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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1948
Page
2
Local advertisement invites readers to visit in air conditioned comfort, promoting a shopping or service experience with emphasis on convenience and immediate use. The brief copy highlights a welcoming storefront and today’s opportunity to browse offerings.
Local newspaper classifieds list feed sacks windmills baby chicks and livestock sales. Advertisers like Feeder Supply Leeper Supply Co Moody Powell Feed and Caperton Motor Co promote offerings including autos milk cows and more across San Angelo Bronte Robert Lee and Maverick areas.
Mr and Mrs Otis Smith and Jean traveled to San Antonio for a post op checkup on Jean who was released as doing fine. They visited Rockport Corpus Christi and other South Texas points returning September 8. Visitors to J A Percifull's included Mrs L L Rice and son Billy from Marysville California and Mr and Mrs N W Riker from Portales New Mexico and Mrs Quincey Hames from Crosbyton Texas. The sick list includes C B E Arrott A N in hospital in San Angelo and Mrs John Rutherford at home. Sheriff Paul Sod as an Austin will be there on official business and sheriffs convention attendance.
Bronte records show building permits for August reaching 22000 dollars as announced by Mayor H O Watt. Permits are issued at City Hall. the cost is one dollar and violators face a hundred dollar daily penalty. The mayor urged residents to obtain permits before building or moving into town.
The Fort Chadbourne H D Club met at Mrs. Maxine McDonald’s home on September 7. Helen Kirkland demonstrated ironing and folding a shirt. Seven members and two children attended and refreshments were served. Sunshine pal gifts were exchanged. Present were Maxine McDonald, Zell Moore, Helen Kirkland, Juanice Parks, Valera Parker, Edna Morrow, Mae Davis.
Blackwell high school kicks off its season today at Divide in an 11-man game. The roster features Charles Boyd Micky Edward Hobby Sander son James Gentry Bobby Henderson Bryan Barnes Charles Wilson Harold Ware Dick Smith Billy Magness Bill George Lester Bird Kenneth Cray ton Tommo Copeland Billie Burl Holland Troy Johnson G. J. Hollowell Edmond Lanier Bob Ragsdale and James Ware. ALG Crauer coaches the team.
The WSCS met at Mrs. Austin Jordan home with Mrs. P. G. Dabney elected missionary education superintendent and subscription chair for Readers Digest. The group will sell Christmas cards and hold a coue meeting at Sweetwater Friday. leaders included Mrs. L. W. Sweet.
The article discusses how daily life is shaped by habitual actions and routines. It distinguishes good and bad habits and notes the difficulty of breaking a bad habit once formed. It urges great care in forming habits to avoid negative outcomes.
The Bronte Methodist Church lists 10:00 a.m. Church School and election of teachers, 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship with the sermon Christ and the Individual, and 7:30 p.m. Evening Worship on a theme of Trusting Divine Providence. Tennyson is noted at 9:30 a.m. for Morning Worship also titled Christ and the Individual.
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