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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1941
Page
4
A Browning Missouri column airily riffs on local life and humor. It touches on language shifts about taters, jokes about husbands decks and garages, euro shortages, New Year’s resolutions, and shared anecdotes about honest beliefs and union strikes.
Cool spell fades as warm weather nears after a needed rain. Mrs. Will McGhee and Mrs. Eva Williams visited Mrs. Jane Hardin Friday evening. Mrs. Tilly McShane visited Mrs. Effie Pulliam Tuesday afternoon. John Harris greeted friends in Purdin. Elva Pearson and Will Western spent Friday with Effie Pulliam. Will Cumbo stayed with Jane Hardin Thursday night. Jane Hardin’s daughter hosted a short visit. Ernest Couch of Linnells shopped in Purdin with wife. George Pullam’s popcorn popper delights all ages. Joe Crookshanks Ellis Adams and Jane Hardin toured Kansas City Sunday to visit relatives, with Jane remaining for a few days.
Linn County farmers will vote this Saturday in a Wheat marketing quotas referendum to decide how to regulate excess wheat from the 1941 crop. Polls open 8:00 a m to 7:00 p m at Meadville Brookfield Bucklin and Linneus with two thirds of voters needed for adoption.
Mr and Mrs Fen Street visited Brookfield Monday afternoon. Mrs Ceil Wohler and Mrs Will Lambert were in Brookfield Monday. Mr and Mrs Alex Woodside shopped in Purdin Saturday evening. Mr and Mrs Rudy Burkholder called at the Will McGhee home Friday.
Sunday brought a full house as the Guy Davis family welcomed all children except Lelia who lives in Canada. Local visits included Gus Heselton with the Reger family and Maud of Kansas City as a weekend guest. Hospital moves included Ida Tunnell to Trenton for treatment and Allie Stephenson to Kirksville for an eye operation. John MecClarren is very ill. Walter Fields and daughter visited from Trenton to decorate graves. Harry McCoy welcomed a baby boy.
When warm and damp, coccidiosis season begins. Plan a hot reception with Dr. Salsbury's Rakos two days weekly. We have it, stop in for your bottle of Dr. Salsbury's Rakos. Member Dr. Salsbury's Nation- Wide Poultry Health Service.
Born Saturday. Mrs Eva Dunlap has been real poorly with the measles but is much better. A large crowd attended the picture show Friday night and the weather nearly froze us. Junior Crowdish and friends spent the week end in the Ozarks fishing. fish were reportedly bought. Miss Ruth Lovell visited here this week. Miss Zigler of Green City is visiting her sister and family, Mr and Mrs Robert Fields.
Mrs Maggie Brewer spent a week visiting friends in Winigan. Mrs Doris Cordray remains in Kirksville Hospital and is expected home soon. Robert Cattey and family visited Ernest Sorge. Otis McCollum and family joined Russell Crist for Sunday dinner. Several couples and relatives were seen at Friday visits with Edgar Mc Collum. Home made ice cream with strawberries was shared. Verlan Christian visited his parents. Barbara McCollum of Hutchinson Kansas arrived to spend summer with Russell Crist family. Ruth Milhoan and Paul Crist visited in Kansas City with aunt Dorie Summers.
The weekly Shafter notices list Mrs. Mary Montgomery visiting Holt relatives, the True Blue Club Mother's Day program honoring 78 year old L. W. Arnold, Meadville commencement attendees Billy Morris and Sam Crookshanks, and local families visiting relatives and attending funerals in Morris Chapel Browning and nearby towns.
A Browning area court sentences a driver for DUI after one beer. The defendant admits one bottle but claims not drunk, while critics note judgments vary and emphasize that any alcohol odor can lead to liability amid rising auto accident reports.
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