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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1941
Page
5
A long list of guests and visitors from Trenton Brookfield Purdin and other towns mix in local gatherings churches and dinners. Attendees include Mr and Mrs Harry Rhodes Mr and Mrs P E Cokerham Mrs Lela Neet Mrs Lula Carter Jimmie Glenn and Anna Beth Morrow along with many others from nearby communities.
Two day sale listing details for December 9 near Meadville and December 10 near Forker. Items include 36 cattle 55 sheep 3 horses 20 hogs 40 tons hay 800 bushels corn 500 bushels oats some wheat and other articles. Sales start at 1 o'clock on December 9 and 11 o'clock on December 10.
Mrs Edna Harvey and others visit Browning throughout the week. Judge Virgil Lee and Wm Fields visit on business and tax collection. Families travel to Chicago and Brookfield for visits while Wyckoff relatives share Thanksgiving. Nickell builds a barn from church material. board of education approves a 25 percent pay rise for Lloyd Spencer and Vincent Steele due to road conditions.
J. R. Williams made a business trip to Linneus on Tuesday. E. H. Williamson of Lemons contracted for dealers here on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Campbell of Purdin were Browning visitors yesterday morning. Mrs. Anna Mairs and her father of near Brunswick were here Tuesday visiting friends. Van Christy nears completion of a new tile building to house a garage filling station and living quarters. Mrs. John Neely and son Donald Ray returned Saturday night from Chicago where they had been visiting Mr. Neely. Be n accompanied them returning to Chicago Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sayre of Chicago were here Saturday night and Sunday visiting. Mr. and Mrs. Van Arnold and other relatives and friends. Mrs. Dale Bartimus and daughter Sonja accompanied them home.
The True Blue Club hosted a turkey supper at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Phillips for about 47 attendees. Funds from an “old junk” sale were given to Mrs. Van Vencill for the Red Cross as neighbors shared thanks and songs followed by games and socializing. A separate note announces a Rural Carrier examination in Milan, Missouri, by the U.S. Civil Service Commission, with application closing December 16, 1941.
Mrs Willard Phillips Mr and Mrs Van Vencill and Jane Miss Elizabeth Foster and Miss Alta May Hicks appear in a social notices fragment.
The nation calls on true sons to aid their country by purchasing defense stamps. Christmas seals bear messages for humanity and tuberculosis relief, with sales from November 23 through December 25, encouraged during the holiday season in Browning.
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