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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1957
Page
5
Bronte residents report strong Christmas shopping at local stores with many items found nearby and cheaper than in larger towns. A Bronte city council discussion favors ending the nightwatchman salary paid by tax money, proposing business firms cover the cost instead.
Word comes that Dean Black son of Mr and Mrs Garland Black is improving at Baptist Memorial Hospital in San Antonio He was taken there after a relapse of a head injury sustained earlier this fall Mr and Mrs Black are with him in San Antonio.
Funeral rites for Mrs Katherine E McDonald 77 were held at Bronte First Methodist Church with Rev Lin Loeffler and Rev Douglas Brown officiating. Burial was in Old Fort Chadbourne Cemetery. Survivors include daughter Mrs A N Rawlings and sons W C McDonald and W D McDonald with six grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.
Eddie Spiller is elected band president of Bronte Band. Other officers include Jean Moore as vice president, June Moore secretary, Deanie Allen treasurer, and Jackie Grace reporter. Longhorn band directed by Mary Helen Campbell.
The Coke County Farm Bureau purchased the former Ag Annex Building across from the courthouse for 1 001 95 dollars. The sale included a 25 by 150 foot lot and a double army barracks building. a 1 000 gallon butane tank was reserved by the county. The structure formerly housed county and federal agricultural agencies now in the new courthouse. The Farm Bureau plans to use the building as a meeting place and for service programs.
Landowners in the Kickapoo watershed meet with Bronte Lions Club to form a steering committee. F S Higginbotham named chairman. members include W D McDonald Noah Pruitt Sr Austin Sandusky J A Percifull Preston Davis Edward Rawlings. J L Richmond of the Soil Conservation Service explains project details and questions. Seventeen landowners attend along with Lions Club guests as plans for a Brady area inspection trip begin.
Funeral services for William Culp a Maverick resident 51 were held at Kickapoo Baptist Church with Rev. N T Gault officiating. Burial in Fairview cemetery under Clift Funeral Home. Survived by wife Hattie Manske two sons and a daughter two grandchildren and other relatives. Culp died Monday after a six month cancer illness. Born April 16 1906 in Fort Chadbourne he lived in Kermit Ballinger and Big Spring and Maverick the last decade. He was a carpenter and contractor and member of Maverick Baptist Church Masonic Lodge and Eastern Star.
The Texas State Highway Department will spend 46 500 dollars for improvements on highways in Coke County in 1958. Projects include State 158 from Robert Lee to Bronte 11.9 miles seal coat and leveling up State 208 from Robert Lee to Tom Green County line 14.8 miles seal coat and leveling up U S 87 from Sterling County line to Tom Green County line 3 miles seal coat.
Freezing temperatures lingered this week with dust blowing in at noon Tuesday and nights in the 20s. A warming trend is forecast for Thursday and Friday.
George Knierim, employed by the U S Department of State, returns home after two years as an agricultural advisor in Nepal. He, his wife Beulah and sons Willis and Larry traveled via Holy Land Egypt and Western Europe. They spoke to Bronte church members before a plan to depart for Arizona for another overseas post.
Zapata Petroleum Corp plans a 7,000 foot rotary wildcat 12 miles west of Robert Lee Coke County on a 320 acre lease for Luther Sparks No 1 starting immediately. Another Coke County wildcat No 1 Mrs Lula Hines by L E Scherck et al from San Angelo to drill 4,200 feet six miles NW of Bronte starting December 14 on a 40 acre lease near 279-2-H&TC.
Time is running short for local youngsters to send letters to Santa Claus. The Enterprise will publish the letters in the Christmas edition, so hurry to write. Address letters to Santa Claus c/o The Enterprise Bronte Texas.
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