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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1934
Page
2
Miss Leatha Oaks and Evelyn Longwell led a Tuesday night quilting gathering at the Trixie Russell home. Neighbors shared news of visits, school program plans, and community notes while Leatha Oaks was named teacher for the next term.
Miss Peva May spent the weekend with Miss Bernice Franklin. Mrs. Herbert Trotter, ill, is improving. Frank Franklin plows for Fred Watson this week. Mrs. Mary Spencer visited Miss Ella Morris on Sunday. Pernice Franklin stayed Monday night with Miss Faye Foster. Miss Mary Ann Blackman traveled to Trenton to visit relatives. Dean Knight spent the weekend with home folks. Mrs. Fred Watson and son Charles, Mrs. Everett Harris and others are noted in local notes.
Local notes report wintry and springlike conditions in the area. Residents including Billie Black family visit relatives in St. Joseph while merchants and neighbors travel for errands and visits to nearby towns such as Quincy, Milan, and Browning.
Chas. Dodson dehorned cattle for Wesley Bundridge on Monday. Lester Lawrence and family moved from the farm east of Cora, vacated by Bill Pipes and family.
Mrs. Nora Cordray visited with Mrs. Maggie Brewer Sunday evening. Frank Cattey and wife spent Sunday in Winigan at Earl Abbott's. Perry McCollum of Kirksville visited I. J. McCollum. Mrs. Maggie Brewer was at Sherman Cordray's Saturday. Roy Hart and family visited Shelby Sunday. Ellwood Thudium and family called on Otis McCollum Sunday evening. Perry Christian and family visited Ben Purdin. Miss Ella Cordray visits with brothers Sherman and Charley Cordray. Robert Cattey and family visited Lon Turner Sunday.
The column records a sequence of local visits and moved households in Haseville. Virgil Sayers and daughter visited Alvin Bruce and daughter. Jerome and Veda Jerome shopped in Chillicothe. Beryl Warren moves to Cawood farm north of Haseville. Families including Campbell Gooch Bartow and Morris clans attended W. J. Gooch home. W. E. Sayers trip to Browning. Ray Gooch hosted by W. A. Pew for dinner. Rev T J Winney led services at Haseville church with good attendance.
The column lists weekly social visits including Kitty Lynn staying with Mr and Mrs Gooch. Mrs Veda Wood and daughter visited the J C Sayers home. Lola Rae Bartow visited Yvonne Wood. H J Woolf shopped in Trenton. S J Bartow visited Henry Smith on Sunday.
The notes describe spring weather and local visits. People mentioned include Henry Logan Hadley Rulon and Henry Lambert, Miss Veda Mitchell, Nile Bauer, Leonard Riddle, and others visiting friends and relatives in Shelby and nearby Brookfield. A trip to Detroit for work at the Chevrolet plant is noted with good luck wished.
W Craig Beckett and G D Pulliam made a business trip to Milan on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Wm Pulliam visited Milan Sunday. Dr Gilbert Kroeger spent the weekend with his wife at Ed Pulliam’s home. Mr and Mrs D L Cady were Mrs J O Pulliam. Miss Irene Pulliam spent Monday night with her aunt Mrs D L Cady. Jesse Lambert purchased the Lee Foster farm north of town. T M Sayers had a motor accident Monday and was badly bruised.
Mr and Mrs Vane Kingsolver and son Morris of Linneus spent Sunday with her parents Mr and Mrs Everett Crookshanks Evelyn Longwell was a Saturday night guest of Alice Coulter Mr and Mrs Earl Smith and daughter Betty Lou of Brookfield were Sunday dinner guests of his parents Mr and Mrs R E Smith and family Mr and Mrs Frark McMcki2
Sunday guests visited local families including Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gooch and Mrs. Harold Campbell. Pupils gathered for a school feast, ciphering match, and contests led by Asbery Phillips. Other notes mention illness, travels to Brookfield, and a Browning church visit.
Mr and Mrs J C Sayers and others hosted Sunday guests including E Rottmann and children. Otis Lawrence and daughter visited the Byrd Warren home. Earl Jerome visited Alvin Bruce family. T S Bartow and children visited Harry Tromer hauser family. Elmer Hammock and children spent Sunday at H T Jerome home. M T Scott and …
A dispatch profiles Captain Boney Ridley of North Carolina as 89 and living a temperate life after 15 years of tapering his alcohol intake. He notes that a pint too much makes it go to his head.
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