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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1972
Page
5
Horns host the Bang Dragons in a Friday scrimmage at 8 p.m. Coach Gerald Sandusky reports 17 players on the squad with an emphasis on seniors and a mix of juniors sophomores and freshmen. Local fans urged to attend and note the time change from 7 to 8 p.m.
Most Bronte businesses close Monday for Labor Day while Bronte and Robt. Lee post offices city hall and county offices shut. Banks and several firms report closures including First National Bank Highway Garage Margaret's Flowers White Auto Sims Food Store West Texas Utilities Cumbie Mackey Hs L Taylor & Co Kemp's Cleaners and The Bronte Enterprise.
Bronte volunteers held a Monday night meeting with 23 attendees to discuss the department’s community role. Four new members Jimmy Ed Mackey Glenn Sims Mickey Pierce and Bob Ragsdale joined as Fire Chief Jack Lee outlined the fire insurance rate and urged active work to lower the present 47 cent level.
The Blackwell Hornets begin the 1972 football season with a Sept 8 home game against McCaulley at 8 p.m. Pending dates list matches at Highland, Moran, Fluvanna, Water Valley, Divide, Miles, Paint Rock, Merizon, and Christoval with Homecoming on Oct 21. Coach Edward Poehls guides workouts as fans expect competitive bouts. head cheerleader is Rebecca Clark with aides Mary Beth Johnson and Jan McNeill.
A Scotch golf tournament is set for Sunday at the local course starting at 1 15 p m. All golfers are invited to participate.
The annual Tennyson homecoming is planned for Saturday night at the Tennyson Community Center. Activities begin at 2 p.m. with a 6:45 p.m. program and 7:30 p.m. potluck supper. The association will provide coffee tea plates cups forks and ice. Families should bring enough food. Residents are asked to bring folding chairs and tables. Jack Corley is president and Mrs. Doug Ditmore is secretary.
Glenda Caudle is improving remarkably under drug treatment for leukemia at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston. Her father J. W. Caudle said she is doing better than expected, with her mother staying by her side. three blood transfusions have been given and a exact discharge date is uncertain.
The Longhorn Club calls for more volunteers to run concession stands during football season. A small turnout at a recent meeting emphasized that funds support all student sports and the all sports banquet next spring. Bronte parents are urged to help with concession operations.
Funeral services were held in Lubbock Wednesday for Mrs. Lila Viola Peeler 87 who died Monday in a Lubbock nursing home. Burial was in Lamesa Cemetery. She was born February 15, 1885 and once lived in Coke County. Survivors include two sons three daughters one sister 24 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren. Attending from here were Mr and Mrs R C Lasswell Mrs Helen Kirkland and Mrs Calvin McCutchen with cousin Mrs Frank Strom of Menard.
Plans for the first annual Coke County Fair blur in with dates September 22 and 23 in the old Robert Lee School gym. Events include adult and youth divisions, a pet show, and a youth parade assembling at the courthouse rear at 9 a.m. Saturday. Exhibits span canned goods to crafts, with no entry fee unless selling. Extension Agents Fay Roe and Steeling Lindeey urge community support.
Funeral services for Sam Owen Gray 81 were held at 3 p m Wednesday at First Baptist Church of Bronte with Rev Henry Morris and Rev C R Blake officiating Burial followed at Fairview Cemetery under Newby Funeral Home direction Gray who died Tuesday at 8 15 am in Clinic Hospital San Angelo after a short illness was born June 23 1891 in Mississippi and moved to Coke County from Rowena in 1922 He lived on a ranch two miles north of Bronte He was a Baptist and married Lucy Hadley in August 1913 in Ballinger Survivors include his wife a daughter Mrs Dawson Coleman of Cisco a sister Mrs Mae Hutto of Bertram three brothers John Gray of Corpus Christi Floyd Gray of Anson and Ted Gray of Ardmore Okla and a grandson Randall Gray Coleman of Cisco Pallbearers were Don Edminster Otis Smith Garland Spencer Joe Dismore Louis Gallaway Dewey Lackett Billy Joe Luckett Bronte and Bobby Edminston Snyder
Bronte School implemented a new telephone system while keeping the two numbers 73 3871 and 473 5591. Any call to either number now reaches any school phone, with lines extended to eight locations including offices, Band Hall, and gym departments.
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