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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1941
Page
4
An assortment of humorous, opinionated snippets comment on prosperity isolationism food shortages and social manners. The spoof column mocks diet fads government spending and wartime figures while lampooning current events and social mores.
Local notes from Dickinson list visits in Brookfield and Purdin, sick lists, and social calls. Several families including the Longwells, Spencers, Swisegoods, Belzers, and Lamperts are recorded touring nearby towns and attending a funeral at North Salem.
Local notes show Leonard Richardson leaving for camp after two weeks with family. Several residents visited relatives in Purdin and nearby towns while others planned winter trips to Idaho and Texas. A new baby arrived to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Smith, and Christmas shopping continued among townsfolk.
Several families and guests spent a Sunday afternoon and evening visiting relatives in Chula and nearby homes. Notable names include Miss Marjory Minor, Bert and Rosa Kirk, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Lambert, John Longwell and Evelyn, Eugene and Helen Ann West, Mrs Anna Campbell, Herbert, Miss Marion Head, Mrs. Robert Lambert, Mrs. Oda Spencer and son, Floyd Spencer and Brookfield family, Irene Belzer, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Belzer, Leland Lambert, Rhetta and Ralph, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Longwell, Raymond Browning and Wilma, and Mervin Lambert visiting Gerald Guyer.
The Fourteenth Annual Soils and Crops Conference will be held Wednesday January 7 in Milan. Chair man T. Roy Glidewell reports a balanced farming theme to emphasize efficient resource use and wartime food production.
Sixteen gallons of milk were turned into cheese by Homeworkers Club members near Browning at Mrs. Charles Tate's home. They used rennet and pressed the cheese for an additional hour then let it season for three to four weeks. The group notes rising food costs and aims to produce dairy products at home with simple equipment and a diary thermometer guidance from Mrs Costigan, Home Demonstration Agent.
Farmers meet at the County Agent's Office to canvas the county for scrap metal. Leaders will survey districts and locate worthless machinery. Scrap iron is needed to expand steel output. sales should go through junk dealers, with more details from the County Agent's Office.
The Home Workers Club met with Mrs. Mary Havens on November 13 with ten members and five visitors. They planned to extend the club and added Ella Mae Havens. Next gathering with Hazel Jones on November 27, and a December 2 meeting with Mrs. Johns due to illness. They discussed rag tearing and tea towel embroidery and cheese making lessons.
Corn loans issued at 59 cents per bushel for the 4941 crop with a 3 percent rate and service charge per bushel. No insurance required. H R Hardinger of Green City is the official sealer. he will measure cribs and sample moisture. Loans run through September 30, 1942 for farms compliant with the 1941 Federal Farm Program and corn of merchantable quality under 20.5 percent moisture.
County Agent J Robert Hall explains balanced farming as using all resources without waste. The Linneus soils and crops conference on January 8 1942 will discuss land use pastures crop utilization and soil conservation to meet wartime needs and maximize profits.
The Linn County U S D A Defense Board met on Wednesday December 17 at Linnéus to review scrap iron and farm machinery survey efforts. The board praised county cooperation and urged farmers to promptly place any scrap with dealers to sustain steel mill production amid national demand.
Farmers advised to secure all necessary replacement parts now and begin inspecting farm machinery immediately. In the national emergency, county residents will be called upon to support the National Defense and Food for Freedom programs as part of the broader war effort.
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