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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1916
Page
1
A digest of Dr. Frank Crane and Miss Mullock on living in the present. The piece urges happiness today not yesterday or tomorrow, advocating one day at a time and using each day fully amid life's trials and gifts. The essay echoes in verse and prose a call to endure, enjoy, and prepare.
The section recounts a severe cold spell with sleet snow and rain last Wednesday and below zero temperatures. Ice on sidewalks caused slips while frost and frozen creeks promise future ice. doctors Whaley Ingram and Mairs report heavy patient calls as grip spreads, with cold weather aiding disease stamping out efforts.
Mr and Mrs J W Gare reté spent Sunday in Purdin visiting relatives and staying with family members.
The St Louis Times on January 17 forecasts John Swanger as the strongest backer for Kiel in the mayoral race. Swanger’s name carries weight with Republican factions and is deemed acceptable to most party wings, unlike Lamm or McJimsey.
Mrs H E Creason and her daughter Ethel spent Sunday in Brookfield as part of a brief family outing.
Samuel Neely born February 16 1830 in st Virginia married Margaret Maxwell in November 1853. The family lived in Linneus Browning and Sullivan County and had many children including Joseph Norman Florence E M J W and L E Wattenbarger. He died January 12 aged 85 years 10 months 26 days after stomach and bowel illness. Burial was January 14 at New Garden cemetery near Brookfield. He joined the Methodist church and was a long respected resident of Scottsville.
The notice enumerates new and renewing subscribers including J. W. Riedel Lorrain Canada Mrs Anna Creason Purdin C M Johnson Purdin J M Moore Linneus Dell Moore Linneus D G Gibson route 3 George Bausell route 4 W M Hawkins Cora Dick Rettman route 1 C Lantz Purdin Patrick Cokerham route 3 Nova Z Mundell city Mrs S Hatcher Woodland Cal A Whetstone route 1 W McClerland Gilman City Russel Martin route 4.
J W Pierce of Shell Knob Missouri writes of the death of his father B F Pierce born March 13 1846 in Linn county Missouri died Jan 8 1916. He served in Company F 24th Missouri Volunteer Infantry during the war and married E Jones on July 23 with ten children named John Arenee Charles Lillian Benjamin Everett and others in the family.
On July 23 1913 Ben Pierce longtime resident and prosecuting attorney of Sullivan County died He moved from this city to Milan in 1901 then to Barry County Missouri He was brother of the late D C Pierce and well regarded as a genial able attorney The community extends sympathy to his relatives.
The Homesteaders held a public installation January 17 at the I O O F hall naming officers led by Past president Colonel F. Greenstreet and President William T. Moore. Speakers included A H Corey and Mrs W E Alexander, with music by the high school chorus. a study hall program for Friday featured grammar students and a Browning school building debate.
Miss Elmyra Broyles left Tuesday for Scott City Kansas for her wedding yesterday to Wesley Ward a well to do young farmer near Keystone Kansas The couple plans a fine new home for their years together The Leader Record joins friends in celebrating the nuptials.
A brief note records Chas Dodson visiting Cora on Saturday, signaling a local social or community gathering.
Mrs J T Fleming announced that her son Clarence H Becker of Kirksville, long a bookkeeper at Citizens National, has been elected assistant something with a substantial salary increase. Friends here will be glad.
T D Southerland was the guest of his many friends here Monday as they gathered in his honor and shared stories and well wishes for the longtime resident.
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