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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1944
Page
2
A reader reflects on diverse themes from postwar planning to labor and capital friction. The columnist notes playful careers and the idea that praise or success does not guarantee lasting achievement, urging caution about overconfidence and shortcuts.
Too late for last week. Mr and Mrs Everett Robinson and children Edwin and Lucille of Venus California came Monday to visit his mother Mrs Luette Meegeart and other relatives. Edwin is in the Navy and been a cross for some time. W A Reger and daughter Mrs John Shatto and son Phillip visited C J DeWitt and Mrs Josie Fields at the old home place last Sunday and called on Dr Tunnell who is real poorly but is some better at this time. Mrs Albert Smith of Milan attended services at the Chapel Sunday and spent Sunday night with Mr and Mrs Grant Smith. Mr and Mrs Randall Watson and daughter Mary Louise of Kansas City visited relatives at the Dr Tunnell home last Sunday. Harold Stephenson accompanied Helen Oliver on one of his trips to Des Moines last Monday night. Mr and Mrs Richard Haddox of Kansas City brought Mrs Nella Rogers home last week. She had been caring for her grandchildren while their mother Mrs Hubert Mewmyer was in a hospital. She reports her as home from the hospital and very much improved. Mrs Emmett Spencer of Milan visited her daughter Mrs Cleo Collins and family. Mr and Mrs J W Ford of Milan visited her father R W Rardon and Mrs Rardon last Sunday. Mrs Rardon is able to be up some now. The Christmas program with both churches and school taking part is getting along fine and will be given at the Methodist Church Sunday night.
Ottumwa couple W E Sayers visited relatives with Ed Sayers family and Carole. Mr and Mrs Beryl Warren hosted turkey dinner with Ed Sayers and Carole plus several relatives and friends including Teddy Holser Sandra Kenneth Young Russell Richard Randy Morris Crookshanks Ronald Jerry and W F Sayers Jr. Misses Yvonne and Marcelle mentioned among attendees.
Mrs Albert Doolin and daughter spent time with relatives while Scottsville pupils have a Browning vacation due to no school this week. Families from Roger, Allen Fanning, Frank Scott, and Topeka correspondent Mrs Lester Fields report letters and arrivals. Central Relief Section plans relief for production and resources boards and WPB raw materials board.
Fairview district families hosted and visited over Christmas weekend. Guests included the Woods, Rottmanns, Crooks, Busick, Keeling, Youngs, Tromerhouser, Brantners, Brittons, Hales, Leslies, Rohan, Riley, Kimbrough, Phillips, and others, with multiple dinners and extended family gatherings spanning December 24 and 25. Stanley Riley returned to St Louis Monday.
A long list of Christmas visitors and local gatherings fills the Bartlett area. Families such as the McClaren, Grindstaff, Shepherd, and Shafer clans spend holidays with kin across Milan, Humphreys, Meadville, and Kansas City, with church programs, dinners, and school events noted throughout the season.
Jimmie Goins visited Thursday night and Friday with his grandfather near Macon. Babe Kimbrough called at the Lee Wood home Friday night. Lola Moore visited Ollie Johnson Friday evening. E J Palmer and daughter Merle shopped in Brookfield Friday. John and George Smith shucked corn for Delmar Oertwig. Red Gooch and Essie Wood dined at the Nova Gooch home Friday. Lee Woods spent Sunday at C M Goins. Red Goochs spent Christmas day at Babe Kimbrough’s home. Bob and Ruth Wood were Christmas dinner guests at Urb Johnson’s. Evelyn Gaul spent Christmas with her parents and at John Gaul’s. R L Moore and Mr and Mrs Lee Wood dined with Mrs Emma Rottmann and son Buggs.
Christmas Day brings snow to Scottsville readers as Mrs. Rosa Dodson leaves for Davenport Iowa last week to visit family.
Urgent pleas outline diverse material needs for the Allied cause including horseshoe nails for Sicily fishing hooks for Greeks water pumping gear for the Netherlands and raw cotton for French mills to produce tent duck for troops.
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