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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1938
Page
4
A Browning themed humor piece riffs on marriage, money, and gender roles. The column mixes jokes about Browning men, gadgets like shatter proof windshields, and social quirks with local notes from PURDIN AND VICINITY, including a weekend rain, visits, and a Monday start to school with high hopes for a good term.
Winigan vicinity J A Thrasher visited his brother Steve in Brookfield as he remains poorly. Jim McConnell was in Kirksville last Thursday. Several families took a motor trip to Bagwell Dam and the Ozarks. Local visits and travel noted among Darrs Hicks Morris Cook Haggy Poehlman Hoerrmann Muir Moddrell and others in Brookfield Kirksville Green City and Macon.
Mr and Mrs L D Howell visited Milan on business last Friday. Albert Foltz and family from Hunnewell Missouri joined Mrs Foltzs sister Mrs W T Nickell and relatives for the weekend, with Mar garette and Virginia Foltz from New York City also visiting.
Mr and Mrs Edgar Hatch and children of Kansas City visit their in laws the Dunlaps this week. Mrs Mary Spencer returns home from relatives near Roger. Charley Morris and daughter Mary Jane visit the Morrises near Green City. The Walnut Grove school opens August 22 with Miss Martha DeWitt as teacher. The Dunlaps and Hatches visit Marceline relatives. Della Havens visits Pipes family, goes to Browning. Ralph Morris family and Ella Morris host visitors. Franklin family spend night with Pipes.
Frank Robinson and family from Chicago visit his mother Mrs. C. E Maggart while Garnet Broyles and family from Oklahoma visit S. G. Broyles. The Maggarts, Robinsons, and others travel between Galt Charley Maggart and Bob Williams homes near Green City. Chloe Fields returns from New York. Elsworth Smith returns to Kansas City after vacation with Ada Smith. Lois Davis from Kansas City guests with her parents. Mrs Alfred Maggart of Quincy Ill visits C. E Maggart and Jeff Lee family.
Mrs. Clark Overall and son Duane from California visited with Ora Holser’s family. Mrs. Lee Baird returned from Illinois and Dakota. Local families hosted and visited including Bairds, Sayers, Pendergast, Tromerhouser, War ren, Young, Jerome, Meeker, Sayers, Bruce, and Prather with various Sunday and weekend calls and a Browning show attendance.
Lizzie Rottmann and Mrs. Daniel Dennis hosted Browning visitors Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Maize and daughters Yvonne Marcelle and Cathern Wood visited. On Monday Mr. and Mrs. Chas Tromer houser and Mr. Ed Sayers were Brookfield visitors.
A heavy weekend rain is welcomed by residents of Roger Oak. Rev. Joe Thompson's tabernacle meeting concludes. Local families report visits from relatives and friends in nearby towns including Kansas City and Cushing Oklahoma with multiple travel.
Meryl Daniels of Green City and Helen White of Milan married on Friday August 12 at Pollock. Raymond Jerome and Orpha Childers attended. a charivari followed at Everett White's home. They plan to reside in Green City where Meryl runs a filling station.
Rain refreshed North Salem as residents share visits and travels. Local families attend funerals for Jake Taylor and Robert Lee Patterson while others visit Brookfield La Plata and Martinsville. Ill Della Sartor hospitalized. Bird Arthur praised for musical talents.
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