Enterprise Bargain Days Offer Cuts Paper Price
July first kicks off the annual bargain on the Bronte Enterprise. Local subscribers pay $1.50 for one year, saving 50 cents. outside the trade area the price drops from $2.50 to $2.00 for July only. New or renewing subscriptions, or extensions, are eligible, with local representatives in Blackwell Brookshire and Tennyson available to take orders.
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Coke
Bronte Enterprise
Enterprise Office
Blackwell
Charles Ragsdale
Enterprise
Brookshire
Herbert Holland
Tennyson
Weekend trip to Lake Whitney and Brownwood area
The writer praises the Lake Whitney region 40 miles north of Waco for its greenery and scenery. Fishing was poor but swimming was fine. A Miss Texas contest had just occurred nearby and a four year old was hospitalized earlier in the week.
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Brownwood
Lake Whitney
Waco
Dewi
Banks in Bronte and Robert Lee set Saturday noon close
Beginning tomorrow the First National Bank in Bronte will close Saturday afternoon and the Robert Lee State Bank will observe the earlier closing time. An ad on another page lists the holidays observed, starting Monday July 4, with Lincoln's Birthday, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Armistice Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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First National Bank
Bronte
Robert Lee State Bank
Soft Ball News: Tennyson Tops Norton in Key Clash
June results show Tennyson 10 Ft Chadbourne 0 and Sterling City 2 Bronte 1 in extra innings. Tennyson and Ft Chadbourne lead will face off next week for the league title while Bronte and Norton vie for third and fourth.
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Tennyson
Norton
Ft. Chas
Bronte
Sterling City
Bronte All-Stars
Ft. Chadbourne
Work Resumed on City Oil Well Test
Barney Carter resumed operations on the No. 1 L. T. Youngblood test Thursday afternoon. A rotary rig was moved out and cable tools will be used to test below 8 200 feet as work progresses from the bottom upward. The well was originally drilled in 1949 by T. W. Murray and Louis Mabee and abandoned. Carter has applied for permits to drill three more tests within Bronte city limits on property owned by O. C. Ivey, Mack Eubanks and Dr. John R. Harris.
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T. W. Murray
Louis Mabee
Mr. Carter
Carter
Bronte
O. C. Ivey
Mack Eubanks
John R. Harris
UCRA to Study Dam Site on Yellow Wolf Creek
San Angelo board of directors approves engineering inquiry into building a small irrigation dam on Yellow Wolf Creek six miles north of Robert Lee. The plan aims to hold 2 500 acre feet of water and may involve nearby sites such as Lipan Flat and Dove Creek Farm. The group also revises Robert Lee contract terms for Mountain Creek Reservoir water access.
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San Angelo
UCRA
W. I
Bill) Marschall
Porter Henderson
Yellow Creek
Lipan Flat
Henderson
Owells
Marshall
Dove Creek
Knickerbocker
Miles
Concho
Willow Creek
Mullins Crossing
Tom Green County
Lake Nosworthy
North Concho Lake
Colorado River
Robert Lee
Mountain Creek
Bronze Enterprise Mailing List Notice
Address name and expiration date printing updated for July bargain days. If errors appear please notify us immediately. except recent renewals, all data should be correct on your paper.
Robinson Family Visit From Lubbock Noted
Visiting from Lubbock last weekend were Mr and Mrs Harley Robinson and their children. They visited Roy Robinson and family, his brother.
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Lubbock
Harley Robinson
Roy Robinson
Bronte Girds for July Fourth Holiday Closures
Bronte firms mostly close Monday for the Fourth of July with many businesses like Sims Food Store White Auto Store Bronte Ice Co Pruitt's Store Cumbie Mackey Central Drug and several others observing the holiday. Post office and city hall also close while most service stations and cafes stay open. Residents plan outings over the long weekend.
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Bronte
Sims Food
White Auto
Bronte Ice Co
Pruitt’s
Cumbie & Mackey
Central Drug
Bob Wilson
Dot's House of Beauty
First National Bank
C. R. Smith & Co
Seeney
Oil Drilling Application Filed in Coke County Texas
F Kirk Johnson applies to drill its No 2 in the Wendkirk field Coke County Texas located 5 miles southwest of Bronte. The bore will go direct below the Colorado River to 4000 feet with rotary. Ground elevation 1764 feet. Location described as 3072.3 feet north 34 50 east of the NW corner of 456 E Girke Survey.
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F. Kirk Johnson
State of Texas
Wendkirk
Coke County
Bronte
Colorado River
E. Girke
Sweetwater OKs Release of Water From Oak Creek
About 120000 gallons daily will be released to Coke and Runnels County farmers from Oak Creek Lake following a Monday Sweetwater City Council action. The move aligns with a prior court judgement and comes amid a high lake level.
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Oak Creek Lake
Sweetwater
Wreck victim Fred Graham shows signs of recovery
Fred Allen Graham age 26 of Andrews has awoken from a 197 day coma beginning November 30 and is reported conscious with improved condition at Perrian General Hospital Andrews officials state memory remains intact. Graham was injured in a south Bronte crash and later underwent brain surgery in Odessa. His first words out of the coma were for his mother.
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Fred Allen Grham
Andrews
Permian General Hospital
Graham
Bronte
Bronte Hospital
Dallas
Medical Center Hospital
Odessa
J. A. Graham
Security Engineering Company
John B Clark Returns From Northwest Trip
Dear Editor I recently visited my brother in Tacoma Washington departing June 4 by train and arriving on time despite delays. I describe Bakersfield loading 560 carloads of spuds and Oakland’s garden vegetables including a mothball fleet in the bay. I passing through Sacramento Valley Lake Shasta Mt Shasta and Klamath Falls with snow six feet deep, then Crescent Lake and Mt. Hood area before Portland mills water power sites and a home made electric plant. The journey ends as mountains and rivers limit rail routes.
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Tacoma
Washington
Bakersfield
Calif
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Oakland
Bay
Canada
Sacramento Valley
San Joaquin Valley
Lake Shasta
Portland
Klamath Falls
Lake Klamath
Crescent Lake
Mt. Shasta
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Ben
Bronte School
R. C. Tuasswell
Linda Smith
Grace Rogers
Ellen Brock
Lake Brownwood
G. A.'s of the Baptist Church
Edward Cumble
City
Barney Carter
L. T
Marschall
B. W Chaunch
Ballinger
Runnels
Chaunch
Oak Creek
Fred Graham
John B. Clark
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