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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1938
Page
2
A column of local life from Browning with playful vignettes on taxes, progress, and domestic quirks. Includes social visits in Shafter and Browning, neighbors at Brookfield, and updates on families, health, and community events.
In Cross Roads and Cora residents report mild weather but warn water shortages for livestock with cisterns running low. Social visits include the Dodsons, Bundridges, and Helms families. cattle shipments to Kansas City. multiple local residents improving health and visiting kin.
A Vermont teacher who married a pupil stirs discussion about domestic life and education. The Browning line hints at old fashioned morals with jokes about self made men and chicken raising. The piece muses on contrasts between staying home and wandering.
A rough spoken quote from Shafter residents expresses frustration with water supply and the difficulty of obtaining enough to wash necks, reflecting concerns about local utilities.
Sunday gatherings in Haseville show multiple local families visiting neighbors. Kenneth Gooch and Virgil Sayers hosted guests including J R Wood Lizzie Rottman and Darrel. Others attended Cecil Pollock and Earl Jerome homes with scattered family groups.
Mr and Mrs Will Foster and Mr and Mrs Alton Walker of Humphreys visited the Vernie Foster home recently.
In Winigan vicinity Mr and Mrs Harold Millay and others visited in Kirksville and at various homes Tuesday and Thursday. Several family members are ill or recovering while local youths attend meetings and events.
Gene Moore visits Floyd Cleeton home on Saturday. Archie Hampton and Wayne Riddle travel to New Market Iowa to bring Opal Hampton home due to Delbert Hampton illness. Tom and Allen Crist in Milan Thursday. Bill and Edgar Nation with their spouses attend Nova Morris home Saturday. W T Nickell and Alva Hoerrmann hosts Sunday. Wayne Briggs family from Memphis visit in afternoon. Navy member Jay Alberton returns from California for short visit. he previously taught at Willow Branch School.
Walnut Grove residents filled the schoolhouse Friday night as roads and weather allowed a large crowd. A program by local youths featured a Negro play and music, followed by pie and coffee. The group plans to meet again January 28. Visitors included Roy and Mrs Dunlap and extended family from Kansas City and Enterprise.
Too late for last issue. Mr. and Mrs. Don Shafer and others are named in a brief notice about the issue closure. The fragment gives limited context and no further details about location or reason.
Dr E R Duncan operates a dental practice above Farmers Store in Browning Missouri. Contact phone number 107 for appointments and inquiries.
Family and friends spent Sunday visiting neighbors and relatives. Many households hosted children and spouses including the Rottmann Meeker Sayers Young Searcy Holser Molloy and Woolf families with various Allen Carroll interactions noted.
Notice is hereby given to all creditors and interested parties that I. W. T. McCown as administrator will make final settlement of the estate of Sarah J. Hall deceased at the next term of the Probate Court of Linn County Missouri to be held at Linneus on February 14 1938. W. T. McCown Administrator.
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