Coke County Soil Conservation Board Members Pictured
Pictured above are the Coke County Soil Conservation District Board of Supervisors. Left to right are Robert Walker, Lance Burns, W. E. Burns, Edith Blackwell, W. C. Shamblin, Bryan Yarbrough, Robert Lee, and C. N. Webb Tennyson.
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Board of Supervisors
Coke County Soil Conservation District
Robert Walk
Lance
W. E. Burns
Edith
W. C. Shamblin
Blackwell
Bryan Yarbrough
Robert Lee
C. N. Webb
Tennyson
Rough week for society page joke and a Texan soil week note
The writer jokes about a boner on the society page and seeks how to regain favor with the editor. The piece marks Soil Conservation Week in Texas and highlights Coke County efforts with 79 percent of land in cooperation with the district. It credits the Soil Conservation District board and staff, and ends with a child's quip about fashion pictures.
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Texas
West Texas
Coke County
Board of Supervisors
The
Soil Conservation District
SCS
Ideal Cafe Changes Hands on Highway 277
Mr and Mrs Sam Spruell have sold Ideal Cafe on Highway 277 to Mrs Dean Dexter of Snyder. Dexter assumed ownership on Saturday May 7. The Spruells have not disclosed future plans.
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Sam Spruell
Ideal Cafe
Highway 277
Dean Dexter
Snyder
Dexter
Spruells
End of School Program Announced by Officials
Officials set a 9 a m assembly on Friday May 27 to honor award recipients and perfect attendance students. Awards and recognition will be presented in the high school gym before report cards at 10 a m marking the official end of the term.
Mrs. R. L. Read remembered in Friday funeral
Funeral services for Mrs. R. L. Mattie Bell Read were held Friday at 3 30 p.m. in Bronte Methodist Church with Rev. Warren Ellis and Rev. W C Craig officiating. Burial followed in Fairview Cemetery Bronte under Clift Funeral Home care. Read, born March 6 1896 in Bronte, lived in Bronte until 1944 then served the Robert Lee Rationing Board and later worked at the Robert Lee State Bank. She was active in church and fraternal groups including the Robert Lee Eastern Star and chaired church projects.
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R. L
Mattie Bell) Read
Robert Lee
Bronte Methodist Church
Warren Ellis
W. C. Craig
Bronte
Fairview Cemetery
Clift Funeral Home
Pete McDonald
Albert Rawlings
Irving Cumbie
Paul Good
Order of the Eastern Star
Methodist Church
Methodist Sunday School
Mattie Bell
The
Bronze schools move up start times for warmer weather
Beginning next Monday May 16 Bronze schools will start earlier with home room bells at 8 20 a m and classes at 8 30 a m a half hour earlier. Supt O K Wolfenbarger cites warmer weather and nearing end of term for the change and the 12 hour activity period will be reduced to 1 hour with dismissal at 3 p m for the rest of the term.
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Supt. O. K. Wolfenbarger
Graduation Schedule Released for Local Schools
May 24 grade school graduation and May 26 high school graduation in the High School Auditorium at 8 p.m. May 27 assembly runs from 9 to 10 a.m. Report cards will be distributed from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
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Tion
Bronte Girls Defeat Men Over 40 in Softball Clash
Softball scores from last Thursday show Bronte 8 Hayrick 6 and Tenn yson 17 Norton 2. Bronte beat Men Over 40 7 to 5 in the early game, with Tuesday games rained out. Standings list Tennyson 5 Ft Chadbourne 4 Bronte 2 Norton 14 Hayrick 0. Last night the Bronte school board team faced the Bronte teachers. winner to meet the city council and city employees next Monday night May 16.
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Bronte
Hayrick
Tennyson
Norton
Bronte Girls
Ft. Chadbourne
Good Rains Bring Hope to Bronte Area
Rainfall across Bronte and surrounding areas boosted crop and range prospects. Totals varied with F. S. Higginbotham reporting over 3 inches north of town and C. E. Arrott 1.1 inches south. Oak Creek Lake rose to 7 percent feet with 16 000 acre feet. Weather forecasters expect more clouds and storms into Friday.
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Tennyson
Texas
Oak Creek Lake
Bronte
Enterprise
F. S. Higginbotham
R. R. Ash
C. E. Arrott
Oak Creek
Clifford Clark
T. E. Tidwell
Bronte Board Hires New Band Teacher Henry Lotspiech
Henry Alva Lotspiech was named Bronte schools band and choral instructor. A Scottsbluff Nebraska native with a Colorado education, he previously taught in multiple states and is a World War II U S Army veteran. The board also accepted Mrs. Chet Holcombe’s resignation to join Denver City schools. They approved 45 additional auditorium seats reducing chair price to 35 cents each, bringing capacity to 600. The Board of Equalization will meet Tuesday June 7 at 9 am.
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Henry Alva Lotspiech
Bronte
Albany
Scottsbluff
Nebraska
Lotspeich
Quinn
Roxan
Methodist Church
Fairfield
Colorado State College
Greeley
Colo
Windsor
Colorado Junior High School
Pern
Nebraska State Teachers College
Wichita
Kansas
Hutchinson
Sylacauga
Alabama
Richmond
Virginia
Richmond Professional Institute
Bronze School
Chet Holcombe
Holcombe
Denver City
Supt
O. K. Wolfenbarger
Board of Equalization
Little League Opener Friday Between McCutchen and Boecking
The first Little League game of the season is set for 5 30 p m today Friday with McCutchen facing Boecking. The prior Tuesday game was canceled by rain.
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McCutchen
Boecking
Grade School Softball Meet Winners at Wall
Bronze grade school girls clinched first place in the softball meet held last Saturday at Wall. Grade school boys took second place in the same event.
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Wall
Currency Exhibit Displays Diverse U S Money in Bronte
Beginning Monday May 16 the First National Bank in Bronte hosts a currency exhibit showing colonial and continental notes obsolete bank notes treasury notes of Texas notes of the Confederate States Civil War era Texas warrants fractional currency silver certificates Federal Reserve notes and more. Bank president L T Youngblood invites all to view through May 21 offering a history rich display of American finance.
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First National Bank
Bronte
United States
Treasury
Republic of Texas
Confederate States of America
Texas
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank
National Bank
L. T. Youngblood
Judge Jeff Dean Improves After Medical Tests
Mrs. Dean reports Judge Jeff Dean, hospitalized in Houston at Anderson Hospital, is feeling a bit better and more comfortable. Doctors continue extensive tests to determine the cause of his long illness, with arthritis suspected to be aggravated by a calcium deficiency.
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Jeff Dean
Jeff
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