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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1954
Page
4
A Coke County Farm Bureau gathering is scheduled for Friday April 16 at 7 30 p m in the Bronte school house. Families are asked to bring two dishes for a covered dish supper. A Farm Bureau official from Alabama will be the guest speaker and a musical program is planned. Everyone in the county is invited.
Members of the Sorosis Study Club donated money and J T Henry and his vocational agriculture boys provided labor to build a scoreboard for home football contests. The completed board has a white background with maroon lettering, measures five by ten feet, and is designed portable for removal and storage when not in use.
A facilities committee report notes urgent needs for 10 new courses to raise the school system to a standard level for a community this size. It calls for expanded homemaking and vocational agriculture, more band and choir space, better typing and science rooms, and a preschool clinic with beds and first aid. It also recommends GI education for veterans and serving the community wives. Next week the facilities committee will review current school buildings.
The Bronte Church of Christ has completed a full interior renovation. Walls and ceiling are painted pale green with darker green woodwork. Maroon draperies hang over the Baptistry opening and slim lighting fixtures add a modern touch.
Word arrived of the death of Mrs. Blanche Avant in Marfa. She was a cousin of W G Cresap and Mrs Hawley Allen who live northwest of here, and Mrs. Wiley Bird of Sance and Mrs. Tom Percifull of San Angelo. Mr Cresap and Mrs Cresap and Mr and Mrs Allen attended the services held Friday. Cresap spoke of meeting many old friends after more than 20 years.
Cub scouts, parents, and workers met in the vocational agriculture building to establish Pack 52. The Diversity club sponsors the unit and appointed the pack committee including D. K. Glenn Ernest Ivey Claude Oden T. F. Sims Jr and J. T. Henry. Louis Bruges chosen as Cubmaster with J. T. Henry as assistant. Den mothers named Mrs T F Sims Jr Mrs Robert Forman and Mrs John R Harris. All boys to be registered with Concho Valley Council and adult workers with the national council.
Oscar P Russell 80 pioneer Nolan County stock farmer and former Coke County resident died March 24 at Young Medical Center Sweetwater after a three week illness. He was born September 29 1873 in Paris and lived in Coke Brown and Nolan counties. Survived by four daughters two sons four sisters four brothers six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Burial March 25 at Maryneal Cemetery Highland Heights Methodist Church with Rev Travis L Darby officiating.
L. T. Youngblood flew to Dallas Monday to buy furniture for the bank. Delivery follows remodeling completion in about four weeks. W. E. Beasley left for Mansfield, Louisiana, to attend his sister's funeral, with services planned for Tuesday after her death Monday morning.
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