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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1951
Page
4
Mayor H O Whitt proclaims the annual March of Dimes Drive and machinery begins for the 15 day effort running to January 31. Miniature iron lungs are displayed in downtown business houses for donations and polio banks are worn by clerks. Mothers March plans, night light mobilization, district canvassing, and county roles are laid out with chairmen and coordinators named.
Reverend Taylor Henley of Immanuel Baptist Church San Angelo will preach at a Baptist revival starting Sunday January 28 and running through February 4. Reverend W D Price of Bronte Baptist Church said both morning and evening services will likely be held each day and invited everyone to attend.
Mrs. Maybelle Littlefield has leased the City Cafe from Mr and Mrs Sam Spruell. She took charge Thursday morning and is well known in the area and at Robert Lee where she previously ran a cafe. Her Robert Lee cafe burned last November and she moved from Weatherford in 1940 where she operated the Red and White Store. Her husband died in 1946 and since then she has owned or worked in restaurants.
The Bronte Texas mayor proclaims January 15 through 31 as March of Dimes Period urging civic effort to support infantile paralysis relief. The proclamation notes polio epidemics, Fund funding shortfalls, and the need to sustain National Foundation aid.
Funeral services for Robert Bob Harwell will be held at 2 30 PM at the First Baptist Church with Rev VLD Price officiating. Survived by two sons five daughters fifteen grandchildren and seven great grandchildren the Bronte area rancher died at home after a six month illness. Interment at nearby bairview cemetery under Chiti Panera Home supervision. Pallbearers are grandsons and grandsons in law with honorary pallbearers named as long time cowboy friends and neighbors.
Bronte High’s boys captured the consolation championship at the Robert Lee Invitational after a loss to Sterling City in their opener. They won 41 to 0, then 33 to 22 and 36 to 24. Marlin McCutchen was named to the all tournament team. Girls team posted two wins and one loss with Maddie Sue McAucry on the girls all tournament team.
Bronte and Robert Lee youths named to compete in the 195L Prouston Fat Stock Show beef scramble. Robert Brown Bobby Evans Billy Paul Thomason enter FRA beef scramble February 6 Milburn Wink of Robert Lee enters HE scramble February 30. Honorable vice chairman Hopalong Cassidy Boyd aids event with $125 calves and dairy scramble stakes.
Special rates on Time Life and Fortune magazines available to mail subscribers good until March first. The Enterprise accepts Time at 6.00 per year Life at 6.75 per year and Fortune at 12.30 per year. Bring subscriptions to the Enterprise office.
The Upper Colorado River Authority re elected officers in San Angelo and directed staff to hire engineers to study a Bronte to Oak Creek dam pipeline. Bronte faces severe water shortages amid drought as Sweetwater dam project, costs around 85 000 dollars, and added expenses surface.
In a vintage column a San Angelo Standard Times item recalls John McGabe of Coke County who acquired 200 acres of patented land in Coke County adjoining his property from Charlie Collyns for 4800 dollars, noting the era’s cheap land prices.
The Bronte High School athletic department asks fans to attend a two day basketball tournament January 19 and 20 to fund jackets for the football team. Four sessions with 10 and 25 cent admissions, concessions run by the student council, and donations welcome to cover expenses and trophy costs.
Rosa Lee Langford daughter of Mr and Mrs J J Langford of Bronte represented the TSCW student body at ground breaking for the new Student Union Center on campus. The ceremony Thursday January 4 involved Dr Roger D Hebard pastor John A Guinn TS CW BSU secretary and Dr W F Howard deepening the hole with Miss Langford turning the first spade of earth.
Bronte High School opens its thid annual invitational basketball tourney with ten teams from local schools. The schedule lists matchups including Miles vs MacCuiddes and Eden vs Bola, with bracket play to follow and a final championship to be determined.
Dr John R Harris Bronte city health officer urges residents to boil drinking water amid a shortage after numerous upset stomach cases. He cites suspected water impurities and says boiling is precautionary until further tests cap the rump on the water. Mrs J V Youngsbrood travels to St Louis to visit daughter Mrs ELF Glenn and family. Han Wright of the Alalone Reporter News was visiting Bronte Tuesday.
Reports from the Bronte Field describe Humble No. 1 D. K. Glenn setting casing at 4,343 feet in the Palo Pinto formation with no testing yet performed. Other wells Mark and No. 3 Jim McCutchen show mixed results including a 60 barrel per hour flow and a dry hole, as unions anticipate more drilling activity amid rising petroleum demand.
Funeral services for John T. Cook 81 formerly of Brookshire were held Friday January 22 at Brookshire Baptist Church with Rev Dee Cox in attendance His interment was in Mt Victory cemetery on the Brookshire community He died at his San Angelo home January 11 at 430 pm He moved from Brown county to Brookshire in 1900 and lived there until retirement five years ago when he moved to San Angelo He is survived by his widow two sons Kimws of Ballinger and Arvy of San Angelo a daughter Ivy Cook of San Angelo a brother a sister and 2 grandchildren
A church meeting of the official board of the Methodist church in Broke discussed a new sanctuary and educational building estimated at 30000 dollars. The drive aims to raise 25000 dollars before construction, with initial pledges at zero. Pastor J E Fuller stated no final architectural plans have been chosen.
Bobby Dean Clark Douglas Ray Stephens and Edward Rogers were set for navy physicals in Houston last Thursday when they learned enlistments were frozen and they need not report as ordered. The trio remains in Bronte awaiting further word.
NR. W. Rees shows signs of improvement after surgery for a ruptured appendix earlier this week at Clinic hospital in San Angelo.
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