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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1939
Page
4
A Browning Montana style column shares satirical quips about local life. It lampoons gossip, fashion, and vanity while noting a Will Rogers memorial and the town’s social quirks with humor and blunt observation.
Local notes record Sunday calls among Dickinson residents. Families visited kin near Brookfield Meailville and North Salem. Dawayne Fields recovering from appendicitis. several couples and individuals mentioned in casual social rounds.
The Pleasant Hill column notes a dry spell and a call for rain. Mr and Mrs Lon Smith of Giffford visited Walter Smith's home, and Van Mairs Tom Burdett and Archie Coffman traveled to Brookfield on business. Harold Celdray welcomed a 53 pound baby boy named Darryl Gregory. Sunday afternoon callers included Mr and Mrs.
A Martinsville all day baseball event drew families including John Tucker, the Riley and Buswell households, Browning, Cordray, Riddle, Berry, Peavier, Pearler, and others. Proceeds aid Leslie, badly injured with a broken leg, hospitalized in Kirksville. Attendees also visit relatives in Salisbury and Kate Hensley’s.
North Salem items note Bauer's softball team lost to Owasco Sunday afternoon at Owasco. The report also lists local social visits and church events including Mildred Pearler recovering from an infected finger and several families visiting relatives over the weekend.
Local notes express hope for rain to save crops and report on community health. Entries mention Mr and Mrs R W Cassity Mrs Effie Pulliam and Merle visiting Mrs Jess Garrett who is improving. Birth announced Chester and wife welcome daughter Maryetta Norene. Grandpa Charley Pulliam and Mrs Charley Johnson improving expected to leave hospital. Will McGhee visits Effie Pulliam on Sunday afternoon.
Enlo Woolf and family visited relatives and traveled to Moberly to see Nolan Spencer. Mrs. Alex Penhale, patient at Brookfield Hospital, is not improving as hoped. John Robisor and family returned from a week in Michigan. Ernest Smith visited Tom Miller, and Devasure visited friends in Purdin while seeking a fall bearing place.
A Sunday diary from North Salem describes a mild weekend with threshing ongoing aboard T S C Lambert’s west and Nolan Arnold’s east. Salem beat Browning 11 to 4 in a Sunday softball game at Browning. Several local families, guests, and trips to Kirksville and Brookfield are listed with refreshments at a gathering.
Wilma Grace Head visits grandmother Mrs Cassity near Browning while Ray Bauer and Edd Smith travel to New Cambria on business. Jennings and Oren Head stop in Brookfield for work. Mrs and Mrs Harry Lambert trip to Browning. Goldie Swicegood visits Reba Lambert. Edd Head returns from Kansas with light harvest work. Wayne Walters ill with mumps. Ethel Lambert Doris Cordray and daughter recovering. Sixteen attend Sunday School. Verna Peavler and Frances Taylor visit Rosa Kirk. Arthur and Caroletta Peavler with Pinkney Peavler and Herman Allen Peavler visit Floyd Spencer in Brookfield. Frances Taylor of North Salem returns from Linneus where she nursed. patient improving.
Arthur Watson and wife visited their daughter Mrs. Doris Bailey who is recovering from burns. The community mourns Dr. Jim Abbott who died at home Saturday evening. Visitors included Otis McCollum Obe Clapp and families at Frank Cattey’s. afectar
The column notes dry garden conditions and urge for rain. It reports harvest activity and local visits including Mary Alice Bozwell working for Mrs. G. M. Spencer in Cora, Everett Dodson family visiting Harris, Vernie Foster family trip to Milan, and a lamb load sent to St. Joseph market by Clyde Brinkley J. W. Sevier, with Harold Glidewell also mentioned.
Visitors from Cora and surrounding areas are noted at many homes including the Dodson, Fanning, and Moore households. Residents undertake repairs and painting, while others travel to Columbia to visit Mrs. Vesta Hulan. A sudden death of Don Brookshier shocks the community and several trips to harvest work planned in Minnesota and Fremont.
Miss Garnet Payne of Brook discusses local happenings at Winigan Creek with neighbors. The item notes community notes and upcoming gatherings in the region.
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