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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1941
Page
4
Pleasant Hill Notes on Rain and Visits
A light rain graced Pleasant Hill on Monday while corn and gardens look healthy. Families and friends share visits across town including Maxine Sleeth Rex Knifong and cousins Clarice and Donald Knifong. Trips to Brookfield and Tucumcari are noted along with car wreck recovery updates and local social outings at Riley and Phillips homes.
Local Family Visits Radius of Friends This Week
Mr and Mrs Chas Newton and family visited Mr and Mrs Everett Riley Miss Maxine and Mrs Josephine Straley and sons last Wednesday afternoon. They visited Mr and Mrs Lee Kimbrough in the afternoon and called on Mr and Mrs Roscoe Powell and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Newton
Everett Riley
Maxine
Josephine Straley
Lee Kimbrough
Roscoe Powell
Dickinson Items
Little Helen Ann West spent Thursday with Wilma Browning and LeRoy Lambert with Eugene West. Mrs Geo Spencer has been on the sick list but is feeling better. Edna Lambert visited her sister Rosa and brother Bert Kirk. Clay Belzer and Allen Belzer of Morning Sun Iowa visited relatives. Avis Stinson was a Saturday afternoon visitor of Mrs John Longwell. Lucille and Leoma Lambert spent time with grandmother Mrs J T Hooker and Mr Hooker. Robert Lambert’s parents were Sunday guests at the Hooker home. Clyde Belzer called on Mr and Mrs James Pokerham and daughter. Raymond Anderson spent Sunday with his parents near Brookfield. Ona Lambert and family were Sunday guests of John Hooker. Hugh Hale and son and Flossie Wyatt were Sunday callers of Wayne Abbott and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Ann West
Wilma Browning
LeRoy Lambert
Eugene West
Geo. Spencer
Edna’ Lambert
Rosa
Bert Kirk
Clay Belzer
Allen Belzer
Morning Sun
Iowa
Frank Belzer
Avis Stinson
North Salem
Clyde Belzer
Charley Smith
John Baker
Roswell
Paul Smith
O’dera
Zane
Brookfield
Dude Lawson
Mike Peavler
Harold Walker
Shirley Ann Peavler
Donald Jennings
Browning
McArtor
Jo Evelyn Spencer
Detroit
Mich
J. E. Spencer
Ramah McCollum
Emmaline Carmack
Cora
Ella Head
Joe Head
Floyd Linsegood
Goldie
Max
Ilene Belzer
Oren Jennings
James Cokerham
Jaanita May
Nancy Peavler
Gifford
Pinkney Peavler
Peavler
Rainy spread across Cross Roads and Cora area
A good rain fell Sunday in the Cross Roads and Cora vicinity. Local residents report busy farmers tending corn. Several residents noted new cars and family events including a baby girl born to Coy Jones and his wife near Cora.
North Eagle items show local family visits and gatherings
North Eagle items list multiple visits and social notes. Families from Bocky Ford New Boston Kirksville Linneus Brookfield and Brook Alpha Burns and kin are mentioned along with a few illness notes and a local sale attendance.
North Salem Notes from a Rainy Weekend
The North Salem column reports heavy rain and strong winds causing high creeks to overflow in places. Two local youths Clyde Belzer and Charley Smith depart today for camp, with a list of Sunday visitors including Mrs. Paul Smith and other Brookfield residents.
U Go I Go Club meeting and local updates
The U Go I Go Club met Hazel Crowdis for an all day gathering with dinner and games. Icel Crowdis won the contest and the next meeting is set for June 18 at Icel Crowdis home. John McClarren, bedfast since April, is improving. Navy recruit Max Spencer, 18, reports life is good though haircuts are rough. Heavy rains flood corn fields and threaten local farms after a second flood this month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel Crowdis
Icel Crowdis
Icel Crowd
John McClarren
Max Spencer
Navy
Community Notes on Local Visits and Summer Enrollments
Johnson district Miss Jamnice joins K S T C for summer term. Residents and visitors from Chicago Illionis Kansas City Brookfield and California gather at Rolla Taylor and family home. The Happy Workers Club plans a Macon County trip for June 15 to Albert Dunham’s near Callao.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alden Thrasher
Kansas City
Cora Thrasher
Brookfield
Wiley Taylor
Taylor
Barbara Ann
Rolla Taylor
Ellea Taylor
Orlen Harris
Doris
Ann Taylor
Marjoie Bunch
Wileta Taylor
J. D. Taylor
E. R. Bauswell
Nora Taylor
Betty Lou
Everett
Earl
Harold Wayne Taylor
Carol Pipes
Clarence. Kibble
Anna Tayor
Green City
Methodist services and community notes from Sunday
District Superintendent delivered two sermons as rain shortened the gathering. Rev Hall spoke in the evening. Visitors included Gene Rogers and family from Kansas City at the Tunnell home. Several locals attended the Angus sale in Kirksville while Roy Pipes and Duane Crowdis visited Ft Venwoth. Mrs Burress plans tooth and tonsil removal. Allie Stephenson regains eye sight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reger
Methodist Church
Hall
Gene Rogers
Kansas City
Dr. Tunnell
Lloyd Crowdis
Roy Crowdis
Kirksville
Ralph DeWitt
C. J. DeWitt
St. Joseph
Roy Pipes
Duane Crowdis
U.S. Army
Ftvenworth
Kansas
Neve Crowdis
John Crowdis
Charles
Guy Crow
Cal Burress
Allie Stephenson
Notes on Drinking for Hot Weather
Advice on staying hydrated in heat. Emphasizes drinking plenty of water, consuming fruit juices, and preparing drinks ahead of meals. Recommends keeping carbonated beverages properly chilled before mixing with juice to aid digestion.
Fashion Notes: Summer Styles Echo Army and Navy Touch
The piece highlights sailor collars navy buttons and emblems on silks and wash goods. Military capes remain popular with summer skirts that are roomier and shoulders balanced. Necklines gain collars, skirts gain pleats, waistlines loosened. Chambrays ginghams printed rayons and piques lead tailored frocks with white or pastel gloves to match.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Navy
Missouri Melange of Odd Local Tales and Feats
A collection of brief Missouri anecdotes reports quirky events from mule light-switching in a barn to a Brookfield girl given work, a 17 pound gar caught after a second attempt, stop sign reading failures in Fredericktown, a thief in Joplin, birds swallowing snakes in Monroe City, snelle skins on thorns, fast bicycle trips near Orrick, and Carthage’s sheltering fence around utilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredericktown
Democrat-News
Monroe
J. W. Head
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Tome
Pleasant Hill
Maxine Sleeth
Rex
Clarice
Donald Knifong
Beryl Taylor
Beverly
Jno
C. E. Smith
DrecArtor
Dickinson
Roy Helms
Milan
Chas. Dodson
Shirley Ann Caldwell
Bernie Roberts
Ralph Lawrence
Add Payne
Wesley Bundridge
Harris
Henry Lawrence
North of
Johnnie Elliott
East of
Coy Jones
East of Cora
Jones
G. M. Spencer
Jim Sevier
Elmer Sevier
Moberly
North Eagle
Charles Mellon
Bocky Ford
Colo
Ida Wilson
Chas. Thudium
New Boston
Crystal Turner
E. Cassidy
Norma Jean
Susan Weldon
Roy Mosley
Hubert Jones
Arkansas
Ray Jones
Alvie Walter
Gon
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Franklin
Linneus
Glen Wilson
Garry
Ed Jones
Joe Yagel
Zelda
Joe Yage
Leslie
Leota
Milo Yagel
Ted Guyer
Ed Yagel
Herman L
Leslie Jay Finney
Gerald Fin
Dick ‘Thte
Marvin Cooper
Iva Klamm
Verne Turner
Alpha Burns
E. F. Peterson Browning
Dr. Salsbury
Nation- Wide
Poultry Health Service
T. R. McArtor
M. D
M. L. Haning
Elliott Toy
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Toy
Linn’ County
Brightely
P. S
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Leland Francis
Francis
Platte County
Chares Priest
Cassville Democrat
Joplin
The
Globe
St. Peter’s Catholic Church
Raytown
Orrick
Carthage
Missouri City
Evening Post
Recorder
Kennett
Dunkin Democrat
Carl Brassfield
Chillicothe
Schoene’s
Carl Herman Adams
Lem
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