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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1912
Page
8
Local notes from Purdin describe the Lions show under a tent and visits by residents including Messrs Bumgarner, Hunter, and Cassity. Church services, home improvements, a new bank, and a fire department pump arrival are noted along with social calls. A humorous auto episode ends with advice on tying a horse to a telephone pole.
Locust Valley items include Homer Creason at Brookfield and Floyd Crooks on Humphreys business. Uncles Dan Myers improving, Mrs Kate Fields visiting, and Dick Cotter passes away with Jenkins interment. Rev Moss and Rev Cameron schedule church services and a Young Peoples Meeting, with reflections on domestic life and moral couplets.
FOR SALE. A good rubber thre Velie buggy new,new set of single harness also my new Ford auto. John Fosher.
Ex judge J J Van Fossen spent Sunday at Frank McKays. Frank and Homer McKay delivered calves at Galt Tuesday. Hail damaged corn and vegetables Wednesday evening. Earnest and Fred Hamilton left for Kirksville for the normal. F P McKay and wife in Browning on business Wednesday. A strong wind storm on Wednesday blew porches off Jim McKees house and uprooted trees.
South Sullivan reports include J R Lantz driving to Laredo Sunday and Alpha Talbert in Milan at week’s end. Cecil Bales works for Er G Brookshier this week and several locals attended court in Linneus the past week. The rain last week boosted crops, with visits by Mr and Mrs W P Keithley to Mr and Mrs C B Keithley over Sunday and Ross Burk returning from Milan teachers exam. John Taylor and L V Taylor visited John Morgan Sunday, while Frank Neff and wife spent Sunday near Linneus with John Powell.
Last Wednesday during a storm a lightning strike hit Kane's harness shop at the center of the building. It ran a current into the ground but caused little damage. Kane and his family, living in the upper rooms, were relieved nothing worse happened.
A first class plasterer offers services in Milan Missouri. W A Botts guarantees satisfaction and invites inquiries for plastering work.
Witnesses J W P McQuown and James Jones testified in Linneus as Dodson sues Kansas City Oil Co. for a crude oil sold as an excellent sheep dip. Dodson used it and lost many sheep, winning damages of 125 dollars.
James and William Neet returned from a business trip to Iowa where they visited the agricultural college at Ames and attended a silo convention and demonstration. They also looked after silo business in Des Moines and plan to build silos in the near future.
Roy Haley delivered unusually large strawberries to the office on Saturday. A specimen measured six inches in circumference. Haley has gathered about fifty gallons from his first bearing patch this year.
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