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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1940
Page
4
A Browning column muses on gratitude and charity at Thanksgiving. It notes biblical praise, shared blessings, and the strength of a thankful spirit. It condemns prejudice, comments on wartime draft, fashion, marriage economics, and ends with a nudge for early Christmas shopping.
Mr and Mrs Raymond Anderson Mrs Chloe Head and son Eldon and daughter Lorraine and Evelyn Longwell were Brookfield visitors Saturday. Mr and Mrs Theodore Steele and son Marlin and Walter Lambert were in Browning Saturday night. They were accompanied home by LeRoy Lambert who had spent the past week with his grandmother Mrs John Hooker.
Brownie club news from November 21 1940 highlights November activities at Public School with student work, events, and daily school life.
A large crowd attended Browning High School Band’s Sunday concert marking its first performance in new black and white uniforms. The outfit includes a coat trousers cap white shirt and black tie. Drum majorette Nina Clair Taylor led the band into the gym to positions. Billy Joe Crookshanks returned to school after visiting the American Royal and entered his prize winning 4 H calf with plans for more shows.
Seniors were treated to a vacation Wednesday morning while photos were taken as preparations were made for the Thanksgiving Dinner. Anxi10us students hope the pictures will be satisfactory for future keepsakes.
Lorraine Taylor earns praise for top typing speed among seniors with 57 words per minute in a five minute test. The event highlights rising proficiency in keyboarding and marks a notable academic skill achievement.
A Loyal American tribute by Ralph James Rhodes anchors the page. The Browning Basketball Co lost to Purdin after a big win over Laclede, then failed to clinch third as Galt girls claimed Grundy County third place.
J W Lumsden is described as unusually shy when encountering Nadine Jones in the hall. The piece hints at social dynamics and possible hidden motives behind mentions of extra themes and English notebooks saved for German class.
Browning basketball opened in Linneus with a 13-11 win over Galt after three overtimes, then beat Laclede 24-13 helped by Junior Hollen. The Browning team captured the championship with an 18-16 victory, earning their second first place trophy of the year under an able coach.
An English Literature class studies Robert Burns life and works. Poems read include A Man's Man For A' That Bannock and Sweet Afton. The Cotter's Saturday Night will be studied next. Excellent notebooks document a history of English Literature from Anglo Saxon to Modern English.
Notice states a special meeting of stockholders of Citizens Savings Bank Browning Missouri on December 27 1940 at 9 am for at least three hours to vote on increasing capital stock from 20000 to 25000 via a 25 percent stock dividend. Attest Elvin L Harmon secretary M L Haning president.
The community rounds up visits and farm activity last week. Marion Wyatt sold goods at a well attended sale and plans to move to Salem to run a newly purchased store. Families scattered by visits to Kin and friends including Cordray, Spencer, Lambert, Longwell, West, and others in the Milan and Browning region.
Weekend visitors fill Halaville as Kansas City guests and local families gather. Numerous relatives including Crooks Keeling Wood Sayers and Youngs share Sunday meals and shopping trips while Mrs. W R Young remains ill and Ted Rottmann hosts.
Local residents record visits across Brookfield Chillicothe Milan and Kansas City. Families including Hammock Morris Gilmer and Stevensons traveled for Royal show hospital stays and family gatherings with many Sunday and weekend calls noted among neighbors.
The sun shines over Cross Roads and Cora with a 60 degree reading. Raymond Pearler and children of east of Cora visited Kirksville while Warren Gibson and family of Galt visited the Vernie Foster home. Farmers busy gathering corn as sick folks show improvement and Herbert Steele and family move from southeast of Cora.
The community notes an early winter arrival following a pleasant spell. Weekend visitors to the W. J. Burkholder home included Woodward and Hunter from McCook Nebraska, and Dray family from Brookfield with Burkholder children. The group toured relatives’ homes seeing living pictures of Woodward and Hunter travels before heading to California for the winter.
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