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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1905
Page
1
Reconstruction of a local wedding notice describes a Duncan Jolley and Jolley bride family event at the home of the bride and groom. Rev Sitton presided with guests and relatives in attendance as the couple prepared to visit after the celebration.
Tuesday morning about four o'clock Mrs Jas Ss discovered their house on fire and the family was roused just in time to escape the burning building. Carter went to Linneus.
A Friday game between doctors and merchants drew the season’s largest crowd. Despite many players with little or no prior baseball experience, the match remained fast paced with standout hits from D L Whaley Epperson Harmon Brown and solid fielding by Johnson Home and others. Final lines showed a doctors win in the first half of the seventh before Harmon hit a homer for the merchants with receipts totaling 49.05 and three hours of play under umpire Joe Harvey.
The Linn County Teachers Association met at Brookfield from October 26 to 28 with sessions on organization enrollment and county school conditions led by E. M. Sipple and J. A. White. Workshops covered English, literature, nature study, languages, and debates. W. C. Langdon visited Columbia, Missouri, Monday.
Last week Senator Fields received a letter inviting him to deliver an address at the dedication of the new Supreme Court building in Jefferson City on October 24. Fields led the bill establishing the building and chaired the dedication committee. funds come from unused World’s Fair appropriations at St. Louis. He has not yet decided whether he can attend.
Linn County Court met in Linneus October. dram shop denied to J H Walker Sons Marceline due to petition name and missing ad valorem statement. Bridges contracted for repairs near Leverson and Brookfield. Mussel Fork steel bridge to replace Henry Bridge. Dick and Gannon and David F Hawks granted dram shop licenses. Fleming settlement with school fund approved. A county infirmary superintendent will be appointed at December term for two years starting Jan 1, 1906.
The Farmers and Traders Bank at Dawn Missouri will be owned by Browning people after year end. Mr S L Gibson closed the deal in Chala last week to place the bank under his control at the start of next year. Arthur Gibson, formerly with the Traders Bank of Kansas City, will be the new cashier. The Dawn bank promises fair treatment and sound operations.
Notice to Browning Missouri stockholders to attend the annual meeting at the banking house on Thursday October 26 05 at 1 oclock PM. Agenda includes electing a board of directors and transacting other business. Attendance in person or by proxy requested. S L Ginson cashier.
A note stresses the Round Oak mark on the leg as essential to distinguish genuine pieces from imitators in Browning Missouri. The message warns buyers to verify the Round Oak branding amid multiple fakes.
Citizens sought a Browning circuit court grand jury at the last session but none was granted. During the week there were twenty five cases of empty beer bottles at the Browning depot. The town still allows liquor sales despite the absence of a licensed saloon and hopes persist that laws will be enforced properly in time.
J W Davenport of Wingo Kentucky writes June 14 1902 that two doctors said one lung was gone and the other badly affected yet after using Ballard's Snow Liniment he recovered after two 50 cent bottles. He praises the medicine and urges others to try it.
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