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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1956
Page
4
The notice fragment lists items for sale including a Good Hot Point Electric range and a 1950 Ford pickup plus a broiler chick promotion from Red Chain Feed Store. Rentals offered include a 5 room furnished unit and a 4 room unfurnished house. Also services for septic cleaning plumbing and monument sales by Claude Ward and wrecker service, with contact numbers.
Bronze Scouts met Monday night in the old school building room assigned to them. They formed five patrols with eight boys each. A Court of Honor is planned for March 19 at the same location. Camp Fawcett near Del Rio was chosen for the summer camp with June 17 to 23 dates. Citizens urged to hire scouts for spring yard work to raise 12 50 for camp. Troop 52 earned high marks in the Concho Valley Council for 1955. charter renewal due next month. Adults should visit the school to obtain registration forms.
"'Nutchuk, the Eskimo" will appear at Bronte Schools on Friday March 2 at 9 a m. Sponsored by the Southern School Assemblies the program includes life story whale hunting trips Aleut music and readings from books Son of the Smoky Sea and Back To the Smoky Sea. Admission 25 cents for adults and high school students 15 cents for grade school pupils. Public invited.
Mr and Mrs Harold Sheppard and their children traveled from Midland to visit Mrs Smith's parents Mr and Mrs Otis Smith last Saturday night.
Jurors told to appear for district court duty were later advised not to come after four trials were settled or postponed. No grand jury work occurred during the term, leaving Coke County district court matters quiet.
Bronte and Mertzon face a deciding playoff game tonight at 7 30 in Mertzon after Mertzon won 60 44 in Tuesday’s second match. Bronte leaders Pat McCutchen and Wanda Snead scored 16 and 19 respectively in the loss.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Maxwell Jr. hosted their son Bill and his roommate Bob Lehr from West Memphis Ark. They are students at Texas Tech College in Lubbock. Rev. and Mrs. R. W. Blackmon left after learning of his brother-in law’s death in Houston. They returned midweek.
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