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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1943
Page
4
The Shafter column records mild spring weather with robins and bluebirds, visits from Mrs. Myrtle Stone in Chillicothe hospital, and reports of relatives and friends visiting or staying with local families. Citizens help with Red Cross projects and road maintenance while sharing community updates on schooling and social visits.
March arrives with a northwest wind and 13 degree temps as Cora area residents report losses and health updates. Dave Norman loses a mule and a horse, Jackie Bundridge improves after illness, and families relocate farms east of Cora.
A Liberty Magazine idea for town funds to aid service members during and after WWII spreads to Whittier California. Newspapers sponsor local funds with five trustees, a broad publicity push, and cardboard savings banks placed in homes for a 30 day drive to seed the fund for veterans.
Nolan Creason and family spent Sunday with his parents, Ola and family, Bennie and Freddie. A one pound eight ounce boy was born to Fred Ludwig’s family on Sunday February 28. Mrs. Glenn Cooper is on the sick list. A.E. Johnson and Floy Johnson spent Sunday at the Lee Wood home. Cooper was at home over the weekend. Rolan Gooch and family called on the Lee Wood family Sunday evening. Sonny Palmer was a guest. Merle Palmer stays at Fred Ludwig’s to help care for the new baby. Red Gooch moved to the Ed Geech place this week. Owen Stevenson is back home. They moved this week. Several from the community attended the sale at Floyd Kirby’s Friday. Everett Moore and wife and son Eugene were at the farm Saturday.
Allen McClaren of Milan visited Scottsville bringing word of farm plans. Herman Harris plans to move his operation to a nearby farm in the area in the near future.
Alice Ford spent Saturday night with Allen Fanning. Bernie Almond and Frank Scott visited Milan on Friday. The Scottsville school will close April 2. Mrs. Neve Crowdis traveled to Browning to see her poorly mother, Mrs. T. J. Seaman. Herman Harris and Marion Quigley sold a truckload of hogs last week. The G. P. Club met with Mrs. Carrie Callihan on February 25.
Mr and Mrs Wesley Bundridge of near Cora visited John A Browning. Wiley Taylor Harold and Barbara were Sunday visitors in Brookfield at Mrs Cora Thrasher s. Miss Wileta Taylor returned from Kansas City to help with work. Miss Mary Ann Dunlap visited Mrs Mary Ball s. Anna Taylor visited Rolla s. Clarence Kibble stayed with Wiley Taylor and mother on Tuesday. R L Brown and Fred Watson called at Wiley Taylor s Sunday.
Jim, Ed and Ella Morris moved to the Charley Dodson farm while Mr. and Mrs. Colon Christy moved to Morris old place. Visitors at the Roy Hollon home included Earl Hollon family and Bundridges. Other callers were the Head, Moore, Morris and Dunlap households. Elza Hollon and John Morris did road dragging.
Stephenson family hosted Mrs. Bertha Brinkley and daughter Nora Grindstaff along with Mr. and Mrs. Cal Burress and children on Sunday. Mrs. Clyde Dillinger of Steeleville and Clyde of Kansas City visited relatives here last weekend. Mrs. Grover Cutsinger of Chicago spent the weekend with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Collins and their son Junior.
County line items list numerous names visiting relatives and attending a farm sale near Meadville and Kirksville days last week. Mentions include Crooks, Lay, Keithley, Bowyer, Clawson, Arnold, McMickle, Crookshanks, Remick, Jensings, McWilliams, Walker, Smith, Sorge, Romine, Greenstreet, and others with brief travel, school, and army notes.
Local items note Mr and Mrs Willie Grindstaff and parents A J Myers near Pollock, Virgil Grindstaff with baby visiting Kansas, trips to Silver Lake and Laclede, Tipton hosting Harry McCoy and Melvin Stephenson, Oscar Leeper with Elizabeth Johnson of Pollock visiting relatives, Bessie Reeder and Coli Ill children spending weekend with kin.
Ernest Wallace Roy Marley attended a gathering at Green on Wednesday. Mrs Ethel Reed visited Wednesday with Mrs Dove Reed who is Kyle Belzer and J T Green. Milan visitors stopped by Wednesday as well. Finis McWilliams moved on Tuesday with changes noted in rooms.
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