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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1920
Page
1
A Browning column urges citizens to speak up with good ideas for town improvement and to resist chronic gossips and wet blankets. It warns against epidemic panic and stresses cooperative effort, while celebrating thirteen years of the Leader Record editorial leadership and service.
The drainage Committee announces two meetings for landowners in the drainage district. One in the Circuit Court room at Linneus on Monday February 16 at 1 30 PM and the other at Browning on February 17 at 10 AM. Speaker S J Jones of Carrollton will discuss benefits from completed drainage districts.
California note dated February 3 reports Joe Nickell Browning Missouri receives a yearly paper renewal. Content mentions a pleasant winter with blooming roses peach and orange trees and visits by Mr and Mrs John Fields and daughter Hilda of Tulare Calif to L C Lantz family. Sam Ww Lantz signs the cordial message.
An old darkey speaks in a church meeting admitting past wrongs but claiming one remaining virtue he has not lost his religion. The anecdote reflects religious self appraisal and community norms in a historical African American setting.
Notice of a public sale to be held at the speaker's farm four miles east of Brown on Wednesday February 25. Watch for the advertisement next week. Q. T. Johnson.
Frederick Lemon Stevenson born near Winchester West Virginia August 21 1852 moved to Ohio as a child. He preached with Alta May Brown then Jennie Hatch after 1896 traveling to school houses and chapels for decades. He died January 22 1920 aged 67 years 5 months 1 day leaving wife three children two grandchildren and several siblings. Funeral held January 24 at Peden Chapel conducted by Rev Smith of Salisbury.
The Good Roads Association sends two hundred notices to county residents urging rounding of unsafe road corners. The County Court pays $2.50 per corner if at least half a rod is provided, adding eleven and a half feet for turning space. Road overseers must round dangerous corners or face fines up to $500, joining the Court as valued allies in safer roads, Harrington.
Ray and Ora Bennett won top awards at the Missouri State Corn Show in Columbia. Ray took first premium on ten ears of white corn, Ora earned first prize on a bushel of white corn and third on a single ear, plus ribbon entries. The Bennetts, longtime show growers from Linn County, are celebrated for elevating local prize corn status.
The Board of Education received notice from State Superintendent Sam A. Baker that the city schools are approved as first class. Prof. Connally and assistants are praised for their effort while the superintendent works to keep the schools among the best, with renewed vigor for students and staff.
A week of lectures on hygiene in Linn led by Mrs. Louis Selbert of the University of Missouri and Miss Margaret Nelson, Home Demonstration Agent. The meetings announced Missouri as the state to conduct a survey of school children.
The U S Public Health Service with Missouri Board of Health calls for investigations to correct child defects through cooperation with the Division of Child Hygiene. Volunteers, led by women, will weigh and measure children with funds from the county Red Cross Association and support from county superintendent Hortenstein. Results aim to reveal defects and guide future health work including nursing and other projects as Mrs Selbert urges parental support.
A compilation of quotes from J. R. Howard, C. E. Bradfute, B. F. Harris, H. E. Wallace, Eugene Davenport, Paul Bushnell and W. P. Brink praising the Farm Bureau Federation. They stress efficiency, business focus, unity among farmers, and the federation's potential national impact.
The quotation notes a reader must test their value by leaving a paper and returning to see who remains. It humorously suggests a publisher who thinks the paper needs his aid will find friends changed, some unaware he is gone, others not alarmed by his absence.
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