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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1917
Page
4
Local notes report many visitors and social events. The Electric Theatre runs three shows weekly on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday in North Salem. Several residents including Mr and Mrs P B McCollum Mr and Mrs B F Purdie and other locals visited nearby towns and hosted gatherings. Communities share visits, church events and family arrivals amid routine hometown life.
Farmers are cautioned that Missouri agents misrepresent ties to the University of Missouri College of Agriculture to push farm paper subscriptions. Faculty deny any subscription role or distribution promises. The college offers free bulletins to applicants and warns farmers against agents claiming college endorsement.
This item records Joseph Nickell as editor and notes Browning Missouri as the post office location with second class mail matter, dated July 8, 1897, and the issue date Thursday July 5 1917.
North East Linn reports a busy week with F M Cattey and family at church in Winigan. Farm prospects have improved in the past ten days. Perry Christian and wife visited Otis McCollum and wife. Holly Ford family visited grandmother Mary K McCollum. Otis McCollum and Earl Abbott replacing Cattey schoolhouse roof. J B McCollum sold four wagon loads of hogs at Browning for 15 cents per pound. Grandma Abbott and Ruby of St Catherine staying with Perry B McCollum.
Relatives and friends gathered June 29 at Mrs. Jane E. Keithley’s country home four miles north of Browning to celebrate her eightyeth birthday. A long list of attendees, including Mr. and Mrs. Seaman, Harmon, Brown, Seaman again, Bundridge, Harmon, Pipes, Cotter, Harrelson, and others, shared in food and gifts during a noon gathering.
The Burlington Route promotes a 3 in 1 National Park Tour visiting Glacier National Park Yellowstone Cody Road and Rocky Mountain Estes Park with city comforts or rugged stays. The offer highlights fishing golfing and views of Long Peak and Buffalo Bill history with free descriptive literature and no service charge.
Notice is given to all creditors and others interested in the estate of William F. Drake that William M. Oaks, administrator, intends to make final settlement in the next term of the state court of Linn County Missouri. The hearing will be held at Linnens on the 6th day of August 1917. William M. Oaks, Administrator.
C A Hamilton and fife and Marion Shores traveled to the Mt Oliver region in Linn county on Sunday.
Readers are told that catarrh can be cured in all stages by constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken orally and said to act through the blood on mucous surfaces. The promoters offer one hundred dollars for any failing case and invite testimonials from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Sold by all druggists.
An article urges Americans to replace wheat with corn to feed allies and boost exports. It notes the U S leads world corn production and explains cooking and grinding corn meal at home as a practical option, urging farmers and consumers to expand corn use for greater wheat availability abroad.
Estate of J. S. Lambert offers a 1914 Empire touring car in good repair with about 3000 miles. Sold at a bargain by A. W. Payne Adm R 4 St. Cathrine Mo. Contact North Salem Mo. Walter Fields of Chillico visited Friday on business and plans Rosthern Canada with his family.
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