What Goes On By Jane Nunnally
Mrs. C. L. McShan and daughter Sally visit the W. W. Whalens from Rockport this week. C. A. DeBerry helps with Vacation Bible School in Bronte. Diversity Club hosts a City Park party with many guests and demonstrations. Various local residents attend events, travels, and hospital visits as noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. McShan
Sally
W. W. Whalens
Rockport
C. A. DeBerry
C. R. Blake
Arlington
Bro. Blake
Burroughs Observe Fifty-Seventh Anniversary at Home
Mr and Mrs John Burroughs celebrate their fifty seventh wedding anniversary. They were married at Hayrick on June fifteenth eighteen hundred and are the parents of eleven children, three of whom survive. Uncle John remains a familiar figure in the family.
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John Burroughs
Hayrick
John
Courthouse Bonds Defeated Despite Incomplete Returns
Incomplete unofficial returns show the courthouse bonds proposal decisively defeated. Early tallies indicate 130 votes for and 5430 against, with Bronte potential votes unlikely to change the outcome, suggesting a defeat by more than two to one.
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Bronte
Sunday Night Program Ends Vacation Bible School
The Baptist Vacation Bible School wraps with a Sunday night program at First Baptist Church at 8 30. June 22 marked the finale after a week of classes starting Monday with 56 pupils. Handiwork from the students will be on display and officers include Mrs Chet Holcombe secretary Dorothy Ruth Stephenson and Rev C R Blake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Vacation Bible School
First Baptist Church
C.K. Blake
Chet Holcombe
Dorothy Ruth Stephenson
CA. DeBerry
J. B. Mackey
C. N. Landers
B. G.timmons
Robert Forman
H.R. Gassiot
Savannah Ruth Caperton
Juanell Blake
C. R. Blake
4-H Club Camp Planned in Coke County Encampment
Plans were laid last Monday June 16 for the Coke County 4-H Club Encampment to be held at Christoval July 15 through 17. Attendees in Robert Lee’s HDA office included sponsors Mmes A C Westbrook Tennyson Raymond Schooler Green Mountain C E Arrott Bronte and Victor McCabe Robert Lee and 4 H Club girls Marlene Arrott Eddie Sue McAuley Zona Mae King.
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Coke County
Christoval
HDA
Robert Lee
Mmes. A. Cc
Westbrook
Tennyson
Raymond Schooler
Green Mountain
C. E. Arrott
Bronte
Victor McCabe
4-H Club
Marlene Arrott
Eddie Sue McAuley
Zona Mae King
Bronti Church Services With Pastor Mauldin
First Methodist Church Bronte shows church school at 10 00 a m and morning worship at 11 00 a m led by Pastor Alvin R Mauldin Mae Wonekip is listed as a pep.
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Bronte
Mae Em
Encampment Highlights From District 4-H Club Event
Miss Zona Mae King Green Mountain Hdldie Sue McAuiles Bronte and Marlene Arrott Bronte joined sponsors Mrs A C Westbrook and Miss Mary Pearl Bearden Coke County HDA at the District 4-H Club Encampment held near Christoval June 10 32. Camp groups covered cookery recreation and handicraft under HD agents Myra Tankersly Delia Bates and Pearl Bearden. Fourteen counties sent 42 girls 140 sponsors LECHIDA and one district agent. Officers elected Jo Ami Jarvis Nolan County chairman Betty Martin Nolan County secretary Ines Littlefield McCulloch County reporter Marlene Arott Coke County song leader Hetty Martin Nolan County assistant song leader.
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Zona Mae King
Green Mountain
Hdldie Sue McAuiles
Bronte
Marlene Arrott
A. C Westbrook
Mary Pearl Bearden
Coke County
HDA
Enecampment
Christoval
Thee
Myra Tankersly
Taylor County
Delia Bates
Fisher County
Maas Pearl Bearden
Lechida
Jo Ami Jarvis
Nolan County
Betty Martin
Ines Littlefield
McCull
Allen Jameson Finds Pay in Ellenburger Field
Sun Oil Company No 2 Allen Jameson waits on cement at 7 068 feet after a drill stem test showed oil in the Ellenburger. Test bottom at 7 110 feet with plug expected today or tomorrow. No 1 W J Tubb seventh Jameson field well cementing at 6 287 feet. bottom about 6 480 feet. plug expected tomorrow. No 3 Fred Jameson reaches 4 980 feet in shale.
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Sun Oil Co
Allen Jameson
Ellenburger
W. J. Tubb
Jameson Field
Fred Jameson
George Thomas Attends Ballinges Auction Sale
George Thomas visited Ballinges on Tuesday for the auction sale and had been there the previous week as well. The brief note records his attendance at the local event.
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George Thomas
Ballinges
Double Wedding in Lubbock Ties Sandusky Snyder and Shoulders Smith
Miss Mary Louise Sandusky and Miss Mary Shoulders wed Elmer Snyder Jr and Joe Smith in a Tuesday night double ceremony at the home of the Shoulders in Lubbock Texas. Pastors, attendants, and family gathered as vows were exchanged before an altar and carriages headed for a Carlsbad New Mexico honeymoon. Both couples plan to reside in Dumas after a Texas Tech term.
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F. A. Stubblefield
Winslow
Arizona
Rita
Sandy
O. E. Allen
Otis Smith
Canada
A. C. Coulter
Bronte Barber
Angelo
Boyd Badley
Home Motor Co
Mary Louise Sandusky
Austin Sandusky
Elmer Snyder, Jr
Elmer Snyder
Dumas
R. M. Shoulders
Lubbock
Texas
Mary Shoulders
Joe Smith
Bonner Smith
Snyders
Hershel Dyer
Pioneer Park Church of Christ
Gus Gallagher
McDowell
Big Spring
Harold Shoulders
Genevieve Morton
Carlsbad
N. M
Old Mestco
Smith
Panhandle-Eastern Pipe Co
Texas Tech
Snyder
the Bronte High School
ACG
Tech
Navy
APT
Reverend J D McWhorter to celebrate seventy fifth birthday
Retired Methodist pastor Reverend J D McWhorter marks 75 years with family in Bronte Texas. He and wife Sallie survived a stroke in August 1944 and raised three children in Mississippi before 47 years in ministry across multiple Texas towns. Local relatives plan a gala celebration with a large cake and visitors including daughter Katherine Parris.
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Do McWhorter
Sallie Commander
Mississippi
Bro. McWhorter
Sallis
Jeff Dean
Katherine Parris
San Ares
J. D. McWhorter, Jr
McWhorters
Bronte
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Jane Nunnally
Diversity Club
City Park
Brooks Brownings
Vetal Flores
Robert Formans
Marlin Mackeys
C. E. Arrotts
Bob Colemans
Cecil Kemps
J. B. Mackeys
Mac Rippetoes
Will Thomasons
Charlie Boeckings
George Andersons
Jeff Deans
Joe George Wilkins
H. A. Springers
Fred McDonald
O. W. Chapman
Ada Modgling
Leonard Keeney
Mmes
Charlie Keeney
Frank Keeney
J. D. Leonard
T. F. Sims
J. L. Keeney
Albert Rawlings
Brooks Browning
Mrs. Browning
Retta Beth McCutchen
Laverne Badley
Jo Dell Walton
Joyce Wrinkle
Winnie Carolyn Gentry
Shirley and Warren Tomlinson
Jimmy Coppedge
Marlin Mc-Cutchen
Gayle Landers
Donald Mauldin
Carl Terry
Billy Ray Scott
George Hughes
Sanger
Betty Jane Higginbotham
F. S. Higginbotham
Higginbothams
John Hamilton
Dallas
Dorothy Riker
Ballinger
Herbert Taylor, Jr
Herbert Taylor
San Angelo
Washington,d. C
Department of Agriculture
Washington
George Bivins
Traan
Charlie Keeneys
Cynthia Ann Keeney
Annie Lee Price
Will Prices
Oi Fon
Brown
General Geo-Physical
Houston
J. L. Stephensons
J. L
Nellie McGuire
Llano
Jim Bowen
Leon Sanders
Corky
Buby
Fort Worth
Sanders
Q Bronte
Mae! Ft
Chadbourne
First Methodist Church
Alvin R. Mauldin
Uncle Sam
United States
Sayrie
U.S. Treary Department
Sandusky - Snyder
Shoulders
Miss Smith
J. D. McWhorter
Belvona
Isola
Jourdanton
Columbus
Sterling City
Ozona
Halletsvalle
Eldorado
Las Eresnos
Poteet
Eew City
Secon
McWhorter
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