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Newspaper
Bronte Weekly Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1938
Page
3
Rev A J Jones of Blackwell Methodist Church announces a revival from April 10 to April 17 led by Rev J H Thompson. Thompson will assist and preach, inviting all in reach of Blackwell to attend the meeting.
Mrs J D Leonard hosted the S W P Club with a program on Conservation of Natural Resources and a roll call of a bird flower or tree. Speakers included O W Chapman on Wild Life and John Clapp on The Highway Beautification and Memorial Tree Planting.
The regular monthly PTA meeting is postponed until April 12 per program chairman H. O. Whitt. A community program is planned.
The Robert Lee Baptist congregation dedicated a new concrete and stucco church with basement and Sunday school rooms. Rev. Fred De La Shaw led the service, with Evangelist Roy Camp and Rev. Lawrence Hayes preaching the dedicatory sermon. The Park Heights choir contributed a varied program, and the story recounts the old church history and the 1905 first sermon.
A compact extract presents a religious sermon emphasizing sin’s nature and effects. It cites verses from Proverbs John and other passages to claim sin is from the devil, deceives the mind, misleads judgment, harms the soul, hardens the heart, sears the conscience, and brings rovers.
The Enterprise editor recalls a trip to Eldorado for Schleicher county court with local citizens. He contrasts Eldorado in 1908 to 1902, noting rapid growth, a modern school, brick churches, a prosperous business district, a well kept courthouse lawn, paved main street, a thriving stock farming region, and renewed old acquaintances.
Last Saturday Mr J M Rippetoe and his wife left Hamlin to make Bronte Texas their home. He purchased a drug store there and took charge this week after serving as the Reynolds Drug Store pharmacist in Hamlin for nearly three years. Friends regret their departure and wish them success.
The congregation started its work in a new location with Rev. N. D. Bullock, a pioneer preacher from San Angelo, offering a brief history of the church and its origins.
S A Riker says highway 109 from Ballinger to Bronte could begin this summer with bids sought April 19 for a bridge over Valley Creek and concrete structures to Maverick. The Highway Commission plans work once funds are available with bids expected early July as the July 1 start of the fiscal year looms. Riker expresses jubilation that construction may commence without delay.
The Ten nyson P T A sponsors a three act play Yimmie Yonson's Yob to be staged Saturday night April 9 at 8 o clock in the school building. Cast includes Mr and Mrs Dennis Counts Mr and Mrs Monroz Arrott Mr and Mrs Paul Jones Mr and Mrs Ed Ten Eyck Mr Harall Mr Avant and Miss Effie Murphy.
H. E. Smith, County Agent, explains classification under the 1988 farm program for Coke County farmers. If soil-depleting and non-depleting crop strips are 3 rows apart or more, classification is based on actual acreage occupied by each strip. If soil-depleting strips are fewer than 8 rows apart, the entire acreage is soil-depleting.
A northwest gale brought wind and dust to West Texas on Wednesday night followed by a four inch April snow that covered the ground by Thursday morning. The cold wind persisted through Thursday and much of the snow melted by Thursday night. Effects on fruit vegetables and vegetation could not be determined at the time.
Cecil Poehls of Fort Warren Wyoming, a private in the 20th Infantry, is home on his first visit since enlistment. He and a comrade traveled from Colorado and northeast New Mexico, driving and sleeping, and reported heavy snows along the way before arriving in Bronte and renewing his Enterprise subscription.
This week the community roster lists Dr. J. D. Leonard and B. E. Modgling as ill. Both names appear among local residents noted by the paper for this week’s sickness update.
McNeil Wylie announces state aid approval for the $100000 road bond issue in Coke County Precinct 1 after eighteen months of effort. The Board approved $52871.66 of the original issue, about 52.87 percent eligibility, with letters praising Judge Wylie’s work and urging the Commissioners Court to confirm details.
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