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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1937
Page
2
A Browning Missouri column features witty quips about local life. Jokes cover court behavior, dandelion wine, butter with no churn, work ethics, air traffic ads, and homefront humor about Browning residents and daily struggles.
Mrs Lon Paker visits daughter Mrs Bessie Cooper who is ill. Sterling Bowyer learns his sister Mrs Sallie Alexander in California reports her new husband Gavon drowned Saturday. Bill and Herman Cooper host Vernon Phillips and Hazel visit. Vernon Phillips hosts Kenneth Jennings for Sunday dinner. Jim Meneely and wife welcome baby girl Mary Annabeth born June 22. Elmer Hammock takes Busy Bee 4 H Sewing Club group along with others.
Park at Trenton on Sunday listed attendees including Mr and Mrs Bryan Molloy Joyce Jackie Mrs Vern Stevenson Beverly Wa verly Gladys Marie Rosalee Gooch Frances Lou Lawrence Alta Mae Elbert Hicks Shirley Jean Bowyer Veda Irene James Hammack Bobby Phillips Donald Ray Robert Meeker Jerald Creason Lewis Wood Billy Glenn Morris Virgil Molloy and guests Mr and Mrs Lee Ellis Hedges and children. L D Phillips visited daughter Mrs Tom Morris over the weekend. Spencer Bowyer remains confined to bed with leg trouble.
Haying takes center stage as residents report a welcome rain Sunday night and Monday. Local visits include Mrs. Bauchman of Kirksville at Reger Church events and multiple families visiting kin across nearby towns and farms.
Shel by residents spend weekends helping with hay and visiting relatives. Harold Wilson will return to Chillicothe for school after helping his parents. Wayne Rulon returns from Kirksville for the weekend. Curt Bauer hauled a load of cattle to St Louis.
A long list of Sunday visitors and greetings across multiple families in the community. Attendees include the Jennings, Stansberry, Holser, Sayers, Selby, McMickle, Leions, Hess, and Browning households with relatives from Texas to Illinois noted. One item mentions Ferman Sayers traveling for a few days and a noted appendicitis hospital transfer for a relative in Colfax.
A light rain fell Sunday and is hoped to curb growth of nubbins. Mrs Creed Moore traveled to Linneus on Friday to visit her brother in law Brad Powell who died Thursday evening. Mrs Low Street is in Trenton this week with her husband who runs a feed store there reporting good feed sales. Mrs Nan Powell, at her daughter Mrs Grover Murrells, returned to Browning last week. Mrs Herman Woodside, previously ill, is slowly improving. Mr and Mrs Wayne Bagley shopped in Purdin Saturday evening. Mr and Mrs Merle Wohlers moved to the Schrock property.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mack of Kansas City visited her brother Glenn and Herbert Steele and mother Mrs. Dora Steele over the weekend. Glasgow guests included Mr. and Mrs. Allen Linhart. Sunday dinner guests for Mr. and Mrs. John Tucker included Glen Swearengen and daughter, Jim Elliott, Bernie Brantner, and John Lee. Local visits by Ralph Sevier from Chillicothe, Howard Payne, Charley Britton and Clyde Martin to Browning. Archie Coffman and Leland Burke attended Mt. Zion Sunday school. Bird Arthur helps George Walker this week. Van Mairs traded in Browning Saturday. Mrs. Glenn Moore of Palouse ill recently.
A letter from Frank Priebe urges poultry raisers to feed growing birds to roasting size due to abundant cold storage poultry and a smaller current year crop. He notes July 1 stockpiles exceed last year by about twofold while young chickens are 20 percent lower nationwide, predicting better prices for heavy chickens and advising summer shelters and rich rations for roasters.
Army worms have become moths that flutter around shrubs and street lights. Officials say female moths will lay 500 to 700 eggs, with two additional broods possible. If the first brood was destructive, later broods are expected to cause little damage.
In 1851 Henry Shaw, a wealthy St Louis retiree, visited London for the Great Exhibition and pondered creating a garden of his own. His muse struck on Chatsworth House grounds, inspiring a garden movement that led to St Louis developing its own famed green spaces.
Henry Shaw born in 1800 England built a fortune in St Louis then founded the Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park. He studied at Mill Hill, corresponded with Kew Gardens, opened Mr. Shaw's Garden in 1869, and endowed a library, museum, and endowments for botany before his 1889 death.
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