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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1943
Page
4
The notes discuss food rationing reducing banquets and after dinner speeches, labor boards mediating strikes, and heating fuel shortages as winter nears Browning. Residents balance work for tomorrow with play today while reports hint at less corn being liquidated into barrels this year.
Dickinson items recount visits and travel among residents in Spencer and surrounding towns. Families like Stufflebean Shaw Grissom and Murnan host and guest at several gatherings. Mentions include Beverly Hampton, Jessie Longwell, Deskins, and local moves and hospital visits. Dale Lisby leaves for the armed forces and several households share brief visits.
Sunday guests at Fountain Grove included Mrs. John Longwell Dan Gray Mrs Anna Longwell and Mrs Anna Belle Belzer with children Dale Lerrel and other relatives.
North Salem residents report visits and family time with relatives and friends over the weekend. Notes mention Mrs Bailey Mr Rauer and Mrs Rauer visiting, the Lambert family illness in Kirksville, furloughs and various Sunday gatherings with neighbors and kin across North Salem and nearby towns.
Wilma Cooper of Kansas City visited her parents the Coop ers and family. Cpl J D Gall and wife stayed with their parents. Ada Wood from Chicago visited her father Bob Wood and Ruth. Urb Johnsons hosted Bob Wood Ada Ruth and the Wood family. Sonny Palmer returned from Kansas City to visit his sister Merle. Chas Glen Gooch called at the Wood home. Roda Gooch and son Rollan visited George Crooks in Chillicothe. Garrett and Kimbrough dig ponds on the Bob Wood farm.
Sept 7 notes a strong wind and welcome rain on Sunday night. Mrs Floy Morris stayed with her daughter and husband, Mr and Mrs Julies, and with Mrs Fay Coulter and JD Coulter of Chillicothe. Atlas Coulter of Kansas City visited the former's husband, Mr Harold Campbell, and family at the farm.
Several local families hosted or visited relatives over the weekend. The report lists numerous Sunday dinners and Saturday visits among residents including the Grahams, Tripps, Crooks, Sayers, Holsers, Thomas, Bennett, Meltons, Woolfs, Eslins, Wood siblings, Rettmanns, Shafer, Fargsons, Lane, Vandykes, Nichols, Shafer, and others.
Mrs Mable Zeigler and Gertrude of Green City along with Dorothy Zeigler of Columbia visit the Robert Fields home. Green Valley Club met with Mrs George Moffitt. next meeting September 14. The Fields couple returned from Arizona and California. Several residents travel or host visits including Milan, Warrensburg, and Humphreys areas. Farmers ship cattle and hogs. sorghum making starts. local families host relatives over the weekend.
Mr and Mrs Basil Taylor and Lorraine Mr and Mrs Cecil Taylor and three children and Mr and Mrs Edward Blunt were Sunday dinner guests at the W L Taylor home.
Pfe Amiel King on furlough with parents Floyd and unnamed mother in Illinois. Kin from Tarkio Missouri and Kansas City visit Art Bardon in this place. Several families, Danville and Milan connections, travel for dinners and sales. Preaching at the Methodist Church Sunday morning followed by a fellowship supper at 8 00.
Pleasant Hill reports a cool spell after a light Sunday night rain and a windy day causing damage to hay ricks. Local residents Mr and Mrs James Smith and family spent the weekend with relatives before returning to St Louis. Several visitors and relatives are noted with neighbors in town.
Rain cools dust and brings modest relief as residents express desire for more showers. Reports include Lawrence Murphy Elliott departing for Kansas City for several months, and ongoing family updates from Mr and Mrs Gall Goins and other relatives amid the 14th Cassity reunion at the Park.
A modest crowd enjoyed a local Sunday event in Linneus though gas and tire rationing limited distant attendance. Shoppers and visitors included Carl Cassity and Anna Smith with Merle Pulliam, Glen Dowell’s daughter, and the Drays of Linneus visiting Purdin, plus Mrs. Marshal Bohannon from Browning.
County line notes show Willis Gooch and E W Crookshanks families visiting Chillicothe and Trenton. Keath Crooks on furlough from an Army Texas camp visits his parents Walter Crooks and relatives. Other local households host weekend guests including Jennings, Crooks, Jer ry and Warren families plus Mary Lee Askey Irene Herbert.
Mr and Mrs Willis Gooch and Mr and Mrs Everett Crook shanks spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Walter Gooch and Oral in Purdin.
A call to writers to send hopeful letters to service members. Keep tone positive and focus on home life, community events, and everyday news. Mention gardens, scouts, church activities, local baseball, and bond drives to reassure troops overseas.
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