Purdin Items and Social Visits
Clarence Owens and wife and Douglas Jenkins and wife spent Saturday and Sunday at Jesse Woodsides. Luther DeVore and wife visited Sunday at the A A Hawkins home.
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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1922
Page
4
Clarence Owens and wife and Douglas Jenkins and wife spent Saturday and Sunday at Jesse Woodsides. Luther DeVore and wife visited Sunday at the A A Hawkins home.
Wm Grissamer shipped a car load of hogs from Cora last week. Mrs A C Franklin of Cora is on the sick list. A party was held at J A Clems Saturday night for Hortense Grissamer eighteenth birthday. Hortense received stationery perfume candy and handkerchiefs. Tom Jennings is having a cave dug. Neve Morris was in Cora last week with Hildred Spencer and Mrs Luther Lauck among others attending a Kansas City teachers meeting.
Frank Cooper the road project sub-contractor has shifted his crew to Purdin hill to bypass flood risk and finish the work through winter if temperatures permit. They plan Friday night meetings while winters approach and rains hinder progress nearby.
Widespread rain keeps farmers indoors or in fields as corn shucking continues. Ben Cattey and wife traveled to Browning on a business trip. Perry Christian sold two hundred bushels of corn to Lon Watson at seventy five cents per bushel. John Belzer assisted Perry McCollum with wood cutting last Friday. Ben Cattey sold and delivered one thousand bushels of corn to Albert McCollum at Winigan. Farm buildings see steady improvements this fall with new hen houses for Arthur Watson, Ben Cattey, and Perry Christian, plus a new garage for Frank Cattey and a cow barn for Otis McCollum. Arthur Watson and wife welcomed a baby boy born the 17th. Elwood Thudium shipped two carloads of cattle from Purdin to Chicago on Saturday night. The Cattey school district literary society met and organized.
Classified notice seeking a mature, temperate female assistant for a printing business. Requirements include unconventional physical traits and a strict policy against beauty and romance during office hours. Inquiries to be made at the office within a stated window.
Alumni and students of the University of Missouri pledge 328000 toward a Memorial Fund for a tower and student building. Construction begins and the cornerstone is set for ceremonies on November 30. Miss Mary Houk expects full funds by June 1923. In a recent Beir to ey York City.
We thank our many friends for acts of kindness shown during the sickness, death, and burial of our mother. Adolphus Brehm Julius Brehm Mrs. Amelia Rottman.
Earl Johnson received facial burns yesterday when an oil burner in the bake oven at the bakery failed to light and gas buildup exploded as he lit the appliance. The blaze singed his eyebrows hair and caused a painful blistered face expected to heal in days.
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