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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1941
Page
4
Odd Browning column muses on two Christmas holidays, prison reforms, and vision. A Browning resident jokes about strikes in a corset factory and notes mounting battleships priced around ninety million dollars. Children in Browning sharpen pencils for Christmas lists.
Mr and Mrs Albert Seaman completed a cellar on their farm. Mrs Dan Head and Rebecca Pear joined Mrs Purley Scott near Milan for a family visit. Edward Collins of Milan stayed in Chester Taylor area. Elmer Sevier’s house was wired by Humphreys. The community appreciates a new power line. Guy Peters sold cattle. Mr and Mrs Truman Stevenson and Mr and Mrs Carl Daniels visited with Mrs Fannie Harmon.
Pleasant Hill notes recount fall weather, busy corn harvest, and several local families visiting relatives. Among those mentioned are Mr. and Mrs. James Smith of Louis, Mr. and Mrs. Her Smith of Excelsior Springs, and the Walter Smith household, with other visits by Norman Woodside, Richard and Donald Britton, Frank Tucker, Wm. Riley, Lynden Knifong, and neighbors from Milan Browning and Purdin.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Linhart visited Sunday with A L Knifong family near Phillips N Boston area reported by local source.
Lee Crist and Cloyce Wallace hauled cattle to Kansas City on Tuesday for Ross. Greenstreet accompanied them. Several families visited Green City, Kirksville, Bucklin, and Purdin over the week, including the Nations, Nickells, Hoerrmanns, Riddles, Munns, and Barrons. A pie supper at Alexander school raised 14 dollars with Lillie Belle Muir as teacher.
Summer weather brings visits and family news around North East Linn. Edgar McCollum and family moved to the John Milhoan farm. new births reported for Mr and Mrs Oren Cordray and Mr and Mrs Milo Bailey. Visitors include Agnes Sattman, Maggie Brewer, and others as townsfolk share weekends and visits.
The report notes Clarence Barnes, Ben Hardinger, and Quail Hill working on day afternoon and Saturday. Robert Cattey shucks corn for Ted McCollum, while Clifford Watson also shucks corn for Perry Christian.
The column notes visitors and travel around Purdin including Floyd Hardin and family’s trip to Kansas City, Noah Davis from California visiting relatives, Loren Pulliam and family in Milan and Kansas City, Merle Messner visiting from Kansas City, Leon Ross from Brookfield, the Leichhart family, Jim Smith's guest Virgil Wohler, Joe Wolfe from Michigan, and Shafer Brothers movie nights drawing crowds at the Purdin hall each Tuesday with admission of 1 or 2 mills.
Mr. and Mrs. Billie Keeling of Kansas City visited Mrs. Lizzie Rottmann family and others in Halerville. Several households hosted Sunday guests including the Wood Sayers Shafer families, the Myrick and Lay households, Crookshanks, and Warren. Multiple visits from Kansas City and local residents marked a busy weekend.
Mr and Mrs W R Young and Mr and Mrs Billie Keeling hosted Kenneth Young and boys. Will VanHorn family visited Ben Wood. F G McMickle joined Sam Gooch and Rosalee. Death of Bill Pridemore shocked the neighborhood Sunday. Vane Kingsolver family spent the day with Everett Crookshanks. C A Woolf and Wilber Gooch visited Jerry Jennings family. Clarence Shafer and daughter toured Kansas City. Glenn Duncan Russell Vandyke and family also mentioned.
Geo Thudium remains on the sick list from a bad cold. Orville and Mrs. Thudium and Mrs. Richard Thudium shopped in Brookfield Thursday. Sunday visitors at Mrs. Burkholder’s included Luster family and Bennie Burkholder party. Ora Mott called on Mellie Thudium Sunday afternoon. Clay Spencer and family from Brookfield were Sunday guests of Roy Maxwell. Paul and Mrs. Dodge visited their parents A K E Dodge. Mrs. Dodge is poorly. Jno Bauer visited Mrs. Lawrence Ried last Wednesday. Hubert Baskett and family visited Jake and Mrs. Labar near Hecla. E E Thudium and Hubert Baskett party went to Brookfield Saturday. A large crowd gathered at Roy Maxwell’s Tuesday night for a charivari honoring newlyweds Dean Maxwell and Ona Montgomery wed November 8. The Sunshine Workers Club
Mrs Glenn Arnold attended an all day meeting with a large crowd. Evelyn Delores is born to Mr and Mrs Daniel Thudhum. Kirksville hosted a pork lamb and beef butchering training led by Agricultural Extension Service specialists. Hall and Costigan plan demonstrations in Linn County this winter to improve home and freezer meat, urging proper fat, early butchering, and adequate equipment for spring curing.
The piece urges both drivers and pedestrians to practice caution amid traffic dangers. It cites war casualty comparisons and argues for greater courtesy, adherence to rules, and vigilance at crossings, in motion toward reducing highway deaths.
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