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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1966
Page
5
Due to the Enterprise office shutdown last Friday and Saturday the annual subscription offer is extended through Thursday and Friday Aug 4 and 5. Readers can save 50 cents on any subscription with reduced local price to 2.50 in Coke and adjoining counties and 3.00 elsewhere, with Friday as the last day.
Lloyd E. Ash of Anson preaches this week at the Bronte Church of Christ with services at 7:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Cecil Cox, local minister, invites everyone to attend the remaining services on the schedule.
Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. Friday at Franklin- Bartley Funeral Chapel Lubbock for Lula Oglesby 82 who died Wednesday night in Bronte Hospital. Last rites were by Canyon Community Church pastor. Burial in Lubbock Cemetery. Survivors include son Ben Oglesby and daughters Mrs. Jack Winter and Mrs. Barry Daniel.
San Angelo educator William E Green will teach English at Bronte High School succeeding Judith Smith who resigned to take a similar position in Globe Arizona. Green a 1966 Harden-Simmons graduate with English major and history minor also attended Central High School San Angelo and Angelo State College before transferring to HSU. He is not married.
A federal grant of 10780 for planning a dam on Kickapoo Creek below Bronte was announced via telegram from Congressman Omar Burleson. HUD approved the grant, with preliminary work already done. If built, the project would lie between Bronte and the Colorado River on Annie WkXkins property and be sponsored by the Kickapom WCID and Bronte. Local officials favor municipal water supply primary with recreation secondary.
Bronte begins football preparations as Head Coach Cecil Toliver announces preseason plans. Practice starts August 15 with two daily sessions at 7 30 am and 6 pm. Physical forms available at Harris Clinic with exams set for Tuesday through Friday at 2 30 pm. An athletic supplier will visit August 9 at 5 pm for shoe orders. Turf and bleacher improvements completed on the Bronte side.
Funeral services for Frank A. Grimes 70 were held at First Methodist Church Bronte with burial in Fairview Cemetery. Grimes longtime Coke and Runnels Counties care operator died on arrival at Bronte Hospital after hospital stay in Dallas Veterans Hospital. Survivors include his wife, four sisters, two brothers and several others.
A revival meeting continues at Tennyson Baptist Church through Sunday. Rev. Harris Morris of Bronte Baptist leads preaching and Garry Bivins of San Angelo directs the singing. Services are daily at 10 a.m. and 7 30 p.m.
Thomas A. Modgling 42 of Bronze awarded a U S Commerce ESSA bronze medal for outstanding service as Chief of the World Data Center for Seismology since its 1968 creation. He later led NWRC Asheville ESSA EDs, helped plan the center, train staff, and schedule work. He is married to Margery Kennedy and resides in Asheville North Carolina.
A Coke County grand jury in Robert Lee indicted Almeda Ruth Stanford for auto theft and David Harris for theft. The auto was allegedly taken from Matthew Caperton of Bronte and Harris faces theft of a $494 check from Ruth Clift of Robert Lee. Foreman QO. H. Campbell led the panel. Three divorces were granted J. W. Reeves and Frankie Reeves Lana E. White and A. O. White A. L. Burson and Vera E. Burson. Luther Sparks awarded clear title to Blocks C and D in the Austin and Northern Land & Cattle Company Addition. Several civil suits were passed and set for August 15.
J. T. Henry a Bronte vocational agriculture teacher will receive a 30 year service award from the Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association of Texas. The honor will be at the association’s Awards Breakfast during the four day statewide conference in Fort Worth. George H. Hurt will direct education features with J. A. Marshall Don Jobes E. L. Tiner Bill T. Tomlinson and thirteen area supervisors aiding. Henry is a Sterling City graduate with a B S from Gau.
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