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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1931
Page
1
For sale 400 bushels of good old corn and additional wheat suitable for feed or seed offered by W L Taylor and Sons. Contact W L Taylor and Sons for details and pricing.
Mr and Mrs Hank Thurlo entertained a group of friends and relatives at a 1 PM Sunday dinner. Guests included Dr and Mrs L D Hester Englewood NJ Mrs Jose Williams Humphreys and others from Chula Mo and nearby towns. The afternoon featured enjoyable conversation and a trip to the town ball game.
On Sunday evening of the same day Mrs Hinda Rush was invited to her comfortable home, detailing a social gathering and hospitality in a quiet domestic setting.
Orryl Adams left Browning with Mrs. Nettie Bingham and Harold for Columbia Missouri on Wednesday morning. They plan to drive to Birmingham Alabama to begin school work on Monday September 14. Orvyl has been visiting her parents here for three months and will be greatly missed.
I express gratitude to many faithful friends who aided me in winning the bedroom suite and to Purdin Mercantile. Mrs. Abe Fuller.
A diary style entry chronicles a week of odd events and observations. The narrator describes domestic irritations, a nurse’s visit, a sprain, and snippets about neighbors Mrs Gillem and Mrs Blunt. The tone is humorous and rambling with everyday misadventures across the days.
On Saturday September 5 meeting at Bailey Maytag office in Browning to be fitted with guaranteed glasses at the lowest possible prices.
Public schools opened with the largest enrollment in years. Supt M A Holman leads the high school with Prof Duckworth Mrs Holman Miss Chloe Field and Miss Pearle Hoselton teaching. Grades show eleven hundred eleven high school students with sixty five hundred enrolled in the grades and many non residents and post graduates among the total.
Henry Hanman died Monday night after being treated for typhoid fever in Kirksville. His body was returned to Enterprise for burial in the Enterprise cemetery. He leaves wife Mrs Hanman two daughters Lucile and Imogene and son Theodore along with relatives and friends. A full obituary will appear next week.
Wilma Myers expresses gratitude to friends for their interest in her candidacy in the voting contest conducted by the PurDIN Mercantile Company.
The Lambert Reunion will be held in the City Park at Brown ing on Sunday Sept 13 1931. Friends and neighbors welcome.
On Thursday August 27 Mr Pew invited Hall's Happy Hase ville Hustlers and the Eternal Workers Sewing Club to a Wien er roast. The evening featured ball games roasting wieners and watermelon rind tossing. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Wm Pew Mr and Mrs Ray Gooch Hubert Shafer Letha Trommerhouser Vir
The club reporter lists individuals including Virginia Young Kenneth Young Kemit Woolf Morris Crook Shanks Lee Roy Shafer Lois Georgia Sayers Orlene Holser Yvonne Wood Edith Rottmann Dixie Pendergast Faye Meeker Payton Cecil Grimes and Elizabeth Foster as members in the updated roster for community activities.
Miss Dorothy Creason hosted a Friday lawn party at her country home in honor of guest Dorothy Arnold of Browning. A jolly group enjoyed old fashioned games and socializing, departing tired but pleased with the evening.
J H Payne and wife with B J Lambert and wife recount a ten day trip visiting Columbia Jefferson City the Capitol Penitentiary Meramec Spring Onondaga Cave Meramec State Park Graniteville Pilot Knob Fort Davidson Tip Top Mountain Big Spring Park Smittle Cove Bagwell Dam Sedalia State Fair and Brit Hilburn’s family. The 1000 mile journey covered 28 counties and featured many state sites and scenic views.
For sale is high grade Michigan Wonder seed wheat. Phone number 70F3. Contact Louis Arnold.
Last week four Egg Grading Meetings in Meadville Purdin Brookfield and Bucklin drew low turnout with Linneus rained out and Purdin nearly canceled. Harold Canfield urged higher quality eggs and fairer pricing while county officials stressed grading to balance pay.
Friday Mr and Mrs H F Kille entertained relatives and friends at their country home north east of the city to honor Rev A L Scott of Kansas. A noon dinner followed by social conversation left guests with pleasant memories.
Mrs Martha Jordan entertained Tuesday with Miss Pearle Hoselton and Orryl Adams. In the afternoon bridge was played and additional guests included Mesdames Hazel Peterson, Mabel Harvey and Misses Alean Woodworth, Frey Kenley, Violet Hooker, Jean Peery, and Mrs Reta Peters.
Friends and relatives gathered Wednesday evening for a surprise party marking Wm Pulliam's 62nd birthday. Ice cream and cake were served and guests included D L Cady and wife Ada Tapscott Ed Pulliam and wife Albert Folch Chas Pulliam and family Jess Pulliam and daughter Nadine R D Monroe and daughter Norma Jean Mrs Charley Johns Helen Ames Coiter and wife Lillie Buswell.
Wayne Atkins and Lula May Smith were married last Thursday afternoon at the home of J P Turner Justice of the Peace in this city. The couple, both well connected locally, will reside at the groom’s parents’ home and begin married life surrounded by friends.
Wilma Myers expresses gratitude to everyone who kindly assisted her in the contest and thanks supporters.
Willie Burtch of near Haseville and William Pendergast of near Chu la ordered newspaper ads for Laredo annual street fair set for September 10 11 and 12. The fair draws many locals to a large program with liberal premiums donated by residents of the sister city to the west and local farmers. A copy of the fair bill is available from Mr Woolf secretary Laredo Missouri.
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