Weekend visitors and local school notes from Milan
Emmett Spencer and family from Columbia spent the weekend here with Mrs Lily Spencer and Max. Clyde Dillinger from Columbia also visited relatives. Elsworth Smith of Kansas City visited here as did Mr and Mrs Alonzo Clem of Humphreys. Mrs Alda McKinstray of Milan stayed at the Sam Warren home while he was hospitalized in Kansas City. Virginia Moffitt and Dorothy Rader closed a nine month school term with Miss Rader rehired for a fifth year. Attendance at Sunday school was 36 with a 2.14 collection. Stella Hollenbeck returned from a visit to Green City area. Russell Roberts of Kansas City and Mary Ogle and family of Laclede visited Milan residents Friday night and Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Warren
Kansas City
Virginia Moffitt
Dorothy Rader
Miss Rader
Nora Ollie Burress
Billy Artz
George Burress
C. E. Burress
Ralph Pipes
Walter Artz
Methodist
Stella Hollenbeck
Walter Connell
Green City
Russell Roberts
Mary Ogle
Laclede
Milan
Pleasant Hill Social Notes Visible Weathery Skim
Pleasant Hill reports fine weather as residents share visits and illnesses. C E Smith called on Mrs Walter Bunch as Mrs Bunch remains ill. Wesley Brantner attended a Hereford sale in Chillicothe. Lyle Britton and Chas Britton shopped Brookfield. Bernice Riley visited Lyle Britton Friday. Jno Tucker and family spent Sunday with Bernine Brantner, who remains poorly. Wm Riley and A L Kaifeng attended Julia McQuown funeral in Browning. Riley fell ill returning home.
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Pleasant Hill
C. E. Smith
Walter Bunch
Winigan
Bernine Brantner
Brantner
Wm. Riley
A. L. Kaifeng
Julia McQuown
Browning
Mr. Riley
Gossip and home projects in town this week
F W Artz and Edgar Crist reroof with red cedar shingles. Dan Freeland had Frank Segar install a new well on his farm north of town. Roy Haley has Noel Lay painting Edens farm improvements. Local sale offers on wallpaper, ladders, wax, doors, asphalt coating, and paint entice Henry Watson and O S Stone to finish new house exteriors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Freeland
Frank Segar
Roy Haley
Noel Lay
Edens Farm
Henry Watson
Have You Heard This One A Hereford Bull Ad
A humorous exchange about being late to dinner due to work ends with a local ad for sale of three coming yearling Hereford bulls listed as Brantner.
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Hereford Bulls
Brantner
O. Harris
Community notes from Browning and surrounding towns
Residents share weekend visits and social calls across Browning Kirksville Brookfield and Linneus. Families visit relatives attend church and celebrate graduates while others travel for shows and stock shipments.
Dickinson Items From North Salem Club Meeting
The North Salem Club met on Thursday May 2 with Mrs Gertrude Lambert. Local residents Gene Fields stayed with Grandmother Fields near Browning. Mr and Mrs Raymond Anderson visited Brookfield. The Longwells spent Sunday with John Longwell's parents. Raymond Browning Wilma and J M Browning visited Alma Baker and Herry Lambert. Mrs Lon Dickinson has been real poorly the past week. Her children and sister and husband T M Smith and Arlo Smith were mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. M. Smith
Arlo Smith
Notice of Special Election in Enterprise Township Linn Co Missouri
The Linn County Court orders a special election on June 3 1940 in Enterprise Township to vote on issuing twenty thousand dollars of serial road bonds for up to twenty years. Proceeds fund building and improving highways including grading surfacing and bridging. Voting place as usual. C E Swinney clerk.
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Court of
Linn County
Missouri
Enterprise Township
Linn
Enterprise
Said
Linneus
Said County
C. E. Swinney
Mixsouri
North East Linn Social Visit Notes
Perry Christin and wife visited Sunday evening at the Charles Purdin home. Everett McConnell, wife and son Dean, were visiting Sunday at Jim McConnell's. Their mother accompanied them for a brief visit. Otis McCollum and wife spent Sunday evening in Gifford with Will McCollum and wife. Arthur Watson and wife spent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North East Linn
Perry Christin
Charles Purdin
Everett McConnell
Dean
Jim McConnell
Otis McCollum
Gifford
Will McCollum
Arthur Watson
Visit Notes From Morning Sun Residents
Robert Cattey and family visited Ben Cattey on Sunday. Milo Bailey and family and Lane Bailey and wife of Morning Sun Iowa made a brief visit to Arthur Watson's home last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Cattey
Ben Cattey
Milo Bailey
Lane Bailey
Morning Sun
Iowa
Arthur Watson
Clare and Lavern Tallman Shearing Sheep Nearby Last Week
Clare Tallman and Lavern Tallman were seen shearing sheep in the neighborhood last week. The report notes two residents were engaged in sheep shearing activity during the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare
Lavern Tallman
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Browning, Missouri
Browning, Mo
George Eliot
F. W. Artz
Edgar Crist
O. S. Stone
Browning Lumber CO
Scott
Chas
Newton
Kirksville
Walter Smith
Brookfield
Herman
St. Joseph
Lyle Stone
Elden
James
Wayne _ Britton
E. W. Riley’s
Lee. Pearler
Jim Elliott
Jno. Tucker
Raymond Phillips
Nora Straley
Dale and
Eugene
Minnie Coffman
Archie
Evelyn Brantner
Prairie Mound School
Roy Maxwell
John Clapp
Geo. Spencer
Oda Spencer
Ibb .Spencer
Ellis Abbott
Art Buswell
Jesse Head
Eldon Head
Mary Lambert
Walter Lambert
Rosa
Bert Kirk
Jocco
My Farm
Shelby
Gravel Road
John C. Simpson
Edna Lambert
Kermit Lambert
Keith Almond
St. Louis
Robert Lambert
John Longwell
Evelyn
Anna Belle West
Marjory Minor
Allen Lambert
Nora Beck
Charley Cordray
Bonnie and
Kenney
Edith Browning
Wilma
J. T. Longwell
Anna Belle
King
H. L. Schrock
Gossard
FELT
Meetano
Lloyd W. Hummel
T. R. McArtor
M. D
M. L. Haning
DR. Vinton Jones
Carl Brassfield
Eldridge
Fern Carter
J. B. Harvey
J. N. Neet
Alva M
B. G. Arnold
Hugh Campbell
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