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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1932
Page
2
James G. Nickell of Duncan township enters the race for Sullivan County Sheriff as a Republican candidate, seeking voter support at the August primary.
The announcement names George W. Weed of Clay township as a Democratic candidate for Linn County Sheriff. Voters will decide at the August primary election.
Cross Roads and Cora G M Spencer shipped stock from Cora Saturday. The Cora school resumed after a period closed due to a fox outbreak. Many residents attended sales and visits with friends and relatives. Several locals reported illnesses, travels, and social gatherings during the week.
The Clem Springs area reports pleasant spring weather. Vernon Hollon visited Monday for tis removal. Mrs. Frank Smith and Mrs. James Pipes are listed as ill. Clem Springs school closed Monday due to smallpox. Bridge construction began from Reger to Galt with dirt work underway.
Movers will start as soon as machinery arrives. Lee Shepherd and family spent Saturday evening with C. R. Mc Claren and family. Jim Dale has rented the Jake Norman farm for the coming year. A number from the vicinity attended the sale at Ike Robin son’s last Thursday. L. M. Kenley and J. J. Smith were seen buying stock nearby last week. Dan Havens was in Cora on business one day last week.
Miss Alda McCollum returned home from New York on Tuesday to spend a few days. Carl Logan hauled wood and fodder from Bear Branch the past week. Roy Jennings stayed one night with his daughter Mrs Ray Bauer. The Junior play Friday night drew a good crowd despite bad roads. Tom Smith served a Bucklin on business Saturday. Curt Bauer Harold Wilson Leamon Powell Miss Vivian Bunion and Orval attended Linn Harper's play Saturday night. J M Logan and wives plus Henry Logan and wife visited Brookfield on business. Arthur McCollum and wife were in Shelby visiting relatives. Nile Rauer and Leon Smith went to Brookfield Saturday nine to attend the show. Leon Gooch spent Saturday night with Ray Rauer.
Mr and Mrs John Thudium spent Sunday at Ellwood Thudium home. Albert Dodge visited Virgil Lee and family. John Cornwell attended a Linn Harper party. Orville Mott visited Tulvania friends. Orvilla Thudium and father went to Purdin. Bertha Burkholder visiting Tona Gall. Bennie Burkholder and wife visited Shelby relatives. Several women visited Mrs Ora Mott and helped with a quilt. Braden Thudium visited Mabel Maxwell. Guiles Cattey visited Richard Thudium. Ray Bauer and wife moved to Bona Miller farm. W L Rulon traveled to Purdin. Dirt roads limit car travel as gravel roads are used. Lorene Cattey, Violet Coram, Thelma Lauck visited Ivis Simpson. Mary Rulon visited Hadley Rulon and family.
Mr and Mrs Clyde Hoskins visited neighbors Monday afternoon. Buster Morris and George Spray of Owasco brought hogs to Cora on Thursday and stayed with Ralph and Ed Morris that night. Charley Morris and son Earl of Pleasant Grove visited Lucille and Ella Morris. Sherman Hoskins and family visited Browning Friday. Ed Ralph Morris and Curt Pipes butchered hogs for Floyd Fanning Saturday.
Mrs Mary Spencer spent the week end in Milan. Edna Irene and Geraldine Cox visited the Herbert Knight home. Aunt Hanna Stanford improved after illness. Miss Hildred White Miss Maryland Mack Miss Dorotha Hurdle and Fay Foster of Milan attended a farewell party at Ike Robinsons. James Jennings and wife took daughter Elfreida to Kirksville for tonsil removal. Miss Vivian Franklin visited Kirksville.
Mrs. Alpha Rottmann and Mrs. A F Keithley join Mrs. Lola Russell and Mrs. Trixie Russell quilting last Monday. Several visits and family ties recur through Locust Valley and surrounding households with call ins on Wednesdays Fridays and Sundays. A baby boy Donald Jesse was born to Mr. and Mrs Byron Fuller on February 19.
The article advises hatch timing for larger breeds in March and Leghorns in April to maximize prices for surplus cockerels. It notes chick survival depends on brood equipment and season, with February limiting to about 250 chicks in a 10 by 12 brooding house and April allowing 300 to 350.
Harold Canfield of the Missouri College of Agriculture urges constant preparation for future farm enterprises. Raise baby chicks each spring to supply pullets for the laying house in fall as older layers decline in productivity. March and April are ideal hatching months for pullets to begin laying in October or November with good feed. Late hatched chicks slow to grow and risk parasites in summer.
Roswell M. Field born in Newfane Vermont on February 22 1807 later a leading Missouri lawyer and Dred Scott case counsel. He moved to St Louis in 1839 built a lone practice aided by languages music and scholarship and helped defend Scott in the U S Supreme Court. He died July 12 1869 in St Louis.
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