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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1965
Page
6
A reader from Bronte Texas requests city council and school board candidates address questions on congestion, fire department access, financial status, and education policy. The letter invites replies to inform voters ahead of local elections and notes college students home for the weekend.
Bronte Lions Club expresses gratitude to all who contributed to last Saturday's broom sale. Bruton notes merchandise sales exceeded 500 dollars, the best the club has ever seen. He praises volunteers who braved cold weather to assist and urges continued support.
A Tuesday night birthday party at Dave Brunson's home marked his 90th birthday. Guests played games of 42 and enjoyed refreshments. attendees included Melvin Childress, O. B. Jacobs, T. M. Wylie, Robert Lee, Jimmy Brunson, Milton Wylie, and many others from Snyder, Abilene, Sweetwater, and nearby towns.
The record lists several names dismissed and admitted on March 20 to 23. Persons include Ulmer Bird Joe Ed Scott and James Wells with others. Officers and acquaintances such as Mrs W P Hughes Mrs J D E Forgey Helen Chew L T Youngblood and Bill Braswell appear among admitted or dismissed entries.
Coke County 4-H Club thanks Sun Grocery Silver Baker s Grocery Wallace Grocery Add Davis Grocery of Robert Lee M System Food Stores Premium Packing Company Nu Way Food Market No 1 Safeway Grocery of San Angelo and Foremost Dairies of Ballinger for the pancake supper support. A Scaren worm Eradication Program fund drive kickoff is planned in Austin on March 26 with county representatives invited. Rolling Plains Cotton Growers Inc directors meet in Stamford on March 18 to discuss boll weevil control. Ben Alfred Boykin will represent Coke County.
Friday March 26 marks the deadline for farmers to sign up for the 1965 feed grain program per Coke County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation chairman C E Arrott. Eligible participants receive price support on their 1965 corn barley and grain sorghum crops via loans and price support payments, as last year.
R. W. Rees is improving after a period of illness his wife reported Tuesday night. He is hospitalized at St John’s Hospital in San Angelo and is listed in critical condition by medical staff.
Mr and Mrs B D Snead attended funeral services for his brother in law Rev H A Nichols in Abilene Sunday.
Five Bronte families purchased lots in Bro Park from O. H. Willoughby and J. Henry Brunson. Brunson cleared brush and reported water and sewer access nearby. Buyers include Marvin Bryant Bel Clark Stanley Diaulong George Lattmer and Horace Grigg.
O. H. Casey of Winters is charged with running a stop sign after a Sunday afternoon collision north of Bronte. His car knocked down a guard post at the highway 277 intersection, tore through a fence, and stopped in a field owned by L. T. Youngblood.
Kenneth McCutchen of Eden escaped serious injury when his car collided with another vehicle in Abilene on Monday night March 15. The Eden Church of Christ minister suffered a sprained knee and bruises but was not hospitalized. He is the son of Mr and Mrs C M McCutchen of Bronte.
Mr and Mrs Joe Renfroe and children of Bangs visited Mrs Renfroe's parents Mr and Mrs James Phillips for the weekend. Mr and Mrs Larry Haynes of Crane were weekend guests with the Nealy Mackey family.
The Diversity club meeting is postponed due to revival services at First Methodist church. F S Higginbotham visits include Mrs. Imola Lee of Houston and Mrs. Beatrice Steward of Stephenville visiting hospitalized Higginbotham in Bronte Hospital along with Faye Scott and other relatives.
In the Horace Taylor home over the weekend were Mr and Mrs Jerry Stancil and their children of Abilene Lynda and her guest Joan Tucker of Miami Florida both students at ACC Abilene.
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