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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1927
Page
4
The Brown ing Leader record notes severe winter weather with temperatures down to twenty below, measles cases easing, and local visits and illnesses. Elsie Cordray, Mrs Perry Christian, Aunt Emma Drier, Mrs John Bauer, and others mentioned. Families like McCollums and Catteys are noted with flu and illness, plus travel to Winigan and wood hauling.
North Salem residents gathered for a Saturday night rock party at Mrs Lena Bailey s home with attendees including Alvord Almond Floyd Head Helen Mac and Ellis Jennings Anna Myers Ted Ritze Karl and Versi Peavier Allen Mardis. Floyd Head spent Sunday with Roy Jennings and Theodore Bailey made his usual call at Bailey s. Mr and Mrs Edd Smith visited Sunday along with Mr and Mrs Paul McCollum at R J McCollum s. Walter Smith visited Doc Smith, Noah Head and Less Sweatt joined several North Salem residents at church in Milan last week with Orlo Seymour s attendance.
Egyptian town reports cold spell and a series of visits. Victor Jones shows improvement while Jim Jones visits J D Jones. Elza Bauswell moves in with Ea Knifong. Mrs Ross Prather visits 4 B F Wampler. Glen Bauswell family visits J W Jones. Hildred Lumsden visits Jim Jones. Bryan Knifong travels to Brown ing on business. Ester Knifong installs a radio. Arthur Myles visits area this week. Billy Franklin seen in town Monday.
The fifty fourth General Assembly opened January 3 promising a busy session with multiple major aims. Key elements include a public economy program and at least six distinct initiatives, possibly shaping budgeting and reform efforts in coming months.
A broad legislative agenda is outlined including revisions to banking laws to reduce bank failures, separate educational tax funding for schools, standardized traffic rules, a streamlined budget, and merging state departments. Also proposed are tighter gun controls, regulated bus lines, a prison expansion, and stronger medical laws. Tax increases are not expected, with emphasis on highway funding and revenue measures. The legislature aims for elimination and amendment rather than new laws, with highway projects and bridges likely to lead.
A candidate asks Sullivan County voters to consider his record as Brown ing Superintendent of Schools. He notes upbringing in Jackson Township and current second term in office and invites scrutiny of his school work.
H H Bennett of the U S Department of Agriculture warns that rushing water erodes soils across the United States, sweeping away about 126 billion pounds of plant food annually, twenty times the amount permanently removed by crops. He calls for basic soil data, terrace demonstrations, and national education to curb erosion.
An ailment commonly called corn-stalk disease has been reported during the last two months from several sections, affecting horses in multiple areas and prompting notice of veterinary concerns and field reports.
Mr and Mrs Mairs hosted a six o clock dinner Sunday evening January 16 with an elaborate two course menu. Guests praised the hospitality and the evening of card playing featured invited guests Albert Baker, Guy Peters, Jay Harvey, S C Lantz, Dwight Sheen, and Chas Rinehart and son Arthur.
In loving memory of Jno Wesley Head who departed this life January 23 1926. One year without you fills our hearts with ache yet we keep your memory alive. We miss your voice and face and speak of the things you did. We loved you in life and in death we do the same. God welcomed you home Wes. Mrs Matilda Head and Family.
Real winter weather affects Cross Roads area with social visits and travel. Local residents including the Maxeys Dodsons Tharps Bundridges and teachers from Bundridge and Cross Roads share weekend leisure in nearby Brownings Milan and Cora. People frequenting stores and farms include Albertine Clay Louise Spencer Fred Havens Wm A Butler Roy Neeley and George Dodson with work on corn hauling and general errands.
A jumble of quips, cultural asides, and odd observations on politics, language, science, and daily life. The clippings touch on memory, labor, fashion, rural life, radio, broadcasting, and social norms with humor and critique, mixing names, places, and cultural references of a bygone era.
Dr Karl Pearson reports on 2000 boys and 2000 girls in English schools finding health has little relation to intelligence and temperament. Athletic ability links to good health and self assertion but not to studiousness. Blonds slightly less healthy than brunettes. Nine new Hall of Fame members at New York University include Daniel Boone and Dan Beard. Kent and Peabody noted for law and philanthropy. Home safety concerns rise as more deaths occur at home than on streets. Railroads cut losses in transit. Bible distribution surges to over 9 million copies in 1925, aided by heavy Chinese demand. Stock markets show dividend value despite political doubts. Russia remains a show. Simplified Anglo-Saxon language advice offered.
A local printer advertises quality commercial printing at reasonable prices and invites orders to prove their claim. The pitch emphasizes customer service and the promise of earning business through better service.
A paragraph from a letter bundle shows Mr Summers arguing over selling rights and commissions. The cemetery sexton in a nearby county seat town contends he will set prices to avoid undercutting rivals. He insists on a policy of no agents and no commission despite inquiry.
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