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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1957
Page
6
Local updates from Tennyson report residents in area hospitals visits and family gatherings. Notable items include Etta Hurst in San Angelo hospital, Delaney and family visits from Dallas Odessa and Nolan, and a Friday wedding at First Methodist Church in Mertz.
On Feb 2 S M Mackey of Bronte was admitted and on Feb 3 Mrs Hamp Thomas of Tennyson was admitted.
The Enterprise reports drouth feed applications will be taken on Mondays and Wednesdays only. The office has been open all week at the county house in Robert Lee.
Mr and Mrs John Coalson and family will move this week or early next week to Meadow to reside on an irrigated farm there. An irrigation well is being drilled at the place. He has been employed at the local post office.
A sequence of hospital entries from January to February records patients admitted or dismissed at Bronte Winters Abilene and surrounding areas. Names include Mrs A J Rawlings Bronte Mrs B A Bell Bronte Paul Phillips Abilene Juanita Wrinkle Bronte Jimmy Ash Norton Manuel Sanchez Bronte Sid Eubanks Jr Bronte and others with multiple transfers noted.
Superintendent Garland Black reports the measles outbreak easing with school absences dropping to about 35 per day after last week’s average of 35 students absent. The data indicate the epidemic’s impact remains visible in daily attendance.
Mrs. S M Loeffler stayed Thursday night and Friday with her son the Reverend Lin Loeffler and family. Their daughter Ann remained for a week with the grandparents. Ben Oglesby and Bennie Carol visited Lubbock Sunday with his mother Lula Oglesby. Mr and Mrs H A Springer attended a Red Cross meeting in Midland Monday.
The text records Monday night visits by Lames and family including Noel Booth. Sunday visitors include George Faulk and family from Midland Charlie Phillips and family and Clif ford Baker with children from San Angelo to see Mrs Adair ton. It also quotes a sentiment about oil and oil men serving the American public.
Houston residents will view their city dump with new eyes as a well already runs at 183 barrels per day and a second is nearly ready. Plans call for up to 30 wells on the property, with city officials estimating strong returns from the initial production.
A medium sized oil tank ship would need the liquid cargo capacity of nearly eight hundred of the large clipper trucks used to haul oil on highways and at airports.
A March of Dimes fundraiser dance will be held Friday night at the Joe Rose Construction Co building. Proceeds support the national campaign for infantile paralysis research and family services.
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