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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1963
Page
3
Classified advertising rates show 5c per word for first insertion and Sc per word for subsequent inserts. For sale: a 1955 Ford pickup described as a %-ton model priced at $250. Buddy Reed listed as contact.
Card of thanks from Fender Stubblefield and McKown families. Multiple sale notices for 1954 Chevrolet pickup, 1952 Chevy truck, farm equipment. Avon employment ad. Notice of election in Bronte Texas for mayor to fill unexpired term. election date January 2 1963. Royce Fancher signs as Mayor Pro Tempore.
Three candidates for director of the Kickapoo Water Control and Improvement District won two year terms with 21 votes cast. Noah Pruitt, election judge, reported no scratches or write-ins and no other names appeared on the ballot. Re-elected were J. A. Percifull Preston Davis and Austin Sandusky.
Funeral services were held Saturday at Lamar Street Church of Christ in Sweetwater for Lou Anna Telford Cain 91. Burial followed in Rose Hill Cemetery Merkel. She died last Thursday in Roscoe after a three year illness. A Bronte native, she lived in Sweetwater area 30 years. Survivors include two sons W T Cain and T P Cain both of Plainview a daughter Mrs George Carter of Sweetwater a sister a brother seven grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Mrs Don Farr delivered a Minnesota focused speech at a Sorosis Study Club meeting held Friday night at Mrs Bill Clark's home. Refreshments included chocolate, nuts, coffee and cold drinks. Present were Mmes Charlie Boecking C B Barbee Edward Cumbrée Royce Fancher Furr Clark Glenn E F Glenn Clyde Lee W D McDonald J B Morrow Roy Robinson and the hostess.
Monday January 14 will be a holiday for Bronte School teachers and students to attend the Coke County Livestock Show at Robert Lee. Classes resume Tuesday morning.
Local businessmen plan holidays for the coming year listing Memorial Day May 30 Independence Day July 4 Labor Day September Thanksgiving Day November Christmas Day December 25 and New Year’s Day January 1 1964.
Commitments may secure largest sale yet as about 50 chapter members and clubs enter animals. Four champion lambs and a champion and reserve market hogs will fetch top bids, while remaining stock sells for premiums of 35, 30, or 25 dollars. Buyers from several towns are expected, with Edward Cumbie of Bronte auctioneer. Barbecue and drinks on site. everyone invited to attend and watch the show before the sale.
Dr Harris notes Bronte needs another doctor and expresses optimism the issue will soon be solved. Mrs Sybil Hester and Mrs Marshall Freeman, along with Jim and Jo Die, traveled to Weatherford for the weekend. Hester family and Mrs Freeman visited Ursula Ellis in Lipan.
Funeral rites for Richard Fender Stubblefield 52 were held at Norton Methodist Church with burial in Fairview Cemetery Bronte. He died Friday in Canyon. A farmer, formerly of Norton until 1949, he was born September 22, 1910. Survivors include wife Una Louise McKown of Happy two daughters Mrs. Fred Carter Amarillo and Mrs. Harold Caraway Tulsa one son Duane Happy and one brother Walter Stubblefield.
The obituary fragment mentions Mrs Hare vey Newsom of Wayside Mrs Nellie Cope Mrs W In men Mrs M M Cope and Mrs Marvin Turner all of Norton along with five grandchildren in a family tribute from Happy.
Mrs. E L Coppock and Rodney traveled to Albany last weekend to see her father S M Gerdner of Moran, who is hospitalized there.
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