Bronte PTA Opens Year With Mock Wedding Night
The Bronte Parent-Teacher Association held its first regular meeting Tuesday in the school auditorium. A mock wedding by home economics girls sparked laughter as the program focused on Freedom from Want. Mrs. B. F. Kirk led, business was led by Mrs. Alfred Taylor, and a $50 addition to a library rebinding fund was approved, bringing the total to $100 for new books.
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Bronte Parent- Teachers Association
B. F. Kirk
Alfred Taylor
Taylor
Geo. Thomas
Lynn Coleman
Gladys Lehman
Association
C. E. Arrott
Training Union Emphasis Week Program Summary
The January 18 1944 morning board meeting runs a full schedule from 12 to 9 with sermons worship and multiple addresses. Rev Phinis A Williams San Angelo speaks to pastors adults and young people while Miss Margaret Griffin Nashville guides the junior and training union sessions.
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Hike Hamer
Winters
Waark
Ballinger Baptist Church
Phinis A. Williams
San Angelo
General Off
Assn
A. C. Donath
T. Lynn Stewart
Coleman
Margaret Griffin
Nashville
Tennessee
Lynn Stewart
Fully Graded Training Union
Miss Griffin
Tenn
J. L. Roach
Miles
Esecints Assn
Direcor
George Poe
R. F E. White
Ballinger
Rev
A. C. Donalds San Angelo
Miles man raises subscription to The Enterprise in 1946
R A Perry of Miles increases his The Enterprise subscription into 1946. He recalls subscribing for the paper years ago and enjoying its reading value amid many other papers.
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R.A. Perry
Miles
Enterprise
Mrs L H Reed Dies at Family Home Near Bronte
Mrs L H Reed died at the family home seven miles south of Bronte on Saturday January 8 1944. Interment was at Mule Creek cemetery after services led by Rev Roy Stuckey Norton Baptist Church. Born 1858 in Hallettsville Lavaca County she was 86. She and her husband moved to Coke County in 1906 and were survived by children Mrs Baker Kirk Bronte and Ben Reed Cari.
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L. H. Reed
Bronte
Mule Creek
Roy Stuckey
Norton Baptist Church
Hallettsville
Lavaca County
Coke County
Tennyson School News Honor Roll And Notes
At the end of the first semester the honor roll lists students across grades six, second, fifth, and contest. Martha Anne Weddle is ill with the flu but improving. Grace Irene Green returns home from a Dallas visit. Girls eleven and twelve plan a Girls Scouts Club with Mrs. Floyd McCarty as leader. Visitors included Mrs. May Baker and Carolyne Gale. A lighthearted exchange occurs between Leon McCarty and Pete Thomas. The Primary room reports cactus bed activity and Eddie Westbrook, age five, is noted as a prolific cactus collector. Prof. Leslie Woollard and Mrs. B. D. Dunn teach the school. the Enterprise will publish weekly letters.
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The
Bronte Enterprise
Bufford James
Louise Burleson
Leon McCarty
Betty Chamberlain
Liela Gibson
Lela Anne Brooks
Billy E Burleson
Tennyson School
Martha Anne Weddle
Grace Irene Green
Dallas
Floyd McCarty
May Baker
Carolyne Gale
San Angelo
Dunn
Leon
Pete Thomas
Pete
Bank President Receives South Sea Coral Gift
L. T. Youngblood, president of the First National Bank, received a box of coral formations from the South Sea Islands. The corals, sent by Dick Suggs, a Bronze boy in the South Pacific, are varied and beautiful. Dick noted he had lived on the island for a year and observed only one tree and no women of any race or color.
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L. T. Youngblood
First National Bank
South Sea Islands
Dick Suggs
South Pacific
Mr Youngblood
Heaviest Snow Storm In 25 Years Hits West Texas
A major snowstorm blanketed West Texas this week, with at least 12 inches reported and the heaviest snowfall since 1918. Snow began Tuesday night, intensified Wednesday, and continued into Thursday causing widespread travel delays and stranded travelers in Bronte. Temperatures ranged from 12 to minus half a degree, while stock suffered but ground cover benefits were expected for spring weeds and grass.
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West Texas
Thurssday
Bronte
Ballinger Rotary Sponsors Post War Institute Lectures
The Ballinger Rotary Club hosts an Institute of International Understanding featuring four speakers on postwar world order. Dr Go Inman, Wo Yong Park, Simon M. Davidian, and F. Lascalles discuss Americas, Oriental nations, the Russian Republic, and the Commonwealth contributions with dates in February. Complimentary tickets offered to Bronze citizens for the four lectures.
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Rotary Club of
Ballnger
Ser
Ballinger
Institute of International Understanding
Bellinger
Go Inman
Bronxville
New York
Americas
Firm Wo- Yong Park
Kirksville
Missouri
Pars
Simon M. Davidian
He AR . Hee Will
Uesday
Cet
F. Lascalles
Toni
Micbers
Cleb
Ettend
Paing
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Mesdames W. F. Caede
Arnold Richards
Blackwell
Caede
Blackwell Methodist Church
Man Runneth
Ladies Society of the Methodist Church
Tennyson School News
Eddie ‘Westbrook
Leslie Woollard
B. D. Dunn
Enterprise Weekly
Ballinger Rotary Club
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