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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1950
Page
4
The notice lists G T Woodward and Fern N Woodward as owners and publishers of a paper with a Browning Missouri office location. It references a schedule for Thursday November 30 1950 and includes scattered OCR errors.
The community at the Church of God hosted Sunday School at 10 am and preaching at 11 am and 7:30 pm with a Young People meeting at 6:45 pm. Attendance reached 50 this Sunday and is expected 75 next Sunday. Numerous visits and Thanksgiving gatherings followed, with many local families hosting and visiting in Reger and nearby towns.
Families from Dickinson and nearby towns shared Thanksgiving meals with relatives including the Belzers Lambert Longwell and Shouse clans. The Stitch and Chatter Club hosted a Sunday school supper at the Dickinson schoolhouse while others visited and traveled between Oakville Browning Mendon and Mendon areas.
The report mentions a rapid temperature drop from the seventies to four above with rain. Social notes include Mrs. Gene Baskett and her sons visiting relatives while Gene attended a Kansas City telephone convention. Martha Jo, a baby girl weighing 8 lbs, born to Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Street, is cited with family visitors noted for Purdin area gatherings.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cooper were in Brookfield for a day of business. Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Creason visited Rolla Gooch's home one night last week. Mr. and Mrs. Babe Kim Brough called in Brookfield last week. Mr. and Mrs. George Crooks their children and Eva Doris Carter joined Thanksgiving at Rolla Gooch and son. Mr. and Mrs.
C M Goins and Sam Sprague hosted an afternoon visit with Ola Creason and family Lee Wood Rolla Gooch and T A Palmer joining in. Sandwiches pickles pie cake and coffee were served. Donald Wood stayed over with Lee Wood family and T C Palmer traveled to Chillicothe on Friday for business.
Local brief mentions Elva Monroe on honor roll and Miss Elva Monroe visited. John Turner and Maggie Bauer listed as neighbors and ill respectively. John Owens family from California visited Chas Owens and relatives over holidays. Kirksville College students returned home for Thanksgiving. Woodrow Keithley and family visited Crede Boyers. Leman Powell visited Chas Wilson. Cold weather widespread in North Missouri. R E Boyles and Roberta spent Saturday in Brookfield.
The Mt Olive Baptist Church reported 34 attendees for Sunday School and services on Sunday November 25. Reverend Marrs of Trenton delivered a sermon. An infant, daughter of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Dennis, was injured Saturday evening when Kenneth tripped and fell onto the baby.
The passage lists numerous Thanksgiving gatherings with relatives from Kirksville Brookfield Laredo Kearney Chillicothe Shelby and other towns. It notes a doctor unable to determine injury extent and Orville Brown staying to care for his ill father, Scott Brown, as Rev and Mrs Marrs dined with the Phillips family.
Thanksgiving Day gatherings spread across the Shafter community and nearby towns. The True Blue Club at the Jackson Center school hosted a turkey supper prepared by club ladies. Guests included Morris Jennings and many relatives from Linneus, Meadville, Wheeling, and Alton, plus families of Palmer, Molli, and Buckner.
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