17 Feb 1950
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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1950
Page
1
Local column notes visits and social ads from Blackwell and surrounding towns. Residents from Amarillo Albany Levelland Alpine Brady Bronte and Oklahoma visit or host in Blackwell as the FFA stock show scheduled Saturday February 25 at 2 p.m.
The column lists residents and relatives visiting or recovering. Hobby Blair, ill in a San Angelo hospital, is mentioned along with Melvin Bryant’s weekend in Fort Worth. Mrs. Bud Caruthers, Mrs. Ollie Mae Redden, Mrs. Charlie Tucker, the Rosser family, Everett Bryant, B O Walls, Maudene, Tom Payne, and others are cited as ill, traveling, or visiting relatives in San Angelo, Sweetwater, Bronte, Odessa, and nearby areas. A WSCS meeting at Highland Heights church in Sweetwater is noted.
An airborne traveler wears a grey and white checked wool coat by Margr of A. Good man awaiting a Colonial plane. Local notices mention Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Meyer moving to Altus Oklahoma, visits by Waldrop and Labenske families, and relatives gathering from California to Texas.
Mrs Aubrey Denman reports attendance at the Houston Fat Stock Show by Mr and Mrs Bo Waldrop Lyndon and Gladys Waldrop and HL Davis of Austin. Lyndon Waldrop entered the calf scramble on Saturday and earned a certificate to buy a calf for next year’s show.
Mrs. Vernon C. Lammers returned to Bronte Tuesday after a Houston visit with her son James Lammers and family. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. McConnell of Floresville, Texas, spent the weekend with her brother Ben Oglesby and family.
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