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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
1
In Hamilton Brookfield and surrounding towns, business leaders clash over printing work and paper quality. Fire alarms and community notices, plus visits from residents and travel to Lincoln and Linneus, highlight a busy week with farming shows, church events, and family visits.
The Linneus Bulletin releases a Christmas number loaded with advertising, hailed as one of the county’s best weeklies. Ray Keithley travels to Moreland Oklahoma to visit his sister for an extended stay.
Burke Bros Meat and Provision Co plans a packing plant in the city after securing an option on the Rupe property in the northwest. O K Road promises switches to enable shipment. The plant would process 109 hogs and 20 cattle daily, with an ice plant contemplated. Kirksville Journal.
Last week J. I. Harmon sold 240 acres of Sullivan county land to Robert Crow at a handsome figure. Harmon still owns 1200 acres and plans to sell more at an attractive price. The land is described as first class with long use and some unfarmed tracts.
The Brookfield Gazette quotes a Browning diary writer calling a Browning claim a hoax about two jugs of whiskey stolen during a Brookfield visit and a baby kidnapped. The piece questions the truth and mocks the supposed victim, noting depredations stopped where they did.
Charley Haggard and Frank Wiley were quail hunting on Jas Rice’s farm five miles west of Brown when Charley slipped on a steep bank. His knee struck the gun hammer, the fall discharged the weapon and the charge grazed another hunter. Charley suffers a knee wound but hopes to recover in a few days.
Last Friday night at Bundridge school house F L Margatt with patrons organized a box supper. A fine program preceded a lively box sale and a community vote awarding a vase to Edith Harmon and naming Will Franklin the dir tiest man. Proceeds totaled 27 dollars to fund new library books.
Nat Maxwell displayed the heaviest hen turkey exhibited in the city weighing 23 pounds. Farmer J. E. Ware, northeast of town, raised the bird. Fell & Co. purchased it for 13 cents a pound, totaling $2.99.
The Jake Taylor disturbance case drew a large crowd in Square Creason's court Tuesday. Prosecutor Earl Nelson and defense attorney John W. Bingham presented witnesses and arguments but the jury could not decide. A new trial date is set for Tuesday December 22.
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