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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1918
Page
8
Guidance on storing onions sweet potatoes turnips parsnips salsify potatoes apples and pears with temperatures 55F for onions and sweet potatoes and near freezing for other produce. Advice covers damp cellar ventilation spray for dampness and layered pit storage plus burying tips and local note on Peters daughter of W H Peters and Wichita Wheat show.
W B Combs of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture offers brief directions for storing butter. Make butter from sweet or slightly sour cream salt as usual scald all utensils pack butter in one or two pound crocks wrap each crock in boiled mustard wrap crocks in a large crock and cover with a brine strong enough to float an egg to every three pounds salt add one pound sugar and one quarter pound saltpeter boil skim and cool brine butter unlikely to drop in price but may reach a dollar a pound this winter farmers will store butter for winter use.
The Anderson county canning contest team won high honors at the Wichita wheat show. Otis E. Hall, state club leader, called them the best looters he ever saw. Captain Mrs. Cora Atwater led Misses Lucile Umphries and Hettie Peters as lieutenants in effective demonstrator work. The team closed Anderson county with Glenwood club of Leavenworth county as strong contenders. The county team feels well paid for their efforts in Wichita.
The United War Work Campaign calls for support as it opens November 11 and runs for a week. Missouri is pledged to raise five million dollars to aid servicemen and their families. An appeal urges Missourians to give generously, noting that no other campaign will demand so much sacrifice this year.
A Berlin Tageblatt piece translated by the Missouri Division of the Food Administration contrasts prewar German rations with current limits. It notes May to July averages for coffee bread meat and sugar and shows a dramatic drop to roughly one third of former daily quantities.
The speaker warned that wartime allies such as Poland Ukraine Rumania the Caucasus and Finland have entered into many commercial pacts and promises. They said even after peace the economic chaos will persist and housewives must tighten belts and accept the inevitable.
Mrs Jessie H Grace wife of Chas H Grace dies at Chillicothe hospital from influenza complications that led to pneumonia and appendicitis She was born August 6 1883 in Eversonville Mo and moved to Chillicothe with the Tharp family She married Charles H Grace August 19 1908 Survived by husband father J H Tharp a brother E A Tharp and sister Miss Carrie Tharp Active in Elm Street Methodist Church and Domestic Science Club Funeral Monday at 2 30 pm from the Grace home Rankin lawn area
A publisher notes two weeks of mailings to subscribers behind on payments. Many respond with apologies or extra credits, but some ignore notices. The firm says it will pursue collection and incur costs if accounts are turned over to collectors, blaming delinquent subscribers.
The M. E. Church, South promises that if flu conditions do not worsen, services will be held next Sunday. Kaifong hosts preaching on Saturday evening and Sunday morning, Brown ing Sunday evening features W C T U readings and a pastor’s talk, urging turnout and that every vote counts.
An advertisement invites settlers to claim irrigated farms in the Denver Unit of 12 000 acres along the Burlington Central Wyoming line in Northern Wyoming. It promises free land, water on easy terms with no interest and urges immediate action from Powell and nearby areas. Contact 8 B Howard agricultural agent at C B Q R R 1004 Farnam Street Omaha Nebraska for printed material.
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