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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1941
Page
4
Local Browning Missouri miscellany features quips on manners, gossip, and wartime worries. Items reference community habits, humor about women, strict proprieties, and playful moral maxims from owners and publishers Fern N Woodward and G T Woodward established 1884.
Roy Darr traveled to Kirksville on Monday delivering eggs to a hatchery. Mr and Mrs Johnny Cook and children visited Green City with Mrs Cook's parents Mr and Mrs Wm Darr. Mr Darr is very poorly. Mr and Mrs J L Jones and family visited friends near Green City Tuesday. Frank Smiths took their son Donald to a doctor in Green City Monday. Ed Borron Lavone Borron and Lydia Clubine were in Milan Friday for dental work. The Girls Sewing Club met with Clarice Crist on Saturday with Lola May McConnell Darlene Wallace Garnet Bailey Darlene Barron and Valetta Cattey present. Lee Crist and family exchanged homes with Earl Abbott. Asa Haggy was in Kirksville. One of Frankie Greenstreets daughters injured eye from car window glass and is improving. W T Nickell and sons Blaine and Cecil Nickell were at Milan Friday. Roy Carr in Brookfield Friday buying white Giant cockrell chicks. Oren Coram visiting Mr and Mrs Oren Bailey returned to Iowa Sunday for employment. Mr and Mrs Willie Riddle and family were Sunday guests of their daughter Mrs Archie Hampton and son west of Milan. Robert Price, ill for some time, has been taken to Mayo’s Hospital for treatment.
Margery Abbott and Vernon y were married last week and held a Saturday night reception at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Earl Abbott. Guests included Mr and Mrs Tom Greenstreet and daughter Mrs Zelma Smith. Other visitors were Mr and Mrs Ralph Moddrell and Ernest Higgins. Bess Greenstreet and daughter Mrs Geo Munns traveled to Kirksville, Mrs Lydia Clubine visits Ed Barron after months with Albert Clubine at Sidney. Sunday School attendance totaled 46.
Sunday gatherings include Mr and Mrs Beryl Head and family with Mrs Lawrence McIntyre in Newtown. Loyd Newton stayed with Harley Almond. Ed Almond improving. Alta Stufflebean with her parents. Ova Almond families visited Lizzie Praizer at Milan for her birthday surprise. Hattie Jennings sick. Ova Almond’s two ewes produced seven lambs. Ben Rhodes bought hay in Chillicothe Saturday. White Oak Club met Esther Fanning February 27. quilting and dinner. Next meeting with Bertha Brinkley on Thursday March 14.
Sunday church services were led by Rev. Hall at the Methodist Church but bad roads kept many away. Church of God members walked home with Mr and Mrs Lester Stephenson after spending Sunday there. Mr and Mrs Gene Rogers departed Monday for Kansas City after visiting relatives. John Crowdis hauled a load of hogs to Kansas City this week. Miss Maude Reger left Monday for Kansas City to seek employment. Mr and Mrs Thomas Henry spent Sunday with Mrs Henry’s family.
Authorized notice announces Curt Bauer as a Republican candidate for North Salem Township tax collector role subject to voters at the upcoming election.
Wayne Britton is a Pleasant Hill Township board member seeking reelection subject to Democratic primary voters. The item notes his candidacy hinges on the camping primary election results and party support.
Letters of administration granted to J A Harris and N W Phillips by Linn County Missouri Probate Court for the estate of Jacob B Harmon. Claims must be filed within six months of grant or be barred. one year to avoid bar. Arthur L Pratt Judge of Probate.
C J DeWitt Bill Green Thos Henry and Mr and Mrs John Crowdis attended the Bowman Township convention in Osgood Saturday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Tom Bardon purchased the Lon Williams property here and moved in Sunday. Mr and Mrs Leo Brinkley moved on the Poole farm south of town. Mr and Mrs Guy Crowdis were in Trenton Saturday morning.
The item notes unsettled March conditions in Missouri with strong winds and storms. It mentions the Burkholders ill with flu and poor health especially Mr Burkholder. It also reports several local moves including Arthur and Chester Coram families to the Thos Bauer and Willis Cokerham farms and caring for Mrs Thudium by Miss Cleta Pearler.
The community records several health updates and visits. Mrs. Elva Monroe stayed with Mrs. Bertha Burkholder to care for the sick. Ben Thuchum and wife moved back to the farm after living in Kirksville. Hubert Baskett and families visited Obe Clapp and wife near Winigan. Roy and Bennie Burkholder families visited from Sedalia and Brookfield. Multiple households report severe colds but are improving.
A heavy Wednesday snow slowed travel but melted soon. Purdin Senior class of 22 plans portraits in Brookfield with Will Lambert visiting. Barbara Edens underwent appendix surgery in Kirksville and is improving. Family visits and illnesses noted as Mrs. Thora Carr recovers and Walter Jerome rests better. Albert Enderly and Frances visited Keytesville, while Floyd and Jane Hardin visited Milan to see Mrs. Trussell Harin.
Mr and Mrs Raymond Anderson Mrs John Longwell Evelyn Mrs Anna Belle West and Helen Ann Mrs Belle Gray and Jack Norris went to Chillicothe Tuesday Mrs Gray and Jack stayed for a visit returning to St Louis Billy Fields and children have moved from this area
Local residents report visits and calls among families in Brookfield including Mr and Mrs Nelson Britton and Mr and Mrs Spencer. A feature discusses Linn County wheat insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act, noting guaranteed costs of production despite weather and heaving wheat in the 1941 crop.
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