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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1939
Page
4
A Browning, Missouri snippet reflects on time wasted, marriage jokes, farmers, and local habits. It muses on Browning matches, garden seed relief programs, smoking abstinence bragging, hair color changes, and husband swapping humor in a hometown column style.
Saturday and Sunday visitors listed for Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Young include Cecil Crooks Wilma and Virginia Young Billie Kealing and others plus Lavaughn Fonk and baby. Minnie Pendergast fell from a wagon fracturing a rib and an arm and is recovering well.
Houser spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm Pendergast. Other visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tromerhouser and Velda. Mrs. Bessie Foster and Maxine called on Mrs. W. E. Sayers last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Woolf and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Lee Baird and daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cooper and children visited Mrs. Omi Phillips and Junior.
A gas stove explosion in the Gabriel Tavern sparked a fire that destroyed the tavern, burned the Bank of Purdin front, and collapsed the Vencll Shoe Shop roof. Contents of the shoe shop were carried out and few items survived the incident. Nearby residents and visitors shared in the morning aftermath as fire crews responded.
Mrs. Omi Phillips and Mrs. Tom Morris spent Friday with Mrs. Bob Shifflett. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Morris returned home from Hannibal where Mrs. Morris had been doctoring. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bowyer visited Carrie Bowyer Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stultz of Purgin visited Darrold Hutchinson and son Gene Sunday afternoon.
Lloyd Cordray and family and Mrs Brantner visited Cordray mother Mrs Ora Cordray. John Milhoan and wife with Ed gar McCollum and family called Otis McCollum's. Frank Cattey and wife visited Carl Farson's. Russell Crist and wife called on Perry Christian and wife. Maggie Brewer and Sam Franklin and family visited Charley Cordray. Wrenford Coram had a fall injuring ribs but is resting well. Robert Cattey and wife and Alton Abbott and family traveled to Goldsberry to see Dr Jim Abbott who is poorly.
Miss Avis Stinson of Chicago and her mother visited in Brookfield with Bill Stinson and family. Robert and Campbell Lamberts and children visited Miss Marion Head in Purdin. Kermit Lambert and Sonja visited Salem. A candy supper honored Mrs Longwell. Dickinson team played Browning at a ball game and other neighbors visited, with several trips and family care noted.
The report notesOverflowed banks on Wednesday Thursday and Friday causing widespread damage to crops in branch and creek bottoms Bridges and culverts washed out Mrs Georgia Gooch of near North Salem operated on at Grim Smith Hospital Kirksville improving slowly Friends and neighbors send wishes for speedy recovery Local social items include visits and travels of the Head Cassity Jennings Pearler Bailey Head and other Linn County residents with several family and rodeo events mentioned.
Rain continued last week as the Big Yellow Creek overflowed its banks, spilling into surrounding areas. Local authorities warned residents to monitor waters and heed evacuation orders if conditions worsened.
Mr and Mrs Roy Pamper and their young daughter visited Sunday with his sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs Orville Barron and their children. Miss Ruth Helms spent last week visiting her grandparents Mr and Mrs J S King in Bucklin.
Mr and Mrs J O McCollum and family shopped in Brookfield on Saturday. Earl McCollum and family stopped by. Sam Franklin and children cared for Lawrence Riedl. The Helms and Curt visited relatives in Bucklin on Sunday. A carnival in New Boston drew guests Saturday night. Ward Ware helped his mother move in Kirksville on Saturday. She fractured her arm in a stairs accident. Charley Thudium, his wife, and Dan Thudium spent Sunday at Lawrence Riedl's.
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