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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1945
Page
4
A collage of observational quips on duty shortages high bills women in uniform hunting for jobs and farm labor pride in service and a shift in slang. The piece wryly muses on patriotism fashion politics and everyday humor.
Real summer heat brings requests for rain while residents share health updates and travels. Mrs. Baker and Aunt Jane are ill. Elmer Andrews and Detroit relatives visit Cap Wolfe's family. Cassity returns to Kansas City after a week with kin, with Bundridge relatives along. Eddie Leon Gooch welcomes a newborn, and various neighbors report moves and visits among Cassitys, Lucks, Jenkins, and local families.
North Salem residents report a new family run store by Mr and Mrs Floyd Swisegood offering groceries feeds and notions. They plan to buy chickens eggs and will accept cream soon. The town has been without a store since December 1 1944 when Ray Bauer closed.
Eldon and parents visit. Mr. and Mrs. Nile Bauer in North Selem. McCollums and Herman with R. J. McCollum family. Jennings and Barbara Ann visit his mother. Berry and Peavler with Cotton Peavler family. Minor, F L Thomas and Enid Moore travel to North Salem and Browning. show attendance at Browning and Winigan. Nelson family gatherings with Turney Bailey. Lambert visits daughter Ethel Swisegood. Walters and Haines in North Salem.
Pfc. Theodore Palmer, home on a 30 day furlough from Germany, visited his parents the Palmer family. Eddie Leon Gooch was born to Mr. and Mrs. Red Gooch. Various local families hosted gatherings, church outings, and visitors including Lewis Wood in Germany and others in Kansas City and St. Joseph. Neighbors shared news of weddings, travel, and farm life as tension eased with summer activities. children swam in ponds and community events continued.
Mrs. Margaret Sayers of Meadville visits daughter J R Wood and family. Maxine Thomas with Sue Reed and Betty Shafer spent the weekend at home. Margaret Wood visited Yvonne and Marcelle Wood in Kansas City. Mrs. Lois Young and boys and Mrs. Genevia Holser with Sandra visited Mrs. E Sayers and Carole Sunday. Lewis Chapman family and Mrs. Chapman visited Ora Holser. Mrs. John Rottmann, post operation at Wright Hospital, recovers and will return home soon. Clarence Nichols and Duane visited Don Shafer and girls.
Last week reports list Mrs. Dr. Hunter and granddaughter Connie Hunter among supper guests of Mrs. Bertha Burkholder. Several families visited others in Bucklin and Laclede on Sunday. Roy Maxwell tends harvest and prepares new Brookfield home with repairs. Mildred Satman assists with the newborn, mother and baby reported doing well.
Vera Brammer of Davenport Iowa visits with locals as hot weather grows and rain remains badly needed. The fragment hints at community weather concerns and regional drought worries.
The notice lists several residents and visitors: Mr and Mrs Bev Franklin and Beverly Ann visiting. Allen Sheck Bauswell and family from near Burlington Iowa visiting relatives. Mollie Breeding visiting Kirksville. Cassie Smith boarded for Cushing Oklahoma and married Will Brookshier. best wishes to the newlyweds. Hattie Jennings Bev Franklin and Vera Brammer traveled to Browning on a bus showing community ties. Bryan Maggart and family returned to Chicago NL from visit with Grover Maggart family.
Mrs. John Longwell learns her nephew Corporal Billie Gray is in the States and on his way home for a thirty day furlough before hospital treatment for a skin disease. Gray, a former butcher and cook with the First Marine Air Wings in the South Pacific, enlisted in 1943 and went overseas in 1944. The column also covers social visits, neighbors, and the death of Mrs. Cora Brantner in California, with community condolences.
A Taney County farmer produced evidence for replacement of A and B gasoline ration books after a missing wallet episode. He explained a search led to a calf eating the wallet, which the man killed to recover the Will fold and contents. The lock of hair and ribbon remained intact.
Mr and Mrs Beryl Taylor hosted Beverly for Sunday dinner with her parents the McCollums as she celebrated her 75th birthday. Ellis Jennings and Reva visited Brookfield to see his parents Roy and Vernon. Oren Jennings and Barbara Ann stayed with his mother Gracie Jennings. Goldie Belzer Helen Head Shirley Ann Pearler and Betty Head also spent Sunday with relatives.
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