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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1931
Page
1
A meeting of interested workers gathered at Hoover Cemetery on Oct 1 to plan upkeep and plot leveling. Elizabeth Lantz was elected secretary and Ray Johnson president as the group agreed on annual two dollar contributions per family plot to fund spring work and ongoing improvements.
A fragmented weekly record recounts Crone and the Crewelty case over feeding a horse, a dental visit with a steep bill, and a boy’s tale of a country child. It shifts to a Red Sox versus colored Kansas City team game in town, noting warmups, a tight four to three finish, umpire praise, and rival crowd support with Milan’s band providing music.
Dorris Fanning, teacher, announces a pie supper and program at Clem Springs School house Friday night October 9. Proceeds go to school activities.
A fragmented note mentions an event titled Fie Supper and Ciphering with a playful promise of pie. Details are unclear but the item reads as a local social or communal gathering.
Linn County farmers and business leaders met at Brookfield for the Outlook Conference drawing about 220 attendees from across the region. D. C. Wood presented budgeting insights tying projected livestock dairy and poultry prices to farm income, with a committee summarizing future price prospects for 1932 including cattle hogs dairy sheep and poultry.
A committee consisting of Guy Johnsen Dan Cole E L Richmond J N John sen J N Edens and R B Vater is listed as participants. The document notes their roles or affiliation within the organization. No further actions or decisions are provided in the fragment.
Miss Exsie M. Hoyle of the Missouri College of Agriculture describes a method to make pectin from cull apples. The guide covers fruit selection, washing, cutting, cooking in a granite pan, double straining, reducing the juice, and bottling for storage.
The event is a pie supper and ciphering contest on Wednesday night October 14 at the Russell school house. A prize will be awarded to the best cipherer. Pauline Jennings, teacher.
Notice states the twelfth annual stockholders meeting will be held in Browning Missouri at the Electric Theatre on Tuesday October 27 1931. The session starts 2 p m and lasts at least three hours to elect a five member board for the coming year and handle any other business. W T Cordray president J P Bolling secretary.
A fragmentary notice describes a Sunday gathering hosted by Mr and Mrs Fleming for their children and relatives including Mr and Mrs B Fleming and daughter, and mentions other names and locations in a scrambled format.
Irene Crooks hosted a Friday lawn party at her parents country home. A long list of guests from the community attended an afternoon of games and refreshments, then departed for home.
Prices for Jonathan and Delicious apples range from 50 cents to 1.25 dollars at Kelsey Orchards located 2 miles west of Brookfield. Sweet cider also offered.
Mr and Mrs A M Tully hosted a Sunday dinner at Brookfield in honor of their son Charlie Tully and his Denver wife. Guests included Edgar Tully and his children Noel Lenore and William Tressie Kenley and Leslie Bagley.
Sunday crowd gathered in the Crowdis basement for a home dinner surprise. R E Crowdis believed his Thursday birthday had passed unnoticed despite the presence of family and friends, including Mrs Crowdis and their children Joyce and Nowa Crowdis.
Last Wednesday night Mundell district patrons teachers and pupils gathered at the schoolhouse for a community wiener roast. Miss Lenore Tully led a short program before everyone enjoyed roasting wieners and marshmallows.
On October 1 the Hummel Wesley Class met with eight members and one visitor Miss Kathryn Rudloff. After devotional exercises the group elected officers: President Mrs Lou Carter Vice President Mrs Rebe Hummel Treasurer Mrs Hinda Rush Secretary Mrs Iva Rhodes Teacher Mrs May Schrock. Refreshments of fruit salad ice box cookies and coffee were served.
Farmers report widespread chinch bug infested fields after harvests. The pests suck sap from corn stalks causing lodging and poor yield. Many believe early corn ripening is linked to the bug outbreak as sheaf fields suffer. Farmers plan to burn fence rows to destroy hibernating bugs before winter.
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