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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1941
Page
4
Town chatter in Browning centers on silly hats, dime store prices, and stray remarks about bank accounts and missionaries. The humorous mix shows locals quipping that global crises don’t stop daily banter about fashion, tramps, and weather as residents joke over cold days and front line defense in women’s wardrobes.
Local social captures a busy week with visits among Rauer Jennings Lambert Head and Pearler families. A Los Angeles visitor, G. E. McCollum, returns to North Salem. health concerns include Elis Jennings under care and Roy Jennings with a severe cold.
Mrs. Orlen Harris is confined to the house with a severe cold this week. The Happy Workers Club presented their play at Gose school Tuesday night to a full house. Mrs. Vivian Webb teaches. Mr. and Mrs. H Wayne Thrasher and daughter Marilea of Brookfield visited Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Taylor and family Sunday. Mrs Thrasher returned to Brookfield with them. Mrs. Earl Shaw visited Ray Pipes Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. R L Brown are
The Happy Workers Club hosted a Halloween party at Johnson school-house Saturday night with about sixty attendees masked and enjoying games. Prizes went to Mrs. Eula Caldwell, Hubert Morris, and Carrie Morris for best costumes. Refreshments included donuts, pie, and coffee.
A. L. Knifong returns home from Washington and Glendale California after visiting sisters and brother and his daughter and family. Mrs. Herman Smith moves to Excelsior Springs. B O Brantner and son attend Hereford cattle sale near Trenton. Wayne Britton and others visit Browning and Salisbury. Community mourns Aunt Jane Ross.
The notice calls for immediate defense funding through Defense Bonds and Stamps. It argues the U S must defend itself and asks readers to stop wishful thinking and start positive action by buying bonds to protect homes and liberty.
Mr. and Mrs. Emery Brantner and friends from Palouse Washington visited Sunday to see Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Brantner and other relatives, expressing heartfelt condolences.
Mrs Ellis Jennings worsened Wednesday and was taken to Grim Smith Hospital where she remained until Sunday and is resting better. Several locals visited and traveled for medical care or markets and coal, with brief notes on kin and neighbors including Jennings, Bauer, Moore, Thomas, and Smith families.
Mr and Mrs Cecil Crooks spent the week end with Mr and Mrs W R Young. Mr and Mrs Henry Smith spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Harry Leslie and family. Mr and Mrs Barney McKenzie family activity noted.
A long list of Sunday visitors characters names and families across the town include Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Smith Virgil J. P. Mc Kenzie Jimmie Theo Holser Sandra W. E. Sayers Ed Sayers Carolee Morris Crookshanks Kenneth Young Russell Richard Cleve Jennings Jerry Jennings and daughters Kenneth Jennings and daughters James Morris Mershalk McMickle Lois hospitalized in Kirksville her guitsr removed last week Elbert Campbell Illinois new baby girl born Saturday Nov 8 Mayo Hospital Anna Sallee improving unable to operate Clarence Crookshanks Robert Crookshanks J.C. Sayers Lizzie Rettman Darrell Maurice Rettmann J. R. Wood Margaret Jimmie Marcelle Mary Catherine Wood Pearl Clara Wood Earl Vandyke Walter Tripplett Roger Vena Shafer LeRoy Shafer Roger Shafer Rollan Gooch family.
Several residents attended the funeral of Mr. Will Smith in Linneus on Saturday afternoon. Robert Abel was listed as ill over the weekend. Lester Burkholder traveled to Chillicothe on Saturday with stock but did not unload due to two thousand head for sale. Private Kenneth Urbach left for camp after visiting his parents for ten days. Mrs Waverly Urbach Bond of Chillicothe spent the weekend with her parents north of town. Mrs Will Lambert and daughter Eather visited Mr and Mrs Pearl Lambert on Sunday.
A crowd from Purdin traveled to Brookfield Saturday for the finals. Mr and Mrs Ray McNally and Peggy visited his parents at lunch Sunday. Mrs Austin Myers called on Mrs Effie Pulliam Friday afternoon. Mrs Herman Schrock and Maude Morris called on Mrs Jane Hardin last Monday. Ray Clouds will soon move into their new house with carpenters Ray Pulliam Loren and Earnest Pearson working.
Miss Iva Belle Norman, employed at Laclede, spent last week with home folks in Cora and visited her sister in Milan. Miss Orewe Bauswell, visiting her aunt Marjorie Taylor in Chicago, came home last Thursday. Mrs. Lyle Britton spent Friday with her parents in Cora. Mrs. W. A. Norman and granddaughter Joyce Ann Jackson shopped in Milan Monday. John Lumsden was a Browning visitor Friday. Mrs. Joe Brownfield shopped in Browning Thursday. Whooping cough spread through Cora as Clifford Fanning and Ida Fanning visited Brookfield Friday.
Stanley Murrain sawed wood for Verne Turner on Friday. Private Hubert Jones returned to camp on Saturday after fifteen days at home. Roy Jr and Charles Lee Moseley spent Friday with Bob and Bill Turner. Leonard and Buford Finney helped with farm work at Alex Finney's. Miss Crystal Turner, Ruby Tate, Ada Burris and Roscoe Beach are noted residents.
Silas Blackburn spent Saturday in Brookfield and Mrs Ida Wilson with Mable returned home Friday after visiting Roy Mosley. Alvie Walter relatives rushed to her father's bedside Tuesday night. John Correll Burns couples visited Brookfield Saturday. Earl Murrain farm sold to Mr Teeters.
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