PTA Valentine Festival Adds Spaghetti Supper and Talent Show
The 1959 PTA Valentine Festival adds a spaghetti supper and a talent show with $10, $7.50 and $5 prizes. The show, at 8:30 p.m. February 14 in the auditorium, ends the festival with cash awards for area entrants. Sponsoring committees, chairpersons and booth plans were outlined at the Monday executive meeting, with proceeds supporting local school projects.
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PTA
Cecil Kemp
Jimmy Campbell
Geo. Thomas
Dean Adams
Matthew Caperton
Royce Fancher
C. O. Richards
Harlin Lee
T. F. Sims
A. E. Bell, Jr
Osmo Black
Bob Wilson
D. W. Whittenburg
Charlie Boecking
Floyd Collins
Edward Cumbie
J. T. Henry
Joe Simpson
Clyde Lee
Vetal Flores
LeDrew Arrott
Ben Oglesby
J.B. Morrow
Robert H. Sims
E. J. Smith
Bill Thomas
Royce Lee
Roy Robinson
J. B. Mackey
James Arrott
Aubrey Denman
Clark Glenn
J. B. Morrow
Norman Porter
Mary Helen Campbell
C. C. Glenn
Allen Sherrod
R. C. Lasswell
R. FE. Johnson
Homer Phillips
Ona Parker
Melvin Placke
Foy Moore
E. F. Glenn
Duck Ponds
J. S. Murtishaw
Calvin Campbell
Norman Riker
Hershey Bar
Noah Pruitt, Jr
Nannie Marie Pearson
Anna Whitfield
Final Rites Held For Mrs Ava Scott
Funeral services for Mrs Ava D Scott of Bronte were held at First Methodist Church with Rev James W Campbell and Rev R W Blackmon presiding. Burial was at Fairview Cemetery under Clift Funeral Home direction. She died at 7 30 p m Friday Jan 23 after a long illness from a stroke at age 78. She was born April 6 1880 in Boone County Arkansas and married in 1898. She lived with her daughter Mrs B G Timmons and is survived by two daughters two sons 13 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.
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Ava D. Scott
Bronte
First Methodist Church
James W.campbell
R. W. Blackmon
Kickapoo
Boone County
Arkansas
C. H. Trice
B. G. Timmons
Timmons
S. C. Motley
Lamesa
C. H
W. H. Scott
Weekend in Austin Reunites Texas newspaper friends
A Texas weekend in Austin featured entertaining speakers and visits with familiar newspaper colleagues. Reaves, a former state representative, offered greetings to Bronte and Blackwell friends and praised his long career as he turned eighty. The governor’s mansion reception impressed attendees including the writer’s daughters, with a redecorated era.
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Austin
Newspapers of
Texas
House
R. H. Reaves
Blackwell
Reaves
House of Representatives
Bronte
Governor’s Mansion
Gov
Daniel
Oldsters
Bronte School Census Underway Seeks Enrolments
Supt. Garland Black asks the Enterprise to report the Bronte school census in progress. Parents should enroll all children who will start school next September or sign a census slip at the school office. The district will receive 67.50 tuition from the State for each pupil counted.
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Garland Black
Bronte School
Black
Tad Richards MOD Dance Set for Saturday Night
The Coke County March of Dimes drive peaks with the Tad Richards dance at the Richards barn eight miles northeast of Bronte. Music by Johnny Dutton's band runs 8 30 to 1 with admission 1.50. Proceeds, plus past drives, promise strong returns as fund chair Matthew Caperton reports local progress and calls for further contributions.
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March of Dimes
Tad Richards
Bronte
Matthew Caperton
Coke County
Johnny Dutton
Caperton
Cecil Kemp
Bronte Business Houses
Fort Chadbourne
C. O. Richards
Golden Age Home Fund Drive Nears Goal in Bronte
At a Tuesday committee meeting led by Rev. Jimmy Campbell, $61,588 of $87,000 has been pledged to build the Golden Age Home in Bronte. A March 15 deadline stands as the drive continues with plans to contact donors and offer year long pledge options. The $347,000 project would house 68 elderly residents and be operated by the Methodist Church open to all faiths.
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Jimmy Campbell
Bronte
Methodist Church
Kk. Glenn
L. T. Youngblood
Joe Carter
Barney Modgling
C. F E. Bruton
Noah Pruitt, Sr
Campbell
Matthew Caperton
H. A. Springer
Ben Oglesby
First Baptist Parsonage Under Renovation
Extensive remodeling is under way on the First Baptist Church parsonage. The project, begun last week, costs about $3 000. Otis Smith holds the contract for carpentry and updates include windows siding a carport new bathroom fixtures reconditioned front porch and sheet rocked walls. Cecil Kemp chairs the church committee overseeing the work with the parsonage vacant as the church awaits a permanent pastor while Rev. Ira Harrison of Abilene serves as interim pastor.
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First Baptist Church
Otis Smith
Thas
Cecil Kemp
Douglas Brown
Ira Harrison
Abilene
Objections Heard to County Salary Raises
Coke County Commissioners face opposition as petitions circulate in Bronte and Robert Lee against proposed raises of 1500 dollars for the commissioners and 200 dollars for the county clerk. Raises would be retroactive to January 1 1959 per one notice and take effect February 9 1959 per another notice. The court says no hearing is required since the raises were in the 1959 budget, while Judge Thetford notes open public access to any citizen input at meetings.
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Coke County
Commissioners Court
Robert Lee
Bronte
W. W. Thetford
Claude Ditmore
Thetford
Commissioner's Court
Last rites held for Mrs. M. M. Boynton in Bronte
Funeral services for 71 year old Mrs. M. M. Boynton were held Saturday at Bronte First Baptist Church with Rev. Ira Harrison and Rev. James W. Campbell officiating. Burial followed in Fairview cemetery. She died January 22 in Bronte Hospital after a long illness. Born in Huntsville Texas, she moved to San Angelo in 1912 and to Bronte in 1923. Her husband M. M. Boynton was postmaster. she later served as postmaster until 1941 and then worked as a clerk until retirement due to ill health. She was a member of the Eastern Star and is survived by a brother Virgil Gilbert and a nephew Bennie Gilbert.
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M. M
Pearl) Boynton
Bronte First Baptist Church
Ira Harrison
Abilene
James W. Campbell
Bronte First Methodist Church
Fairview Cemetery
Clift Funeral Home
Boynton
Bronte Hospital
Huntsville
Texas
Robert Lee
Bennie Gilbert
Little Rock, Ark
Trinity Choir Soloist Carolyn Kemp Heads Eleven Day Tour
Carolyn Kemp a Trinity University sophomore and daughter of Mr and Mrs Cecil Kemp leaves January 29 for an eleven day soloist tour with the Trinity University Choir. The group will travel through the Rio Grande Valley to Monterey Mexico back to Houston perform on a Houston TV program and in south and east Texas. The choir has appeared with major symphony orchestras more than any other Texas college and will perform Wagner Tannhauser with the San Antonio Symphony next March.
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Carolyn Kemp
Cecil Kemp
Trinity University
San Antonio
Trinity University Choir
Rio Grande Valley
Monterey
Mexico
Houston
Texas
Trinity Choir
San Antonio Symphony
Tax deadline nears for 1958 property and poll taxes
January 31 is the deadline for paying 1958 property taxes with delinquency and penalties applying afterward. Poll taxes also must be paid by January 31, with only about 500 receipts issued so far and fewer than 700 expected in an off election year.
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Coke Countians Sare
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Ava Scott
Sorosis, Diversity and
First Baptist Parsonage
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