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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1941
Page
4
In this fragment the speaker jokes about marriage and sanity among Browning residents. It cites a preference for local merchants over mail orders and notes a weather quip about rain and cold. A playful snapshot of town chatter with humorous stereotypes and everyday concerns.
Pleasant Hill items show late notices due to muddy roads. Local residents including Nelson Britton, Brantners, Barclay, and Tucker families shared visits and deliveries. A carnival at Fairview District and Viola Mitchell’s government job move are noted along with family gatherings and pond construction on B O Brantner’s farm.
Week of October 13 reports Mr and Mrs Clyde Dillinger visiting relatives and hosting relatives from Pollock and Cora. Oscar Leeper and Elizabeth Johnson from Pollock spent Sunday with kin. Breeding of Cora visited friends Sunday. Myers of near Cora spent weekend with Dug Myers family. Ada Smith staying with Alpha Whaley in Browning visited home folks. Richard Haddox and children of Kansas City visited C E ...
Rogers near Humphreys. Mrs. Bertha Schweppe and daughter visit with C. E. Magegart and Mrs. Maggart. Grover Cutsinger, Guy Ford and Leon Tipton from Arkansas stay with relatives. Rev. Tate and wife visit from Brown ing and conduct first Methodist church appointment. Mrs. Calvin Burress visits aunt Hannah Johnson at Humphreys. Johnson is poorly. Mary Tipton, bedridden since Oct 18 1940, injured herself again recently. Harrison Grindstaff moves household to Ray Grindstaff’s at Pollock.
Too late for last week. Rainy Monday. Mr and Mrs James Smith left for St Louis on Sunday for his new job. Herman Smith of Excelsior Springs visited with W G Smith and family. Chicago visitors including Nora Straley Eugene Belzer and Marlin Belzer with Wayne Thompson and Lyle Nickell spent the weekend with relatives. Marie Straley accompanied them home. Francis Berry of Chillicothe visited her parents Leon Mitchell. Howard Payne spent Sunday at Charles Newtons. Mary Mundell visits Everett Riley family. Ed Smith called on Wm Tucker Sunday. The checker club met at Everett Riley’s Friday night. We enjoyed entertaining.
Scattered showers and cooler weather are noted. Local notices include illnesses, visits, dinners, and family gatherings. The homecoming at Chillicothe on the 18th attracted many, and plans for a wiener roast were set for the 28th with Mrs. Geo Phillips.
Miss Yvonne Wood of Kansas City spent the week end with home folks. Miss Letha Tromerhouser of Kansas City visited Mr and Mrs Harry Tromerhouser and Velda. Mr and Mrs Tedy Holser and Sandra, Mrs Ed Sayers and Carolee, Mrs Lois Young and Richard shopped in Trenton Saturday. Sunday visitors included Mrs Vina Shafer and family and Mr and Mrs LeRoy Shafer and Roger with Mr and Mrs Charley Tromerhouser and Margaret Jane and Mr and Mrs John Rottmann.
Sunday gatherings show J A Holser and Sandra hosting, Glenn Jerome and family dining with Roy Creason, Shafer and McMickle families visiting Ora Holser, and Eu gene Forsen hosting dinner for Harry Frances on furlough. Other guests include Pennington, Cook, McMickle, Gooch, Foster, Grover Murrell, Jerome, Lorane, Nan Powell, Crookshanks, Mumpower, Dowell, and Dick Dowell relations.
Rainy month with mild weather continues as residents report travels and moves. Elmer and Ralph Sevier bought two cattle loads in Kansas City while Fred Bozwell relocates near Humphreys. Local visits include Dodsons, Quigleys, Knifongs, Hollons, Bundridges, Hunsakers, and Talberts. Marie Straley travels to Chicago to visit relatives.
Local notes list visits and relatives around Linneus Brookfield and nearby towns. Names include Jimmy Blackburn Ed Yogel Shirley Guyer Mosley Turner Burns Othee Hawk Bailey Finney Ware Buswell and Douglas. Events cover weekend trips funerals and a new baby birth with several family visits.
Roy Howell visited Friday at his parents’ home with Mr and Mrs L D Howell. Harry Nickell left Monday for Chicago for employment. Oren Coram and Francis Ray Greenstreet are visiting relatives on leave from the Army. Mr and Mrs Cecil Bunch were Green City visitors Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Roy Marlay were in Kirksville Thursday.
Notice is given to creditors and interested parties that J J D Mullins as Executor plans final settlement of the estate of Priscilla C Millins in Linn County Probate Court Linneus Missouri on November 10 1941 at the next term.
Local residents frequent Kirksville and nearby towns this week. Charley Jones dies at 50 in Kirksville hospital with funeral near Price cemetery. Several families visit Milan and Green City, while others return from Kirksville after hospital cases and blood poisoning.
Local notes show Detroit visitors the Leland Lamberts and family staying with T S C Lambert. Brookfield travelers Frank Belzer and Lary Dean visited. Alex Purdin helped with barn shin gle. Other visits include Green City families Nora Grant and Jones, Milan callers Search and family, and Raymond Browning and wife. Eugene Ford hosted and was hosted by Nora Grant group. Dorothy Longwell of Moline Illinois visited John Longwell family.
Local items include visits to Brookfield and Pur din by the Woodside and Neet families. J D Gaul leaves a filling station job in Pur din for Memphis Mo. Ada Miller begins nursing work away from Pur din. Meadville teams visit with Purdin girls winning 27 18 while boys lose. Albert Enderly to move to Brookfield by January first.
Mr and Mrs Hubert Lyons travel to Chillicothe for the home coming on Saturday. Nearby residents plan to attend the Royal at Kansas City during the week. Norman Smith works at the Purdin Mercantile.
North Salem saw two rounds of rain Sunday night and Monday night into Tuesday morning. Several local families visited and checked on Mrs. Ellis Jennings who remains confined to bed. Weekend guests included Ed gar Harl and family from Morning Sun Iowa Roy Harl Roy Jennings May and Donald Georgia Lambert Inez and Bobby Dean Oren Jennings and Gracie Jennings Reva Jennings and Jennings called on E L Arnold Sunday. Mrs Arnold’s condition stayed the same.
About 8 000 people joined the 1941 Stoddard County homecoming showing broad support and planning for the 1942 program. Secretary of State Dwight H. Brown was the principal speaker, eliciting the highest crowd response as he contrasted American freedom of assembly with wartime measures.
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