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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1943
Page
4
The Fern N Woodward and G T Woodward owners and publishers establishment dates trace to 1884 with a subscription rate of $1.50 per year. The paper is entered as second class matter at the Browning Missouri post office under the act of March 3, 1879.
A collage of wry observations and aphorisms highlights daily quirks in manners war and money. It riffs on rhetoric ambition fashion luck and travel with light satire and cultural references. The snippets mix humor and social commentary in a newspaper style montage.
Sunday visitors included the Wood family and Virgil Sayers with Deloris and Stanley, the Sayers and Miss Marcelle Wood. John Rottmann joined dinner with LeRoy Shafer and Roger. Other gatherings featured the Lane and Melton groups, Forsen and Merrick families, Trippletts, Holser and Warren circles. A Horton spent the night with Ed Sayers. Woolf family visitors from Kansas joined C A Woolf and Imogene. Shirley Warren visited Carolee Sayers.
A Shafter area diary recalls Parson Creek overflowing the road twice last week near N and W of Shafter. The entry mentions mothers calling children and a reminiscence of life near Locust Creek as the narrative shifts.
Sunday dinners guest lists and weekend outings abound as families from Galt Chillicothe Meadville Linneus and nearby towns host relatives and friends. Carnival attendance Browning picture show and a park outing mark a lively period with notes on local patrol presence and a reminder to buy bonds and stamps.
Pur din readers report Charley McNally and family visiting relatives with Charley traveling to Des Moines. Vernon Street and Mar quarete Street visit Mr and Mrs Will Street while Van Vencill greets friends in Purdin. Local health notes mention Harrison Smith in a St Louis hospital and Mack Molloy improving.
Weather slows corn planting as residents note ongoing rain and cold. Community events include visits by Miss Barbara Ellen Sevier to Milan, births Gary Wayne Head in May, and multiple social visits among the Head, Sevier, and Stephenson families. James Scott obituary acknowledged. local teachers college students Marjorie Stephenson and Thelma Maggart spend weekend at home. Laddie Dodson in U S Army stationed at Lincoln Nebraska.
Arthur Monroe called on Lon McNally Saturday afternoon during visits at Mrs Hattie Miller and daughter and Mrs Leland Bowyer hosted guests.
Mr and Mrs Norman Woodside and children took Mrs Jess Woodside to Kirksville for treatment at Grim Smith Hospital. Pvt Herbert Lambert and family visited relatives in Dickinson while he is stationed in Las Vegas Nevada. Multiple visits and travels among Dickinson residents include Longwell Spencer Lembert families with trips to Brookfield Purdin and Browning over the week and weekend.
Mrs Mable Lambert and Sonja visited her brother Pvt Arlo Smith in North Salem on Friday.
Mr and Mrs R L Brown and Mr and Mrs Fred Watson visited Kirksville on Saturday for eye care. Guests included Sam McClanahan family, Roger Barkley family, J C Franklin, and Nellie Kibble household. Happy Workers Club met with Mrs Earl Shaw. Holstein calves bought by Ray Pipes and Wiley Taylor at Milan sale. Orlin Harris travelled to Green City.
county line items recount visits among Crookshanks families from Kansas City Illinois and Minnesota over the weekend and Wednesday. Alden H Tharp dies in Trenton Hospital and funeral held at Locust Valley with family connections noted.
Mrs Lyle Wickham and Lois and Frank Wickham returned from Omaha Nebraska where Mrs Wickham spent nearly two weeks at the bedside of her mother Mrs Pointer who underwent a major operation. Mrs Pointer is out of hospital and at home.
The highway patrol cites statistics showing that drinking and driving multiplies the chance of a crash by about 75 times, urging motorists to avoid impairment.
Miss Chloe Fields of St. Louis visited her brother Pvt. William Fields after his army discharge. Several relatives from Lincoln Nebraska and Plattsmouth Nebraska joined W. L. Taylor and family for visits and Sunday dinner. Ancillary notes mention illness of Robert Fields and various trips among Browning Trenton Keokuk and Meadville residents.
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