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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1968
Page
5
The third annual Oil Field Golf Tournament is held on the local golf links this weekend with four-man teams competing in a 27-hole best ball format. Entry is 40 per team or 10 per man. Ronnie Lee serves as tournament director.
A vacation church school will be held next week Monday through Friday at First United Methodist Church. The program features art and acting for students with four groups and named teachers, led by director Miss Joy Lynn Wilkins and organist Miss Melissa Lee.
Melissa and Janet Lee and Susan Cumbie plus pianist Norma Lynn Pruitt performed three numbers on Sandy Chapple's color TV program this Wednesday. The trio received warm reception from Miss Chapple and was invited to return at a later date.
Bronte will host a Junior Rodeo on Saturday night August 10 at the west Bronte roping arena. The Coke County Roping Club sponsors the event for youths ages 9 to 19 with a parade at 5 p.m. and two hours of events including barrel racing and calf roping. Admission is 50 cents adults 25 cents under 12. goa t scrambles offer $1 prizes.
Clyde Lee was admitted to Clinic Hospital in San Angelo on Monday and is reported improving.
A week long revival at First Baptist Church features Dr Guy D Newman president of Howard Payne College as evangelist and W F Forderhase head of the BGC Texas Music Department leading the singing. Services run 10 a m weekdays and 7 30 p m Monday to Saturday with Sunday at 11 a m and 7 p m Aug 11 18. Rev Harry K Morris invites all to attend.
Bronte pastor Austin S Masterson plans a long weekend trip to the 88th Infantry Division Association reunion at the Claridge Hotel Atlantic City New Jersey. He will travel from San Angelo to Dallas then Philadelphia and by bus to New Jersey but later cancels the Atlantic City trip.
A Coke County grand jury returned two true bills naming Larry Bell of San Angelo and Luther Lara Jr. of Robert Lee. Bell faces felony theft of an automobile belonging to Wesley Watson of Robert Lee and unauthorized use of the vehicle. Lara is indicted for carrying and rudely displaying a prohibited weapon a pistol in Robert Lee on June 28.
Jimmy Rawlings is reported doing well after major leg surgery. He is at Hendrick Memorial Hospital in Abilene with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rawlings and grandmother Mrs. A N Rawlings says he may stay about ten days.
Mrs. Joe Carter underwent surgery at Shannon Hospital in San Angelo on Monday. She is reported to be recovering satisfactorily and visitors are not encouraged for several days.
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