Growing Leader-Record Browning MissourI
Joe Nickell editor notes post office entry dated 1928, with local social updates from Browning Missouri. Residents attend dinners, visits, and teaching assignments. mentions Mrs. Tom Hayes, Carl Laswell, L. Arnold, Tom Morris, Letha Morris, Henry Purdin, Julia Phillips, Catherine Woolf, and others. Local schooling, baptist association, and mail carrier noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookfield
The
Baptist Association
D. P. Myers
Tom Allen
Allen
Eac
Julia Phillips
Willard Phillips
Linneus
Catherine Woolf
Fairview
Haseville
Jackson Township
Linn
Carrie Bowyer
Dallas Falconer
Local families visit over weekend in Milan Keokuk area
D W and Mr and Mrs George Ings and children visited the Roy wrong and family. Sohn Tyge and family and Irene Mitchell from Keokuk Iowa spent the weekend with Sherman Hoskins and wife. Bliss Annabeth Ricker and son Bobbie Julia Jennings and Mr and Mrs Clum Mitchell and daughter Maxine from Keokuk Iona spent Sunday night with W T Jennings and family Duff and Edna. Vernon Hollen and daughter spent Wednesday and Thursday with home folks W E White and family near Milan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. W
George Ings
Roy Wrong
Sohn Tyge
Iarey Mitchell
Keokuk
Iowa
Sherman Hoskins
Bliss Annabeth Ricker
Bobbie
Julia Jennings
Clum Mitchell
Maxine
Iona
W. T. Jennings
Duff
Edna
Ps. Vernon Hollen
Thursa
W. E. White
Milan
Shelby News Briefs Describe Local Moves and Visits
Ins Gracie Hatch and son Ray mond headed for Detroit last Monday to establish a home there. Fiva Monroe visits her sister in Brookfield after Leaphest began a new barber in Shelby after school. Spencer and family and Rulon began a trip back home Sunday morning. Mrs Rey Jennings spent last Wednesday with her daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Bauer
T. L. McDonnald
Shelby
Hadley Rulon
Frank Phillips
Detroit
Gracie Hatch
Raymond
Fiva Monroe
Brookfield
Spencer
Rulon
Rey Jennings
Charlie Corday
Kirksville
Ben Almond
Tom Bauswell
Lizzie Jones
Milan
Ed Franklin
I. J. McCollum
F. M. Cattey
Mary Jones
Garner
Perry McCollum
Helen
Harvey McCollum
Robert Cattey
Sarah
McCollum
Otis McCollum
Edgar
George Milhoan
Winigan
Shenandoah
Iowa
John Thudhum
Near St. Catherine
Maggie Brewer
Norma Jones
New Plymouth
Idaho
E. V. Jones
Hill School
A. A. Pipes
Baptist Association
J.S. Head
Barnie Lay
S. C. Lay
Louie Haley
Orbra Jones
Moberly
Orbra
Crist
W. A. Brookshier
Walter
George Bauswell
Esta Bauswell
Lamar
Colo
Heart of Maryland
Electric Theatre
North East Linn Community Weather and Farm Notes
North East Linn reports cool weather with social visits to families in Kirksville and Garner. The piece notes church attendance, cemetery cleanup at McCollum, and a Shenandoah trip, plus a livestock advice section on ram care and marking to track breeding among flocks.
September outlook cools as items from Purdin area
Community notes report cooler weather for September in Purdin. Several local families, including Pulliam, Bagley, Cassity, and Ross clans, visited kin in Brookfield and surrounding towns over the weekend. The group also shared travel updates and a cement block foundation project at Willard Pulliam’s home.
Care For Rams During Breeding Season
A farmer reports a good crop of early lambs as rams receive care during the breeding season. Proper feeding and shelter support healthy ewe and lamb outcomes.
Letters Reveal Trade Ties And Early Missouri Trade Privileges
A fragmentary document shows exchange about sample cases and commissions, with a note that no agents or commissions would be used. It also recalls 1799 actions in the Missouri St. Charles district where grants and trading privileges with the Osages were sought, and rising rivalry with the Chouteau family over monopoly rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Summers
Trudeau
Missouri
St. Charles
St. Louis
Company of Missouri
Company of the
Manuel Lisa Pioneer Fur Trader and Indian Agent
Manuel Lisa, an obscure but notable figure in Missouri history, was born in New Orleans on September 8, 1772 to Christoval de Lisa of Spain and Maria Ignacio Rodriguez of Florida. His early years included Mississippi river commerce and by age twenty he commanded his own boat. The article previews his later impact as a fur trader and Indian agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Manuel Lisa
New Orleans
Christoval de Lisa
Spain
Maria Ignacio Rodriguez
Ste. Augustine
Florida
Louisiana
Lisa
Card of Thanks for Brownings business partnership
We thank friends for patronage during our business career in Brow ning and hope you will support our successor Homer Swartz. The partnership of Lay Produce has been dissolved Lay Produce. by S. C. Lay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Browning
Homer Swartz
Lay Produce
S. C. Lay
Local visitors and events fill Brookfield area notes
The column lists residents and visitors such as J P Franklin, Harry Rhodes, R H Smith, Walter Gooch, John Browning, and others visiting on weekends. It notes political candidacy of Rev L V Harmon, business changes with S C Lay selling his poultry operation, hospital visits for appendicitis, housing moves, theatre ads, and a local baseball game with Eversonville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Franklin
East of Cora
Harry Rhodes
Near Haseville
R. H. Smith
North Salem
Walter Gooch
Laredo
John Browning
Buffalo
Okla
J. T. Bennett
Arthur
Brookfield
L. V. Harmon
Chillicothe
Milan
Cora
Harmon
S. C. Lay
Swartz
Also Mentioned on This Page
Browning, Missouri
Joe Nickell
Brown
Shelby News
North East Linn
Purdin
Ray Pulliam
Otto Taylor
Bernard Bagley
Gary
Illinois
Charley Bagley
Claude Watson
George of
St. Joseph
Wm. Pulliam
R. D. Monroe
George Cassity
Sheveport
Wm. Cassity
Bernice Morris
Billie
R. M. Ross
W. R. Ross
Earn Pulliam
Mrs. Hoskins
H. C. Taylor
Mildred Pulliam
Lucile McDonald
Willard Pulliam
Jess Pulliam
Wm. Penhale
Yours Truly, S. W. Summers
Strain’s National Watch Shop
United States
America
W. E. Anderson
Floyd Shoemaker
Central West Missouri Telephone Company
B. Chenoweth
Will Gibson
Willow Springs
W.C. Bartlett
Ida McCollum
New Boston
Will
Tom Brookshier
Cushing, Ohlo
Clarence Rogers
Kansas City
Owens Comedy Company
R. E. Harris
Des Moines
Fairbury
Nebr
Ernest Bales
Jimmie Harris
Bennett Brothers
R. A. Peters
D. D
Milter
Roy
Farm Club
Eversonville
E. V. Hanna
Kansas City, MO
Browning Drug CO
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