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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1941
Page
4
A Browning reader offers a string of wry observations on education costs, crop worries, social judgments, gossip, and everyday quirks. The notes mix humor and sharp social shorthand as locals reflect on life in their town.
Cattle shipments tied to Daily Weaver and local buyers pass through Cora with Clifford Spencer and Clark Harmon selling stock. Sayre family visited, neighbors report whooping cough easing and Cross Roads school advances under Miss Catherine Woolf. Local residents including J A Dodson and Browning families relocate to Cora while others travel to Milan for shopping.
Ernest Bundridge lost a calf recently. Farmers are finishing corn gathering. Mr and Mrs Ralph Hunsaker and sons of Kirksville visited Mrs Carl Straley east of Corn. Men gathered last Wednesday and chopped a large wood pile for J A Dodson who is in poor health.
Mr and Mrs C E Smith visited Kirksville last Saturday. Electricity is widely used in the community. A L Kinnfong and sons attended the Milan sheep sale. Williamson of Oklahoma visited Dess and Mrs Fanning. Stanley Riley returned home for Thanksgiving and feels better. C L Britton shipped three carloads of cattle last week. Snow and bad roads reduced attendance at Branther sale. Ethella Newton spent Sunday night with Stanley Riley. Mrs Chas Newton is ill. Everett Riley lost a cattle call from black leg. Sympathy extended to Mr and Mrs Herman Smith on the infant daughter who died shortly after birth.
A week of fine weather preceded a flurry of social calls in Purdin. Hugh Taylor, Susie Pulliam, and Ray McNally of Milan visited relatives and parents. Lydia Seals moved to rooms with Eva Williams. Ed Ogle and Bill Hisel helped Cecil Wohler with shucking corn. Mrs. Stone hosted a luncheon for Willy Cumbo, while Grafton Kingsolver visited sister Tom Myers. Rev. Hines connected with neighbors. Effie Pulliam has been ill with flu for three weeks.
The Womens Christian Society met with Mrs. Clio Rogers for an all day session last Wednesday. A wedding shower for Mrs. Edith Collins featured many gifts. Emmett Spencer works on a basement for Thomas Henry this week. Mrs. Ada Smith visited relatives in Kansas City. Mrs. Icel Crowdis traveled to Kansas City Wednesday after a sudden death in the family.
Otis Lantz died at 9 o clock Wednesday and was laid to rest Friday in a Kansas City cemetery. Various local residents are noted in short visits and trips, including L C Lantz Browning and John Crowdis families. Other members, such as Dr Stoffer of Kansas City, are mentioned with weekend and weekday activities.
Sunshine this week accompanies a flurry of visits and gatherings. Idaho guests Earnest McNee and family tour Missouri relatives while Mrs Eugenia Barnes returns to her former name. Turkish dishes appear at a Willard Phillips turkey supper as Cooks share hospitality.
The column notes an unsettled spell of weather. Social items mention Mr and Mrs George Roosenberry of near Pollock visiting the Head family and Jerry Head, Miss Neva Scott of near Milan visiting the Dan Head home. The Collins couple from Milan visit Sevier and Barbara Ellen. Whooping cough affects several local children.
The notice appeals to readers who place ads to help fund the publication. It emphasizes the role of advertisers in keeping the newspaper available to the community.
Mr and Mrs J W Sevier and Barbara Ellen spent Sunday in the Robert Collins home in Milan. Mr and Mrs J S Head and Clarence were shopping in Milan, Monday.
Mr and Mrs C E Rogers of near Humphreys spent Sunday with his sister Mr and Mrs J D Tunnell Mrs C E Burress and children and Floyd King visited with Mrs Pearl Booker at Humphreys recently Oscar and Elizabeth Johnson of Pollock spent Sunday with relatives here Mrs Rosey Lovelle of Milan spent Friday with her parents Mr and Mrs Ike Grindsalff Mrs Hinda Dillinger spent the Thanksgiving holidays with home folks here Perry Clem of Grand Junction Colorado is visiting relatives here and other places Albert Clem of Humphreys was in Roger Sunday afternoon Charlie Myers near Milah was here last Tuesday for the funeral of his brother Dug Myers
The Christmas Seals campaign opens November 24 as the thirty-fifth national drive to fund tuberculosis fight. Rollan A. Baugher and committee oversee the sale while Seals aid in lowering TB deaths. FSA promotes Food for Freedom with Linn County families planning crops, milk, gardens, eggs, and meat for home use and defense production.
Communities face ongoing tuberculosis problems and call for intensified yearly effort. readers are urged to purchase Christmas seals and mail checks to John Rogers at First National Bank Milan Mo to support the nationwide drive.
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