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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1943
Page
4
A Browning column surveys quotes and humorous takes on money love Berlin heat and fashion. It notes the Treasury puzzle over large bills and jokes about aging women. The piece muses on mortality headlines and political quips with a light social tone.
Shelby items list residents visiting relatives and running errands over the weekend. Names include Marvin Finney returning from overseas, Mrs. Dora Cornwell, Lawrence Bailey, Robert Trumbo, Vincent Craig moving to Brookfield, Grover Kearns, Mrs Ben Cattey delivering dressed chickens, May Monroe and daughters to Kansas City for a doctor, Henry Buswell visiting sister, and Bear Branch cemetery clean up on Labor Day.
Miss Carol Pipes visiting Kansas City parents Mr and Mrs Ray Pipes this week. Mr and Mrs Roger Barklay and family and Mr and Mrs Sam McClanahan and son of Milan visited Everett Harris and Fred Watson homes last week. Fourteen members attended the Happy Workers Club meeting with Mrs Carrie Morris last week. Mr and Mrs Ellea Taylor of Chicago visiting with his parents Mr and Mrs Rolla Taylor this week. Mr and Mrs Norman Hayes and Miss Nellie Hayes of near Melan were Sunday visitors at the Orlen Harris home.
A sequence of brief social items from Green City notes several gatherings and visits. Farewell for Mr and Mrs Ray Pipes as they winter in Kansas City. Calls at L G Taylor home and visits to J W Bunch. Plane landing near Floyd Badger and short ride with J O Harris and others. Schools reopen with teachers and new enrollments. Residents attend sales and visit nearby towns for education and work.
Uncle Dad Phillips spent several days with Mr and Mrs Everett Crookshanks and Clarence Crookshanks and Rex. Lloyd Bowyer and Mr and Mrs John Mullins were Chillico visitors Saturday. Local families hosted dinners and weekend guests across Linus and Chillicothe with many relatives and travel to Kansas City for stock.
G F Davis of Milan spent Saturday night at his home here. Mr and Mrs Tommy Breeding and family of Kansas City are moving into their property here. Mr and Mrs Everett Ogler and family of lede spent one night last week with her parents here. Harrison Grindstaff returned home after visiting his son and others.
Mrs Ray Grindstaff and family near Pollock host, while Wm Wheeler returns after days away. Rev Chappell and wife visit Browning and Chappell preaches at the Methodist Church. Amiel King from Lawrenceville spends ten days with kin before returning to camp. Richard Haddox family C E Rogers visit Dr J D Tunnell, Ball Hines family from Kansas City come for Ike Grindstaff's illness.
The column notes a needed Sunday rainfall and hopes for more. It reports Riley Bales’s death after a lingering illness and lists local residents relocating to Linneus, Kansas City, Iowa, Washington, and other areas for family, work, or care.
The long awaited rain came Sunday benefiting fall pastures and late corn. Luster and Watson Burkholder and son have been baling lespedeza on the Miller farm. Mrs Mellie Thudium visited her sister Susie Cohoon near New Boston. Mr and Mrs Phillip Bailey entertained relatives for a Sunday dinner for their son Pvt Dean Bailey home on furlough from New York. Charlie Thudhum’s were shopping in Brookfield. Mrs W J Burkholder Mrs Watson Burkholder and Mrs Jeff Mott went to Purdin. Harley Smith baled hay and lespedeza for E E Thudium.
Watson Burkholder and family joined Mrs. W. J. Burkholder for a Home Coming gathering on Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Art Tripp, Dewey Riddle and families were present. Mrs. Cassity improves after illness while staying with her children at Field under Thudium care.
Morris Chapel residents hosted dinner guests including Babe Kimbrough Lloyd Garrett Urb Johnson and families Ada Wood and Ruth Wood and others. Ada Wood returned from Chicago to work followed by sorghum work with Urb Johnson. A barn on Ralph Kimbrough’s farm burned after a Sunday lightning strike and locals noted pond dam work by Garrett and Kimbrough.
Local notices recount visits and homecomings from Wisconsin California and Nebraska among residents and families in Warren. Pfc Melvin Gray and wife and child visited the W L Taylor home while Edward Blunt failed a Fort Leavenworth physical exam and returned home.
Notes describe migrant workers including Mexicans Jamaicans and Bahamians employed across 12 western states and the East Coast to relieve farm labor shortages for war needs. They travel to the United States and will be returned home when their services are no longer required.
A total of 57 489 workers from Mexico Jamaica and the Bahama Islands have come to this country for agricultural employment. Marvin Jones War Food Administrator recently praised the abi.
About fifteen million Americans must file a declaration of estimated income for 1943 under the pay-as-you-go plan effective July 1. September 15 is the due date for most, with farmers allowed to wait until December 15 if preferred. Filing is required for single filers over 2700 earnings and married couples over 3500, plus those with non wage income of 100 or more if tax is owed, and certain 1942 filer cases with reduced 1943 withholding wages.
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