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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1922
Page
7
In a lively tour through Comanche County seat Uncle Perkins Brown samples the town. He praises the Ridgeway hotel Bettis & Gibbs store Roberson Sisters and local merchants as he meets farmers candidates and a jeweler and notes strong produce and poultry trades.
The narrator describes Uncle Perkins Brown meeting county candidates including Miss Leve Roberson for County Treasurer and Cyril Greene for County Clerk along with supporters. He visits local businesses, doctors, tailors, a restaurant and Comanche Ice & Fuel, praising leaders like W. B. Payne and Roland Bush while noting Eligible voters and townspeople in a lively, period style account.
Readers are invited to submit couplets ending a verse from Uncle Perkins story with a £3 prize. Entries must rhyme with each other, not necessarily with Brown and town, and be sent to Contest Editor at the Chief office by April 18. The winner is to be named in next week's Chief.
In the District Court of the Northern District of Texas the bankrupt Wilber Ochs Guthrie is adjudicated. The first meeting of creditors will be held at the Referee's Fort Worth office on April 20, 1922 at nine in the forenoon. Creditors may attend prove claims appoint a trustee and examine the bankrupt.
A brief notice promotes brick paving by the Harbor Brick Co of Fort Worth claiming roads and streets paved with their vitrified brick will not wear out. The terse ad urges use of the Fort Worth company for durable paving material.
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