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Newspaper
Bronte Weekly Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1937
Page
2
Bronte Enterprise announces subscription rates at $1.50 per year with errors to be corrected upon notification to the editor. This legal notice is filed as second class matter at Bronte Texas on March 1, 1918 under the act of August 12, 1871.
Wynn County News reflects on King Edward VIII choosing exile for love over throne and praises his independence while noting the broader English prudery. The piece contrasts monarchy with American liberty, imagines future readers, and wishes good fortune for 1937 as West Texas greets favorable farming conditions and steady prices.
Mr and Mrs Edwin Walton of Tyler spent Christmas with their parents in the Walton and McWilliams families. Mr McWilliams sent the old home town paper as a New Year gift, a gesture praised as a meaningful connection for distant relatives. Census shows 3 555 bales of Coke County cotton ginned before Dec 13 1936 compared with 1 112 for Dec 13 1985. Rey and Mrs Stuckey visited Brownwood relatives for Christmas. Edgar Bagwell of Hayrick is recovering after an operation in Ballinger and doing fairly well.
The Tuskegee Institute Department of Records and Research reports nine people lynched in 1936, all Black, with six punished by law, two taken from jails, four by officers elsewhere. Fifty-five were saved by protective actions, and five mobs repelled. States listed include Arkansas Florida Georgia Mississippi.
The Christmas holidays were quietly observed in and around Bronte with no accidental deaths or serious incidents. Home gatherings with visiting family members were the chief feature of the season festivities.
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