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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1953
Page
2
Fort Worth coverage notes Hog price collapse across the Cotton Belt as consumer demand and short supplies drive volatility. July prices fell 25 percent from June, with top hogs at 23.00 to 23.25 dollars and sows at 17 to 20 dollars.
Prices for fed steers yearlings 18 to 20 dollars, medium grades 10 to 17, fat cows 9.50 to 12, canners 6 to 9, bulls 8 to 13, calves 19 top 15 to 8, stocker steer calves 13 to 19.50, stocker cows 0 to 16. Slaughter sheep and lambs steady, stockers weak. Lambs 20 to 22, common 12 to 19, feeder lambs 12 to 19, ewes 4 to 6, old wethers 6 to 10, yearlings 12 to 17, two-year-olds 10 to 12.
Mrs. Charles Ragedale reports guests include Kay and Sue Coleman of Big Spring. Bud Caruthers ill in Broffte hospital. L W Sweet and Hamlin family from Midland. Ratliff visiting San Angelo. Montgomer y family from Pyote. T Patterson from Ft Worth. Danie Smith from Milland en route to Bagdad. Massey family from Elida NM. Hartin families from Lubbock. Patterson family from Snyder. Covin family from Memphis TN. Scissom Craig and Mote attend family reunion at Boring Springs. Craiges plan New Mexico trip. Pvt Bob Henderson from Ft Leonard Wood on leave. Curtis Wilsons from Artesia NM. Dairy Henderson hosts Schleyer and Gray visitors. Charlotte Wilson to stay with grandparents. various visits to NM, TX towns.
July entries record admissions and dismissals at the hospital. Individuals named include Mrs E J Smith Mrs Sam Richards Mrs John Gaston Louis Bridges Mrs Bert Cornelius Mrs Bil Simon of Winters and others across July 19 to July 24 with multiple transfers and newborns noted.
Nance was named business statesman of the year for reviving Packard to the luxury car field and aligning operations with market changes. He urged antiretroaction on production and demand balance, arguing high employment and income fuel buying power and sustained production. He stressed actual demand creation as essential for balance.
A list of individuals admitted or dismissed across late July and early August at Blackwell includes Mrs. W. W. Youngblood, Earl Box, W. L. Peters, Miss Eva Lilly, Mrs. Elmer Bryan, Alfred Blair, Jim my Dicks, Rev. C. W. Coleman, Mrs. Lonnie Grimes, Tom Smith, Ira Coppedge, Mrs. Monica Flores, Dan Smith, Mrs. Rob Herron, Mrs. Tom Smith, Mrs. R. E. Dunklin, Leetha Wrinkle, Juanell Ward, Mrs. W. H. Mackey, R. L. Wright, and C. C. Long.
Local items report Tommie Ruth Phillips returning from Killeen after ten days with Lt. and Mrs. George Faulk. Visitors include Norman and Mrs. Riker and children from Big Spring, and Charlie Phillips with Mickey and others from San Angelo at Garner State Park. C. A. and Johnny Smith and the Millikins fishing at Sugar Lake, Mexico. Subscriptions renewed by C. A. Taylor of Crowder Oklahoma. Other visits note Bobby Modgling family in Bronte, Marlin Mackey visitors, Bonnie McAulay leaving for California, and Ed McDaniel with her children visiting relatives in Chillicothe.
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