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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1949
Page
5
Local residents host relatives from New York Sweetwater and El Paso and report a busy weekend of family visits. WSCS notes weekly church activities and a report on the labor situation. Rainfall brings over four inches while nearby families attend funerals and cattle sales.
Mir and Mrs A J Essars and Miss Lola Mae Halloway visited Mr and Mrs Gob Blacknan in Ballinger Saturday and the Jind Clarks Moncey James Holland was a Hubert Lee visitor Monday. Dee Foster returned after a 10 day visit in Big Spring. Julia Bryan of Ballinger visited here this week. Several families from Ballinger San Angelo and Carlsbad New Mexico visited relatives in the area. Leonard McCarty baby was taken to San Angelo hospital after a red ant sting. Dorothy Horton and Mrs J followed up with other local notes.
Miss Vernemma Freeman led a leader training session on locating and planting windbreaks for farmsteads in Jones County on April 22. Landscape specialist Miss Sadie Hatfield of A&M emphasized windbreak benefits and erosion control. An afternoon demonstration planned windbreaks for Otis Miller’s farm near Anson with marked tree locations and justification.
Miss Freeman attended sessions held April 23 25 and 26 where Miss Hatfield trained agents. Demonstrations covered landscape planning tree and shrub placement cutting bed matting pruning and plant identification. Hatfield urged using native species as they are better suited, cheaper and more likely to thrive. Freeman said the meetings aided planning for fall and next year’s landscaping work.
The Tennyson school ended its 1948 49 term with a Thursday night community gathering at the schoolhouse. The event featured 42 games, games called chunking the dolls and going to the store, plus popcorn and cold drinks. Proceeds benefited the school. Mr and Mrs W E Beasley left Thursday for an extended vacation to Fort Worth Mansfield Louisiana and other points in Louisi uthok.
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