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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1940
Page
4
A Browning column blends light quips on optimists and pessimists with local thoughts about inches and heads in California. It notes homecoming plans for 1940, radio noises, church practicality of the Golden Rule, and contrasts sports against study while mentioning small firms and large safes.
Cold weather continues with snow in Purdin as residents report heavy snowfall for ten days. Miss Katie Armstrong remains ill but shows improvement. Mrs Mary Noel visited friends in Purdin last week. Mrs Marie Light and her Los Angeles family stay with J C Myers. Mr and Mrs Wil Penhale visited the McNally family on Sunday. A son named James Wallace born December 24 at St. Joseph Hospital Phoenix Arizona weighs 7 pounds 14 ounces. Michigan visitors return home after Christmas visit with relatives.
Snow covers the ground as families unite for Christmas. Roy Maxwell and families visit Cleo Clapp. Burkholders host five sons and families for turkey. Paul Dodge and Peggy Jeanne stay with their parents A E Dodge. Thudium and Campbell households share Christmas Day visits.
Don Moffitt and family spent Christmas with Elmer Arnold. Harold Dean Almond visited the Roy Maxwell home. Earl Campbell and family joined Paul Smith and wife at Brookfield, with sister Miss Flossie Smith returning home. Jeff Mott and wife hosted Orville Mott and wife for a goose dinner. Visitors at the Orville Triudium home included Mr and Mrs Vandal Jones and Mr and Mrs Luther Bauer, who joined Elvis Martin’s family near Winigan for a Christmas turkey dinner.
Snow falls daily and wells run low as Pleasant Hill residents endure cold weather. Christmas and New Year celebrations flow through the community with weddings, visits, and charitable greetings. Numerous local families share holiday travel, illnesses, and family gatherings, including Nile Hale and Beverly Tunnell wedding news and reminiscences of friends and neighbors.
Mr and Mrs V J Winkler and daughters from Colorado Springs stayed with Bird Arthur in North Salem for Xmas. Other guests included Eu gene Moore Basil George Brantner and Doris Mitchell. Turkey dinners and family gatherings followed with Veda Viola Mitchell Oren Jennings Alvie Waters and Leo Peavler hosts and guests from Pierce City Missouri.
Lloyd Cordray took his aunt Miss Ella Cordray to her North Salem home last week. Several families shared Christmas day at the Ebb Spencer home including the Riedls Pamperls Coffmans and McCollums. Other gatherings included Minor and Moore families with the G. Yochim and Helms households. Cletus Rauer and wife visited relatives, and Ward Were and family spent Monday with Dale Were and family.
Christmas day at Walter McKay’s home and at Robert Stephenson’s home drew many relatives. Attendees from the McKay side included Gil bert McKay family Leland Donald Glenn Nadine Vern Seckington Margaret Gerald Reva Knifong Monroe White Alford Louise Lucille Betty Lou Duane Ford Ruby Charles Dale Jerry Jackie Buell McClarren Dorothy Millard Swank Thelma Eldon and Walter McKay. Afternoon visitors were Ben Kelsall Laredo and Alfred Kelsall family Hiawatha Kansas. The Stephenson gathering included Fritz Brinkley Opal Mae Cleo Tom Ford Jimmie Edith Ellen Melvin Stephenson Thomas Wesley Elzie Jacobs Robert Stephenson Nellie Andrew Johnson Helen and a Wisconsin visitor.
A local editor outlines a practical set of Browning child safety rules for the new year. The guidance covers early schooling, safe crossing at lights, cautious bicycling, avoiding rides with strangers or trucks, staying out of streets, walking facing traffic, and avoiding hitchhiking, noting the list is incomplete.
The passage urges strict safety rules to prevent local accidents and national losses. It emphasizes teaching children traffic caution from early grades and calls on older people to adopt stop look and listen habits to avoid machine related harm.
Rural electrification moves forward as lines and poles are set across Sullivan County. Homes wired include Archie Hampton Ross Fairley Arminta Chevrant Doris Fairley Edith McClary and others with work also starting at Griffith and Prairie Dale Public schools. Transformers line the routes as plans for expanded service unfold.
Letter to poultry raisers argues starting chicks in February yields higher hourly earnings. Data from 33 Iowa farmers show February hatchers averaged 1.73 dollars per hour versus 0.51 and 0.45 for March and April, with larger flocks yielding higher pay. Mentioned stats include flocks from 100 to 500 plus hens, and most U.S. farms remain under 100 chickens. Frank Priebe signs the missive.
The band practiced on Thursday and Tuesday nights December 28 and January 2 with time spent on Seeds of Cadmus and a new march Royal Mounted Cavalry. Cadet cast members sang operetta numbers during a noon broadcast over station KWHO on Wednesday December 20.
A pine tree has fourteen big branches each with fourteen little branches a total of 196 small branches. Each small branch bears fourteen twigs totaling 2744 twigs. Each twig carries fourteen acorns giving 38416 acorns on the tree.
The senior play has been selected and the name and cast will be published at a later date.
Students enjoyed a festive week returning to school on Monday and hope vacations return. They received gifts from the school tree on Friday December 22 as Mr Dutton and Mr Anderson spent Christmas with family. A lighthearted note closes with a rumor about war ending based on hearsay.
A humor quip contrasts fifty fifteen dollars in one pocket and ten dollars in the other with a punch line that the setup yields the wrong pants. John Martin delivers the quip about misaligned pockets.
Winners of the 1939 contest will receive prizes next week. The announcement notes prize distribution timing and honors the top performers from the event.
A town senior boy known for his glasses showcases his talent as a comical actor in a classroom or community performance. He brings humor to the crowd with lively timing and expressive acting.
The weekly puzzle closes with Vella Linhart identified as the solution. Readers who followed clues can verify her name linked to the previous week’s features.
The solution identifies the speaker as the father, clarifying who is speaking in the prior week's puzzle. This resolves the riddle by confirming familial relation as the key fact.
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