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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1942
Page
4
The notice states a subscription price of $1.50 per year and marks the item as second class matter at the Browning Missouri post office under the act of March 3 1879.
A collection of witty quotes and musings on politics, war, neutrality, rationing, and social life. The snippet juxtaposes references to Wellington, Browning, and American presidency with humor about coal, sugar, teeth, and telephone talk. It notes crossroads for the country and playful lines from Browning wives.
Community updates include weather complaints and mud concerns. Mrs. Card Head and Mildred Tarno with son care for her. Jas Dodson improves slowly. Artie Cotter family relocates to old Langdon place. Knight family moves to Charley Dodson farm. Steele family prepares to move to old Wampler farm. Elmer Sevier sells two mules. Iris Warten dies. J W Sevier and daughter visit Collins family in Milan. Jerry Head visits grandparents. Fess Kille ill. Gene Bozwell from Iowa visits.
Multiple Adair County residents are reported visiting or staying with relatives and attending appointments. Frank Belzer spent Monday with his parents in Winigan vicinity. Mrs John Romine visited Green City for dental work. Duane McConnell and Dean McConnell stayed with grandparents in Green City. R E and Tom Greenstreet were in Green City midweek. J L Jones were in Green City with Roy Thompson and Mrs Lambert.
A humorous Texas centennial piece recounts how a pig helped shape Texas statehood and U S territorial gains. Melissa A Castle relates a fanciful history from the Texas Centennial with a France loan and a court dispute over a neighbor's pig leading to annexation.
Geo Munns and Floyd Waddill visited Brookfield on Saturday. Geneva Cleeton left for Washington DC last week for new employment. Perry and Mrs McCollum moved from Kirksville to Grandpa Cable farm southeast of town. Gerald Spaight Lola Pearl Howell and Gale Howell with spouses visited Green Street residents. Edgar Nation and son visited Haggy family. Dr Schurr of Green City treated Mrs L D Howell who was ill.
Five weeks after last contact the serviceman moved from Great Lakes Illinois to Pearl Harbor Hawaii. He states he is feeling fine and has gained twenty three pounds since entering training camp.
Hubert Morris visited Green City on Saturday. An announcement last week noted the birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Dean Brown in Glendale California Dean is the second son of Mr and Mrs R L Brown. Ray Pipes hosted Kansas City guests Sunday Waverly Pipes employed there joined them to visit parents and sisters Everett Harris visited Browning Saturday Mrs R L Brown visited Wiley Taylor's home and mother Mrs Fred Watson has been ill the past week Mrs Orlen Harris is improving.
Gale winds blow through Purdin as residents attend multiple funerals and visits. Mrs. Sam Schrock’s funeral held Sunday at 2 p.m. at daughter Mrs. Weaver Cassity’s home. Local residents Mrs. Will Myers and families are mentioned in wellness and travel notes.
Moving is hard with bad roads. Frank Belzer and family shift to a farm near Winigan. Hugh Hale relocates to Belzer’s former place. Oren Jennings also moves from his old residence to the vacated property.
Hale and Raymond Anderson purchase a farm near Purdin while Jesse Longwell buys the property where Anderson’s lived. Lloyd Spencer moves onto Walter Head’s farm and Randall Lee Schreckhise takes over Herman Payne’s land. Several neighbors visit kin including Mrs. Gertrude Lambert with the Spencers and Longwells, and numerous Sunday and Thursday calls and visits are noted among area families.
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