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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1939
Page
4
Brief collection of whimsical aphorisms and quips from Browning readers and writers. Topics include sunshine health claims, flattery, parenting, propaganda, and humorous observations about brides, brides-to-be, and everyday life in Browning with playful asides on manners and luck.
Mrs. Curtis Williams and Larry spent last week with her parents and helped cancer. Marcelle Wood is at home now and able to be up some. Mr. C A Woolf not feeling well again. Kenneth Young and Russell visited W R Young's last Wednesday. Dewey Chapman Reva and Dale visited Ora Holser's Sunday. Earl Jerome Loraine visited Grover Murrells Sunday. Anna Young laid up with an injured knee and visited Dr McArtor Friday. Fred Meeker Glen Jerome and others spent Sunday in Browning with Nancy Jerome. J A Sayers Lizzie Rottmann and boys visited Virgil Sayers and family Sunday. Duane Nichols spent last week in Brookfield visiting Duane Couch. Ed Sayers called on Marcelle Wood Friday. Miss Letha Tromerhouser of Kansas City spent weekend with home folks. Miss Maxine Foster called on Wood Sunday. Don Shafter Phyllis W F
Jesse Longwell and Allen Lambert visited in Chillicothe on Tuesday. Gene Shirley and Phyllis Min or spent Thursday with Aunt Bessie Steele and Marvin. Kermit Lambert hauled hogs and lambs to St Louis Wednesday night with Walter Head and Archie Dickinson. Lincoln residents Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Abbott visited Harold Abbott and family last week. Willie Ware family visited relatives in LaPlata Thursday. Earl Hollon visited Milan Thursday. Marvin Abbott spent last week with cousin Wilfred Baker in Carrollton. Theodore Steele and son with Charley Steele traded in Kirksville Saturday. Raymond Browning and Wilma attended a birthday dinner for Mr Cordray and Raymond. Phillip Britton visited Ronald Tripp at Archie Dickinson home Sunday. Rodeo at John Longwell farm Sunday drew good attendance. Harold Abbott family spent Sunday with Elwood Foss and were joined by Wilfred Baker of Carrollton. Mabel Lambert and Sonja visited her parents T. M. Smith Monday. Raymond Anderson hosted Sunday guests, her parents Mr and Mrs Campbell of near Brookfield.
North Salem area reports a Sunday rodeo at John Longwell farm with the New Boston Soft Ball Team beating Salem by several scores. Local residents Fay and Oren Jennings hosts, plus Head and Jennings families attended the game and dinner.
Mr and Mrs Emerson Cordray and their son and Mr and Mrs J D Nester were in Brookfield Curt and Ruth Helms spent time with Ivor Slater and family near Marceline. Mr and Mrs Herbert Coram with Roscoe and Rosalee Asher visited with Tom Coram and called on her parents the Riedls. Mrs J O McCollum left for Kansas City and Cushing Oklahoma to visit friends and relatives. Mr and Mrs Roy Pamper and daughter Jaunita visited Emerson Cordray and family. Earl Helms of Brookfield called on Ches Helms. Ellis and Clifford Ware returned from Minnesota where they had worked.
Mrs. Vena Shafer and family visited Ora Holser on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Harold Cooper and her children stayed with Mrs. Omi Phillips and Junior after spending Saturday night and Sunday there.
Mr and Mrs Harry Darr and son Freddie visited his parents Mr and Mrs Wm Darr on Tuesday. Kathleen Hoerrmann and sons Karol Gene and Keith visited her parents Mr and Mrs W T Nickell last Monday. Everett McConnell and family visited her parents Mr and Mrs John Howell on Thursday. Odgen Romine and daughter Shirley began a trip to Colorado Thursday. Willard Bailey from Florida is visiting his brothers Frank and Charles Bailey and his sister Mrs Henry Hoskins and other relatives. Vannda Moddrell had her tonsils removed at Kirksville on Wednesday. W T Nickell and son Blaine were in Green City on Monday. Elvis Martin and W C Riddle families plus Geo Simmons and Enid Crist attended the Cecil Muir reunion Sunday.
Mrs. Edna Lambert returns home after visiting Mrs. Floyd Swisegood and a new baby. Mrs. Versie Bailey came home from Grim Smith Hospital last Wednesday. Aunt Alice Head is unwell. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson Cordray and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lambert had dinner with Charley Cordray and visited Jess Nester and Ora Cordray. Families visited relatives near Ethel and in Brookfield. Several attended a Browning picture show aboard the school bus.
Mr and Mrs Albert Enderly hosted Sunday guests his parents and brother from Keytesville. Miss Lula Fay and Miss Alice Urbach visited Purdin on Saturday with Alice set to teach there this term. Leonard Richardson spent the weekend with his mother and sister. Mr and Mrs Tom Hedges of Texas attended the Hedges reunion at Linneus Park on Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Ivan Hedges traveled from Kansas City for the Hedges reunion held Sunday. Mrs Ernest Pearson, Mrs T H Thorne and Mrs Effie Pulliam visited Mrs Fred Cassity Sunday afternoon. School opened Monday with good attendance and hopes for progress in the term.
Mr and Mrs Eugene Urbach celebrate the birth of a daughter weighing ten pounds born August 11. The couple named her Reta and announced the happy occasion.
Letters of administration on the estate of George Christy deceased were granted to Joseph D. Christy by Linn County Missouri Probate Court on August 14 1939. Claimants must present their claims for allowance within six months of the grant or be barred. if not shown within one year, they are forever barred. Arthur L. Pratt Judge of Probate.
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