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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1946
Page
4
A Browning man wonders why ambition ties to labor union leadership amid local chatter. Browning mothers suggest a girl's petticoat could be viewed as a period costume, stirring local gossip and playful debate.
North Salem items recount livestock loss Mrs Enid Moore’s roan cow found in a ditch with a broken neck. Residents trade visits and travels include Duane Lawson Jr returning from California and families touring Kirksville Lancaster and Brookfield. Wayne Walters contracted to clean the cemetery, due by Memorial Day.
Ada Wood travels from Chicago to visit her ailing father. Urb Johnson and son plus Babe Kimbrough visit Chillicothe on business. Red Gooch calls at Kent Murrell and Glen Cooper homes. Delmat Oertwig and family attend a weekend visit with John and Walter Wood families.
Weekly notes recount social visits in Purdin Brookfield and Rothville. It includes a memorial for John Baskett Sr with funeral details and community happenings from local families and neighbors.
Cpl Theodore Palmer left Friday for Fort Meade Maryland after spending his furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs Emmett Palmer. Miss Betty Kimbrough left Saturday night for Trenton New Jersey to visit her sister Mrs Leona Remick and family. Urb Johnson wife and son Ron were visiting at the Bob Wood home Sunday night. Sam Sprague from near Marcon is visiting his daughter and family Mr and Mrs M Goins and son. Miss Barbara Gooch came home Saturday night from Brookfield where she had spent a week visiting relatives.
Items report cool rainy weather with frost and hope for sun. Notes list visits and travel: Cecil Wohler and wife bought 200 two weeks old chicks near Brookfield. Verne Calvert and mother visit Effie Pulliam. Elva Pearson stayed with Effie Pulliam. Pearson drove to Springfield Missouri seeking cattle. Zida McNally visited Milan with Ray and family. Cap Woolf and daughter Flo called on D L Cady. Amos Cotter called on D L Cady. D L Cady and Will Pulliam attended Memorial services for Loren Isley in Meadville. Harry Bawswell family Cap Woolf Ed Pulliam spent Sunday with Charley Pulliam. Frances Livingston attended Chilli cothe Park Sunday school picnic.
Haseville week end guests included Mrs. Jim Lefler and Misses Marcelle and Catherine Wood. Sunday visitors came from multiple local families including the Rottmann and Sayers households. Franklin and Billie Leslie traveled to St Louis Thursday returning Saturday. Kenneth Russell Young visits with Ronald and Jerry Crook. Sunday guests included Clifford Vandivenge and Elmer Betz family.
The item lists visits by Earl and Vaughn Shaw and families and other relatives including Mr. and Mrs. N. F. E. Taylor and Betty Lou Mrs. Sam McClanahan Judy from Milan Mrs. Fred Watson Aunt Rosetta Harris funeral Rolla Taylor home Chicago visitors Glen Callahan Earnest Meddrell Charles and Dickie Franklin Frank Harris and Will Hedge who was recently ill Mrs. Cora Thrasher of Brookfield returned home after two weeks with her daughter Mrs. Wiley Taylor and family
Probate Court of Linn County Missouri granted letters testamentary to Zema Potter executrix on April 30 1946. Creditors must present claims within six months for allowance. otherwise barred after one year from grant date. Arthur L. Pratt Judge of Probate. First insertion May 9 1946.
Wet chilly weather slows field work as farmers plant corn. Visitors at Stephenson home included Mrs. Lloyd Trumbo and Larry and Yvonne, Mrs. Marvin Stephenson, Mrs. Ella Scott and a Humphreys friend. Davenport visitors Jimmie Seward and Betty Lou Seward stayed with Hattie Jennings and Duff Jennings. Ivan Grindstaff home hosted Hattie and Ibuis Jennings families. Leo Brinkley and family moved to Dr Herington's farm north of Milan.
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