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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1955
Page
5
The piece notes reduced adolescent antics on the new pavement over the past week and urges restraint to protect the soft surface. It highlights 3 000 blue booklet copies printed by The Enterprise and hints at Coke County audit findings showing funds in good balance for 1954.
The Coke County 4-H Girls Camp met Wednesday and Thursday at the H. A. Springer Cabin on Oak Creek Lake. Thirty girls and three visitors attended with officers elected, activities ranged from games and crafts to a nature hike led by county agents.
Friday July 15 designated Coke County Night at the Colts stadium in San Angelo. Roswell will oppose the San Angelo Colts with tickets 75c for adults and 50c for children. A block of seats reserved for Coke County residents. Skinny Adams leads Colts as president facilitating organized ball in San Angelo.
Funeral services for B. N. Walls age 62 were held at Blackwell Baptist Church with pastors R B Murry F C Powell and W T Teel officiating. Walls born in Nolan County in 1893 married Ruth Russell in 1914. He died after a heart attack in Sweetwater Hospital Saturday night leaving a wife two sons Cloven Walls Melbourne Oklahoma and Russell Walls Clovis New Mexico three daughters Mrs Jim Greathouse Portales New Mexico Mrs Pat Massey Elida New Mexico and Mrs Jesse Magness El Paso two brothers Thad Walls Fort Worth and Bob Walls Midland one sister Mrs Berniece Emanual Guymon Oklahoma and 16 grandchildren. Interment followed at Blackwell Cemetery under Cates Spencer Funeral Home of Sweetwater.
In Bronte and nearby towns several births are recorded. Ricky Dene Sheppard was born June 28 in San Angelo weighing 8 2, parents Harold Sheppard and spouse. Barbara Gail Beaty born July 6 in Bronte Hospital weighing 6 14. Mark Alan Murtishaw born July 6 in Bronte Hospital weighing 6 11. Elizabeth Herridge's daughter born July 4 in Bronte Hospital weighing 6 4. Joanna Kay Clark born July 1 in Bronte area weighing 5 4. Grandparents listed for each family.
Routine matters and payment of bills occupied the Coke County Commissioners Court session on Tuesday. They will reconvene next Monday for another meeting.
Rev Harold Morris of the North American Baptist Association will lecture at Kickapoo Baptist Church tonight at 8 oclock. He serves as a missionary to Brazil and has been on leave touring churches to describe his Brazil work before returning this month. The church notes its role in sending missionaries abroad and invites the public to attend.
Subscribers urged to remember July special rates offering a 25 percent saving. Article notes Coke and adjacent counties price at $1.50 and other counties at $2.00. Renewals and extensions encouraged to take advantage of the reduced rates during the month.
Word came Tuesday that Vernon Adair, nephew of J J Adair of San Saba to the U S EH Adair family, died in a head on collision of two Santa Fe freight trains 380 miles west of Fort Sumner New Mexico. The Adair family resided in Clovis.
James Alvin Brown accepts the minister position at the Bronze Church of Christ, succeeding Bill Pugh who resigned two months ago and moved to Houston. Brown and his wife move from San Angelo after three months preaching at Christoval. He was born in Plant City Florida, studied at Florida Christian College and ACC Abilene, and came to Texas in 1950 for Air Force Reserve duty at Goodfellow Field where he met his San Angelo-born wife.
Bronte Motor Co owned by Charlie Boecking and L. T. Youngblood plans a formal opening on Saturday July 16. The Ford dealership space has been redecorated with new offices and service equipment. Staff includes Paul Smith as shop manager Dale Luckett and Houston Wright in parts Glenna Fletcher in bookkeeping and Leon Graham as salesman. A car shipment is due in about ten days and a sale offers 25 percent off Bronze Tractor Co stock still on hand.
Zapata Drilling Co and R L Wood of Midland filed to drill a 500 foot rotary wildcat in Coke County 1 5 miles southeast of the McCutchen Cisco field and five miles east of Robert Lee. No 1 W A Payne. July 3 start. 320 acre lease location 458-1A-H&TC. Prospector 2 5/8 miles southwest of Harper Huffman No 1 Eubanks. Elevation reports list Cisco 3 700, Home Creek 4 410, Palo Pinto 4 700, others 5 080.
Coke County 1954 financial statement published, with audited totals and a combined receipts disbursements and balances view. Officials note good finances with overdrafts and large balances in other funds and consider reallocating tax money. A county hospital report will follow next week.
Baseball fans look to Robert Lee Sunday when Sonora plays the Coke County Rabbit Twisters. The teams vie for first place and the 1955 league championship. Bronte’s Marlon McCutchen stars at shortstop for the Twisters.
Mrs. M W Freeman is now employed as a registered nurse at Bronte Hospital. She moved with her family from Breckenridge recently and previously worked in a Breckenridge hospital. She works the 3 PM to 11 PM shift and the Freemans reside in the former Chapman house along the Abilene highway.
The Bronte City Council defeated the Bronte School Board 9 to 5 after four innings in a windy local softball game played before a large crowd. Key moments included Ben Oglesby’s first inning homer and Charlie Boecking’s follow up hits, with Bob Wilson earning the win for the council and J. B. Mackey highlighting defensive efforts for the school board.
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