Post Office Entry at Browning Missouri 1897
Notice shows item entered at Browning Missouri post office as second class mail matter dated July 8 1897 indicating old postal records.
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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1917
Page
4
Notice shows item entered at Browning Missouri post office as second class mail matter dated July 8 1897 indicating old postal records.
Edward C Bailey administrator announces final settlement of the estate of Cora Bailey deceased at the Linn County Probate Court in Linn County Missouri. The hearing is set for November 12 1917 and all creditors and interested parties are notified to appear.
Belle Knifong executrix notifies creditors and others in Linn County Missouri that she will make final settlement of the estate at the Probate Court in Linneus on November 12, 1917.
Oct 11 1917 notice from I H F Crookshanks administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of Robert D Crookshanks deceased stating intent to make final settlement at the next term of the Probate Court of Linn County Missouri in Linneus on November 12 1917.
Executrix Mary D. Melton gives notice to all creditors and others interested in the estate of Preston P. Melton deceased that she will make final settlement at the next term of the Probate Court of Linn county Missouri at Linneus on November 12, 1817. Mary D. Melton Executrix.
A social update from Cross Roads and Cora notes A C Boyd and family visiting Cora Sunday evening. Fern Glidewell and Emma Hollon visited Cora Sunday. Hildred Spencer spent the weekend with family in Cora. James A Dodson painting G M Spencers house this week. Grace Lawrence and Lizzie Hoskins guests of Dortha Morris Monday. Mr and Mrs Jas Holton guests of daughter Mrs Orbra Jones. Mrs Fannie Holton and Mrs Lizzie Shipley guests of Mrs Sallie Jennings this week. Mrs Jas Bohanon of Unionville visited Chas Dodson family from Thursday. Eddie Hull and C C Dodson worked sorghum late last week. Large crowd attended the sale at J D Elliott on Friday. report says everything sold well.
Roads stayed with his sister Mrs. Web McCoy from Friday evening to Sunday evening, sharing time at her home.
Oba Clapp and family visited F. M. Cattey on Sunday. Noland Arnold provided cane thrashings at I. J. McCollum's on Monday. A baby girl born October 11 to Ben Cattey and wife weighs eleven and a half pounds and both mother and child are doing well. W W Jones has been ill at his son in law F. M. Cattey’s home. Teachers from the community attended a meeting at Shafter on Friday. Mrs Otis McCollum visited her father's family E. W. Nickell on Saturday and Sunday. Delmer McCollum, thirteen, improving after two weeks of sickness.
Dr H E Epperson was badly bruised after a ladder fell while he stood on it gathering fruit beneath a pear tree. No bones broken but internal injuries noted. Condition appeared to improve early in the week. Attending Dr Duffie said he was doing as well as can be expected. Dr Gale of Osborn consulted with Dr Duffie regarding the case.
Commencing November 1 1917 all long distance messages incur a 5 cent stamp tax under Section 500 War Revenue Law approved October 3 1917. The sender must pay the tax as under the old law. Browning Telephone Exchange reminds all persons.
Notice requests all interested parties to meet at Jenkins cemetery at 2 o'clock Friday October 26 to elect new officers and arrange rebuilding the fence. Roy Haley secretary.
Mr. Robert T. Patterson and Mrs. Laura Huffman of Laclede tied the knot in Kansas City on Thursday October 16. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. Wm. Abernethy.
A compilation of numerous real estate bargains offered for sale and exchange. Please refer to each description by its listed number when inquiring about a property.
Missouri broker J D Browning advertises farm properties for sale and exchange with loans offered. Listings include 130 acres near a 15000 population city priced at 15000 with 4500 Eastern loan, 90 acres at 76 per acre cash, 370 acre Linn county grain farm at 125 per acre with 10000 loan, 800 acres Sullivan county improved land priced to clear, and multiple homes and small parcels in Browning and Milan with various loan terms.
A dense ad offers farms and outbuildings for sale or trade in Missouri. It lists 74 acres near city limits with price 1000, 90 acre Big Locust Creek farm at 90 per acre with 5960 loan, 187 acre Linn county farm at 27500 with 12000 loan, and a Browning shop for town property or cash. Also mentions 8 acres rolling upland, 22,245 acres town land, and various equity swaps for city property or merchandise.
The Brown ing W C T U met October 5 1917 with the president in charge. After devotional exercises and a brief business session a county assembly report from Laclede was read. Treasurer's report and a lesson on parliamentary usage followed. Next meeting set for the first Friday in November with Mrs Permelia Mairs.
Linn County Council of Defence calls a food conservation meeting in Linneus on Tuesday October 30 at 7 30 pm with speakers Rev T J Enyeart E B Fields C B Burns C K Hart and Geo W Martin. audiences urged to provide music. Additional meetings are scheduled in Purdin Linneus St Catherine and other towns with dates in late October and early November.
The Leader-Record reports a surge in subscribers over the past month at a new rate of $1 per year. The note highlights growth as readers adopt the updated pricing model.
The notice thanks readers for renewals and apologizes for neglect. It asks those who have not paid recently to come in or send a remittance and not wait for a mailed statement.
Last week Judge J. T. Fleming collected donations with a subscription paper to fund a foundation under Mrs. Ned Atkins home. The foundation was completed early this week, aiding Mrs. Atkins and her three small children.
Charley Haggard, chief forester, asks anyone with Forest ranger or lodge uniforms or uniform parts to return them immediately to the forestry office.
Kalb and Dill, famed funny men, headline a five act comedy at the Electric Theatre Saturday night. Mrs. Stella Patterson, after a short visit with her.
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