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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1936
Page
2
The Brown's Missouri community report lists guests and gatherings over a period. Names include Owen Stevenson Verne Stevenson Lilburn Gilmer Darold Hutchison George Phillips J. D. Molloy Myrtle Williams Cynthia White and many others. Events feature card parties dinners and visits among families like Stephenson Molloy and Fields with casual weekend travel and relatives visiting Roger Milan and Milan area locales.
Roger Items Clyde Murphy and George Mc Hargue visited Trenton on business. Harold Leeper of Pollock was a visitor at Harrison Grindstaff’s home. Baby stayed with her parents the Stephenson family. Leo Brinkley and wife stayed with A F Eastman family. Melvin Stephen son’s wife hosted family south of town. McHargue and Imogene Maggart shopped in Trenton on Saturday January 18. Irene Robertson visited family in Trenton on Sunday January 19. Hunsaker family from Galt visited J D Tunnel’s home. Mary Tipton spent Sunday with son James Tipton and his family. John Shatto visited relatives in Milan. Earl McClaren and Virgil Grind staff with CCC camp in Linneus spent weekend with relatives in Reger.
A Pleasant Grove Stitch and Chatter Club gathering on January 16 1936 drew twenty three members and sixteen visitors at Florence Elliotts home. The centennial meeting featured quilts, embroidery and a contest on purple and gold, with poems and songs memorized. New officers for six months will be elected unsaid.
A push urges residents to join the new readers program as a timely campaign to expand library attendance and literacy. The appeal stresses immediate action to access books and community programs.
Carolyn Wells noted detective fiction author and poet of humor, with many works and a popular serial in this newspaper. The piece highlights Fleming Stone in Honeymoon Murder and mentions Wells varied writings and residences in Rahway and New York City. Also reported are local notices: funeral for Mrs. Jim Hedges at Baptist Church, small news items on visitors and illness, and a legal notice of a real estate sale by Mandell in Linn County Missouri set for February 14, 1936.
Trustees sale notice announces a foreclosure on a Linn County Missouri farm credited to Louie and Delphine Haley. The deed of trust secures a promissory note now due, with sale set for January 1's public auction at Browning post office.
The report notes a real winter spell with the thermometer at twenty below zero Monday morning at six. Miss Mary Lee, teaching at Worthington, is confined to her boarding house with mumps. Berman, Hutchinson and wife spent the last of the week with.
The Probate Court of Linn County Missouri requires executrix Velma Murphy to exhibit claims within six months of the grant of letters or be barred. All persons with claims must file within one year from grant date, December 30 1935. Gladys Phillips, Clerk, attested seal.
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