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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1938
Page
3
A long readable column lists for sale items, local visits, and social notes. It mentions early Ohio seed potatoes from J. G. Shipp and a Special offer of 250 Black Giant Pallets at $10.90 per hundred from Browning Hatchery. The piece records guests, moves, travel, and civic matters across Browning Linneus Purdin Milan and nearby communities with many named residents and farms.
Roy Pamper and wife were in Brookfield early this week. Miss Ruth Helms called on Mrs. Braden Thudium Monday after.
Mrs Vesta Cavanaugh Miss Mary Bonner and Will James of Milan visited Mr and Mrs D L Cady on Sunday evening. Several neighbors including Mr and Mrs George Pulliam and Mrs Eva Foster stopped by for calls. Charley Grice noted an extra large chicken hawk in D L Cady’s yard carrying off a six pound hen, lamenting such pest hawks.
Nice weather continues with snow gone and grass turning green. Juniors presented plays Friday and Saturday with good attendance and positive reviews. Mr. Will Cumbo shows improvement. Several pupils were absent due to sickness last week. Alva Bagley relocated his family to the Elmer Head property.
Last Friday in Purdin several residents attended a show in Browning on Saturday night. Mrs Henry Buswell hosted guests Friday including Mrs Fannie Head and Mrs Mildred Kennedy. Mrs Ernest Pearson visited her sister Mrs Effie Pulliam who has been ill recently. Ernest Pearson has suffered asthma for three weeks and is not much better.
The community reports several moves: Lester Stephenson family to Luther Shepherd farm and Claude Woolf’s nearby relocation. Virginia Williams and Helen White share Sunday visits, as do Robert Stephenson and Georges Ford with Keith Green. Mrs. Bill Fairley’s death saddens locals.
A weekly Timber Talk column highlights home projects in the area. It promotes Cook’s paint patterns and Vel Way finishes, notes residents remodeling farms near Reger and southwest of town, and urges readers to order wire from the carrier. Irvie Lees plans repairs near Brookfield and Cora, with quick returns on projects.
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