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Newspaper
Bronte Weekly Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1933
Page
3
Bronte merchants unite to take on duplicate government cotton contracts for farmers awaiting government checks. They offer to hold farmers checks in payment for future purchases, avoiding the need to shop elsewhere. The Enterprise urges readers to review the last-page offer.
The Methodist church invites all to Sunday school at 10:00 A.M. worship at 11:00 A.M. and 7:45 P.M. The eleven o'clock service includes a pageant depicting church work. Wallace N. Dunson, Pastor.
Ollie Cox owner of Double Heart Ranch promotes the 3rd Nolan County Cowboy Roundup on September 1 and 2 with rodeo races live stock show and baseball. Attendees are warned to leave false teeth at home due to rough fun and laughter.
Mrs. Wade Rees brings greeting from Bronte to editor of The Enterprise and shares a card featuring Jd Marvin Bluuter, editor of a Bandera paper, who built the Frontier Times Museum Building in Bandera. The card highlights Bluuter's frontier relics, his museum, and his life’s dream fulfilled.
Rev. W. El Hawkins Sr of Fort Worth requests notice that he will preach on the streets in Bronte Saturday afternoon. He is an excellent preacher and promises a worthy hearing. He also announces services at Cow Creek Friday night Saturday night and Sunday night.
IT O Whitt buys the I R Gideon residence on State Street and moves his family in this week. Mr and Mrs Gideon will occupy the home until spring when they move to Midland to operate his gin. The move ends Bronte families near view and Gideons leave for Midland.
Prof and Mrs J A Hankins return to Bronte after a summer trip to Pine Bluff Arkansas to visit relatives. Hankins enjoys fishing and hunting in Arkansas and notes the trip as delightful. He looks forward to the new school year despite global distress and asks patrons for cooperation.
Residents announce an old fashioned brush arbor meeting to begin the second Sunday in August at the T. C. Price farm in Mays school house section 1 counter. Rev W D Richards of Norton, assisted by an unnamed Methodist minister, will lead. The event features old fashioned preaching and singing with a aim to do good, all invited.
Leslie Tammers has come home from San Angelo where he was treated for appendicitis. His friends are glad to see him back on the streets.
Bronte's Future Farmers band claimed first place at the 2nd Annual Future Farmers' Band Contest of Texas held at Sam Houston State Teachers College Huntsville. The contest, supervised by the State Department of Vocational Agriculture, drew stiff competition and sparked wide celebration after a telegram confirming the victory.
Wallace N. Dunson attends a Hayrick meeting this week where reports say the gathering started well and Dunson gave excellent preaching. O W. J. Eads returns home from San Angelo hospital after appendectomy and is recovering quickly.
Mrs Lowry mourns the death of her brother Ollie Hogg who died Thursday from a sudden collapse after returning from the field. The 62 year old was survived by his sister Mrs Lowry and her son Thad who attended the funeral and returned home Monday night.
A provocative dispute outlined between bootleggers and editor Uncle Bill Kellis in West Texas. The piece argues bootleggers will back repeal and questions Kellis stance ahead of the August 6 election. It envisions a trio of voters, including Kellis and a bootlegger, heading to the polls under a banner of “How dry I am.”
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