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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1908
Page
7
A collection of short items notes residents traveling to Milan Linne us Brookfield St. Louis Joplin and Kansas City. Visitors include Olive Kane Tim Wyatt J. M. Thurlo and others with church events sales and casual gossip. Also ads for cattle and a full blood Jersey cow sale and a wreck photo from Carthage.
Real estate transfers listed from Miler Higgins abstract books Milan D A L Rockhold and wife to B L Jones Lot in Osgood 120 dollars Wm E Waugh and wife to Thomas Halliburton 19-30 interest in 218 acres sections 8 and 9 63 20 eight thousand dollars Solomon Chaver and wife to Andrew L Wolf eighty acres section 13 62 18 three thousand two hundred Warren L Divers and wife to William H Sterling forty acres section 27 63 21 one thousand seven hundred Nathanel C Miller single to J I Miller lot in Pollock one dollar
Help wanted at Brown Shoe Company Plant No. 8 in Brookfield Missouri. Positions open for girls to learn and work in a shoe factory plus experienced applicants of all ages and departments. Pay while learning. Apply now.
Aslam leaving town all accounts will be received. Mrs. J. W. Oxley will give receipt for which she will provide a receipt. All those indebted to me please settle at once. Mrs. E. Kimber.
A special train departs Browning at 3 35 P M and will return after the speaking. Local riders are invited to attend the event and use the train for round trip transportation.
Advertises cash weekly pay for salesmen selling Stark Trees. Claims easy to sell with an 83 year record behind them and positions available in the territory. Emphasizes steady, pleasant employment and immediate openings for a few men.
A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fields on Wednesday September 23. Residents from the section attended the Stone speaking event in Browning Saturday night. A child of Mr. and Mrs. James Cotter died and was buried Saturday at Knifong Grove Cemetery.
Mrs. John Taylor is not well the last few days. Rev Newell preached at Cross Roads Saturday night and Sunday. Boys raided Langdon and Murphey watermelon patches destroying vines. Republican meeting at Cora Friday night drew a large crowd. Sen Hudson of Chillicothe delivered a praised address. Attorney J P Painter spoke to voters followed by other county candidates.
Miss Bessie Steele entered Browning High School on Monday. Miss Pearl Yardley visited George Blakman’s Sunday. Zion Sunday School holds Children Exercises next Sunday at 3 o’clock. Mr Wilson and family of Oklahoma spent Sunday at Orlan Harris’s. Wiley Taylor and family attended the Baptist Association in Macon County. Rev Royston to preach at Zion next Sunday morning. Luther Harris and wife visited Austin Moore’s Sunday. I M Behymer and bride returned from Macon County trip. Will Elliott’s spent Sunday at James Elliott’s. Walter Linhart goes to Kirksville to enter the Normal.
For sale notices list fall pigs with contact B F Peters and two large real estate offers. 100 acres of prairie land four miles from town at 55 dollars per acre, tillable and improved, just bargain. A five room house with smoke house and adjoining land in Browning offered, two acres available separately. A harness shop in a thriving town advertised as money maker, due to sickness, inquiries to the Leader Record.
A local event invites attendees to visit a horse sale and enjoy a savory dinner hosted by the Baptist Ladies. The gathering promises community fellowship along with the sale activities.
In Linn county circuit court a divorce suit is pending between William E. Hollon and Mary E. Hollon. The defendant is not a Missouri resident, so publication is ordered four weeks in Linn County papers, with the next term starting December 14.
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