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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1930
Page
4
The Browning Leader-Record from Brown ing Missouri announces limited space this week with correspond ence and other articles crowded out. Editor Joe Nickell notes the issue date and post office mailing status as second class matter.
John Franklin Kingsolver born August 1842 in Cole County IL died September 29 1930 at his son William T Kingsolver’s home. He married Nancy Conway Warren August 17 1870 and had two sons William James and Grafton with several grandchildren. Funeral services were held at Wicks Chapel September 30 1930 conducted by Rev J E Radloff.
Sunday relatives staged a surprise birthday for Mrs. Ervin Barrow with a large gathering of families and neighbors. A separate note recalls Mrs. May Geach of Granville Ohio visiting Hale and an elegant afternoon tea hosted by Mrs. C. A. Fleming with out of town guests and town friends.
A group of relatives and friends including Mr. and Mrs. Roy Keithley Mrs. G W Henry Mrs Martha Barrows Mrs J S Jacobs Earl Nickell Merril Peterson Bob Stephenson C L Williams and Lute Hublet departed in the late afternoon after wishing Mrs Barrows many more happy birthdays.
The excerpt comments on shifting social roles and higher qualifications for women, noting optimism about progress in modern times and the belief that life has improved in this advanced age. It reflects a public voice on gender expectations.
Community sale to be held Saturday October 11. Items offered may be sold in this sale. List items early with J. D. Burwell and W. F. Peters of the Leader-Record office. Campbell and Carter, auctioneers.
Local events include a large Cahoon Marcusson reunion with a noon dinner on a beautiful autumn day in Aurora Nebraska and a later note of thanks for a friendship quilt. Also reported are obituaries, social visits, charitable talks, and a major expansion sale by Purdin Mercantile with ads and bills mailed to customers.
Sunday family reunion at the F A Fleming home honored Mrs. John Geach of Granville Ohio. Attendees included J B Fleming Linneus C B Fleming and Carolee of Purdin F A Fleming C A Fleming and John Lee Smith J P Bolling and Virginia Edward J I Harmon and Herman Smith.
On Wednesday September 24 Chapter V P. E. O. held a Guest Day with a 1 PM three course luncheon at the J. I. Harmon home hosted by Mrs. Jas. P. Polling. At 3 PM a matinee at the Electric Theater followed with invited guests including Mesdames Mary Tharp W. D. Grice L. C. Lantz Arthur Mundell J. D. Lay C. W. Gooch Lula Carter R. E. Harris V. J. Dodson Ivah Carr C. C. Williams M. A. Holman J. E. Rudloff J. M. Thurlo C. L. Whaley M. P. Brassfield and Miss Maude Morris.
Tom McCown of Laclede and Dr. Hanna of Kansas City made trips here on business and last week. Robert M. Long of North Salem visited on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Johnson spent Saturday in Brookfield. The Hookers and their children saw Jno Fishback’s family Sunday. Edgar Tully and son William visited A. M. Tully in Brookfield Sunday. H. A. Cotter and daughter Alma visited Ray Bennett’s household Sunday. Mrs. Ross Lantz and daughter Dorothy were in St. Joseph Monday.
A blotchy diary entry covers a week of small events in a rural family. The narrator jokes about jokes and adders, barbs with Pug Stevens over money, changes in manners, a dinner scene, playful quips about wives, classroom visits, a doctor's fee mix up, quitting tobacco, and a misheard lesson on natural history with a child's misunderstanding of an apiary.
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