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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1959
Page
7
Evening worship at the First Methodist Church Comanche will move to 6 o clock in spring and summer, per Rev. Piez Todd. The 5 o'clock service starts Sunday evening April 5, with members and friends invited. Officials expect the new hour to prove popular and advantageous.
Carpenter a senior at North Texas State College in Denton visited his parents Mr and Mrs John Carpenter here over the weekend Jim Dudley a sophomore at the University of Texas was home for Easter visiting his Mr and Mrs Gail Dudley
Here From San Antonio Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Brown and son Ray visited during the holidays with their son in law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ebel and children. FOR SALE GL F egg washer pd cooler 4 automatic time locks baby chick feeders egg baskets automatic brooders cake house and 1044 cages metal nests L D Belgeu Rt 3 German 40 42p.
The County ASC Office reports week ending March 27 release totals of 271.6 cotton and 287.7 peanut acres, with a combined 955.0 cotton and 748.6 peanut released. Requests for more acreage total 1 107.9 cotton and 1 835.3 peanuts, filed on 139 cotton and 242 peanut farms. Final release date is April 3 with May 1 for premeasurement on peanuts and cotton. Wool incentive filings due by April 30.
Visitants from Stephenville include J. C. Helms Superintendent his wife Mrs J C Helm Jr and children Janice and Jimmy Jaye who stayed with his parents. Mrs Helm brought her brother and sister in law former Comanche Countians Mr and Mrs Turner Sanders as weekend guests.
H Grady Dowdey of Fort Worth spent the Easter holidays in Comanche with his daughter-in-law Mrs A B C Dowdey. Dowdey taught in Comanche County for 23 years and has been employed at Convair in Fort Worth for about 15 years.
In New York City a man walks the streets at night to talk to stray cats convinced they understand his throaty purrs and meows He carries catnip mailed weekly from a farmer and meets an elderly woman who feeds liver tidbits to stray cats They seem lonely city bound and unable to keep pets in small rooms Also notes of Stephenville visitors to local residents on Sunday
Roy Rains Sr. 68 retired Farmers Produce employee and ordained Baptist minister died Saturday in a Houston hospital after weeks of illness. Funeral services were Monday at 1 30 pm in Comanche Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Alvin M. Stone and Rev. J L. Woolsey officiating. Burial followed at Oakwood Cemetery. He was born September 21 1890 in Alabama and had lived in Comanche most of his life. Surviving are his wife Ruth Elizabeth Edwards five children J B Rains Roy Rains Jr H L Rains Mrs Juanita Ripley and Mrs Oleta Carter twelve grandchildren and three great grandchildren three sisters.
The Women Society of Christian Service met at the Methodist Church with 28 members present. Mrs. BE. Y. Burdette, recently underwent major surgery, attended. Mrs. Ed Frendsley led singing, and Mrs. Merlin Jenkins gave the Isaiah lesson.
Brannan Sr. Comanche wholesale grocer was injured at Gorman last Thursday and is reported to be making satisfactory progress. He is linked to New Mexico and has a brother Charles Rains of Dallas.
Arch Boyd Sr. suffered a heart attack Monday near his Sidney farm home. He made it back to his house unaided before family rushed him to Medical Arts Hospital in Brown. Doctors reported a coronary occurrence as the cause but details are still undetermined.
Here From Brownwood Mrs Chuck Bettis and Mrs Melba Nevans and daughter Sharon of Brownwood were here Sunday to visit Mr and Mrs Oswell Brightman.
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