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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1939
Page
8
At The Churches Baptist Church Pastor Orval Hamman leads Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. each Sunday. Carl Drake serves as Superintendent. Preaching services are held on the 2nd and 4th Sundays at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. You are invited to attend these services.
Church of Christ invites all to Sunday morning services at 10:00 with Jas P Bolling as superintendent for all ages. Classes available for everyone and all are welcome.
The Methodist Church led by Pastor O. V. Ethington invites all to Sunday Church School at 10 a.m. supervised by H. L. Schrock with C. B. Carr as assistant. Preaching services occur on the 1st and 3rd Sundays.
Prayer meeting to be held at Mrs Ivah Carrs home at 7 p m on Thursday December 7. U B Workers Club met with Miss Hester Steele November 21 for quilting and embroidery on tea towels and a Thanksgiving plan. Members listed include Sadie Payne Nola and Nannie Cokerham Elsie Kathryn and Hester Steele and others. They planned December 6 at Icel Tapscott and Thanksgiving dinner arrangements at Charlie Steele home for December 1. Read more about the big turkey lunch, games, piano singing and the year end standards discussion with visitors and little folks.
The Friendship Circle Club met with Mrs. Erwin Smith for the season’s first all day gathering. Ten members and one former member, Mrs. L. J. Houser, attended. three new members joined: Mrs. Henry Patterson, Mrs. Earl Gooch, and Mrs. Willie Woodside. They completed two comforters and planned a meeting with Mrs. Jay Smith on November 29.
The article reports rising Sunday attendance and a larger Sunday school, with Methodist friends contributing to preaching. The pastor plans to read the sole existing letter addressed to Jesus the Christ and deliver an evening sermon titled What To Do At Christmas Time, urging prayer amid world troubles.
A brief local notes column lists visitors and family gatherings. Leland Cassity returned to Shrieveport Louisiana with his wife and son. Mr and Mrs Jack Johnson and Mr and Mrs John Latta visited Charley Johnson’s home. Mrs Jim Smith called on Will and Mrs Smith. Will Lambert and daughter Eather with Mrs Henry Buswell called on Effie Pulliam. Beverly Carter spent the weekend with her family. R W Cassity is ill with heart trouble but showing some improvement. Scarlet fever is reported.
The Mundell school has broken out and is reported closed for a period. Community notices include social visits from Mrs. Oliver Seals to her brother E. C. Helms in Purdin and Mrs. Will Penhale visiting Mrs. Lon McNally. The town also notes the death of Dr. D. B. Hunter and shares light local humor and sayings.
A collection of reader notes from Browning Leader-Record subscribers across the U S and abroad. Correspondents in Boise Washington Dawson Pomona and Ontario share subscription renewals homelike updates travel notes and greetings with references to Missouri Oklahoma California and local Missouri college football.
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