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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1946
Page
4
The item notes subscription price set at $1.50 per year and that the publication is registered as second class matter at the Browning Missouri post office under the 1879 act. Dated Thursday October 10 1946.
The column wryly notes shifting luck and ongoing housing shortage with thousands living in makeshift spaces. It mocks social norms, labor shortages, and rising grocery costs while predicting limited auto accident injuries and civic skepticism about road programs. A reader joke highlights change via a bulldozer.
Lyle Wickham and Billy Woodall were putting up hay Monday. Jimmie Crowdis helped Dale Bartimus with the soy beans Saturday. J. T. Hoselton and Robert Fields worked soy beans last week and still have plenty to harvest. Multiple local families visited friends and attended services Sunday night in Roger and nearby areas.
Mrs Rosa Dodson visits with Mr and Mrs Hubert Atkins. Allen Fanning lays a house foundation with Raymond Smith doing the work. Floyd Badger buys cow and calf from A and B Ranch. Bob Rinehart family welcomes a new baby boy. Eugene Thurlo attends the University in Columbia. The G P Club meets with Mrs Carrie Calls. The Ford boys harvest sorghum. Families and neighbors in Scottsville share weekend visits and small home projects.
Clem Springs and Cora report a family gathering amid a fall harvest. Méllie Almond and spouse attend, with neighbors noted in a brief social item.
Son Howard of Brookfield visited sister Hattie Jennings Duff Jennings and family Sunday. Mollie Trumbo's brother from Chillicothe visited relatives. Mrs Johnie Stephenson and Mrs Marvin Stephenson called on Ella Morris and brothers. They went shopping in Browing. Will Murphy and son from near Humphreys attended funeral of Mrs Henry Lawrence in Milan. Franklin Chapman welcomed baby Jessie Sandra at Laughlin Hospital Kirksville. Mrs Chapman formerly Norene Brookshier. Mrs Frank Tucker visited John Tucker home Sunday evening. John Tucker and Allen visited Mrs Van Mairs Wednesday.
Fairview District residents share Sunday visits and errands. Raymond Phillips family and Mrs. E W Riley host and are joined by Thelma Lee Sharon Linneus guests, Edwin Tucker, and others. Several trips and calls occur among Tucker, Britton, Clark, Dickinson and Riley households.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lambert and son of Brookfield visit near North Salem with Ona Lambert family. Arthur Haley of Browning dines with Wayne Abbott and Flossie Wyatt. Earl Steen and son trade in Purdin. Mrs. Jesse Longwell and Alva Deskins visit Brookfield. Cokerham couples shop in Chillicothe. John Longwell and Fay Bowyer families move from Walcott area to E G Fulkerson farm west of Browning. Abbott Cordray attend North Salem event. Lambert family and Longwell relatives appear in Brookfield and nearby. Mrs. John Longwell hosts a Stanley party with eighteen ladies and demonstrator Marie Cooper. Leoma Lambert spends Sunday.
Afternoon with Helen Ann West. Mrs Mary Bauswell spent Monday with her sister Mrs John Quigley. Mr and Mrs Jakie Simmons visited Jas Havens. Otto Hill hauled cane for Dalton Jackson. Mr and Mrs Oliver Lay visited Milan. Mrs Hattie Stults visited her sister Mrs Maggie Creason. Mrs Everett Crookshanks visited Mrs Morris Crookshanks last Thursday. Mrs Irene Herbert and daughter ...
Notice is given to creditors and interested parties that I. T. R. McArtor as administrator will make a final settlement of the Eugene McArtor estate at the Linn County Probate Court Linneus on November 11, 1916. T. & McArtor, Administrator. September 19, 1946.
Local residents and families visited relatives in nearby towns including Purdin Chillicothe Kirksville Galt Linneus and Milan. Weekend gatherings celebrated Walter Crooks birthday as ponds were dug recently in the area. Families mentioned include Crooks Baskett Herbert Hedges Bundies Burchett Hill Lay Chapman Nickell Havens with several children listed.
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