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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1934
Page
2
Local Browning Missouri newspaper notes a Thursday edition dated March 15 1934. The brief item records community news and civic notices typical of a small town paper from that era.
The Cross Roads and Cora community notes a well attended canoe gathering at Ernest Bundridge ridge last week. Many neighbors visit relatives, move on farms, and host guests including Dodson, Tharp, Spencer, and Bundridge families, with several travel and cattle buying touches.
Alta McKinstray spent time at Grant Smith home. Leanna Grandstaff and Harold Leeper wed March 6 near Pollock. Allen McClarren family welcomed a baby girl. Grindstaffs visited near Humphreys. Cotter family moved near Green City. Mrs. James Meek died March 3 near Milan, burial at Henry cemetery March 4. she was 75. Clyde Dillinger teaching near St. Louis visited parents. George Hatcher visited from Galt. Yardley and Hoselton families and others spent Sundays with neighbors.
Misses Lucille and Amber Reger visiting Kirksville with their parents Mr and Mrs Arthur Reger. Mr and Mrs Leonard Lee spent several days in Milan visiting relatives last week.
Sunday brought a brief snow shower that quickly melted. The Chaffee Bros moved onto the Bony Miller farm. Orville Mott and wife visited Johnie Tallman and wife. Mrs Braden Thudium improves after illness. Paul and Albert Dodge visited Luther Lauck in Winigan. Ellwood Thudium and Hubert Baskett attended church in New Boston and visited W L Cahoon. Roy Maxwell and C Ram went to Brookfield to see ill Clay Spencer. Bennie Burkholder and wife visited Arthur Monroce. Sunshine Workers Club met March 7 with a day long quilting session and social dinner.
Mr and Mrs Herbert Trotter and Mr and Mrs Wes Trotter travel to Kansas City due to illness. Elfreda Jennings visits Bernice Stevenson. Knight siblings at Milan school spend weekend with home folks. Clyde Hoskins visits Lester Lawrence. Ralph Morris family and Zella Thurlo stay with John Robison at Purdin. Roses Knight visits Charley Scott in Mexico. Mason Thurlo family and Alpha Moore visit Ella and Ed Morris. Roy Dunlap returning from St Joseph visits home folks. Bundridges move to John Lee farm. Mary Blackman recovering from illness. Vivian and Bernice Franklin visit Hartwell Franklin and Pipes family. Henry Morris of Milan spends weekend with Ed Morris.
The report mentions unsettled springlike weather, sowing oats and grass seed as a daily task, and several residents visiting relatives. Henry Logan and wife returned to Shelby from Tillman relatives, Mrs. Frank Raver helped quilt at J. M. Logan’s, and others like Mrs. W. J. Bailey, Ralph Smith of St. Louis, and Leon Gooch’s family were visiting. A group including Leon Smith and others attended a Brookfield show, and a Shelby high school show Friday night drew a nice crowd.
Tracie Christian and her family called on her parents Mr. and Mrs. Will Welch Sunday. Mrs. L. T. Finney visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. Ben Mc Ghee Sunday. Leon Smith hauled corn for Leonard Riddle Saturday.
The notes record Jimmie Lee and the Peery girl marriage on Saturday. Joe Crookshanks suffered a Thursday auto accident from Brookfield leaving his wife and sister-in-law injured. Mrs. Alexander, mother of George and Lon Louthan’s family, died Friday morning. Several small local activities include carpentry by Ray Pulliam, staffing changes at Richardson Miller’s, and visits among neighbors including the Streets, Wolf, and Johnson families.
J O Pulliam and family visited parents Monday evening. Mr and Mrs Joe Creason and Mr and Mrs R D Cassity called Sunday night. Mrs J A Hedges went to Shelby to see her son Fred McGhee. A baby boy arrived at the McGhees. Pulliam family dined in Meadville and saw a show in Chillicothe. C L Grice called on Cady Monday evening. A W Smith’s cow dislikes the reduction program and produced twin calves. Raymond Bagley moved to the Cokerham farm north of town Friday.
Community updates include visitors: Mr and Mrs Baker with sons Bobby. Mr Love Mrs Wilson and Lester Seely from Wheeling. Hazel Cooper returning from Kirksville to care for ill mother Mrs Cooper. Veda Hammock recovering from whooping cough and pneumonia. Ileen Brown returning to school. Mr and Mrs Dick Moore settling with Mrs Carrie Bowyer. Gooch family moving back with neighbors giving welcome. Jack and Roberta and children welcomed back. John Kimbrough visiting W L Baker. Molloy family from Linley visiting with children on Sunday.
Guests of Mr and Mrs Bryan Molloy and children visited with his parents. Otto and Brehm families shopped in Shafter. Morris Chapel Sun day School class meeting at Sun day with 25 attendees led by Elizabeth Ward and Lola Moore ensuring winter sessions. Additional visits included Edgar Morris with Hugh Campbell family and George Phillips with Sam Gooch family. Harold Cooper joined Sunday guests of Vernon Phillips.
Northeast Linn items note thawing March weather. Roscoe Harl family visited Roy Harl in Winigan. Ruth McCollum and Maggie Brewer visited Mrs. Dale Sill Sunday evening. Perry Christian and wife visited Ben Purdin. Mrs. Earl Abbott of Winigan stayed with her mother, Mrs. Frank Cattey, who is poorly. Tim Ware funeral attended at Bethel. Edd Cordray and wife and Ernest McCollum of Helena Oklahoma stayed a few days with relations.
Warmer conditions prompt locals to prepare sowing oats and plant potatoes this week. Mrs Ruth Lawrence and Frances Lou visit the Rhodes family. Mrs W E Sayers and daughters visit J R Wood. Mildred Davenport visits Edith Rottmann and Pearl and Clara Wood.
Sunday visitors gathered at multiple homes including the Jerome, Meeker, Gooch, and Campbell households with social events at the Ladies Aid Society meeting. A four month old infant of Mr. and Mrs. Searcy died, and county committeemen were elected at a corn-hog meeting. A drought related contract amendment allowed substitute crops with stated filing requirements.
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration’s corn hog section allows limited increases in feed crop acreage such as oats and soybeans for 1931 when a producer lowers corn acreage in 1934. The rule applies to crops like oats barley rye grain sorghum soybeans cowpeas and others used for livestock feed, citing crop rotation needs.
Farmers signing corn hog adjustment contracts may plant selected feed crops on abandoned clover acreage under a new Agricultural Adjustment Administration ruling issued by the corn and hog section.
North Salem M. E. Church schedules Sunday school at 10 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Everyone invited to attend. Pastor John Barkley leads.
On March 8 the Dizzle Dazzle Club held a 7 pm dinner at Evelyn Gable’s home. Bridge dominated the evening with Oma Atkins and Burton Darr winning prizes. attendees included Gladys Atkins Lorene Burkholder Frances Darr Erma Peterson Beverly and Robert Moore Melba and Harold Carter Martin and Leo Moran Luther Baker Lewis Austin and James Rudloff.
The Sunshine Workers met with Mrs. Andrew Cassity on March 7 for an all day session. Eight members and one visitor attended. many were sick or absent. Quilting was the focus but not completed. a covered dish luncheon and social time followed. next meeting with Mrs. Earnest Head.
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