Social notes from Tennyson and nearby towns
Local residents from Ballinger Bronte Winters Odessa Midland and San Angelo gather for visits birthdays and weekend entertaining. Families including Tounger Baker Gibbs Robinson Richardson Carper and James are seen visiting and hosting relatives and friends in Bronte Kan sas City and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Wade
Ballinger
Charles Leech
Pam
Cadilac
Michigan
Zack Toungers
R. H. Baker
Nettie Hale
Pearl Dilleshaw
Homer Cornelius
Bert Cornelius
Davis
Winters
Freddie
Gussie Thomas
William and
Marcie Carper
Billy
Patricia
Jerry
Touiger
Mike Teague
Linda
Corine
Robert Feil
Felipa Ramirez
Kenneth Clark
Flora
Robert Brown
Michael
Curtis Dyess
Russell Brown
Pete Thomas
Clayton Latham
Donnie Gilbert
San Angelo
Lary Robinson
Nona Rippetoc
Dana Eubanks
Bronte
Messrs
Mines
Bill Feil
Charlie Brown
Kirk Dyess
W. H. Thomas
Albert Davis
Ann
Adeline Carper
Bill Richardson
Alena
Roy Robinson
Joel Webb
Baby
Copperas Cove
Floyd Gibsons
C. N
Calvin McKenzie
Robert Lee
Zack Tounger
W. A. Halemicek
Gene
Ade
Methodist Church Notes Mother’s Day Service Planned
As the climax of Family Week the local Methodist Church plans a special Mother’s Day service next Sunday May 8 at 11 in the morning with hymns music and a morning topic Jesus’ Early Years The pastor will preach The Man of the Years Visitors are invited to attend both services next Sunday
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Methodist Church
Jesus
Women’s Society officers train at San Angelo church
Mrs. Carroll Robbins Mrs. W C Craig and Mrs. I C Oden attended an officers training school for the Woman's Society of Christian Service held last Tuesday at Trinity Methodist Church in San Angelo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll Robbins
W.c. Craig
I. C. Oden
Woman’s Society of Christian Service
San Angelo
Trinity Methodist Church
History of Blackwell School Given at Special Meeting
Mrs. Charles Ragsdale notes Blackwell school’s long history from early Fishereeck settlement to its 1982 brick building. The district grew from a 1907 Primitive Baptist Church lesson to a 1929 rural high school with 12 teachers and 250 pupils and now operates as a modern district under George Stoepler with 12 teachers and new staff additions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackwell
Nolan County
Fish Ereeck
Hylton
Fort Chadbourne
Primitive Baptist Church
J. A. Oden
John Hanna
Live Oak
Joe Davis
Oak Creek Lake
C. H. Bolin
T. A. Carlisle
J. W. Reed
Roy Hamilton
Horne & Frost
W. W. Youngblood
L. L. Price
Blackwell Rural Consolidated High School
Antelope
Collins
Rock Crossing
Decker
Olga
George Stoepler
Weekend Guests and Family Visits Reported in Local Notes
Rev and Mrs Jim Bell hosted weekend guests her parents Mr and Mrs Lee O Manning of Bluffdale. Byron Holly and family and Mrs Delos Alsup visited Mr and Mrs Marlin Wilson and children in Colorado City. Mrs Rocky Thompson visited her brother J B Patterson and family in San Angelo. Mrs Ben Palmer visited her sister Mrs Dabner Harris and Mr Harris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Bell
Mrs
Lee O. Manning
Bluffdale
Byron Holly
Delos Alsup
Marlin Wilson
Colorado City
Rocky Thompson
J. B. Patterson
San Angelo
Ben Palmer
Dabner Harris
Blackwell Events Highlight Weekend and Banquets
Local families from Abilene Sterling City and Buffalo New York visit Blackwell over the weekend. The Blackwell Sophomore Class hosts the Starlight Sisters from Abilene on May 10 at the Blackwell School with 25 and 50 cent admission. The Blackwell Junior-Senior Banquet is set for Friday night at the Abilene chicken shack. Army and Air Force servicemen Cpl Troy Johnson and 1/C Lowell A Corley are returning home from Germany and England, meeting relatives en route at Camp Kilmer New Jersey and in Abilene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Milliner
Abilene
Bill Richards
San Angelo
J. R. Thompson
Kelly Richards
Billy Ralph Bynum
Sterling City
Blackwell
Starlight Sisters
Blackwell School
B. R. McCorley
Roy Walter
Buffalo
New York
Chicken Shack
Lowell A. Corley
Ray Corley
Air Force
England
Nora Bell Corley
Washington, D. C
Camp Kilmer
N. J
Cpl
Troy Johnson
Ollie Johnson
Germany
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Tennyson
By Patricia Tounget
Midland
Ed Heckerndorf
Otto Finck
Don Simmons
Leon Roach
Marvin Corley
Peggy
Big Spring
Jack Sharp
Johnny Brown
Brown’s
Kansas
James Chambers
R. L. James
Christoval
George James
Charles Ragsdale
Harris
Sweetwater
Alexander
Angelo
Concho
Chad
Arly
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First National Bank
Bronte, Texas
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