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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1942
Page
4
A Browning reader composes a humorous sampler of quips on time money and politics. The notes touch on Admiral Nelson weather prompts and coinage shifts while wryly noting public life and societal quirks.
The column notes quiet news as residents tend stock and wood for winter. Browning visitors include Mr and Mrs J D Seaman, Allen Fanning, and Raymond Smith in Roger. The community plans a Christmas tree program while local farming activity continues with fat hogs, calves, and a whiteface calf purchase.
The weather is very cold and dirt roads are poor for travel. Sunday visitors at Mrs. W J Burkholder's home include Wr. and Mrs Henry Hunter of Moberly, Mr and Mrs Luster Burkholder and Wayne, Mr and Mrs Bennie Burkholder including Marjorie Ann, Charley Thudium and wife, and others. Further visits include Paul Dodge and family, E E Thudium and wife with Herbert Baskett, Elbert Coram and family, Gery Thudium and Donald Baskett on the Mack list, Luther Bauer and Orville Thudium relatives, Lawrence Ried helping butcher, Bertha Burkholder's illness, Dr Joerer’s calls, Earl Campbell, Roy Max, and Dean Maxwell with Gilbert Montgomery family.
In northern Oklahoma the 101 Ranch grew from Col. George Miller’s land leasing after 1893 into a 110000 acre showplace famed for cattle herds, a dairy, canneries, an oil refinery, and the Real Wild West Show. The ranch became one of the region’s great enterprises drawing 100000 visitors annually before much of its land was government acquired and the estate faded, with the big house empty and weeds in the yard.
Local brief lists residents visiting family and shopping in Brookfield Milan Pur din and Pur din area. Mentions Mrs Joe Crookshanks Mrs Floyd Hardin Mr and Mrs Raymond McNally and daughter Peggy visiting Robert Hoover family. Also notes travel home of Tom Rardon and Art Rardon from Colorado and gentle health updates.
Mrs. George Pittway and her daughters visited her mother Mrs. Ada Smith and returned to Kansas. Miss Gordy the school teacher spent Saturday in Kirksville. Mrs. Edith Collins is on the sick list. Mrs. C. E. Burress was in Milan Monday for dental work.
Oda Spencer and family hosted a Wednesday night candy supper honoring Walter Lambert who departs Friday for Fort Leavenworth and an Army camp. About 52 guests attended as neighbors and relatives joined in the sendoff with multiple visits and gatherings across Dickinson.
Sunday evening visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Oren Jennings and their daughter as parts of the Support Our Boys movement.
Sunday visitors included Ed Sayers and Carolee with Morris Crookshanks and Ronald and Jerry Sayers plus W. E. Sayers. Geneva Holser and Sandra dropped by. Russell Graham and family joined Bill Tripplett and girls for Sunday dinner. W. E. Sayers stayed with Morris and Georgia Crookshanks. Other visits featured Cleve Jennings Pauline and baby with Jerry Jennings and daughters Kenneth Jennings and children and James Morris Jeny Sue. Isadze Lane's group welcomed Blaine Bennett Lewis Melton and Maxine Powell. W R Young Cecil Crooks visited Kenneth Young family. Bertha Jennings Pauline Peterson and baby visited Browning Monday. Kenneth Young and boys were Monday guests of Ed Sayers.
Miss Geneva Cleeton returned to Washington for employment. Ross Greenstreet and daughter visited after medical treatment in Rochester. Cecil Nickell wed Vera Pipes Lubine then left for Fort Leavenworth. Nora Bradley's surgery prompted kin to visit Kirksville. Alfred Anders sale drew a large crowd. The Hayes family joined Rankins for a Sunday visit.
Unsettled weather brings clouds and mist as residents share visits and calls. A. L. Knnfong attends Mr. Harris funeral then stays with his sister Mrs. Ernest Linhart before returning home. Various locals visit kin and friends across Milan and nearby towns.
Mrs Etta Browning and Mrs Elva Crookshanks were Browning visitors Thursday afternoon. Harold Campbell attended a sale near Browning Friday. Fay Coulter and Elva Crookshanks joined him to Browning to visit Mrs Sparks and Delphia who is real poorly. Others include Noble Crooks, Cecil Lay, Oliver Laybutcher, Kenneth Jennings and family with his mother Mrs Bertha Jennings, and more as they visited relatives in Chillicothe Brookfield Purdin and Brookfield on various days.
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