Purden Community News Highlights Local Visits and Events
Weekend visitors include Quinton Darr and family from Kansas City Kansas. Local gatherings feature the Grantsville Club birthday party for Mrs Betty Buswell and Mrs Sylvia Street, a turkey dinner at one o'clock, and a week of prayer meeting hosted by the Baptist missionary society. Household updates mention employment changes and plans for furloughs, with several residents attending hospital and bridge events in nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grantsville Club
Betty Buswell
Sylvia Street
Bertha Tribble
The
Baptist Missionary Society
Clifford McCollum
Herman Wyant
Self-employed urged to obtain social security numbers
Self employed individuals new to social security this year should secure a social security account number for their March 1952 tax return. A Social Security Office representative will be at the Brookfield Employment Office on Tuesday December 18 at 9 00 a m to assist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph, Missouri
Brookfield
Morris Chapel Items: Social Visits and Birthday Dinner
Ruth Wood visiting Ada Wood and Mr and Mrs Donald Wood in Chicago. Essie Wood spent last Thursday with Mary Lee Kimbrough. Glen Cooper shows off a new car. Families and friends visited Rolla Gooch and Lee Wood homes. George Kimbrough's birthday dinner welcomed Grover Garrett Hoover Lorenz and Falconer families and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Wood
Ada Wood
Mrs
Donald Wood
Chicago
Essie Wood
Mary Lee Kimbrough
Babe Kimbrough
Rolla Gooch
George Kimbrough
Grover Garrett
Robert Hoover
Jimmie Lorenz
Judy and
Kay Falconer
Mt Hope Social Items Highlight Local Families
Crowded out last week the Mt Hope items note Mr and Mrs Donald Thudi um and family along with Rev and Mrs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Hope
Donald Thudium
Local social notes from Chester Coram family gatherings
Sunday gatherings feature Chester Coram and Norman Miller families plus visits by Mrs. Johnny Bailey and others. Varying small events include shopping trips to Brookfield and Purdin, a sickbed note for Mrs. Harold Adams, and a 56 attendance at Nester Chapel Church with plans for a Christmas program led by Rev. Chester Coram and Alton Abbott. A California visit adds to the weekend’s surprise events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nester Chapel
Chester Coram
Ee Alton Abbott
Scottsville Items Describe Local Electric Line and Visits
They report completion of the electric line to Lettsville. Dewain Ford and wife shopped in Browning and Purdin Saturday. Mr and Mrs J D Seaman visited at H N Thurlo's Sunday. They have grasped the road from Smith schoolhouse to Wilson Havens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. Yaden
Brockton
Iowa
Purdin, Browning and
Linnells
Church of Christ
Lettsville
Dewain Ford
Browning
Purdin
J. D. Seaman
H N. Thurlo Home
Smith School
Wilson Havens
Browning visit and local helpers in farm notes
Mrs Lyle Wickham and daughter visited Browning on Saturday. Vernie and Wayne Foster assisted Dale Bartimus with corn picking. Mrs R A Thurlow is spending part time with her sister Mrs Cecil Taylor, who is ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyle ‘Wickham
Browning
Vernie and
Wayne Foster
Dale Bartimus
R. A. Thurlo
Cecil Taylor
Ethel Stephenson
Cushing, Okla
Will Brooksire
Reger Church of God Services and Local Visits
Fred Bertshman kept his regular services at Reger Church of God with Sunday morning and evening worship. Neighbors and relatives from Kirksville Greentop Webb Milan and Trenton gathered for visits and a Wednesday charivari for a local couple at Hadley Johnsons home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Bertshman
Reger Church of God
Santa parade and church social mark busy week in town
Tuesday’s Santa parade impressed residents while the Church of God hosted a monthly social at the schoolhouse on November 13 with Doris Grindstaff as hostess. Dale DeRyke’s birthday and Army service were celebrated with singing, music, and refreshments. attendees included many local families and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of God
Doris Ellen Grindstaff
Dale DeRyke
Armed Service
Dewey Nickell
Beverly
Bernie
Barbara
Beulah
Robert Sephenson
Keith
David
Charles
Jay Wattenbarger
Larry
Darrell
Stanley Jardon
John Enlow Collins
Shirley Jo King
Billie Head
Edna Lee Smith
Bob Southern
Virginia Ford
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Purdin News
Quinton Darr
Kansas City, Kan
Bernie Darr
Melvin Lewis
Grafton Kingsolver
Murphy Elliott
Mrs. Harrison Blackburn
Gerald Kosman
Kansas City
John Gall
Marvin Lambert
Armed Forces
Ray Cloud
Harrison, Blackburn
Lawrence Elliott
Irene Barrows
Hershal Head
Ronald Barrows
California
Henry Bus
Jesse Woodside
Hubert Lyons
Lester Burkholder
Fern Street
Stanley Murrain
Jess Pulliam
Roger Elliott
Joe Schreckhise
Bobby Cassity
Shelbina
Carl Cassity
Robert Abell
Clifford Chambers
Chillicothe
Robert
Wayne Herington
Milan
Kirksville
Harrison Nichols
Mark Gooch
George Jenkins
Charley Bagley
Grim Smith Hospital
Roger
Daisy. Pulliam
Mildred Pulliam
Woodworth
Ray Pulliam
Donna
Virgil Lee Falconer
Max Falconer
Dallis Falconer
Dale Falconer
Daisy Pulliam
Ivan
Hedges and
Loren Pulliam
Glen Cooper
Chas, Goins
Lee Wood Home
Mrs. Leonard Richardson
E. J. Palmer
Flsart de Eetee
Pa Ey Se
Tappan Or
Hardwick
Linn County
Purdin, Missouri
Norman Miller
Johnny Bailey
Alton Abbott
Herbert Coram
Emerson Cordray
Ora Cordray
Harold Adams
Perry Christian
Wanda Mae
Mona
Elma Abbott
Mrs. Randal Minor
Marceline
Raymond Phillips
Scottsville
Earl Davidson
Trenton
Thomas Henry
Willie Ford
May-E, Williams
Nadine
Lois Baker
Carole Sue
Ronny
Bud Billington
Raymond Jerome
Marilyn
Greentop
Buel McClaren
Jack Ramson
Robert Stephenson
David and
Kenneth Campbell
Hadtey Johnson
Farmers Rendering Co
Melvin Stephenson
Elza Jacobs
Sandra
Nellie Stephenson
Ellis Shepherd
Buddy Shepherd
Dobby Hamilton
Reisch School of Auctioneering
Johnson Chevrolet Co
Missouri
America
Missouri Association OF Public Utilities
West High Street
Jefferson City
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