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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1972
Page
2
Local social notes list overnight visits and family gatherings in Yoakum and Kerrville area. Community events include church activities, a Layman Retreat, a Bode reunion, summer camps, and hosting guests from Austin, College Station, Baytown, Dallas, and Tulsa.
The Llano museum reports 252 visitors in its first five days of Sunday hours with 104 from within Ilano County. Notable guests span Houston Austin San Antonio Dallas and out of state travelers including Mr and Mrs Norman Van Laningham Jim Butler and Lt Col and Mrs Paul Caspar among many others seeking local history and granite hauling days.
Descendants of Joe Talley gathered in Llano for their annual reunion on Sunday June 1 with 57 people sharing a basket lunch and visiting. Guests traveled from San Angelo Brownwood Port Worth Sweeny San Antonio San Saba Marble Falls Austin and Llano. Lying descendants Mrs Lillie Wells of Llano and Francis Talley of Sweeny attended. Duane Conley of Yale University New Haven Conn visited his parents Mr and Mrs Wilbur Conley and family.
Last weekend in San Antonio Mr and Mrs Charles Robinson hosted guests while the Goodyear Blimp on a ten day advertising tour carried 22 crew members and three support vehicles. The blimp can carry six people at once and operates May through October by invitation for press radio and television and other Goodyear guests.
Mrs John Shelton of Austin and Mr and Mrs Roy Inks and their son from Georgetown spent the weekend with their parents Mr and Mrs Iven Bode.
Jeff Mitchells team won the Mens Traveling Four Ball with 158 points while Spencer Weber and others totaled 154 to place second. The field lists third and fourth place teams at 150 points. Upcoming events include a mixed four ball on June 18 and a Ladies Invitational on June 27 branded Firecracker Tourney with Sherry Weber designed pins and a planned Mixed Partner Tourney with a covered dish supper.
W M Massey and his wife of Greenwood Acres celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a May 28 gathering. The couple married in Eden Texas at age 17 and raised eleven children including Mrs John Buie in Brisbane and Mrs George Strebeck with the U S Air Force. A family reunion is planned.
A local club reports that from June 1 1971 to June 1 1972 five thousand out of town players visited the golf course for Men and Women tournaments and regular play. The turnout doubled Llano's resident population.
The Chapel of the Hills Baptist Church held last week’s vacation Bible School with 32 students. Three age groups covered Bible Learning Explorations and Bible Searchers with multiple teachers and assistants including Bobby Williams Carol Konard Louis Pity Dorothy Murchison Shuford Law Jafier Moniison Rena Shaw Shirley McCullough and others. Bob Veach led daily assemblies and Ira Floyd oversaw refreshments with Ola Evans assisting. Lucille Hunt filled in for Illness. Certificates were awarded at Sunday Services.
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