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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1956
Page
5
A rushed note recalls a dog poisoning incident and shares a pasted article about how to become a columnist. It quotes advice emphasizing avoiding jail, and warns against harmful topics like a sidewalk mishap or a baseball game umpire look alike.
Moore twins June and Jean placed second in the state Farm and Home Safety contest at College Station this week. They demonstrated artificial respiration and competed with 13 teams, earning each an $18 pen set and a medal. Their prior year success includes blue ribbons in Share the Fun.
James N. Tidwell, brother of T. E. Tidwell, has been selected to lecture at the University of Athens in Greece this summer under a Fulbright grant. Reared in Miles, he began preaching at age 11 and later became an English professor at San Diego State College. He left Miles in 1922 and has taught in California for several years.
The First Baptist Church of Bronte begins a city wide youth program titled Youth for Christ. The inaugural event Friday night June 22 features the 46 minute Moody Institute film Hidden Treasure with science Bible correlation. The program includes music, a sing song and amateur acts and invites all area youths from any church.
Boy Scout encampment trip for Camp Fawcett set with all participants to meet at the school house at 8 30 a m Sunday D K Glenn reports. Each scout must pass medical check up carry 12 50 for week expenses and bring fishing gear clothes toilet articles cot bedding pup tent and official Boy Scout handbook. Luther McCutchen and J W Teague listed as chaperones with other fathers to rotate duty at the camp Scoutmaster Oscar Dorsey plans to join briefly upon returning from school.
Word reaches here that Mrs. Lark Rogers, patient at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, will undergo major surgery today Friday.
The Methodist Bible School at Blackwell will begin Monday June 18 and run through Friday June 22. A program Sunday night will cap the event and all community children are invited to attend.
The Coke County 1955 audit starts this week in Bronte Enterprise and Robert Lee Observer, with continuation next week. Receipts totaled 1 002 579.41 dollars, funds mostly solid aside from two overdrafts near 13 thousand dollars. Taxable valuation grew from under 15 million in 1951 to 29,762,910 in 1955. Audit by Neimer & Pierce of Lubbock. Local trip news notes visits by the Robbins and Modgling families to Crosbyton to see Chester Riker after an accident, with Mrs Phillips and Stanley also traveling.
A tile bath house is being built at Bronte School football field measuring 16 by 36 feet. It will include two public rest rooms and two showers for participants. Builders Clayborn Webb and Monroe Alexander, with helpers J T Henry and J I Adair, say the facilities will improve the athletic plant. Expansion to about 1100 seating will accompany a new stadium section from Lakeview.
Carolyn Kemp of Bronte will be featured as soloist on a Father s Day program of the Business Men s Bible Class of San Angelo. The program airs at 9 45 each Sunday over KGKL from the Cactus Hotel ballroom. Carolyn, daughter of Mr and Mrs Cecil Kemp, previously appeared on another KGKL program last Saturday.
Bronte postmaster Mrs Hollis Stevens was honored as the youngest postmaster present at the Texas Branch National League of Postmasters convention banquet in the Roosevelt hotel Waco. She attended with her mother Mrs O R McQueen. a photo including Mrs Stevens, Mrs Clay L Allen of Wingate and two post officials ran in Tuesday's Abilene Reporter-News.
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