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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1943
Page
4
A Browning reader muses on waking early to plan as a tax reminder and urges support for War Bonds. The note jokes about politicians and cabbage seeds, and comments on weather forecasts shaping reader interest amid wartime talk.
The report notes improving weather turning rainy with water scarcity concerns. Local farming activity includes Wesley Bundridge selling twenty head of steers, and many residents from Milan and Bardstown area visiting relatives near Cora. Community updates mention illnesses, threshing aid, and travel to Kansas City and California.
Quinter Roberts sold a batch of shoats to D N Olmstead recently as indicated by the notice.
Scottsville residents met at the Scottsville school house on Sunday to form a Sunday school but rain kept many away. Twenty attended despite the weather, singing several songs and forming two classes. The group plans to organize next Sunday at 2:30 PM with all welcome. Harley Fields of Humphreys visited the John Morgan home.
Mr and Mrs Rolla Gooch and Mrs Ollie Johnson shopped in Chillicothe Thursday. C M Goins and Urb Johnson aided Lee Wood butchering Thursday. Mrs Emmett Palmer and Sonny shopped in Brookfield Saturday. Born to Babe and wife a 283 lb son at Grim Smith Hospital Kirksville on December 2. Lee Wood hosted Sunday dinner with Floy Johnson Linneus Urb Johnson Ronald Rollan Gooch and others.
Mr and Mrs J R Wood and family visited Sunday with Mr and Mrs J C Sayers. The Crooks family and Jimmie Joe and Norma spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Bill Young and other relatives. Sunday dinner guests included Mr and Mrs Lewis Melton and Bonnie.
Mr and Mrs Isaac Lane and others were guests at various homes including the Rottmann and Browning households. Several Sunday visits and shopping trips featured families such as Sayers, Fos ter, Holser, Young, Tripplett, Graham, Cooper and Molloy in community social rounds.
Pur din notes a fine fall week and visit by Clovis Johnson to his parents Mr and Mrs Fulton Johnson. Mrs Nellie Garrett and daughter Joann travel to Kansas City for a check up on Joann. Charley Johnson funeral crowds exceed church capacity. Various residents coping with illness travel and family changes in Purdin and nearby towns.
Joyce Crowdis stayed with Eunice Wright Wednesday and Thursday in Warren. Many locals traveled for business including Mrs. W. H. Oliver and Floyd Coffer to Chillicothe and Trenton. Families gathered for Thanksgiving with relatives near Milan. Shopping and visits continued with multiple families visiting in Reger and Humphreys.
Sunday visits featured Mrs Mable Zeigler hosts and a trip to Trenton then Wichita for employment in an airplane factory. James Shepherd stayed with his aunt Josie Fields while Warren had no school Friday due to a teachers meeting in Milan.
Dickerson families and relatives gather in Browning for Saturday night trading. Visitors include Longwell and Deskins households, the Spencers and Woodside families. A new great grandchild is noted for G W Spencer. Walter Lambert leaves for camp after Iowa trip. influenza affects Mrs John Longwell. Dr Kroeger attends.
A rainy weekend relief for cisterns followed by a run of social calls and family visits. Des Moines visitor William Jackson and Alice Marie Coulter are noted, with multiple gatherings at the Phillips and Arnold households and Thanksgiving and hog killing happenings nearby.
Mr and Mrs Junior Phillips Mrs Elmer Hammock and daughter Veda Mr and Mrs Edgar Morris attended events in Chillicothe Saturday. Miss Dorothy Leslie of St Louis visited Miss Veda Hammock Wednesday night. Elizabeth Campbell stayed with grandparents Mr and Mrs L W Arnold Friday and Saturday. Miss Oca Edwards and pupils hosted a pie supper and program Thursday evening. Miss Edwards spent Thanksgiving with her parents in China. Mr and Mrs Willie Pridemore and children received Saturday visitors.
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