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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1952
Page
2
Fragments describe baseball and track mentions with names such as McCutchen Bagwell Hermieigh Rebect Lee and Marck Sanve. OCR text reveals scattered team names venues hotels and unclear actions amid a general sports page collage from a historic edition.
Nearly 200 top performers from colleges compete as the first National Intercollegiate track and field championships begin in Abilene on June 6. Preliminaries run Friday with finals Saturday at 7 30 PM at McMurry Stadium. Tennis and golf events also listed with schedules and venues.
A nearly unreadable wartime letter mentions a volunteer in Korea and hopes to return home soon. It references a person named Bart Rusk who sent a letter, with partial lines about Okinawa and the summer. The readable content is fragmentary and lacks clear dates or full sentences.
On June 23 1952 at 10 00 AM at the front door of the Coke County Courthouse I will sell by public auction a perpetual easement to lay construct maintain replace and repair water supply lines across the Coke County road from Ft Chadbourne to Bronte Texas. The pipeline will run within the road right of way parallel to the KCM O railroad west side, buried below plow depth, with ingress and egress rights and no interference with road use. Witness Jeff Dean County Judge of Coke County.
The Bronte Enterprise lists forthcoming candidate announcements for Democratic Primaries in July 195%. It covers county, precinct, state and district, and federal offices with pricing for 250 word writeups and additional wording at regular rates.
Classified notices list items for sale including bedding beds with mattresses and bunk beds. Rental notices offer furnished or unfurnished 3 room houses with bath. Local services advertise wrecker service septic cleaning and baby chicks. Several social visits reported among Bronte residents.
Amarillo visitors Mrs Paul Hern and children and Mr and Mrs C Meader hosted by local families. Many neighbors attended church and funerals in Bronte for Charlie Martin. Congratulatory notices include births for Poynter of Michigan and Caldwell of New Mexico. Families gathered across San Angelo Bronte Mertzon Fort Stockton Stephenville Abilene with Duet of visits and reunions noted.
Theo Blue returns home for summer vacation with parents Mr and Mrs T H Blue after attending Texas University in Austin. Kenneth Smith of Rankin visits. Mrs To fb Blue and children visit her mother Mrs Gi W Rabo in Shamrock from Sunday to Tuesday. Mrs Sime returns to Bronte, employed at Coke County Memorial Hospital, driving to work. R E Cunthie leaves San Angelo hospital after illness. Mr and Mrs J W Anderson attend their friends 50th wedding anniversary in Rock Springs. W W Millikin and R J accompany them to Uvalde to visit Millikin’s mother. they return Thursday.
Leo Rogers on leave from the Navy visits his mother Mrs Ettie Rogers in Bronte after four years at Pearl Harbor. Dr John R Harris hosts his uncle Dave Angell of Oklahoma this week. L L Rice of Midland and Walter Riker of Portales tour relatives in Texas and meet Mrs Jess Perciful. Ed Stevens undergoes surgery in San Angelo. 4 H club members attend camp in Ballinger and plan State Round-up at College Station. The Hickmans and Cumbie Ivey travel to Kinley SD to visit relatives.
Mr and Mrs Dale Glenn depart Sunday for Nisland South Dakota to ship 200 head of cattle to the J B Glenn place. They will stay through the fall.
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