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Newspaper
Bronte Weekly Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1941
Page
1
The Bronte Enterprise announces publisher manager D. M. West and notes second class mail status at Bronte Texas with dating March 1 1918 under an 1871 act.
Public health units have been set up around Camp Bowie in Brownwood Camp Barkeley in Abilene Camp Wolters in Mineral Wells and near Camp Hulen in Palacios to protect civilians from disease in areas adjacent to military reservations. Additional staff serves Corpus Christi near the Naval Base and Fort Bliss in El Paso with goals of controlling communicable diseases and safeguarding milk water and food supplies.
A private letter to the editor from Congressman C. L. South reports a seven inch snow in the capital city. He contrasts it with Texas springlike weather, noting the cold spell earlier in the week that would have made him reconsider such nostalgia.
Frank Keeney, caretaker of Fairview Bronte cemetery, asks The Enterprise to urge lot owners to clean their plots and maintain them, noting that avenues and lanes have been improved to a beautiful condition.
Frank Keesee fished Saturday night on the Colorado River and landed a fifteen pound catfish. Sunday guests of the Keesees enjoyed a fish fry on the Kickapoo south of the highway 109 bridge with Mr. and Mrs. Buster Hester and others.
The Santa Fe Railway System carloadings for the week ending March 15 1941 were 18 058. Compared with 17 240 for the same week in 1940 received from connections 7 585 against 5 280. The total cars moved 25 688 versus 22 520 in 1940. The Santa Fe handled 25 060 cars during the preceding week of this year.
The plan calls for additional military health units in areas with existing camps and near shipyards, airplane factories, and other defense facilities to concentrate large civilian or military populations as needed.
Mrs R L Keyes entertained the Woman's Progressive Club at Carrie Williams home on March 13 with a business session led by Mrs Clint Wilkins. A consumer information program featured cotton fabrics and textile truth in fabric. Attendees included Mrs Cecil Glenn and many Bronte residents, with elder J D Phillips leaving for Wichita Falls and evangelistic meetings in Seminole and Harrison Arkansas. Prof and Mrs B B Covey and Miss Nell Lowry visited Bronte from San Angelo.
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