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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1938
Page
2
Public notice announces Barry K. Kelley as a candidate for Recorder of Deeds subject to Democratic primary voters on August 2 1938. The notice appears in the Brown Lamm Missouri post office imprint as second class mail matter dated June 30 1938.
A collage of quips on faith politics and fame from a Browning cohort. The jokes poke at candidates spouses musicians and engineers with skeptical humor about money luck and age, closing with a Ford crack about generations.
Winigan vicinity reports show multiple families visiting relatives in Kirksville Ottumwa and Brookfield with travels to St Louis La Plata and Kirksville. Births noted with Helen Marie born June 23 attended by Dr Ellis. Grandparents visited by Lola Pearl Howell and others at various towns.
The article notes Vermont residents flagging a train with a burlap sack and saving all on board. It contrasts burlap with red flannel in a humorous look at how weather and politics mix in old days.
First publication June 9 1938 announces public sale of the Quigleys land in Linn County Missouri. The property includes parts of sections 13 and 14 with a cemetery acre, totaling 79 acres, conveyed to secure two notes. Sale to be held Friday July 1 1938 at the Linn County courthouse west front door between 9 AM and 5 PM. ARTHUR D. CAMPBELL Trustee.
Shorty Bob McCollum passed away suddenly last Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Belzer. The obituary notes his sudden death occurred Saturday evening and names the Belzers as hosts.
Rain cooled over Purdin as two softball teams played Sunday with Bagley’s team beating Shelby and Urbach’s team losing 7 to 1 to Centerville. Cemetery upkeep improved under Carl’s care and lights are being installed at the ball park for night games. Ruth Cassity reportedly canned 50 quarts in one day.
The column reports warm weather with rain hoped for and social visits. Herb Wilson traveled to Brookfield and Nile Rauer Art Tripp Leon Smith and Edgar Crist went to Chicago with Crist and Rauer returning with new cars. Mrs Carl Logan and her son Richard visit Carl’s parents. Dorothy Wilson spent the weekend with relatives.
Lorene visited Mrs. Nile Rauer for an all day Friday call. Lin Harper and John Buswell traveled to Iowa Tuesday night. W. J. Bailey his wife and son Billy and Kermit Rulon his wife and little son Delane were in Shelby Saturday on business. Nile Rauer went to Kansas City Friday to accompany Mrs. Alex Finney. Leon Smith and Edgar Crist went to St. Joseph Friday with a hog load. Mrs. T. L. McDonnald and granddaughter Patty Rae and Mrs. Luther Simpson and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Simpson.
Fine weather with rain Saturday night and Sunday. farmers plowing corn and oats in harvest. Women canning peas and beans as berries ripen. Local visits include Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Molloy and children from Purdin. Mrs. Wayne Bagley and Bertie from Humphreys staying with Gilmer family. Bob Shiffler and children visiting Morris family. Edgar Morris visiting Brookfield. Alice Coulter visiting Mary and Norma Gooch. Carman Hedges visiting Carrie Bowyer. Hazel Cooper at K S T C for weekend.
A roundup of residents visiting relatives and friends in nearby towns. Mentions include A E Norman calling at L W Arnold home, Mrs Warren Gooch assisting her father Ben McGhee in Shelby, Fay Coulter and Alice visiting L W Arnold's family, and others attending family gatherings or business trips in Brookfield Purdin and St Louis.
George Bray visited friends in Kirksville last week and also Dave Coram in Linneus. Ronald, Donald and Shirley Asher visited grandparents Ben Thuchum last week. Harley Smith and Clyde Head attended a ball game at New Boston Sunday. Roy Simpson and family visited his mother Mrs. Simpson Sunday. Harley Smith's nephew stayed for a few days. Local youths attended a Brookfield show Sunday night. Earn Head and son Wesley visited Tom McCollum Sunday morning. Quentin Bailey works in Mendon this week. Maxine Head and Leon Wilson were Sunday guests of Mrs. West. Daniel Thudhum works for Crist Briggs. Louise Coram visited home folks Arthur Coram Sunday.
North Salem residents attended the funeral Monday at the McCollum cemetery for Shorty Bob McCollum. Agnes Stone and son Eldon visited her parents, Dee and Mrs Smith, Sunday. Fay Jennings, Charley Newton and others enjoyed home ice cream with Frank Head and family last Thursday night. Ida Head is reported to...
Dr. E. R. Duncan, dentist, maintains an office over Farmers Store in Browning with phone line 107.
Sunday visits fill the week with kin and neighbors as Wilma Head, Darlene Pearl er, and Ella Head share a night. Funeral notices follow reports of Mrs. M A Arthur’s Denver death and services in Sumner. Farmers report good results from grasshopper poison bait while Bauer’s softball team defeats Harper and eyes Milan next.
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