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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1940
Page
4
A Browning Missouri column offers humorous asides on signs during wartime, the confusion between second hand and antiques, and local quirks. It notes how families judge vacations by mood, critiques fashion, and quips about weather and campaigns to aid farmers and their wives.
Haseville notes list weekend visitors including Cecil Crooks Jimmies Crooks family and Norma Jean plus van meter Kieling and young. Neighbors Mary Shafer families Shafer Wood Rottmann Quigley and Barnett share Sunday calls. deaths bring Missouri trip absence. Local visits to St Joseph Linneus and South Missouri referenced.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tunnell and their son spent Thursday at the Dr. Tunnell home. Mrs. Addie Dell visits near Trenton with her daughter Mrs. Dave Lovell and husband. Miss Elizabeth Lovell works as a nurse at the State Hospital in St. Joseph. Ned Rogers visits his mother Mrs. Nellie Rogers and Mr. and Mrs. Fisher.
Noel Lay installed a Ruberoid Hexagon roof on the Rose Van Seggan rental last week. Dr. E W Linhart paints his farm home using Cook products as weather allows. Clem Springs school interior being redecorated this week. War prices remain steady for Red Cedar and Asphalt shingles plus roll roofing. Joe Christy repaints and refines his farm home during vacation. School Districts offered Anti-Dust Floor Oil at 50c per gallon with container extra. Kenneth Gooch moves his house adding a room. Robert Stephenson relocates a small house north of Reger with new floors. Asphalt coating advised for flat roofs.
Relatives in Reger planned travel with Miss Ruth Lovell visiting Green City to be with family until school starts. Bertha Fields died last Monday and was buried beside her husband in Schrock Cemetery. William Fields returned from the west after learning of his mother’s death. Local residents traveled to Kirksville Kansas City and Arkansas for eye care and visits. Rainy weather and good corn prospects noted with the creek out west of town but not harming crops.
North Salem notes a good weekend rain and crowd for the Old Settlers reunion at Linneus. Local residents and visitors including Rev Barclay from Indiana, Miss Almira Jaynes, and Basil Moore shared time in North Salem over the weekend.
The passage lists visits from Clay and Enid Moore and Catharine Bull to Mr. and Mrs. Forrest, plus Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Arlo Smith visiting Ellis Jennings. More relatives arrive from Sopulpa and Tulsa to see Frank Head and family. Roll Smith is ill but improving. Loren Welsh, a mail carrier, visited Viola, Arkansas. Cemetery cleaning is contracted to Fred Bailey and Ben Almond, ahead of the August 25 Homecoming.
Mrs Belle Davis Mrs Lanora Norris and children Jack Bob Betty and Joe Bastin of St Louis spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr and Mrs John Longwell and family Mrs Norris and Mr Bastin returned home Sunday afternoon Mrs Davis stayed longer Other guests at the Longwell home Sunday were Mr and Mrs Jesse Longwell Mrs Anna Belle West and Mr and Mrs Fay Bowyer and sons Mr and Mrs Walter Head and T S Lambert visited relatives in Oklahoma last week Kermit Lambert and Theodore Steele were in St Louis Wednesday night with stock Allen Lambert was a Brookfield visitor Saturday Mr and Mrs Raymond Browning and Wilma and Mrs Mary Lambert spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Lambert and family Mrs Edith Hale and son Larry
Sunday visits featured Mr and Mrs Archie Dickinson and Mr and Mrs Billie Fields near Milan. Fay Bowyer returned to Walcott Ind after a week visiting relatives. Mrs Archie Dickinson fell ill Friday night and went to Milan to see Dr Becker. Others visited Floyd Swisegood and L A Dickinson households.
Pleasant Hill residents enjoy cooler weather and rain. Kenneth Knnfong and family attended a show in Winigan. Marilee Ware underwent appendicitis surgery at Brookfield hospital and is recovering. Wayne Britton shopped in Browning. Nora Mundell and son George visited from Tucumcari New Mexico. Bernice Riley visited daughter Maxine there. Kenneth Knnfong bought a car in St Louis last week. Billie Newton stayed with Edwin Tucker. Edwin drove him home. Leonard Hampton Raymond Thompson Ottis Riddle and Wayne Coffman went north seeking work.
After a spell on the sick list, Dess Fanning is reported better and back to her writing duties.
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