12 Apr 1957
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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1957
Page
1
The Pattern for Progress series discusses expanding local industry, urging residents to support area firms and buy local. It argues success stems from diligence, consistent profits, and community purchasing, urging residents to trade at local merchants to spur growth.
The third annual Holy Week Meditations will share the theme Your Redemption at the Texas Theatre next week. Daily noon sessions 12 10 to 12 30 invite business people shoppers and others to 20 minutes of quiet reflection ahead of Easter. Rev Lester E Hedemann will speak with others including Mrs Wane Spill ahi and Karl K Steffens among participants inviting Brady citizens to attend.
Mr and Mrs Don Elliott of Brady are parents of a son born at Brady Hospital on Tuesday.
Brady and surrounding communities celebrate completion of the Pippa Fountain designed by Dr. Waldine Tauch. The bronze sculpture features a peasant girl named Pippa singing as she descends a waterfall, to be installed before the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University in Waco. The project began with Brady women’s fundraising, aided by clubs and local supporters, after Tauch studied under Pompeo Coppini in San Antonio.
FIU announces a Friday performance by senior students and the cast will include seniors and other participants in an end of term play.
The three act comedy features Bobby Underwood as J. Oliver Twib Bly and Johnny Hendley with 2000 lines while Phyllis Rees pines for marriage. Nell Quinn and CleAnn Library appear as university figures. General admission 75 cents, children 50 cents, reserved seats $1.
Merrill and Baker Construction Company of Hurst Texas was the low bidder at 54 228 50 on a new Hood prevention dam as part of the Brady Creek watershed plan. It will be the 20th dam either completed, under construction or in contract and sits on the J A Harkrider estate ten miles southwest of Brady on Bear Creek Site No 4. Bids opened by the Soil Conservation Service at Temple state headquarters.
Mrs A G Miller 77 of Fredonia died at 5 04 am Thursday in Brady Hospital She was born in Loma Vista Zavala county and was formerly Julia Pond She married Adisen Gilbert Miller Feb 21 1900 Survivors include her husband a daughter Mrs Jack Buntyn two sons Davis Miller and Dee Miller five grandchildren a sister and a brother The burial was in the Warrain Cemetery Catholic church records indicate a service at First Methodist Church with burial in Fredonia area cemetery
Mr and Mrs James Peterson of Brady announce the birth of a son at Brady Hospital on April 5.
Mr and Mrs Paul Benavides of Brady announce the birth of a son at Brady Hospital on April 5.
Ten candidates were nominated to serve as directors of the Chamber of Commerce ballots will allow members to vote for five of the ten nominees. The election event will be held during the chamber’s annual banquet on Thursday April 25 at the Pellowatyy Hall with speaker Sternp Prive of Abilene and tickets priced 940.
A Mercury Farms resident Mr. Relneen died Thursday two miles north of Mercury after leaving his pasture gate. Funeral services were held at Wilkerson Funeral Home in Brady with burial in Rochelle Cemetery. Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers listed include local names from Brady and nearby towns.
A three act farce titled The Panny Brats will be staged by the Lohn Sieh School Seria Class on Friday night at p.m. in the Ladin Taehernach. The cast includes Carles Marshall as Dick, Jacel Drivel as Harriet, dry Frost as Sylvia Grisham, Larry Walker as Toni Gresham, Wynette Moore as Laurles Lande, Tommy Pinjay as Loren Gresham, Jeanine Simorts as Auroraike, Tes as Whainy oMeWhotier, Tops the Low as Hettie Huishettian, Janey Moore as Boggs, and DeeAnna Surith as Gasnette Gadwood.
Mrs. Vivian Tuttle of Stratton Vermont arrived last Wednesday for a long awaited visit with her father Johnnie Ables and family at Melvin and Mereta. She left Melvin as a child and this was her first trip back in 30 years. Mr. Ables celebrated a birthday on Saturday April 6 as she joined relatives and friends over the weekend and plans to stay two weeks or more before returning to Vermont.
Secret details reveal Les Bradshaw and Fields set to join the University of Texas, with UT’s new coach Darrell Royal bringing Bradshaw from Mississippi to Washington and then Austin. Families express pride as the two football standouts earned a noted reputation in Brady and Ward School contexts, forming a dependable combination on extra points.
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