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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1944
Page
2
A fragmented social column riffs on politics, postal policy, cigarettes, and gasoline shortages. It jabs at Congress and dictators, comments on Italy, credit, and public manners while noting rising curiosity and daily frictions with humor and irony.
Ordinary week in Garner with visitors and family updates. Albert Dodge and family visited the Lawrence Reid home. Reid is slowly improving. Bertha Burkholder visits daughter Mable Gall. E F Thudium Jeff Mott shopped in Purdin. Watson Burkholder and son Robert visited Jno Thudium in Brookfield. Many relatives gathered for Lawrence Riedl. Leslie Reedl’s health improves and Fiji stationed Richard Thudium sends greetings. Chessley Montgomery recovered from a short illness.
Mrs. C. M. Goins and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wood went to Browning last week. Mrs. Essie Maye Ocertwig and the writer visited Ora Smith’s home the past week. Nine Bitter Sweet Club members gathered at Pleasant Shade school house Thursday and folded bandages for the Red Cross. Miss Merle Palmer visited from Camp Walters Texas.
Visiting party including C W Wood Ruth and several Wood family members spent Friday at the Lee Wood home. Mr and Mrs John Wood from Brookfield and Urb Johnson and family were among guests. Others visiting included Babe Kimbrough and family Frede Rick Remick from Patterson New Jersey Emmett Palmer in Brookfield Wilma Cooper from Kansas City helping care for her ill mother Red Gooch and Joe Moore visited Babe Kimbrough with B C Moore also calling on the Lee Wood home Sunday evening.
I I N Lane administrator of Nancy Ellen Lane deceased will make final settlement at the Linn County Probate Court Linneus on February 14 1944. This notice is to all creditors and interested parties.
James P. Bolling as executor announces intent to make a final settlement of Cornelia Harmon estate at the next term of the Probate Court. The filing confirms the executor’s authority and the pending closure of the estate proceedings.
Letters testamentary with the will annexed were granted by the Linn County Missouri Probate Court on January 20 1944 to Blaine Fleming and Mrs Lila Williams as Administratrices with the will annexed. Creditors must file claims within six months of grant and all claims not filed within one year will be barred. Arthur L. Pratt Judge of Probate Court signs the notice with the probate seal.
Letters of administration granted by Linn County Probate Court Missouri on January 25 1944 to Isabelle Gooch Administratrix. Exhibit them for allowance.
Rain fell with thunder and hail last week as residents report via Shafter items. Neighbors update on illnesses, visits, travel, and family ties across Chillicothe Linneus Meadville and Galt. Roads west of Shafter remain rough hindering travel and car recovery efforts.
Mrs Lela Hicks and family hosted Sunday guests Mr and Mrs Carlos Hicks and their daughter Bonnie of Chillicothe. Mrs Edgar Morris traveled Monday to Kansas City for several days with friends.
Fine weather continues in Purdin with sun and a call for rain to fill dry cisterns. Locally, Orval Cokerham plans to move into the Jim Smith property. Kenneth Bagley believed owner instead. Lawrence Cassity of Oregon to visit relatives and likely be deployed soon. Ed Pulliam selling his farm to Dr. G H Kroeger and plans a sale next week. Cecil Wohier family relocating to Jim Gooch farm east of Purdin. Various residents visit relatives and host family gatherings this week.
Esther Cassity, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cassity, died last week in Colorado after a stroke. Burial occurred in Colorado where she had lived for years. Mrs. Churchill Urbach, Mrs. Nellie Garrett, Mrs. R. D. Cassity, Mrs. Lula Helms, and Mrs. Lydia Seals are noted in Sunday and Friday visits. L. M. McNally was out of town several afternoons last week.
Yvonne and Marvelle Wood of Kansas City spent the weekend with family. Several households hosted visitors including the Shafer, Crooks, Lane, and Foster families. Funeral attendance for Benton Dennis in Linneus and multiple Sunday calls mark the community’s activity.
The piece reflects on Abraham Lincoln as a timeless symbol of democracy. It contrasts past wartime challenges with contemporary issues, praising Lincoln’s patience, wisdom, and disinterest in personal glory while suggesting his approach could guide today’s political and military trials.
Mrs Lois Elliott spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs J W Sevier and children. Johnnie Stephen son visited Ella Jim and Edd Morris. Charley Dodson went to Grim Smith Hospital in Kirksville for a check up and was improving. Shirley Sue Sevier was ill last week. Clyde Hoskins sold a horse to Truman Stephenson. Jane Ann Fanning sprained her ankle and could not walk for a time. Mrs Jla Cordray and Mrs Mildred Tornow and sons visited Carl Head and family. Clyde Hoskins helped Vaughn Shaw butcher last Thursday.
Mr and Mrs C C Yardley of LaBell Missouri visited friends here Sunday evening. Mrs George Pittaway and children left for Oklahoma. Mrs Mide Wright near Boynton visited with her father C E Maggart and wife. Mrs Harry McCoy and children of Milan spent Sunday with George Carter family. Virgil Grindstaff Ott Crump and George Burress visited John Myers home Sunday. Mrs June Grindstaff of Virginia came to visit in laws Arthur Grindstaff and family. Mrs Doana Collins of Milan spent days with her mother Addie Dell who was on sick list. Alonzo Clem Humphreys visited relatives here last week. Everett Meeks near Milan purchased Shatto property here and moves house to farm northeast of Milan. Mr and Mrs Grant Smith visited relatives at Chillicothe last week. Wm Wheeler returned from visit with Granvil Creason and Green City family.
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