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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1912
Page
6
Notice shows a newspaper entry dated July 8 1897 marking Brown ing Missouri as a second class mail matter. The archival line records postal classification and date of entry.
Local notes from South Sullivan report widespread talk of the single tax. Community members visit, build, repair, or visit relatives in nearby towns including Milan Browning Linneus Cora and Scottsville with updates on homes farms and chores.
Grain wanted. Talbott Grain Co. seeks all grains and seeds for sale at this location. See J. W. Jones for prices and terms.
Scottsville reports Alex Jacobs growing fine alfalfa. Lee Myers visited Blanche Jacobs on Sunday and James Hollon visited B s on Sunday. Weather notes say water is the main issue in this part.
J. D. Burwell traded H. M. Smiths 174 acre farm near Reger to T. J. Hunt of Green City for a large stock of goods at Connellsville. Burwell warns buyers he may sell them out of house and home. Ad.
Fall plowing continues as several farmers cut corn in Green Valley. Illness grips local residents Mrs Ed Henicker and Gus Crouch with others listed. Ed Henicker travels from New Mexico to attend his wife. Bessie Cutberth ill but improving. Infants and uncles buried at local cemeteries. Albert Smith makes molasses. cane placed in shed before frost.
Draying advert from W M Hicks announcing ready prompt careful service after purchasing the dray.
Aunt Mary J. McCollum is quite poorly. Perry Christian aided I. J. McCollum with sorghum making this week. Ben Denney and Chas Cordray run their sorghum factory at full blast. Ralph McCollum returns from seven months in Montana. George Milhoan and Edgar Crist return after four weeks in East Virginia. Bob Caney bought an Edison graphophone, praised for reliable music.
North Salem residents report A A Healy visiting Dr Nevins last week. Roy Mairs of Model Drug Store Browning made a social call on town Sunday eve. D L McCollum adds a house extension and plans a warehouse. Robert Payne, brother of A W Payne, is visiting. Bert shows better health than four or five years ago. Rev Maples of Tennessee preached Thursday and Friday nights to an attentive crowd. Cats from the revival remain a talking point as residents express frustration. District Superintendent Chas Petree led the 4th quarterly Bethel church meeting Saturday evening with attendees L W Almond, Mrs J A Nevins, Frank Smith and wife.
All parties in debt by note or account to the late Dr. Chas. VanWye are notified to call at my home and settle their accounts. Adv. Mrs. M. E. VanWye, Admx.
Cross Roads notes Alf Bundridge is very sick. Geo Stevenson's child is ill. Ada Duncan of Iowa visits J H Tharp. Nelson Maxey and Webb Pipes families visit E E Maxey. The Cross Roads meeting drew a large crowd. Geo Pipes and wife traveled to Lisle Missouri to see daughter Mrs Roy Dunlap.
The Leader Record predicts November 5 will bring the largest total vote ever cast in Missouri. The remark underscores expectations of high turnout as residents prepare to vote in the upcoming election.
Locust Valley residents Charles Fuller of Purdin visited W E Crooks and Miss Bertha Neely returned from Sedalia Fair. Marjorie and Gale Martin visited their father. Mr and Mrs Dan Freeland spent Sunday at Jas.
Fannie Broyles spent last week with her cousin Mrs. Clyde Warren. Mr. Broyles returned from Kansas City where he had attended the Royal Stock Show last week.
The campaign against Single Tax argues farmers' best friends are the country merchant and editor who are frightened while the city merchant is largely wrong. The line highlights rural-urban divides in tax policy debates.
In Keytesville Missouri on October 4 1912 a letter to Joe Nickell Browning Missouri notes receipt and acknowledgement of a prior communication with an unfinished sentence indicating ongoing correspondence.
W. W. Rucker writes from Browning explaining illness kept him from attending but encloses a five dollar check as a premium to be determined by the committee for the Street Fair and wishes the event success.
Advertises updated stock of children's hats available at Lula Duncan's street fair with very reasonable prices. Includes note that items are up to date and ready for purchase at the event.
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