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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1955
Page
5
Coke County workers seek volunteers as the Red Cross campaign trails the $985 target. By Thursday morning the county totaled $539 and $445 remains to reach the goal. Drive runs through April 1 with extended time to meet the quota. Claude Ward urges all residents to contribute time or money.
The region suffered a sudden cold snap last weekend with temperatures dropping to the low 20s. Fruit trees and gardens were damaged as a result before readings returned to normal by midweek and hints of spring appeared on the horizon.
A readers’ letter page laments residents shopping out of Bronte and urges support for local merchants. It cites an article on “Buying Husbands and Sons Out of Business,” mentions a Womanless Wedding, a retirement, student fundraiser earnings, a failed cake recipe query, a used car joke, and a fence sign about hunting and fishing penalties.
Easter Sunrise Services will be held at the top of Mount Margaret with Rev. Douglas Crow of Norton Baptist Church delivering the message. A second service will be held at the Tennyson School House for those unable to climb. Breakfast follows at the school house with eggs and bacon welcome. Members of First Baptist Church and Rev. Maynard Rogers participate.
Dwain Pruitt walked away from a completely wrecked automobile with only a bruise. He was driving toward Robert Lee to buy license tags when a tire blew out on the Robert Lee highway a mile west of town, causing the car to overturn three times and strike fence posts.
Holley E. Rees of the Social Security Administration will explain new tax laws affecting farmers and ranchers at the Coke County Farm Bureau meeting. The session is Tuesday April 5 at the courthouse in Robert Lee and the public is invited.
Mrs. Robert Armor, 19, of Abilene, died of a gunshot wound suffered outside Ed Odoms Place nightclub near Breckenridge. Charlie Price faces murder without malice charge. incident stemmed from an argument with her husband, Robert Armor, outside the club. Armor was buried at Fairview cemetery after services in Abilene.
The Independent Softball League gathers four teams from Bronte Tennyson Norton and Ft Chadbourne with a schedule from April to July. Two local elections set for next week contesting two city council seats and two new trustees.
Haworth England marks the 100th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte with a growing shrine around the Bronte parsonage museum. The bleak moorland village contrasts Stratford upon Avon as literary pilgrims begin to visit the site.
Bronte High track team posted season bests at the newly built Sutton County Relays in Sonora. Donnie Braswell placed third in high jump, C Wrinkle fourth in discus with 120 feet, Phillips ran 16.8 in highs and 22.4 in lows, Millikin 56.7 in the 440, and the 4x110 team of Scott Braswell Gentry Phillips clocked 48.5. Fourteen South and West Texas teams competed on the new clay track.
An all day rabbit drive will be held at Juniper next Tuesday April 5 beginning at 9am the first drive will start near the river and move toward Tennyson. Men in the area are invited to join with guns while women bring covered dishes. Lunch will be served at noon at the Juniper schoolhouse shells will be sold at the hunt.
Bronze school students will receive a holiday next Friday before Easter. The local school will dismiss at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 7 and classes resume the following Monday.
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