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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1949
Page
4
Faculty meetings and Friday Monday work set Bronte schools ready for students. Registration near Tuesday morning with buses running Tuesday morning. Lunches to be served and students to attend for registration and return home after.
Supt. J. Carroll says about 340 students are expected, the largest since the war, as Oak Creek Brookshire and Minys districts join Bronte. The district covers 240 square miles with $1.8 million valuation and a 15 member faculty plus a possible new teacher.
Oil wells north of Bronte including No. 1 Johnson Drilling at 2,250 feet and wildcats Humblewell No. 2 Lowery, Barnsdall No. 1 Harris Davenport, and No. 1 Odom near Fort Chadbourne report oil and salt water yields. Humblewell 45 barrels oil 181 water in 24 hours. Barnsdall 23 oil 120 water in 23 hours. Sun No. 6 J.B. Walker 209 barrels daily potential. pay intervals deep in Palo Pinto and Coke counties. Lana and Janet Owens of Loving ton, New Mexico visit grandparents C. E. Earnest.
J M Rippetoe will devote time to assisting farmers and ranchers with livestock care after turning over the Bronte Pharmacy prescription department to Elmer Hurley who will fill prescriptions. Rippetoe becomes an authorized United Appliance dealer handling Crosley refrigerators deep freezers radios Snow Breeze air conditioners and Whirlpool washers and ironers.
Veterans who held GI insurance for at least three months before January 1 1848 can obtain application forms at their local post office or from Mayor H O Whitt. Whitt said he has the forms and will assist veterans in completing them. Dividends are expected to be paid in the first half of 1980. One application covers all rooficles a veteran held.
Bronte and Oak Creek vote to set the new district tax at 1.00 dollar per county valuation on September 3. A bond election accompanies this, with the sinking fund at 30 cents and current indebtedness around 19 thousand dollars after the vote. Superintendent Carroll stresses no tax increase for Bronte residents and urges all eligible voters to participate.
Bronte Baptist Church hosts a youth revival with Nathan Mullor preaching as it runs from Wednesday night through Sunday September 4. Rod Rodin leads singing and James Featherston plays piano. all three revival leaders are Hardin-Simmons University students from Abilene. Rev V L Price says local youths will run services and all are welcome to attend.
Tom Williams of the Her man Rogie farm ginned the first bale of the 1949 crop at the Farmer Marketing Association gin. He brought two bales, the first weighing 703 pounds, the second 554 pounds, bought by J D Lauttrell at thirty cents per pound. Williams had 4275 pounds on his truck. Canning was free and merchants donated 51 dollars.
A Wednesday afternoon storm brought wind and brief heavy rain to Bronte and surrounding areas. About a half inch fell quickly in Bronte, with up to an inch around Tennyson, Orient, and Robert Lee. A chicken house toppled at a local residence and a barn item blew away. No injuries reported. moisture welcomed by farmers though concerns linger over cotton insect damage in heavier showers.
Blackwell schools announce fall opening for September 5 with new faculty assignments in vocational agriculture and home economics. New instructors include Cheartus Bo Tivate and Miss Bobby Thompson, TW. Sheppard, and Mrs. Woodrow Allen, while veteran staff S. Porter and AL Craver Jr. return.
Rev Fred J Bracks district superintendent of the San Angelo district will preach at the morning service at the Bronte Methodist Church this Sunday. He will also lead the First Quarterly Conference of the 1949 50 Church year after the service and at 3 pm preach at Tennyson with an extended session of the Quarterly Conference there.
On August 23 Danny Hughes KooN Eubanks and Charles Williams admitted. Sally McShan Ed Cumbie and Mary Fair dismissed. August 25 Danny Hughes and Earl Dawson dismissed. August 29 Mrs O B Glenn admitted and son bore. Mrs Hazel Chiles Ada Woullard Will Mackey Mae Wilkins admitted Janson Parrish dismissed.
Mrs. Ruby L. Pettit, county treasurer, was admitted to a San Angelo hospital Tuesday afternoon with nausea and throat tenderness. She was taken there by Clift Funeral Home ambulance.
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