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Newspaper
Bronte Weekly Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1937
Page
3
Local Baptist leaders and Pastor Lewis Stuckey, with Mrs Stuckey, have completed plans for the church annual evangelistic meeting. They praise Rev Grant for his private life character and Christian deportment and his appealing personality for the campaign.
The Bronte church plans a ten day revival from July 9 to July 18 with Rev. J. Ralph Grant of San Angelo as the preacher. The Park Heights Baptist pastor is unfamiliar to Bronte residents but well known to Baptists through decades of work in San Angelo.
Local merchants signed an agreement to close their places of business on Monday July 5 1937 due to the holiday calendar having July 4 on Sunday. Signatories include T C Price & Co F L Clark Cumbie & Wilkins Bronte Bakery Keeney's Variety Store J A Percifal Meccuiston Drug Co Conoco Service Station City Cafe Mrs R J Epperson City Drug Co Ernest Ivey Ed Stevens Cumbie & Co W Modgling Geo Thomas G L Bridges and E Pruitt Service Station.
The writer recalls a trip to Sonora in August 1902 and reflects on how the frontier village has changed. He describes a stagecoach journey from San Angelo, encounters with a damaged coach bed, and passing Eldorado while noting the town’s modern homes and business houses seen thirty-five years later.
The article reports the burial of Francis McGonagill in Sonora, noting the young man died under tragic circumstances after his mother prepared food for him. It recalls close family ties, including the writer’s lifelong friendship with the family and historical moments from 1964. The piece describes the death as natural causes within a deeply devoted family, and mentions related family losses and a burial in Sonora cemetery.
The Sanco community invites all to the Fourteenth Annual Sanco Camp Meeting July 15 25 and Homecoming Day July 1 with events through July 15 to 25. Rev W E Hawkins Jr will be evangelist. L S Bird, secretary, stresses gospel work and fellowship across Coke County and surrounding areas.
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