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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1944
Page
2
Fairview district residents report visits among Brittons Brantners Brentners and Taylors. A 4-H group gathering at Winigan and a Taylor reunion at Owasco are noted along with several weekend visits and an accident near Lloyd Lambert’s property where no injuries occurred. Stanley Riley returns to St. Louis after a week with relatives.
Loren Owens spent the weekend in Kansas City and at the Joe Moore home. Essie Wood helped Mary Kimbrough with can beans last week. C M Goins and son Jim shopped in Brookfield Saturday. Mrs Sam Sprague of near Macon visited Pearl Goins and family. Essie and Ruth Wood helped Mike Palmer paper once. Little Georgie Kimbrough is recovered from a cold. Arthur and Katie Griffith visited Linneus Friday. Donald Pulliam, at an army camp in El Paso, came with his wife and boys to visit relatives. Eulieve Gooch returned home after visiting the Pulliam family. Roberta Gooch and her Light school pupils attended a Brookfield show Saturday. Hillman Havens drove his pickup to the show. Clara and Essie Maye Oertwig and Frances Dunkin went to Browning Friday to see Dr Arter. Urb Johnson was a supper guest at the Lee Wood home Friday. Mr and Mrs Ira Cox and girls spent Sunday with Emmett and family.
Mrs. C. M. Goins and her son along with Urb Johnson stopped by the Lee Wood residence Sunday evening in a courteous social call.
Rainy cool weekend with several social visits across the area. Mrs W J Burkholder hosted relatives while Luster and Wayne fished. Susie Cohoon visited Mellie Thudium. families gathered in Brookfield and Bethany. Norma Smith ill with asthma. Sunshine Workers Club event hosted by Vina McCollum.
The week closes with Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Bunch and their children from Trenton spending Sunday with Mrs. Romine, Mr. Romine, and Dolly Wallace’s family, continuing local kinship ties.
Mr. and Mrs. Ball Hines and family of Kansas City visited relatives here over the weekend. Mrs. Bessie Hendrix and her mother Mrs. Norvelle of Humphreys arrived last week. Hendrix moved household goods into a new property bought from Mrs. Doll Reed. Luella Grindstaff moved to Milan. Nora Grindstaff, Mrs. Cal Burress, and Grant Smith were in Unionville on Monday. Mrs. James Tipton was taken to her son Basil's home on September 10.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hoskins and granddaughters of Purdin spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Hoskins. Mrs. Clifford Fanning and children visited near Browning with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Warren, also hosting her Colorado aunt.
Herman Harris will hold a sale on September 27 then move to Illinois to run a dairy farm. The G P Club will serve lunch at the sale and several locals are filling silos. Families visiting and residents visiting relatives are noted among the town's Sunday activities.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cattey bought the Charley Smith property in Winigan and will move soon. The Smiths bought a home in La Plata. B. F. Nickell and family visited Green City. Lyle Nickell, in the Army in Alaska, has returned to visit relatives and is now stationed in Mississippi. Dolly Wallace and children arrived at her parents’ home, Sam Romine, after a year in California. Harold Millay attended the Fall Festival in Kirksville. Mrs. Doris Hanman of Browning spent a few days with Tom Crist. D. D. Rankin and wife were in Kirksville early this week.
Emer and Shirley Sue Sevier returned from Mayo Hospital where Shirley was examined. Johnnie Glidewell became a father to Kenneth Earl a baby boy weighing 8 pounds. Betty Pearl Lavely visited Chillicothe relatives Monday and Tuesday. Vernon Stephenson family from Milan area joined Clark Harmon family for a Sunday gathering. Cross Roads school opened August 28 with 20 pupils. Lyle Wickham is teacher.
Mrs. John DeWitt and daughter visit her father in law C. J. DeWitt. Cora Smiley and family dine with Grant and VanFossons. Christine and Marion VanFossen travel to Milan and Kirksville for teaching and college. Walter McKay and Millard Swankard families share Sunday with Gilbert McKay. Mrs. Hastings and son Louis return to Kansas City after two weeks with W. A. Reger family. Mrs. Shatto joins Hastings to Kansas City and back.
A Roger community update records a birth in Springfield Ohio Pamela Kay Waits daughter of Harold and Leah Waits. Neighbors Mark and visits by Lieut Baranowski and Frances Hodgins Baranowski. Thanksgiving program planned at Methodist Church with church bell, one hour store closings and school assembly. Several families visit and travel between Milan and Roger for events and W S C S zone meeting in Marcelline.
Last week's notes show a light rain on Sunday afternoon. Several local residents visited family and friends including Mrs. Mary Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Riley, and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Phillips. Attendees at a Unionville horse show included Bennie Brantner and Andrew Pfeiffer. Junior and Allen attended North Salem homecoming, and Arthur Morris hauled cane for John Tucker last Friday.
Ethella Newton and Bernince McCollum met Thursday night then Browning school Friday. John Tucker, his wife, Allen, and Kermit Lambert family with Sonja visited Wednesday. Neighbors have begun shingling their house.
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