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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1936
Page
2
The Browning Leader-Record from Browning Missouri shows its post office entry as second class mail matter. The dates July 8, 1897 and November 26, 1936 appear, indicating archival or issue dates.
Earl McCollum and family attended a baptising at the Baptist Church in Brookfield Sunday afternoon. Several neighbors shared visits and small town updates including weddings, calf vaccinations, and trips to Kansas City for barber college.
Easeville social round includes visits among the Goseh, Gooch, Bartow, Campbell, Sayers, and Ruth Lawrence families with a church program featuring Hazel Cooper and Imxax pupils. Beefed poultry guidance from D D Moyer urges careful selection of breeding stock for next year, stressing hens, breeders, and market timing. Christmas Seals drive kicks off November 27 with 2000 letters mailed to fund tuberculin testing in Linn County schools.
The Bittersweet Club met with Mrs. Frederick Remick on October 28 for an all day quilting session. Thirteen members and nine visitors attended. two contests were held with winners Mrs Scott Brown and Mrs Rolan Coch. New members Mrs Roy Creason and Mrs Henry Ford joined. November 18 meeting set with Mrs Maurice Allen. A later wiener roast at the schoolhouse followed a Democratic rally in Marceline with several families attending.
Shelby Stems spent the weekend with home folks near Buswell with Harold Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Wilson visited Brookfield on business. Attendees joined a tournament at Linneus Friday to Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Leichhart stayed with Miss Finn Monroe Wednesday night. Paul Smith and Nile Rauer traveled to Iowa on Saturday. Glen Briey visited grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rauer. Dorothy Wilson Fern Spencer Genieve Arnold Wynona Montgomery and Helen Bummer are named as local mentions.
The long meeting at the Methodist church in Purdin ended Sunday night. Various local residents were noted visiting relatives and friends around Purdin and Brookfield. Will Pulliam bought a new car, described as a gold mine on his farm.
The text praises free X rays and clinic services that educate the public on early TB diagnosis. It notes a seven year mail sale preserving each donor’s contribution records from five cents upward. Christmas seals are recommended as decorative holiday additions that support the cause.
Shafter items crowded out last week. Mrs Floy Morris had her ton sils removed Thursday and is recovering. Mrs Julius Wood stays with her for a few days. Blanche Meneely received a kitchen shower November 1 at her mother Mary Molloy home with many presents. Mr and Mrs Tom Morris hosted Sunday dinner guests including Bob Shifflet and Marilyn. Elmer Hammock Dorsey Stevenson Virgil Molloy and Junior Phillips attended a Browning show Sunday night. Price Gilmer and family also mentioned.
Mr and Mrs Wayne Bagley and daughter hosted dinner guests Wednesday. Mrs Mary Molloy hosted Sunday visitors Mr and Mrs Buddit Sallee. Tom Morris and son Glenn drove to St Louis with cattle last Sunday. Edgar Morris traveled to Chicago Sunday night with cattle. Mr and Mrs Bill Morris hosted Sunday dinner for Mrs Joe Edmundson and children and Mrs Edgar Morris.
Residents report a busy weekend with shopping in Milan and visits among families in Cora Browning Galt and surrounding areas. Farmers note ideal plowing weather while Clifford Fanning renovates his house. A Cross Roads pie supper drew $8.50 with local hosts named.
Pleasant Grove notes a fall season continues with community visits and family gatherings. Amanda Neely returned home after a week with sister Mary Chessey of Novinger and Sunday dinners included Lawrence Couch family, Wilburn Bunch, Annabelle Couch, Allen Lawrence, and others.
Residents report two sons did good work on the road last week cutting brush from the roadside and placing or building bridges to improve passage. The effort came after reports of obstruction and damage to the route.
Mrs F M Cattey is poor at writing. Perry B McCollum of Kirksville visited Otis McCollum and wife. Verlon Christian returned from Oklahoma. Aunt Maggie Brewer goes to Oklahoma for the winter with her daughters, escorted by J L Sweatt. Play at Winigan school house Saturday night. Mrs Earl Abbott of Winigan helps care for Mrs Cattey this week. Roscoe Harl and family visited Roy Harl and wife. A crowd attended the meek trial and ciphering at Cattey school house. Roy Detwiler and wife of Green City visited Loren McCollum and family.
Mr and Mrs Wilburn Bunch hosted friends last week. Benton Frazier culling and blood testing chickens in the area. Mrs Josie Cannon and son John visited Mrs Mollie Tharp Sunday. Lorene Georgie Sylvia Artis and Margarete Chesser of Novinger visited the Lawrences Tuesday night. Floyd Gillpatric and hosts L C Hoover near Green City welcomed guests Thursday.
Sunday visitors included Tona Gaul and family Johnie Burkholder and family Bennie Burkholder and wife Lon Johnson and family from Sumner Smira and Frances Baker visiting Chancey Baker and wife Roy Maxwell and son Deane calling on Cleo Clapp and family Others visited the Thudium home Hubert Baskett wife and son Donald Orville Thudium wife and son Bernard Gary and Jeff Mott and wife Jno Burkholder visiting Earl Campbell and wife Rev Hobbs preached at Mt Hope E E Thuchum wife and son Richard and Mrs Ora Mott went to Brookfield Mrs Perry Baker visiting her mother at Macon City Mabel Maxwell spent week with sister Flo Almond who was in hospital and recovering Andrew Cassity and Orville Wyatt shopping in Brookfield Mrs Nolan Cassity undergoing dental work.
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