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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1913
Page
1
A detailed weekly schedule lists concerts lectures and child programs from Seton Indian Work to popular concerts and travelogues. The narrative notes a Sunday pest game between Laredo and Browning with Laredo winning 9 to 2 as Browning struggled against Sanders and a strong pitching effort.
A. M. Kinney, veteran rural mail carrier, began using an automobile on his rural route Thursday, completing the trip in two hours and a quarter. The move, likely a Linn county first, freed Pike for most of the day to attend the fair, per Brookfield Budget. Brother Myers lags behind on route 3 W. W. Hatch, using an auto on a 26 mile route for two years, often finishing in about two hours and fifteen minutes despite hilly sections.
A note describes a farmer spending about three hours per trip, with time for farming on the side. He will hitch his faithful horse and make the rounds when roads are not suitable for an automobile, continuing the routine like the others.
Mrs. M. Burwell visited the office Saturday with a pail of twelve red ripe tomatoes weighing about thirteen pounds. The writer praises her garden and notes she sells bushels of tomatoes at a fancy price from vines staked and heavy with fruit.
Joel DeWitt son of M. P. DeWitt and Doris Harvey daughter of Wm. Harvey wed Tuesday night at the parsonage with Rev. W. O. G. Potter officiating. They plan a honeymoon in Kansas City after a reception with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Shatto of Reger. The LEADER-RECORD offers warm congratulations.
Monday crews reported wagon loads of hogs arriving from Roger, Humphreys, Purdin, Gifford and north of Winigan, with eighty seven horses fed at one barn at dinner. The note praises high hog prices and invites others to visit.
A local producer announces handling blocks of coal data with exclusive agency. Prices will align with Iowa coal market standards. Ad highlights Peters Production Company as contact.
The P. E. O. Chapter held a Mother s Day event Friday afternoon July 25 at Mrs Duncan s Pleasant Home. Mrs Mattie Duncan hosted with 3 pm arrivals, punch served, readings by Vera Tomlin, letters from absent members, contests and a quilt prize won by Mrs W O G Potter. Local talent included Lila Williams, Hermia Adams, Lorene Whaley, Eunice Dickison, Artie Calhoun. Out of town guests included Grace Sloan Topeka Lizzie Prather St Louis Bertha Tomlin Vera Tomlin Jacksonville Ills.
Roy Gooch and Miss Nettie Willis wed in the city Sunday morning the ceremony conducted by Squire J E Marvin with witnesses present. Roy, son of Dr J Gooch, is well known locally and Nettie Willis is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Levi Willis. The couple departed by morning train for St Joe to begin their honeymoon.
A party of couples led by Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Duncan and others spent a week at Moreau Lodge on the Moreau river in the Ozark foothills south of Jefferson City. They drove three automobiles without incident and praised the lodge as a fine outing place owned by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dallmeyer. The trip featured boating, fishing, rowing lessons, and rustic grove seating with a piano on a sunny porch, amid scenic roads from Brookfield to Ful ton.
Leota E Hubler daughter of R J and Elleta M Hubler died July 13 1913 born Oct 5 1911 aged 1 year 9 months 8 days after a brief illness. Funeral at North Salem Cemetery with Elder W W Jones delivering comfort for bereaved parents and relatives. Pastor James Jones?
Public notice seeks the return of a missing rear lamp from a Ford vehicle found near Browning. Contact Lot Lartz to reclaim. Reward or identification details not specified in the fragment.
The U S Department of Agriculture will spend several thousand dollars annually in Pettis County Missouri for hog cholera prevention and eradication. Missouri lobbied to be selected with officials lining up support from the State Board of Agriculture and the Agricultural College. A Kansas City meeting and reports to Washington shaped the selection, with criteria favoring a county away from large cities and rivers, rich in hog populations and suitable for demonstration work.
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