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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1917
Page
4
Local notices from Browning Missouri share travel to Milan Joplin Purdi n and Green City snippets. Residents visit relatives attend court and school progress. weather praised. many neighbors listed by name with brief weekly movements and family visits.
North Salem residents report visits to Browning Winigan and Brookfield. Families travel for gatherings and business. Uncle Perry McCollum visits Nevins family. Alli e Almond visits Winigan friends. Baby boy born May 12 marks local joy. funeral at Bethel for an uncle noted.
We thank friends and neighbors for kind help and sympathy and especially the Odd Kellows for their aid in caring for our husband and father in his illness and death. Mrs. Augustus G Sorge and family.
The essay urges America to prepare for wartime food relief and to mobilize wheat and agricultural resources to aid millions in war torn areas. It emphasizes national responsibility to protect citizens and assist distant suffering populations through organized assistance and production.
The article appeals to American farmers and breeders to hatch eggs through May and June to add 100 million pounds of poultry meat. It cites low meat per capita and wasteful garbage disposal, urging people to convert offal into feed, adopt backyard flocks, and boost production amid looming world demand.
Mrs. Robert Hoyt and Mrs. Cochran with J. T. Fleming visit in Milan. Mrs. L. M. Kenley attends grandmother’s funeral in Owasco. John Hart of Willits, California visits Winivan for summer with relatives. M. E. Church South services Sunday 11 AM and 8 PM. Farm loan firm ad for Northern Missouri. Browning beat Linneus 11 to 7 in practice. Mrs. J. A. Cotter to visit Browning May 24 25 26 at Peters Hotel for fittings. Jimmie shines in youth game. Spirella corsetier in Browning May 24–26.
Peters Prod Co seeks 1000 tons of old iron at eight dollars per ton. Wm Shepherd of Roger attended the Farmers Exchange Bank stockholders meeting yesterday. Miss Edna Carpenter returned Sunday from a short visit with Mr and Mrs.
The Rotary Club of Kansas City MO announces a Farm Recruiting Office offering free help to local farmers. It enlists boys aged 12 to 20 willing to work and learn. Letters to Rotary Club Farm Bureau 317 East 10th St. note age wage and experience. farmers pay $15 to $30 monthly depending on age and ability.
Labor is the limiting factor in crop production this year. J. R. Johnson of the Missouri College of Agriculture urges farmers to switch to horse powered tools, increasing work per man. A man with three horses on a sixteen inch plow covers three acres daily, while a gang plow with two twelve inch bottoms plus one more horse yields about four acres per day, boosting ground breaking efficiency by about 75 percent.
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