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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1938
Page
1
Comanche County scholastic events prepare for final rounds with Class A events at the ball park this afternoon and Classes B and C Saturday. Debating, spelling, and singing contests led by De Leon and Comanche participants headline the interscholastic meet still awaiting final results.
Hill Huddleston 67 longtime Comanche city secretary since 1931 died at his home from heart trouble just after missing a day of work. Funeral services were held at Comanche Baptist Church with large attendance and Oakwood Cemetery interment. Survived by wife Maude Keith Huddleston and children Ousley Huddleston, Mrs. W C McClean, Mrs. Ray Lee, plus four sisters. He served as a trustee of Howard Payne College and was active in civic religious and fraternal life.
The first Interscholastic League Meet for one to three teacher schools showed strong interest with many entries and several placings. Jakehamon won the all round banner and the literary banner while Trinity took the track banner.
Lamkin school system teachers were all re-elected at a recent school board meeting. Perry Moring serves as principal. other teachers include McGee More, Miss Coda Baggett, and Miss Sybil Campbell.
The play Beads On A String will be presented at Pettit tonight by teachers and outsiders. It promises to be one of the season’s best entertainments.
Comanche and county projects expand paving and road work. Wades Evridge finishes a fifty foot frontage now occupied by I M Vineyard and Son. C C Baxter works on a southeast square front and plans a department store opening about April 10 with Rouse Baxter in charge. Interior remodeling at Mid Way Cafe yields Riley's Grocery. County road work includes Sipe Springs to Rising Star rebuilds with WPA labor. plans for Sipe Springs to May and Highway 36 West ROW completion progress.
H R Hardie Jones was appointed by the City Council to fill the unexpired term of the late Hill Huddleston as City Secretary of Comanche. He began work within an hour of the appointment and remains a candidate for County Tax Assessor-Collector. Jones is son of E H Jones, reared in Sidney, former Texaco agent, and president of the Comanche School Board. Huddleston’s term would have expired May 1, 1939.
A play titled Deacon Dubbs directed by Mrs F E Henry will be staged in the Hass School gym Wednesday night April 6 with no admission charged. The cast includes Melvin Fields Amos Coleman Mansel Hodge Rawdon Crawley Karl Smallwood Major McNutt Hasskel Lee Deuteronomy Jones Emery Rogers Rose Raleigh Faye Williford Miss Philipena Popover S T Smallwood Emily Dale Odessa Norwood Trixie
County Agent N. E. Scudder reports 81 ranchmen received 4,689.67 in checks ranging from 2.00 to more than 200.00 for completing range improvement work. Most applications for payment have been received, with 86 inspections filed for grazing capacity on 52 276 acres and preparations for 1938 program start. Checks cover range program only. Agricultural Conservation funds pending.
At Comanche March 9 4-H and FFA Fat Stock Show three baby beeves shown by Robert Earl Seay Eugene Perkins and Merida Barnett cost total 205.01 fed 256 days all sold at Fort Worth for 242.04 netting 37.03 in profit plus prizes. Carlton Peril fed a calf 100 days cost 35.25 sold for 45.93 net 10.68. Boys urged to join Baby Beef Club via County Agent to gain vocational class access.
Friday evening at 3 o clock the comedy drama The Road To The Titty will be staged in Newburg High School auditorium. Cast includes Charles Moore J C Helms Buster Hicks Ardell Ellis Mr Mankin Mrs Mankin Mrs Howard Miss Boswell and Mrs Moore. Proceeds finance additional auditorium seats.
Rev Herman Cochran of Fort Worth will lead a revival at the First Methodist Church in Comanche beginning Sunday at 7 45 p m with daily services at 10 a m and 7 45 p m The revival will run through Easter Sunday and invites all denominations Choir director Sam Raborn of Ashland Ky will lead the choir and youth activities Cochran has reportedly held meetings in many states and is praised as a unique preacher with numerous conversions this year
J B Rudd longtime Comanche Chief reporter has been sick for over two weeks and was taken to his parents home in Goldthwaite for care.
Comanche Independent School District features three candidates on the trustee ticket Sammy Waisman Walter Barrett and Clyde House with Hardie Jones and C Hamp ton not seeking re election. About 700 County residents had not bought 1938 license plates as of Wednesday with six pm today final penalty free date for highway use.
There will be no contest in the City Election to be held here Tuesday. With three councilmen to be elected, names of the present incumbents appear on the ticket without opposition. They are N. N. Durham, H. L. Stewart, and J. A. Lee. A light vote is expected.
Funds have been appropriated for 9.1 miles of topping on Highway 36 from Hamilton to Wallace Branch toward Jonesboro. J. C. Hibis, Hamilton highway engineer, says it will be a contract job and work will begin soon. Three more inches of rock will be applied before topping. Both bridges on Highway 36 between Hamilton and Jonesboro are completed and open to traffic. Base work is finished to the filling station between Hamilton and the Leon River, with 6.2 miles of road remaining between Hamilton and Jonesboro.
Fire crews began removing the old station this week as construction on the new City Hall and Fire Station progresses with work slated to begin Monday. Temporary HQ are in the Hering Building on West Main Street South. Fire Chief R C Graham recalls twenty two years since he last slept elsewhere in Comanche not until 1916 when his father died.
Johnnye's Beauty Parlor relocated Thursday to the New Higginbotham Building on South Main Street West. The rooms were remodeled for efficiency, new equipment installed, and Miss Maurine Harrington of Fort Worth hired as an additional operator to assist Mrs. Grady McKinzie and Miss Bertha Williams.
Crowds are anticipated in Comanche on Monday for the annual First Monday event. Farmers and shoppers from miles around visit the town where merchants advertise special bargains for Saturday and Monday regardless of weather.
Emma Louise McDonald was returned to a Dallas sanatorium for additional examination in the latter part of last week.
W G Sawyer and associates moved on the A L Mc Daniel place near Gap for a deep test with acreage blocked in the section. Dobbs Oil Co plans a 3500 foot wildcat near Desdemona in Comanche County with spudding slated April 1 or sooner and Whiteside Lockhart Harvey contract for A O Angel place four miles west of May for Ranger lime testing.
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