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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1951
Page
3
San Angelo College hosts an evening square dance with caller squire Gretcher inviting Bronte area fans to join the event. The program includes a after room and social time following the square dancing session.
Mrs Robert Brown was honored at a birthday party in the Floyd Gibson home Monday evening with cake coffee and cocoa. Numerous neighbors relatives and friends attended including the Corleys Corneliuses and Gibsons and many others dining at the event.
The column urges readers to value self dignity and moral stamina to resist bribes, noting that discipline from teachers or parents helps but personal character is key. It also reports a weekend visit to Leon Sharp’s home by Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sharp and Donna of Grapevine and Lt. W. S. Leiber in Seattle, with other local social notes on Mrs. Kate Cox’s Houston trip and Capt. Lions in the Air Force.
The report outlines that an uninsured motorist need not deposit security if within 60 days he shows evidence of liability release, final non liability adjudication, a written damage payment agreement up to 15,000, or proper parking or non accident operation. Failure to prove these results leads to suspension of both operator’s license and vehicle registration for up to a year or until court action ends.
Weekend visits span Midland Coleman and Bronte as H C Murtishaw and Aletha Murti shaw travel to see a sister. Local movements include Bill Herron reporting to Carswell Air Force Base after furlough and Roy Robinson attending a Chevrolet Mechanic school in Abilene.
Mrs. Robert Hickman and Jim Bob Hambright spent the weekend in Snyder visiting Mrs. Mable Brock. Robert Hickman and Ivey Eu banks returned Saturday from a two week trip to South Dakota. They accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Cumbie Ivey of Robert Lee, and while away inspected land recently purchased in South Dakota by W. A. Hickman of Blackwell. Mrs. E. L. Caperton was released from an Abilene hospital and returned home Friday. Miss Maurene Trice and Mrs. S. C. Motley from Lamesa visited the Timmons home. Mr. and Mrs. David Gulley and Davy of Eunice, New Mexico visited Bronte. Alma Dahlmann of Ballinger has been ill at home this week.
Charlie Martin, brother of Mrs. T. G. Stinebaugh of Bronte, has come back to Coke County after four decades in the Philippine Islands. He left in 1911 with a brother who died there in 1927, spent years in mining and government work, and fought in a guerilla campaign against Japan during the last war. He may reopen mining interests amid unstable conditions and now lives with W. J. Martin south of Robert Lee, with sister Mrs. Cleve Casey in Robert Lee.
Mrs. W. A. Stoetzel resigns from Mertzon schools to join her husband, an Alaska information and educational officer. The Bronte native is sister to local residents and daughter of Mrs. Emmett Brookshire. Lt. Stoetzel, recalled to the Air Force, taught in Mertzon before they traveled by car to Anchorage. They plan to return to Mertzon after Lt. Stoetzel retires in about a year.
November hospital notes list admissions and discharges by date. L. A. Sloan. Marlon McCutchen. Mrs J B Gaddy. Mrs Mark Hanna. B R McCarley. Mrs R R Ash. Mrs Jcon Sharp and son Faddie Leon Jr. Mrs Sam Richards. Elizabeth Smith discharged. Gary Med birth to Mr and Mrs Sam Richards. O W Chapman. Mrs F A Burgess admitted. Sloan and McCutchen dismissed. Ed Wickman Sr admitted. Mrs J F Graddy discharged.
The Coke County home demonstration clubs hold Achievement Day on Saturday November 10 at Robert Lee in the building beside Roberts grocery. Exhibits run from 10 a m to 5 p m with the public invited.
Sunday guests in the home of Dr and Mrs John R Harris were Mrs Lu Lu Lewis and Rex Lewis from Carizozo New Mexico Mrs Lewis stayed for a visit with the Harris family
The County Home Demonstration council will meet on Saturday, November 10 at 2 p.m. Minnie Mae Sharp, home demonstration agent, asks that all members be present.
National 4-H Achievement Week runs from November 3 to November 11 with the theme Working Together For World Understanding. About 18 237 youths aged 9 to 21 participate in Texas clubs drawn from 67 732 farm homes and 21 146 non farm homes, showcasing clothing, crops, food preservation, forestry, garden and orchard care, and livestock and poultry projects.
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