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Newspaper
Bronte Weekly Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1939
Page
3
The Double Heart Ranch near Sweetwater hosts its ninth annual roundup August 4 5 6, featuring amateur rodeo events with a new buffalo herd attraction. Owners Mr and Mrs Ollie Cox plan three days of western life and sport drawing crowds from West Texas and beyond.
At Temple Texas vocational agriculture instructor Maby Henry leads Bronte FFA delegates Joe Rawlings Louis Bridges Winston Modgling and Edward Cumbie to the State Vocational Agriculture Convention for a three day meeting. Rawlings and Modgling will receive Lone Star Farmer degrees while Cumbie as state FFA secretary will serve and defend an Americ Bermer decree at the national Kansas City meet. The Bronte delegation returns home tomorrow.
The Bronte Community Service Club held its monthly luncheon at Gilbert cafe with an excellent turnout despite heat and several absences. T. R. Andrews of San Angelo spoke on the farm tenant question, outlining government aid for qualified tenants who meet standards of character and farming ability to buy a farm and obtain a home.
Rev C R Hardy will conduct a revival in Water Valley this Sunday with a 8 15 pm general sing song directed by Mrs Alfred Taylor and Mrs Irving Cumbie. The Young People's League meets at 7 30 pm with Miss Katherine Whitt reporting on her Kerrville Young People's Assembly trip. Jodie Smith and Miss Faye Walker were married at Ro bert Lee Wednesday morning by Judge Neil Wylie.
Rev C R Hardy announces revival services at Tennyson Methodist Church starting Monday night July 24 through Sunday night July 30. All members and friends are urged to attend as the pastor conducts the preaching.
B H Mackey of the local fire department attends the state firemen's school at A and M College this week. Officials report a 3 percent reduction in Bronte's fire insurance rate may result, with Mackey expected to return today.
A. M. Sparks of Winters Texas submits The Lord's Prayer in Poetry. The piece reframes the Lord's Prayer in a distinctive poetic style praising divine mercy and guidance while asking daily bread forgiveness and protection from evil. The manuscript offers unusual language and imagery for the familiar prayer.
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