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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1954
Page
9
A fundraising musical for the Bronte Longhorn Band will be held in the local gym next Thursday April 15 at 730 pm. Chester Derrick and the Coke County Playboys plus Richard Beck with his fiddle will perform. Admission is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children with additional entertainment planned.
Funeral services for John Irvin Murtishaw 93 were held at Robert Lee Methodist Church with Rev Ray Lee and Rev James Shipman officiating. Burial followed in Robert Lee cemetery under Clift Funeral Home. A Coke County resident for 64 years born Oct 2 1866 in Wayne County Tennessee he helped build the first courthouse in Brown County and the railway west to El Paso before moving to Coke County in 1890. He is survived by his wife four daughters four sons and several stepchildren grandchildren and great grandchildren. Shopping note: Bronte first.
The menu lists meatloaf yams string beans cheese beet slices biscuits butter cake milk. Also beans chili pie tomato macaroni cole slaw fruit cobbler biscuits grapefruit jello milk. W N Gaddy and family of Grand Falls visiting relatives here. Mrs Gaddy ill at Shannon Hospital in San Angelo.
Humble Oil & Refining Co. seeks permits to drill No 19 R E Hickman Cambrian wildcat on a 308 acre lease in Bronte area nine miles north of Bronte. Drilling to 5 500 feet will begin upon permit approval as Olive Mae Keeney and Gideon Cambrian wells proceed nearby. Sunray Oil Corp proposes deepening to wildcat depth at No 6 Harris Davenport in Coke County Fort Chadbourne west field.
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