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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1946
Page
4
The Browning Missouri newspaper notes a housing shortage may slow a girl’s plan to marry and predicts shifting weather patterns toward snow. It reflects on memory and social change with a quip about the old adage that split the world remains relevant.
Mrs Alva Deskins returned home after two months in Washington visiting her son Exnil and family. Numerous neighbors and relatives from Browning Macon and Laclede spent Sundays and Mondays with the Dickinsons and Lambert families. Local trips included Arch ies Dickinsons and Harry Lamberts business to Brunsack and a St Joseph visit for the Longwell family to support a 4 H calf show.
Beautiful fall weather prompts hopes frost delays. On September 22 Mr and Mrs Lee Kimsbrough dined with Mr and Mrs Roscoe Powell. Mr and Mrs Ray Johnson and Mrs Alpha Powell attend Mt Olive Fifth Sunday meeting. Evertt Dowdy and Roscoe Powell dinner guests of Delorum Tharp. Mr and Mrs Buster Wages mentioned.
Dated items from Warren and nearby describe movements to new homes on the Willie Watson farm, fish fry trips to Brunswick Sundery, shopping trips and calls across Humphreys Galt Milan Roger and other towns. Community members attend gatherings host events, wiring homes, road work, and family visits with plans for a pie supper and school program at Warren school house. A new baby boy named Thomas George Jr. arrives to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ford.
A list of Brookfield and surrounding area residents that attended church at Purdin and shared Sunday meals. Attendees include Lawrence Thuchum family Garnet. Mollie Adams visiting. Roy and Bennie Burkholder families. John Burkholder Edward Montgomery Wiladeen Gall Lucille Gall Maher Gall. John and Earl McCollum. Richard Thudiums and E E Thudium. Hubert Baskett hosts. Glenn Bailey painting. Robert Hunt family. Chessley Montgomery and daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Minor of near North Salem visited Sunday with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Curt Helms and Mrs. Pearl Helms visited Bucklin. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Thudium and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Thudium and George Thudium were Brookfield visitors Saturday.
Too late for last week. Residents visited with relatives in Brookfield and Chicago. Mrs. E W Riley hosted several family gatherings with the Brantners Tucker Kennedys and Straleys. The 4 H Club Fair at Milan drew community visitors including Tucker and Head family members. Ellis Abbott played electric guitar at an evening gathering.
The week in Purdin featured shopping trips by Charley and Mrs Tate in Pur din and Browning visits by the Peery and Singleton households. Dr. Kroeger and son from Kirksville called on her father in Purdin while Maxine Helms and her son Junior stayed with relatives. Mrs Kollasch works at Mercantille and Pearl Cassity observed at the Purdin school. Bessie Brown visited Effie Pulliam, Rosetta Wohler called on her mother, and Jack Frost was sighted Sunday night under a moonlit sky.
Mr and Mrs Bella Gooch and son and Mr and Mrs Urb Johnson visited. Mr and Mrs Lee Wood visited the C M Goins home. C M Goins and Urb Johnson dined with Lee Wood. Joe Moore was an afternoon caller. Lola Moore visited Clara Oertwig. C M Goins visited Bob Smith. Leonard Richardson spent Sunday with her parents Emmett Palmer. Opal Ludwig helped Clara Oertwig cook for silo fillers.
Mr and Mrs John Gall visited Mr and Mrs James Smith and their son on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Jess Pulliam spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Lawrence Elliott.
Local social notes list Thursday visits by Mr. and Mrs. Granville Barrows and baby to Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Barrows. Further that Mr. and Mrs. Lee Begley spent Sunday with Ded Bagley and Mrs. Jimmie Lee and others helped with papering. Other items note Milan and Kirksville trips and gatherings in Chillicothe.
I T R McArtor administrator intends to make final settlement of the estate of Eugene McArtor deceased at the next term of the Probate Court of Linn County Missouri to be held in Linneus on November 11 1916. T A McArtor Administrator September 19 146
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