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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1943
Page
4
A satirical clash of lines ponders Browning readers and the Sicilian situation while mocking meal routines and the Maginot Line. The piece nods to soldiers waiting in long train lines and air sickness fears during wartime reflections.
Mr and Mrs Robert Cattey and Marilyn host. Miss LaNell Cordray and Mr and Mrs Otis McCollum join Sunday dinner with Frank Cattey. Families travel to Hutchinson Wichita for relatives and dental work. many visits ring through Kirksville Brookfield and Green City.
Mr and Mrs Babe Kimbrough hosted a Sunday gathering at Morris Chapel with a list of guests attending the event. The note records the social scene and attendees in a concise society brief.
The text lists multiple local families visiting each other on Sunday evening, including the Cox Gooch Wood Triplett and Goins Oertwig Crooks Dunkin and Nova Gooch, with Garry Gooch spending the weekend with grandparents Nova and ? Gooch.
Sunday guests include Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Thudi um and Garnet with E. E. Thudium family. Detroit visitors Herbert Coram and Roscoe stay with Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Coram. Burkholder and Gall visit Mrs. W. J. Burkholder. Baskett family time with John Baskett. California returnees Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Coram visit Daniel Thudium. Jeff Nester sale drew many locals. Sunshine Workers Club hosts August 18 meeting with quilting and hand bag demo by Merle Costigan. next meeting September 1 with Alberta Campbell.
Weather turns warm after a cool spell with rain forecast in days ahead. Obituaries report the deaths of Mr and Mrs Jim Smith with funeral plans unsettled. Marginal travels note Merle Pulliam visiting Emporia and family. Charley and Mrs McNally return home after a visit. Clara Deer visited relatives. Orval Cokerham family moves to Wheeling Missouri to teach.
Mrs Anna Smith comes home Saturday from a week with her daughter Emma Dowell while Emma’s husband recovers from a serious operation at the hospital. He is doing as well as could be expected. Frank Tambert and wife depart Thursday for a two week visit with relatives in Dakota. Dale Falconer and wife welcome a baby girl named Sharon Kay born Friday weighing ten pounds. Dr Kroeger attended. The Fred Cassity family moved to the C I Grice property recently vacated by Orval Cokerham.
Winigan items report G W Munns and J T Green traveling to Green City on Wednesday. Olive McConnell returned home southwest of town after time with ill mother Mrs John Howell. Finis McWilliams visited Milan. Edgar Harl and Iowa family guests of Roy and Ed Harl and kin. Walter Wray of near New Boston stayed with Finis McWilliam last week. 12 year old Leslie Carmack was hospitalized in Kirksville with rheumatic fever. Borron family reunion honored Mr and Mrs William Borron from Oklahoma with many relatives present. W C Riddle attended REA meeting in Milan. G M Simmons visited Kirksville. Mrs John Romine left for California with four children. Mrs Harold Spake traveled to Kirksville. Hattie Harris of Brookfield aided G T Crist who is ill. Cecil Bunch and family visited Milan last Friday.
Mr and Mrs Archie Dickingan and others visit neighbors including the Woodside and Lambert families over the weekend. T S C Lambert beat Tim othy for John and Jesse Longwell while families share meals and attend a homecoming in North Salem. Little Jerry Spencer injured by a pitch fork. Onie Lambert learns of a brother’s death in Detroit.
Mr and Mrs Onie Lambert and their children attended the home coming in North Salem on Sunday. They spent Monday with Mr and Mrs Junior Hollon and their young daughter.
OPA officials state that driving a recappable tire to worn breaker strip may count as tire abuse and lead to denial of future gas or tire rationing certificates. Inspectors must not sign inspection records if any tire is a recappable carcass worn to the breaker strip.
A community roundup from Warren lists visits and travel notes including Frank and Winnie Johnson in Pennville visiting W. W. Johnson’s home, Artz family dinners with Chas Maggart, and Robert Fields’ California vacation. Local events mention Green Valley Club meeting August 31, REA meeting in Trenton, and school reopening August 38 with Mrs. Marion Meehan. Notices include Mosey of Keokuk, Joyce Crowdis’ return to Milan High, and various visits among Linn County families. Nile Rauer stationed in Alabama.
Mr and Mrs W A Reger and daughter visited mother and grandmother Mrs Emily Sayers near Mt Zion joining brother and wife Alva Sayers. Cal Burress and children with Nora Grindstaff attended a birthday dinner near Boynton. Forrest Robinson returned to Detroit after visiting his mother Mrs C E Maggart who is seriously ill. J D Tunnell and others visited Mrs O J Long and family. Paul Dee Sayers visited aunt Mrs W A Roger and family as Wallace Lavelle property owners Grant Smith redecorate and move in. Will VanFossen and daughters Christine and Mrs Robert Meeham spent Sunday with sister Mrs Josie Fields. Elmer Arnold Ernest Moffitt and daughters visited sister Mrs C E Rogers. Jack Dunlap advertises a sale Serp 6 before moving to Kansas City for defense work. Womens Society to serve lunch at the Chas Maggart sale Sept 2. C J DeWitt and Robert Fields went to California visiting Don ald DeWitt and Wm Fields.
Several relatives of the Lambert family from Oklahoma are in Linn County visiting. Mrs. Dora Cornwell and her son accompanied Mr. and Mrs. H N Jaynes to the home coming at North.
Two sows are expected to farrow around September 7. A total of 13 hogs are planned with an average weight near 150 pounds.
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