Bronte Field Sees Two New Surface Casing Tests Near 600 Ft
Bronte field activity includes Humble No 5 RE FE Hickman setting surface casing at 600 ft Wednesday night and Hickok & Reynolds No 2 Dr. WartRen awaiting cement after 620 ft. Plans for drilling restart Thursday as other wells report progress. Nearby wells show potential and continuing tests.
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Bronte Field
Bronte
Humble No
RE. FE
Hickman
Hickok & Reynolds No
Dr. Wartren
Bronte Loses First Round of District Play
In district 22 B action at Mertzon the Bronte Longhorns fall 29 26 to the Mertzon Hornets after a late surge. E L Tankersley tops Mertzon with 13 points while Earl Rusk leads Bronte with 11.
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Bronte
Mertzon Hornets
Bronte Longhorns
Mertzon
Tankersley
Hornets
Steger
Sanders
Payton
Mertzan
E. L. Tankersley
Earl Rusk
Longhorns
Gerald Sandusky
J. L. Carroll
Longhorn
Norma Gentry
Dorothey Fay Scott
Hattie Jane Snead
Marlene Arrott
Billie Millikin
Colleen Arrott
Band Program At School Auditorium Attracts Large Crowd
A large crowd attended a school band program last Thursday night in the school auditorium. A pie sale afterward raised about 250 for band stands and equipment. The program featured Hats of Other Days, various grade ensembles, Wanda Smith and Nelda Faubion of Ballinger, and the Bronte school band with a free electric organ loan from McMillan Music of San Angelo.
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Bill
Jack Price
Hoover
Bronte
McMillan Music Company of
San Angelo
McMillan
East Side
George Newby
Ballinger
Chet Nolcombe
Eudora Hawking
West Texas, Utilities Co
Work progresses on new Woodmen Hall in Bronte
Workers began laying tile walls on the new Woodmen Lodge hall north of the bank on Highway 277. The 24 by 90 foot building will be tiled and cement constructed as crews push forward with the project. Mr and Mrs Frank Keeney and Mr and Mrs C E Artott visited relatives in Odessa.
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Woodmen Lodge
Bronte
Highway 277
Frank Keeney
C. E. Artott
Nora Artott
Odessa
Sun
Snyder wedding links Branson and McMullan in candlelight ceremony
Miss Anne McMullan and Heidel Harev Branson wed at First Methodist Snyder in a 7 30 p m candlelight ceremony. Attendants included Mrs Jimmy Hambright and bridesmaids in orchid aqua and orange satin. The couple plans a 10 day honeymoon and will reside near Bronte where Branson farms and ranches.
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Anne McMullan
Vernon McMullan
Snyder
Heidel Harevey Branson
Dave Branson
Bronte
First Methodist
Jimmy Hambright
Jo Alice Goss
Betty Ann Dodson
Connie Jean McMullan
Lloyd Hudman
Bobby Vaughn
Billie Bob McMullan
Bobby McMullan
McMullan
Nere
Marvin Landers
Billye Gunn
Ivey Eubanks
Dave Bronson
Jo L. Bronson
Vaughn
Marlene Arrott
Robert Hickman
Hospital News Roundup of Dismissals and Admits
The bulletin lists patient movements from Feb 7 to Feb 15. Dismissals include Barbara Bridges and Jeanne Moragne among others. admissions feature Jim Anderson, Mrs Conda Clark, Mrs J W Bagwell, W W Millikin, Sid Eubanks, and Doug Latham, with several readmissions noted.
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Barbara Bridges
Joe Blake Whalen
Ronald Craig
Antonio Martinez
G. E. Davis
Della Brandon
Jim Anderson
Conda Clark
J. W. Bagwell
Lee Craig
Jeanne Moragne
W. W. Millikin
W. MM. Summers
Mary Clark
Johnnie Ash
Sid Eubanks
Carolyn Glenn
J. W. Anderson
Doug Latham
Card of Thanks for J. D. Bernard family
The family of J. D. Bernard thanks friends for the kind deeds and words shown during their loss.
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J. D. Bernard
Death notice for beloved daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Garcia
Mr and Mrs Frank Garcia and family express thanks to those who were kind during the death of their beloved daughter. The notice appears in a memorial context and asks readers to read the want ads.
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Frank Garcia
Mexican food sale funds San Isidro church building
A Bronte Catholic women group sponsors a Sunday Mexican food sale in the Mexican section of Bronte to support the San Isidro Catholic church building fund. It will run 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Juan Basquez’s barracks, with cafe service or takeout and preorders via Mrs. Jack L. Price.
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Bronte
San Isidro’s
Juan Basquez
la Guia
Jack L. Price
Census Workers Sought From Coke County For Federal Census
Six census enumerators from Coke County will be hired to take the Federal census this year. Applications are now being accepted with pay from 7.50 to 10.00 dollars per day for two to five weeks. Applications should be sent to the District Census office in the San Angelo post office. Employment starts the week of March 7 with exams and a two day training. actual census taking begins April 11.
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Coke County
Ralph Trollinger
Trollinger
San Angelo
Troflinger
Mrs Will Campbell Buried at Robert Lee
Funeral services for Mrs Will Campbell 73 Lance ranchwoman were held Monday afternoon at the Robert Lee Baptist church with Rev. Fred D. Blake and Rev. Ernest Stewart officiating. Burial followed in Lance cemetery beside her late husband Will H Campbell. Born 1877 in Mississippi she lived in Texas most of her life and is survived by four children.
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Walel Campbell
Lance
Fort Worth
Fred D. Blake
Brownwood
Robert Lee Baptist Church
Ernest Stewart
Lance Cemetery
Will H. Campbell
Kerrville
Two Bronte Boys Win Calves in Houston Show
Billy Jack Gentry and Landon Waldrop were among twenty winners in the beef scramble at the 1950 Houston Fat Stock Show. Each received a $125 certificate to buy a beef calf and, with county agent guidance, will raise and feed it for a year before judging at the 1951 Fat Stock Show for about $3,500 in prizes, including a $2,000 Texas AGM College scholarship. Lyndon Waldrow’s calf was sponsored by J. E. Jen Arlings of Shefield Steel Corp. in Houston. Billy Jack Gentry’s calf was sponsored by Brink McGeorge of Frank M. Geore Inc. of Houston.
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Billy Jack Gentry
Landon Waldrop
Houston
Texas Agm College
T Lyndon Waldrow
J. E. Jen Arlings
Sheffield Steel Corporation of
Lyndon
Mountain Creek Reservoir Approved by State Water Engineers
Robert Lee officials led by J. T. Youngblood Gerald Allen and Ver Having traveled to Austin to secure formal approval from the State Board of Water Engineers for a Mountain Creek reservoir. Designed to impound 648 acre feet of water the project is planned on Mountain Creek near Robert Lee with an estimated cost of 8000. The community previously approved 65000 in bonds for a filtration plant with an 88 to 82 vote in favor.
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Robert Lee
J. T. Youngblood
Bronte
UCRA
Gerald Allen
UCHA
Ver
Austin Mondas
Mountain Creek
State Board of Water Engineers
Robert
Blackwell Class Entertained at Chicken Supper
Blackwell High School Junior class room mothers hosted a fried chicken supper at the Charles Ragsdale home last Wednesday. Attendees included ALG Craver the class sponsor and many Junior class members such as Glo Caraway Martha Weddle Mary Flen Michaels Betty Spence Mindene Walls Velda Ballard Jamies Ware Froy Johnson Tommo Copeland Bob Ragsdale Billie Burl Holhind Toward Michaels Jimmie Caraway Katherine Michaels Charles Ragsdale Willard Caraway and guests. Ro Caperton attended a Chevrolet parts meeting in Abilene Wednesday.
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Blackwell High School
Charles Ragsdale
Mines
Clayton Canavay
Edward Michaels
Alg. Craver
Glo Caraway
Martha Weddle
Mary Fllen Michaels
Betty Spence
Mindene Walls
Velda Ballard
Jamies Ware
Froy Johnson
Tommo Copeland
Bob Ragsdale
Billie Burl Holhind
Toward Michaels
Jimmie Caraway
Katherine Michaels
Willard Caraway
Room
Coke County March of Dimes drive raises 2178 16
Coke County reports a March of Dimes drive totaling 2178.16 with east side contributions of 1090.25 and west side efforts totaling 1087.91. County Chairman J Mo Rippetoe lauded the county for strong support and noted a Monday auction and Saturday dance helped push totals beyond average.
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Coke County
J. Mo Rippetoe
Robert Lee
Bronte Pioneer G A Best Dies in Lamesa Funeral Held Here
Gustavans Adolphus Best known as Uncle Doll died at 82 from a cerebral hemorrhage after a five day illness while visiting his daughter in Lamesa. He moved to Bronte in 1898 and served as deacon of Kickapoo Baptist Church for over 61 years. Burial was at Main View Cemetery with Odd Fellows and Masonic lodges participating. Surviving wife, three sons, three daughters, twenty five grandchildren and twenty eight great grandchildren.
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Kickapoo
BF. J. Jones
Bryan St. Baptist Church
Lamesa
Mainview
Clift Funeral Home
Bronte Masonic, Lodge
Mr. Best
Bronte
Uncle Doll
Faanesa
Hlm. Box
Larnesa
Marshall
Miss
Alvie
Jess
San Angelo
Evert
EL ML Boa
Teormesa
Ma Augie Williams
O'Donnell
AL OL. Wrinkle
Hoh Gilreath
Hamlin
J. P. Gilreath
John Leathers
W.L. Rogers
Odessa
Bill Shane
Big Lake
Johnson
C2 . Davis
Daughters
Albuquerque
N.om
KR. C. White
David Galley
Eunice
Miro
S. 3B Sparks
Freee
Local FFA Team Wins Area Meet in Colorado City
Members of the local Junior FFA conduct ing team placed first at the area meet spanning Abilene to El Paso and earned a spot in the state contest at Huntsville on March 18. From left to right: Noe mis Crownover Lyndon Waldrop Billy Jack Gearsy Jimmy Gray Billy Paul Thomason Robert Brown Bobby Evans Johnny Williams Roy Wikine and J. Lee Enger.
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FFA
Colorado City
Abilene
el Faso
Huntsville
Fromn
Noemis Crownover
Lyndon Waldrop
Billy Jack Gearsy
Jimmy Gray
Billy Paul Thomason
Robert Brown
Bobby Evans
Johnny Wiliams
Roy Wikine
J. Lee Enger
Recent Bride Is Honored At Get Acquainted Tea
Mrs. George Thomas and Mrs. A N Rawlings hosted a Get Acquainted Tea in honor of Mrs. Joe Rawlings, the former Patricia Lucille Pope of Denton. The couple married Feb. 4 and live near Bronte. Valentine decor and red carnations framed the event at the Rawlings home.
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George ‘Thomas
A N. Rawlings
Joe Rawlings
Rawlings
Patricia Lucille Pope
Denton
Joe D. Rawlings
Bronte
Allen Children Showing Improvement From Polio
Mr and Mrs James W Allen report their two children Jamie and Bobbie improving after polio last month Bobbie is home and playing while Jamie remains in a San Angelo hospital with hopes they can return home before long
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James W. Allen
Jamie
Bobbie
San Angelo
Volleyball Meet Starts Today in Bronte Tourney
Bronte and Christoval open the two day girls volleyball tournament at 3 pm with 14 teams entered including Claistoval Merkel Menard Talpa Water Valley Forsan San Angelo Big Spring Sweetwater Miles Norton Ballinger and Millersview. Awards include trophies all tournament honors candy prizes and a 50 cent chicken dinner schedule and officials from a nearby college.
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Alead
Bronte
Claistoval
Merkel
Menard
Talpa
Water Valley
Forsan
San Angelo
Big Spring
Sweetwater
Miles
Norton
Ballinger
Millersview
Caroll
Derofall Drag
Bronte Pharmacs
Jones Cafe
Abilene
Coke County Livestock Show Set for February 28
The Coke County livestock show will be held at the Robert Lee show grounds on Tuesday February 28 with about 325 in premiums. A Hereford heifer raised by R E and Edward Cumbie Bronte and a quarter horse donated by J F McCabe of Robert Lee will be given away. Fat calf lamb and hog divisions plus breeding classes open to all. 4 H and FFA youth compete in fat classes. breeding classes award ribbons only. Animals must be on grounds by 6 p.m. Feb 27. Women’s home demonstration clubs operate a concession. L M Hargraves of Lubbock and Herman Carter of San Angelo judge.
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Coke County
FFA
L. M. Hargraves
Lubbock
Herman Carter
San Angelo
Richard Wayne Rees Celebrates Birthday in City Park
Richard Wayne Rees was honored on his birthday with a party in the city park on Wednesday. His seventh grade classmates attended along with Mrs. Chet Holcombe. Ice cream and cake followed games and activities for the group.
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Richard Wayne Rees
His &H
Chet Holcombe
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