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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1917
Page
5
Local notices list daily visits and business trips by residents from Purdin and nearby towns. Mentions include Dr. H A Drew in Tripp House, Wm Crist of Winigan, W B Watson in Hamilton, and Prof Floyd Reyner visiting Kirksville. Also notes shipments and services such as Quaity Kind ice cream from Clyde Sayers and cheap farm loans offered by Higgins and McDuff.
A jumble of local notices mentions Peters Produce Co. buying old iron at eight dollars per ton. Various residents report travel, visits, and small town events, including miscellaneous goods for sale, restaurant offerings, and social calls around Linneus and Purdin. A hospital report notes a birth, and several names indicate community activity and business in nearby towns.
Mrs Maggie Brewer dined with Mrs L J McCollum. Enona McCollum visited aunt Mrs Laura Thudium. Opel and Enona McCollum visited F M Cattey. Perry B McCollum and family attended Sunday school at Mount Hope. Christian and wife visited grandmother Mrs Joe Mairs. F M Cattey and wife, Earl Abbott and wife visited W L Cahoon. Favorable weather spurred corn planting. a needed rain fell Sunday night and again Monday. Roy McCollum and family visited grandmother Mrs Mary K McCollum. W W Jones and granddaughter Gertrude McCollum traveled to Helena Oklahoma. Cross Roads and Corn area reports rain and ongoing corn planting. Miss Bertha Brinkley went to Chillicothe Monday. J J Smith and Lester Kenley of Browning shipped hogs from Cora last Wednesday. Edward Bundridge returned from Joplin. Walter Long of Milan visited relatives in Cora Sunday. Ernest Dodson and wife went to Milan Saturday. Mrs Norma Sterling of Pollock visiting relatives in Cora. Jas Shipley delivered hogs at Cora Wednesday. Several farmers report corn planting underway.
Will McCollum and wife were in town Friday afternoon after returning from St Louis where he attended the Embalmers' Association meeting the past week.
Last Wednesday the Farmers Exchange Bank held its annual meeting. All officers were reelected with J A Calhoun as cashier and R M Calhoun as assistant cashier. The bank reports strong growth, conservative investments, and growing patronage.
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