24 Jan 1918
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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1918
Page
1
A reflection on an 18 year old New York girl's arrest for stealing a car with an equally aged companion. The piece argues loving, patient parenting is essential for a child's moral development and warns against harsh, cranky fathers. It urges literary restraint and warns against ill influences from newspapers and books. It praises home life, mothers, and aging Christians as guiding forces.
The fifteenth annual Missouri State Corn Growers Association show during Farmers Week in Columbia January 14 to 18 set records with about 7000 ears exhibited. Awards went to H. G. Turner for 112.2 bushels per acre and J. R. Shelton for 103, plus diplomas for yields above 85 on five acres. Grand champion bushel Reid's Yellow Dent grew by H. G. Windsor. white corn best by S. T. Mathes. grand champion ten ears to E. A. Bennett. single ear Reid's Yellow Dent to H. G. Langeman. Shelton led the five-acre contest with 103.15 bushels per acre.
The Linn County Board outlines classifications with names grouped into Class 1, Class 4, and Class 5. The list includes Fern D. Carter A W Wampler Harvey L. Alexander John Ben Carter James R. Wood John Taylor Gooch Herbert E. Crookshanks and many others, with additional names such as Harris on W Blackburn Earl R. Deskins Floy Ogle Gideon Gooch Roy E. Crist Roy Crowdis Walter R. Head Carl C. Neely Edger R. Cok aermmann John Vincent C B Western C R Sayers E E Ferguson Olie H. Hatch Walter E. Cassity F R Drake Roscoe J. Powell C H Schrock George McKinney Oscar A. Fisher Nolan M. Arnold Mile A. Street Elmer E. McLeod Ray B. Neely George Burkholder Clarence Lantz Herman R. Gooch I L Gooch Emmett Haley George Carlstead A B Cattey J W Wood 8 B Peery J I Barclay A B Crain Charles Arnold Guy T Carter N O Head W A Coram J E Head Frank M Head E T Hicks Geo J Alexander I B Crookshanks Tatlow McCollum Otho Almond Class 5 C T Moore R R Haley E A Coram S A Dychel and W Powell.
In a North Missouri contest the boys yield average reached 112.5 bushels per acre. D L Boots of Palmyra won sweepstakes ear with Reid's Yellow Dent, and Leslie Schweer of Gordonville won the ten ear sweepstakes with a Reid's Yellow Dent sample. Individual boys yields include Glen Caldwell Milan 110, Joe W Hensley Jackson 121.5, Harvey Hendrickes Stockton 110.5, Dick Hopper Sikeston 105.8, Kenneth McQuillue Aurora 182 bushels eight pounds, unverified at press time.
The home paper acknowledges new and renewing subscribers including E. P. Harvey Kansas City B. L. Powell city F. S. Johnson route 1 H. E. Deskins North EW. Nickell city C. M. Gardner Riverton Who. Wm. Shepherd Reger L. Holding Polson Mont. W. V. Walker route 4 C. A. Schrock East St. Louis Mrs. Sarah I. Gooch route 2 L. A. Dickinson route 3 J. M. Kenley Milan.
A wartime letters page from December 30 1917 includes Chas F Peters writing from France about Christmas snow mumps and hospital stay plus received tobacco and family letters. The Burlington Railroad Agricultural Department seeks pinto bean market expansion with samples dealer lists prices growing info mailed to J B Lamson at C B Q RR Chicago.
Western farmers produced a record pinto bean crop last summer totaling about 200 million pounds across six states. As of now 75 percent remains with growers while navy beans fetch 17 cents retail. pintos cost 7 to 9 cents delivered in the Midwest, offering similar value at half the price due to limited recognition.
Translation of a Bremer Zeitung item notes Clara Ganter was fined one mark and one day in prison for taking one fagot of dry fir twig from the Waldkirch common forest on June 13 1917. Her husband is at the front and she supports four small children in poverty. Similar reports urged reporting more cases.
Roy L. Sturte vant arranged with Judge A L Pratt to wed him to Agnes Caroline Gooch at 7 p.m. at the Pratt home. The ceremony occurred after supper with the judge in best attire and the couple arriving in a buggy. The officiant tied the knot and the pair departed.
Dr. P. G. Brumbaugh of Milan visited Sunday as a guest of his father Unely Philip Brumbaugh at their home.
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