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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1943
Page
4
A collage of lighthearted Browning reader comments on topics from war, economics, and fashion to politics and daily life. Jests about composers, soldiers, and home life mingle with satirical bits on shortages, beards, sunspots, and wartime attitudes.
Residents and visitors share Sunday calls with neighbors and relatives including the Morans Finneys Monroe Nesters Suttons and Gall. Farmers report long field hours as Nile Bauer and Mrs Jaynes visit doctors in Purdin and Kansas City. The Crists visit Brookfield to see Will McGhee and the Powells sell Brookfield Pride chickens at 50c per lb.
A fragment mentions a person named Shafter and a brother with a late last week dinner reference, but the context is incomplete and no clear event or outcome is provided.
Mrs Hugh Campbell and Sue of Purdin visited Browning show. June 18 dress forms session at school house. Several couples visited Phillips and Hicks families. Peas canning tips for girls. James Phillips returned from Kansas harvest. June 16 Bettie Hess and Vernon Reidel wed with a charivari. Local callers include Hammack, Arnold, Smith, and Holser families. Farmers hope more sun to finish corn and clover.
Pleasant Hill updates recount social visits from the Linharts and Kinfongs, Riley and Phillips families, and local clubs. Weather brought sun then rain. livestock losses include a horse and cow struck by lightning. Names include Ernest Linhart, A L Kinfong, Everett Riley, Wm Riley, Effie Britton, Clara Fanning, Wayne Britton, Phil ip Britton, Dale Straley, Care Straley, Nile Hale, T M Smith, John Tucker, Van Mairs.
Summer heat hits the area with eight horses reported dead from overheating. Farmers work fields despite good days, while a Southeast of Cora man reports 13 head of two year old steers missing. News of deaths in nearby towns and community sympathy follow as oats near cutting and hay season begins.
The report lists ongoing farm work including planting corn and garden cleanup. It records the True Blue Club meeting on June 23 with ten members and five visitors led by Mrs George Phillips. It notes visits from Mary Gooch Bever ly Stevenson at C B C Chillicothe and social calls among local families and church activities at Mount Olive with a flag program led by Rev Hargrove and Rev and Mrs Smith Gilman City.
Tuesday evening activities include Nolan Kimbrough aiding on the farm. Mrs. L W Arnold, Mrs. Harold Campbell, and Charles visited Mrs. Walter Crooks and Bill on Saturday. Corene and Mary Smith of Brookfield stayed with their parents R Is Smith Ray and Roy over the weekend. The Kimbroughs and guests Margaret Ruka vina, and Veda Hammock shopped in Chillicothe Saturday with a Meadville stopover.
Ada May Tapscott and Garland Hamner of St Paul visited grandparents the Cadys and Garland will graduate aviation school. Mrs Mabel Lee Corbin and husband attended James Street’s funeral. Farmers enjoyed weather good for plowing and corn planting. Updates on several residents including Mrs Jim Smith and ill couples the Myers. Visitors from Kansas City and Wisconsin noted.
Sunday home visit notes show Mrs Earnest Pearson Mrs Bessie Fishback and grandson with Mrs Sally Prather calling on Mrs Effie Pulliam Friday.
A collection of short notes tracks local activity from Browning to Chillicothe. A. L. and Lynden Knifong suffer loss of a mare in Browning. Families attend Sunday school and visits span Marceline California Oklahoma and St Louis. Various motorists and farm trades noted.
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