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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1909
Page
1
A West Plains physician returns a sharp letter to Sears Roebuck offering mail order service. He cites local support, lacking patronage by Sears executives, and notes no contributions to community taxes, streets, charity, or licenses, asserting loyalty to local merchants.
J G Harvey announces weekly visits in Browning at the People's Bank to collect Benton township taxes.
The program lists 2:00 opening exercises with F. L. Maggart, Samuel Ford, Alpha Tolbert and others. It covers lessons on sanitation, neighborhood schooling, history, parent and teacher rights, and collaborative work. An evening session features County Superintendent L. Fay Knight with pupil music and readings.
A column offers homely maxims on thrift, belief, and seasonal resolve. It compares cow habits to human behavior, praises safe savings, and notes a carpenter’s clever bit-holding cloth system. The piece blends practical advice with light rural humor.
How to prevent pump freezing by drilling a small drainage hole and adding a tin collar around the vent. Then advice on breaking corn stubs with a strong pole across ten rows, using equalized team weights, and a two directional pull to lay stalks low.
Miss Pearl Brookshier married James M. Maxey Thursday at the bride’s home with Rev. M. R. F. Nickell presiding. Guests enjoyed a wedding dinner as friends and relatives offered congratulations and best wishes. Pearl is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Brookshier. James is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Worth Maxey.
James Riddle extended his farmland by purchasing eightyt acres from neighbor Sylvester Jacobs at fifty dollars per acre, expanding his well improved estate after last week’s decision.
Sale on Wednesday December 8 1809 at ten o clock. Contents include four mares in foal two with foal a bay a gray and a brown plus a saddle mare and a yearling filly with a load of livestock. Implements corn millet hay wagons harness plows and more with cash or six month credit and eight percent interest on notes. Lunch served on grounds.
The market price for turkeys climbed to new highs this year with fif teen cent last week and Browning's buyers secured a large supply. Peters Produce Co is expected to have bought the highest priced load ever, while Bart Lambert reported turkeys weighing in to earn 142.60 dollars, showing Mrs. Lambert's farming skill.
A. N. Sayers sold his Main street south side restaurant to Fred Havens. Havens took possession on Thanksgiving morning and begins learning the business with Newt staying briefly and J. E. Marvin possibly joining later. The Sayers couple built a strong local restaurant and the business is expected to grow under the new proprietor.
Friday night Jas. R. Williams assisted by district patrons hosted a box supper that drew many locals. Miss Nancy Wooten won the beauty contest and received a gold ring. The library gains over 18 dollars from the event, with total receipts exceeding 30 dollars. Attendees reported an enjoyable time.
A notice from E A Jones offers three Christmas prizes for skaters on December 25 including 1st prize best lady skater $1.50 2nd prize best gentleman skater $1.50 and 3rd prize best couple $2.00. It also announces regular Saturday skating sessions for new beginners from 2 to 4 without changing admission.
Local notes show H C Bailey offering 30 cents a pint for cream while H F Havens advertises a first class restaurant with bread pies cookies fruits and candies. Several residents travel between Purdin Linneus Browning and Laredo visiting relatives and conducting business.
Walter Crooks sold his 160 acre farm in Enterprise township to C P Oaks for 50 an acre. The sale closed quickly and Crooks seeks a larger farm as the property has risen about 2400 in value over the past few years.
Saturday J. J. Harmon sold three hundred twenty acres to J. D. Elliott at fifty dollars per acre. The farm is described as very fine and the Elliott family will soon be at home in their new possession.
Last Friday W P Keithley sold his eighty acre farm to C B Keithley for fifty dollars per acre. W P Keithley, a progressive farmer, expects to buy a larger farm.
Mrs. M Summers requests all who are indebted to her to call and settle at once, stating she needs the money and signs the note with respect.
On his property D L Whaley posts a notice prohibiting any hunting with guns or dogs and ordering people to stay off the fields. The sign reads Hunters Attention and reiterates no hunting allowed on the farm at 612.
W. P. Carter traveled to St. Louis early this week where the firm Carter and Fields offered forty three head of horses bought the prior week for resale.
The speaker urges business owners to advertise to attract customers during slow times and financial strain.
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