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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1936
Page
2
We are authorized to announce the name of Guy T. Carter of ing for the office of sheriff in county, subject to the action of the Republican voters at the August primary election.
The announcement states Dr. Q. H. Becker of Browning seeks the sheriff’s office in Ballivan County, subject to Democratic voters action at the August primary election.
Community notices record Sunday visits among Humphreys families including Watson Crowdis and Fisher while noting births and a detailed obituary for Rosa Harmon Bailey born October 9 1879 near Owasco died March 18 1936 in Humphreys aged 56 years 5 months and 9 days. Funeral conducted by Rev O O Hunsiker at the Christian church with burial in Humphreys cemetery. pallbearers and flower girls named among local kin.
Mr and Mrs Will Penhale and Mrs and Mrs Alex Penhale shopped in Brookfield on Saturday. Mrs Jess Pulliam won twenty dollars at the drawing in Purdin on Saturday. Robert Hoskins rented the Youle Haley farm and moved there Saturday. Mrs Frank Cassity and daughter Ethel Swinger visited Cassitys’ father in Jows Saturday. Miss Mary Lee and Miss Martha Cokerham visited parents and returned to Kirksville Sunday. Mr Willard Ross and Mr James Hedges spent Sunday with Raymond Bagley and family. Simon Head and Charles Lambert went to Mount Vernon.
Leslie Bagley visited home folks Sunday while Harold Patterson and family joined his brother Henry Patterson for the day. Oat sowing dominated the past ten days as oat scrap plantings spread. Several residents attended Herbert Shafer’s funeral at Mt Zion Sunday. Grace Catherine Gooch was welcomed as a newborn daughter.
Garden work and planting dominate the day as Shelby residents report moving between farms. Families like Baggley, Powles, Mullins, and Smiths are active with planting, farm tasks, and local business ventures in and around Shelby and nearby towns.
Roger Items reports residents busy with garden making and oat sowing while flu cases rise in the area. George Artz visited the Robert Stephenson home Friday morning. Mr. and Mrs. John DeWitt spent Sunday at the C P Dewite home. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyse King died Saturday night.
Nellie and Sylvia Stephenson visited the Melvin Stephenson home Friday. Families from Milan and Kirksville attended Sunday school in Reger. An all day meeting and basket dinner is planned at the Church of God in Roger on Sunday March 29, with Rev. Tompson and Rev. McDonald of Kirksville in charge. Imogene Swank and many locals spent time with neighbors. A string of visits and shopping occurred across Milan, Chicago, and Kansas City as residents traveled to see relatives. The Pleasant Grove W P F C noted thirteen members and a large group of visitors at a Wednesday meeting with a later gathering planned for April first.
Marshall Missouri hosted a visit Monday afternoon as fifteen members of the Missouri Valley College music department brought students and town visitors to the high school event. Several students were absent last week due to mumps but some exposed pupils returned this week.
Several visitors stopped by Browning and the school this week while musical numbers impressed attendees. A track team and a high school basketball team also played a curious baseball game Friday afternoon, with ongoing discussion of outcomes continued on the back page.
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