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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1952
Page
2
An optimistic column reflects on values in 1952 with a Biblical verse and a note that today’s young women must balance friendship and selfhood as they buy college clothes, signaling shifts in fashion and social norms.
Agnes Boyles of Shelby was taken to St Frances Hospital Marceline last week. Friends and relatives including the Boyles and Jennings families visited at the hospital. Local residents, including Lacer and Longwell households, hosted and visited in Browning Brookfield and nearby towns over the weekend and during the week.
Mrs Wayne Herington and her son from Milan visited her parents the Chambers. Numerous locals attended services and visits with relatives, with many making weekend trips to Brookfield Marceline Kirksville Columbia and Chicago area as ships of news spread through town life.
Mr and Mrs Gus Oertwig and daughter attended a Brookfield show last week. Mr and Mrs Rolan Gooch visited Chas Goins and Woold friends in Brookfield. Kimbrough and Essie Wood shopped in Brookfield Friday afternoon. The Goins Gooch and Creason families were seen calling in the area.
Rev. Howard Copeland led services at the Methodist Church with Sunday night guests including Mr and Mrs Tom Brookshire from Cushing Oklahoma and Mr and Mrs John O McCollum of Brookfield. The community mourned Harri son Grindstaff with sympathy to the family. Bob Southers and Mrs Southers welcomed a stillborn baby buried at Henry cemetery. Visitors circulated among local families including the Smiths and Grindstaffs, with several other names noted as neighbors hosted gatherings.
Grover McClaren and his daughters visited Friday with Mr and Mrs Melvin Stephen son and son visited Sunday with Mr and Mrs Melvin Stephen son and son Joe and Margery Carter brought their mother Mrs George Carter home Friday night and spent the weekend Mrs Carter had spent the past week with her children in Kansas City.
Local notes record numerous weekend visits and social calls. Families including Phillips Jones Morris and Stevenson hosted and visited relatives across Meadville Pur din Chillicothe and Linneus with club plans and school news. A True Blue Club meeting discussed a Thanksgiving supper.
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