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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1943
Page
4
In Morris Chapel area news, Delmar Oertwig hosts a Bitter Sweet Club supper and card party for families including Urb Johnson Griffeth and Goceh groups. Thanksgiving trips bring visitors from Chillicothe Des Moines Kansas City and more with updates on moves births and local arrivals.
Our good weather extended another week allowing fall chores. Mrs. Van Vencill and daughter returned from Texas where her husband served in camp. Mrs. Arthur Smith visited after a stay in Illinois. Several families hosted Sunday guests including Earnest Pearson and grandson Donnie Ray Hess with others. Frances Ogle is ill. Frank Murrain bought the Arthur Stultz property in Purdin. Stultz has no location yet. Flight Officer Ben N Cassity, son of Cecil and Mrs Cassity, injured in a plane crash.
Mrs Woodall helped can sweet potatoes Friday. Neve Crowdis and Jimmy visited Keokuk Iowa with the Garrets to see Mr and Mrs Mervyn Garrett and daughters. Lyle Wickham cut his index finger. three stitches. Various dinners visits and family travels listed including visits to Unionville and Green City.
Freddie Skinner in military service visited the A L and Knifong families. Herman and James Smith and their spouses and son from St. Louis spent time with local relatives last week.
The passage lists numerous Thanksgiving gatherings with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Britton and sons, Doc Smith, Wm Riley, Neva Newton and Billy, Ethella, Jno. Tucker, Dale Straley, Eugene Straley, C. E. Smith, and Everett Riley visiting relatives across several households. The tone reflects a community record of holiday visits and familial connections.
War Mobilization Director James I Byrnes calls for a broad drive to conserve and salvage paper. He says bombs shells ration materials blood plasma medicines and bullets rely on paper and containers and urges every citizen to curb waste and deliver all scrap paper to local salvage committees for mills.
Stella Baker spends two weeks in North Salem with father Mike Pearler and Shirley Ann Pearler while Earl works in Iowa. Many friends and relatives gather for Thanksgiving and weekend visits across Shelby, Purdin, Browning, Brookfield, Ottumwa, and nearby towns.
Local residents report visits and moves in the Winigan vicinity. Families such as Greenstreet, Bailey, Howell, Langdon, Barron, and Wray are noted with travels to Kirksville Milan Brookfield and Texas. One obituary notes Keith Langdon, a six year old who died last year in South Dakota following a move from the area.
Thanksgiving guests included Ed Dobson of Milan and the McAfee couple from Excelsior Springs. Local families hosted Sunday dinners, with visits from Wiley Taylor Jr and descendants, plus stopovers in Green City. Mt Zion reports from Rev Cannaday and moving plans for the J W Bunch family to Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Ogle and family of Laclede spent Sunday night with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ike Grindstaff. Oscar Leeper and Elizabeth Johnson of Pollock spent last Sunday with relatives here, a taking dinner at the W. Grindstaff home. Thanksgiv ing days were: Mr. and Mrs. Frankie Grindstaff and daughter, J. and Mrs. Grover and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Grindstaff and family. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd King spent Thursday with her mother, Mrs. Rosie Kelly, of near Milan.
County line items list Lloyd Bowyer and Mr Mrs John Mullins and Mr Mrs Noble among residents connected to community notices and records.
A large number of families shared Thanksgiving with relatives across several towns. Attendees included Crooks and Jewell at Louis Arnolds, Lavere Jennings visiting her Kan sas parents, Vane Kingsolver and kids with Crookshanks relatives, and many others visiting or hosting relatives in Chillicothe Linneus Brookfield Purdin Winigan and nearby areas. A wedding occurred as Walter Lambert married Maxine Hollon. Local residents traveled for dinners and homecomings, with army service noted for Billy Cordray.
Mr and Mrs Junior Hollon and daughter of near Browning were Tuesday night guests of her parents Mr and Mrs Jess Woodside. Marion Wyatt, who worked in California and recently in Oklahoma, arrived Thursday to visit his aunts Mrs Wayne Abbott and Miss Flossie Wyatt and other relatives.
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