returns from the Kansas State Teachers College summer term in Kirksville with family. Mr. and Mrs. H L Schrock and Maude Morris wrap up a Kentucky Ohio valley trip. Mrs. Gerry Prather Roats and Bobby travel from Evanston to attend Rebecca Ann Prather’s funeral.
Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corp offers free HOLC loan estimates and will keep all inquiries confidential. Phone 134 in Browning, Missouri.
Brief social notices list visits by R. E. Harris from St. Louis and couples from North Salem, Laclede, Chillicothe, Laredo, Graylake, and Waukegan. Joe Purdin plans extended travels to St. Joseph and Kansas City. A separate line mentions a August strike at Gamble Store and Agencies with notable price cuts.
Registered Shropshire rams from the J. J. Payne stock offered for sale. Location is one mile north of Milan. Contact Robert Marshall for details.
W P Barclay was in Milan on business Saturday and corn supplies the trade. Della Hoselton returned Tuesday from Chicago where he marketed cattle. Rev Luton and Millard Hall were in Milan on business Monday. Mrs Camora Abbott looked after matters in Milan Saturday. Taylor Bros had cattle on the Chicago market early week. Frequent visits by Fred L Bailey from Brookfield to the Burk funeral. Mr and Mrs H P Maggart and daughter near Cora traded here Tuesday. Mrs Van Christy visited with her aunt Mrs M W Hannah in Brookfield who was on the sick list. Miss Dorothy Creason of near Purdin spent the weekend with grandparents Mr and Mrs Frank Creason. Mrs Edna Thompson of Milan spent the last of the week here with Mr and Mrs B J Harvey.
Optometrist Dr Hanna will be at Cable's Store in Winigan Missouri on Monday August 20 to check eyes and fit glasses. Free exams offered and recommendations provided.
A list of out of town relatives who attended the funeral includes Mrs. Elizabeth Clem and Mr. and Mrs. Will Juniper of Omaha Nebraska, Mrs. Delia Dennie, Mr. and Mrs. S. Robinson and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Northcott and Richard of Summer, Mr. and Mrs. Buel Swope, Caroline and Billie Lee of Jacksonville Illinois, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Tomlin and Edwin Tomlin of Mechanicsburg Illinois, Mrs. Gerry Prather Roats and son Bobby of Evanston Illinois, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Stuever, Virginia Lee and Donald Warner, John Ralph and William Correll, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Yunk, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jenkins, and W. Correll of Brookfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Bauswell and son of Milan spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Joan Quigley. Mrs. Georgianna Smith and daughter Edna Smith attended the funeral of Mrs. W. T. Prather. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Maloney and children and Ed Marvin of Kansas City were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Marvin. Mrs. John Burkholder, recently in Quincy for radium and X ray treatments, shows marked improvement en route to recovery.
In the face of heat and drought experts report pests like chinch bugs grasshoppers and codling moths are not exterminated but their reproduction is slowed or halted. Laboratory dust temps reached 157 degrees with ground temps much higher killing many insects, while 110 degree shade temps proved lethal for small pests.
In loving memory of our granddaughter and niece Virginia Ellen Smith who passed away two years ago on August 17 1932. The family recalls a happy home and now a vacant place left by death. Sadly missed by grandparents and aunts and uncles.
A test coal hole dug by Guy Head and Vic Dodson on the Head farm has turned into a vital water source. Farmers on the ridge north of the city are drawing hundreds of barrels for wells and stock. A gasoline engine is ready and haulers supply gas and oil to keep the pump running.
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