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Newspaper
Bronte Weekly Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1937
Page
5
The Coke County Singing Convention convenes Sunday morning at Kickapoo Baptist Church on Highway 70 north of Bronte. Dinner on the ground. attendees urged to bring a basket lunch. Singers from various communities expected for a big day of singing.
The Enerprige reports the derrick at the H. E. Ogden well on the I. C. Rawlings ranch five miles north of Bronte is being completed and drilling is expected to start without delay.
Heavy Wednesday afternoon winds toppled the air derrick of D. Kelley on the Bert Fletcher farm near Maverick. Workers had just finished wiring it with twelve cables when the structure fell. Cecil Glen witnessed the wrecking scene and said it was exciting. Debris cleared within thirty minutes to permit rapid reconstruction. Four cars loaded with machinery arrived at Ballinger for the site. W. H. Maxwell remains in a San Angelo sanitarium in danger, with family members called to his bedside. friends hope for recovery for him and his wife.
Glenn went to Palestine on Wednesday for an indefinite visit with his brother and other relatives.
Deep gratitude from Ww. A. Glenn and family for the tender sympathy shown in Bronte and elsewhere after the death of their wife and mother. They cherish every kind word and service and the flowers at her resting place. God bless you all.
Mrs L I Youngblood hosted the Baptist Women's Missionary Society gathering Monday afternoon. Mrs Charles Keeney led a study of the French from the Royal Service Magazine. Attending were Mmes Lewis Stuckey Frank Keeney Ed Cumbie and Mae Wilkins.
We express sincere thanks to friends for kindness during illness and death of our husband and father. Gratitude for the beautiful flowers from Mrs. N. M. Arrott and family, Mrs. Smitty Smith, Clarence Arrott and family, Welton Arrott and family, James Arrott and family, Monroe Arrott and family.
An advertisement from Hudman's Feed Store in Bronte touts Eggstractor as guaranteed to eliminate worms and external parasites and claim it will double egg production or a money back guarantee. It urges poultry keepers to buy a bottle now and put chickens on a dividend basis.
Edwird Scott came back Friday night from the CCC Camp in Tucson Arizona after six months there. He says life at the camp had some fine aspects but also features he did not like.
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