Browning Leader-Record issues Sept 25 1924
Local newspaper page from Browning Missouri edited by Joe Nickell notes standard publication details. Dated Thursday September 25 1924, with archival delivery stamps and post office classification.
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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1924
Page
4
Local newspaper page from Browning Missouri edited by Joe Nickell notes standard publication details. Dated Thursday September 25 1924, with archival delivery stamps and post office classification.
News From North Salem reports sale of walnut logs to Creason Brothers and a community fair in Salem at Winigan next month. Wayne Abbott returned from Kirksville hospital after appendicitis. Aunt Betty Smith moved to Salem. Local crops yield 68.5 bushels per acre. Several residents attend church in Garner and Winigan. A quilting at I. J. McCollums drew a good crowd for a day’s work. Bob Long bought a new Overland Coupe.
Wim Butler and T P Bundridge visited an old time friend in Livingston county last week. S C Harmon and family with J N Maxey and family spent Sept 14 with James Bingham and family near Green Castle. James Dodson and family visited Pete Carmack. James Dunlaps sale drew several locals. J B Harmon hosted a surprise 18th birthday supper for Lucille with music from a radio player piano banjo and violin. Attendees included many local families. Lloyd Crowdis shipped hogs from Cora and Clive and Glenn Freeland sent two car loads of cattle. Robert Stephenson delivered hogs to Cora. Dan Brinkley and Sally Fields wed at the Brinkley home. Preaching and baptisms were at White Oak Grove. Ray Moore and family from Wichita visited Ray Lawrences.
Names of residents and families visiting, hosting and spending time together around Cross Roads and Shelby include Schriner, Smith, Bummer, Keithley, Eden, Hoover, Ogle, Head, Woodside, Cokerham, Steele, Miller and others. The notes record Tuesday to Sunday visits among neighbors and relatives near North Salem Chillicothe and surrounding areas.
A Sunday afternoon at Har vy McCollums includes Mrs Perry McCollum and daughter Helen visiting. Floyd McCollum traveled to Gif ford on Monday after delivering lumber. Mrs Laura Thudhum called on Mrs Ham Yount, also Sunday. Albert Detwiler and Perry Christian with family are listed among local names.
Mrs Henry Hanman promotes Needle work china painting and various hand crafts inviting visitors to browse during Street Fair days at Oh Street.
Rev. Bate reported the M. E. Church, South gathering at Bear Branch is progressing well with two conversions on Tuesday night and growing interest. The meeting will close Sunday with an all day service and a large basket dinner.
Local notes record a string of Sunday visits and weekend travel. Families including Steen Pulliam Cassity Gilmer Pearsons and Goins with Smith Crookshanks and Ross joined by others from Kimball S D and Brookfield share time with relatives and friends. Weather remains cool though frost holds off.
Entomologists note ivy blossoms entice many insects to a lively flower festival pattern. Linnaeus named a cellar fly later called cellic wine drinker by Kirby. Bees and flowers like dahlias and gaillardias show similar drunken behavior with bees staggering then recovering to fly to another bloom.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat weighs how artists favor bucolic sheep scenes over a projected display of glyptodonts. It imagines visitors flocking to dazzling glyptodon oil paintings, challenging conventional subjects and debating bold new themes in art.
In a New York Sun note, the Philosopher complains of a poor dining car breakfast as he laments paying 15 cents for a cold pithy grapefruit, tough hai, underdone bread and weak coffee. The Optimist predicts things will be different in a hundred years, while the Philosopher insists he is behind one meal and cannot catch up.
In Louise Jordan Miln's Weopings and Weddings in Many Lands a paradise bird of the feathered family in Mexico constructs a cone shaped hut for courtship and a miniature elegant garden around it. The article notes the nest lasts years and the bird tends the moss beds berries and shells as long as the mating continues claiming the behavior is a scientific fact.
An English scientist, addressing the Royal Society, proposed that sun spots form where the sun's brilliant shell contains layers at temperatures high yet below the elements' critical points. Liquid masses would appear dark if opaque, and vanish when re-evaporated, suggesting sun spots are a visible early change of state on the sun.
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