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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1953
Page
3
Bronte stores will mostly close next Monday September 7 in observance of Labor Day. Post office and bank also close. some service stations and cafes stay open. Public Safety urges caution on highways due to expected traffic and accidents.
Blackwell students return to school Monday morning September 7 at 9 a m The lunch room opens Tuesday due to no school Monday afternoon Football practice started September 1 Six man football is on the schedule The faculty is led by superintendent George Stoepler Other teachers include W M McBride English and speech Mrs W M McBride vocational agriculture Franklin Brownfield vocational homemaking Joy Ganell Mullins math William Jameson 6th and 7th grades Mary Lanotte 4th and 5th grades Willie Echols 2nd and 3rd grades Nola Shedd 1st grade Kay Corley
Fourteen 4-H boys ages 9 to 15 plus adult leader Marvin Corley of Tennyson and County Agent Travis Hicks traveled by pickup to Balmorhea State Park Limpia Canyon and Fort Davis area. They camped hiked and swam visiting Indian Lodge McDonald Observatory and Madera Canyon before returning home. Names include James Andrews Grady Coulter James Tidwell Don Andrews Terry Bryan Frank Mach Tom Sawyer Robert Lee Tommy Latham Benny Corley Dee Arrott Jackie Corley Larry Lindsey Dale Dean and Bill Newell.
Mrs Dwain Pruitt was elected president of the WMA of Kickapoo Baptist Church at an all day meeting in the home of Mrs Hollis Ensor. Other officers include Mrs Garland Spencer vice president and Mrs Clyde Coleman second vice president. Seventeen members and eight children attended a covered dish lunch after a program titled What Every Woman Should Know About the WMA led by Mrs.
Rev. Fred J. Brucks will lead the Bronte Hayrick churches first quarterly conference Thursday night at Bronte Methodist Church. A covered dish supper follows at eight. Volunteers are urged to attend Friday afternoon to clean the church and grounds bringing hoes and rakes.
Lion Oil Co. stakes Lion No. 7 Mary in North Bronte 4500 Field with a 5500 ft test to Goens lime. Kewanee No. 1 Anderson drilling at 4977 ft. Roden & Norwood No. 1 C. E. Arrott at 6417 ft. Plymouth No. 1 Hickman at 5660 ft. Humble Oil files to drill 6000 ft wildcat George McCutchen near Bronte. Waco/Area fields report several tests, dry holes, and oil shows including Kewanee Wend land six miles southwest Bronte.
Airman second class L. L. Wilkins Jr and his wife are visiting Bronte this week en route from Patrick Air Force Base near Cocoa Florida to Lowry Field Denver Colorado. He will enter a three month IBM accounting supervisors course and plans to return to the Florida base after completion at Lowry.
Mrs J L Carroll left Tuesday to spend the rest of the week in Midland with her parents Mr and Mrs B M Moreland.
Hundreds gathered at Tad Richards place north of town to celebrate his 74th birthday. Hoyle Nix and his West Texas Cowboy band played as guests enjoyed barbecue and dancing in the barn loft, an annual local tradition.
Bronte High School ex students and school staff will gather Saturday October 17 for the annual reunion. The event centers on a barbecue supper in the Bronte High School gym with no football game. Reservations are required and can be sent to secretary Mrs W D Pete McDonald Bronte Tex.
The First Baptist Church invites members to the annual business conference next Wednesday September 9 at 730 p m The session will call the membership roll elect officers for the new church year and approve reports for the annual letter to the Runnels Baptist Association The association meets in Bronte September 14 15 Sunday services start at 10 am with 11 am sermon by Rev Maynard Rogers and Sunday night events at 7 pm including training union and an 8 pm sermon series on the Ten Commandments Rogers urges church attendance and notes go to the church of your choice but go to church Sunday.
Noel Percifull, formerly a highway patrolman, will lead eight Abilene area counties for the Motor Vehicle Division of the Department of Public Safety. He will inspect auto checking stations and issue inspection stamps, and he will be stationed in Abilene. Percifull is the son of Mr and Mrs Joss Percifull of Bronte and expressed pleasure at the promotion.
Mrs. Dairy Hickman has traveled to Fort Worth to visit her daughter, confirming family ties and travel activity.
The Bronte area received light showers on Tuesday and Wednesday totaling up to half an inch. Farmers praise the moisture for softening hard ground and greening dried pastures while noting a longer rainy season is needed for heavily stocked fields. A surge of small grain planting is expected and winter grazing could cut feed costs.
Elbert Lee Yoes, former Loraine coach, is named Bronte Longhorns head coach replacing Houston Jolley who resigned to coach Roscoe. Yoes and his family are in Bronte and he has begun work with the 1953 team.
Bronze school students return for the 1953 54 term with registration at 10 a m and buses running to arrive at 9 30 a m. Classes begin Monday September 7 and many remodeling projects are noted on campus.
L. T. Youngblood president of the First National Bank says the bank will remodel and expand its current building rather than move. A former Bronte Pharmacy site will be added, with a projected cost of 45 000 to 50 000 dollars. The bank will continue upstairs operations during construction and aims for plans from an architectural firm within weeks.
Miss Jeraldine Weddle daughter of Mr and Mrs Joe Weddle of San Angelo married Pvt Charles Milton Fitts son of Airman Eugene Fitts at the bride’s home on August 14 Rev Grady Peters of Trinity Methodist officiated The couple plan to reside at Ft Hood The bride a Lake View High senior later noted as a former Blackwell student The groom a Roscoe High School graduate
Felma Joyce Brunson and William S. Evans wed in a candlelight ceremony August 30 at the bride’s home. The Rev J E Fuller officiated with an arch of white carnations and gladioli. The couple, after a reception for about forty, plan a ten day Colorado trip and will reside in Bronte Humble Camp. Evans works for Humble.
Lanell Richards and Doyle Ed man Black exchanged wedding vows Monday August 21 in Abilene at the Richards home. The bride is from Blackwell and the groom from Merkel where he taught at a high school. they will reside in Abilene while he works for the Sojourner Dring Co.
District Court session ended Wednesday after a damage suit arising from a two truck collision northwest of Robert Lee last year was settled out of court. Over $100 000 involved. Several other docket items were continued for various reasons.
A Parker family reunion for the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. Parker gathered 83 relatives at Ballinger Park over August 22 and 23. Attendees came from Lubbock, San Antonio, Sweetwater, Bronte, Mineral Wells, Stanley New Mexico, San Angelo, and other Texas towns.
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