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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1937
Page
2
Local Browning column notes on life in 1937 listing humorous observations about taxes manners and daily habits. The piece reflects small town humor and the idea of progress vs tradition with quips about brains patriotism and social life in Browning Missouri.
Mr and Mrs Everett McCormick and family visited Otto Crump. Ben Kelso of Hiawatha Kansas stayed nearby last week seeking a place to move his family back. Melvin Stephenson and Tom Ford hosted relatives while Sister Bunchman from Kirksville joined Church of God services and plans weekly attendance through year end.
Mary Tipton and Mary McClarven spent a day at the Melvin Stephen son home. Walter McKay Swank and families hosted Sunday dinner at Buel McClarren home. Fritz Brinkley and children visited Rob Stephenson and family. Ralph King and Floyd King families spent the weekend together. Jake Bardon stayed with Jimmy Ford. Mary Ford of Roger is very low. Keith Green, Robert Stephenson and Robert Williams visited Sam Snelling home. Keith McKay visited grandparents James Tipton. Irving Smith and kin spent Sunday at Ada Smith home.
The Fairview area reports the first season snow and freezing temperatures. Brookfield’s Frank Sager bored a well at the Van Mairs place last week. Bert Walker, recently back from the West, stays with his brother George Walker in Missouri before heading home. Brightly, visitors from Browning included Van Mairs and others. Roy Smith’s visitors near Youngtown joined his brother Frank Smith and Mrs. Hoskins spent winter with them. Erman Brantner’s corn harvest saw nine teams and twenty three men helping. Helpers included Dess Harold Arlo Fanning Everett Riley Nora Straley Archie Coffman. The Brantners moved to Elliott Halloway farm with Mrs. Ethel Brantner. Kate Brock from Illinois visited Mrs. Purdin. Andrew Pfeiffer’s family visited Will and Carrie Barclay. Mrs. Carrie Guffey, mother of Ned, was buried in Owasco cemetery.
Mr and Mrs Theo Holser are both sick with the flu. Mr and Mrs Albert Smith were Sunday visitors of Mr and Mrs J C Sayers. Mr and Mrs Glen Jerome and children visited Frank Searcy on Sunday afternoon. Maurice Rottmann and Gale Sayers spent Saturday night.
Sunday gatherings mark continued hospitality as families including Owen Sayers Carole Sayers Shirley Warren and numerous relatives shared meals and calls. Several households hosted guests such as Jerry Jennings Beryl Warren Fred Lions Lizzie Rottman and Meeker families with kin in attendance.
Mr and Mrs James Tipton of Kansas City were called here last week due to the death of Mrs Margret Ford who passed away Thursday at 3 p m. Clarence Rogers returned home with J D Tunnell and they will visit in Kansas.
Purdin and vicinity note unusually cold weather as a thermometer records two below zero before Thanksgiving. Burl Axem and wife and Mrs. Fult Johnson visited Brookfield during the past week.
Albert Johnson shows slow improvement able to be up part of the time Frances Enderly has chicken pox Mr and Mrs Ward Taylor and his brother Otto Taylor visited in Purdin on Sunday Bonie Miller not so well Fannie Head has not been well the past week but hoping for recovery now
Classic safety tips remind Browning hunters to treat guns with care this season. Do not pull through fences, remove shells before crossing, never cock a weapon, and keep guns from children. The piece notes 1936 deaths and hopes for zero accidents in 1937.
Reports from Washington indicate more young men are leaving CCC camps for private employment than in four years. The trend signals private industry’s continuing need for labor and that forest camp trained youths are finding opportunities in civilian jobs.
The CCC has released nearly 100000 of 316000 enlistees to private jobs in eight months, as over 2 million young Americans have passed through camps. The program has funded forestry protection highways and telecommunication lines, unlocking inaccessible areas and preventing soil erosion, with broad public support for continued funding.
A national farm publication notes warnings to rural congregations amid rising youth disengagement. It cites auto culture and entertainment as distractors and urges churches to create boy and girl clubs and active youth programs to strengthen future membership and keep churches from dissolving.
A brief notice indicates an office located above the Farmers Store in Browning Missouri with a phone listed as 107.
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