Comanche News Highlights Local Events And Subscriptions
A Comanche County update lists subscription prices and routes plus recent happenings. Highlights include the Second Annual Indian Relays, the CHS Senior Play, Seventh Annual Commercial Lamb Program, open house for Southern Savings and Loan and Comanche County Abstract, and Lottie Card dispersal sale. It notes Little League plans at a new park and local interest in attending events, with game schedules and ticket options for Houston Astros games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Savings and Loan Association
Comanche County Abstract Company
Texas
Fort Worth
Sloan Memoirs Highlight Texas Family’s Education Ties
George Clarence Sloan recounts his Texas life from Dallas to Wise County, a rural mail carrier, and a large family rooted in North Texas State education. He details marriages, five children, and the professional paths of grandchildren across Denton, Fort Worth, and Corpus Christi, with notes on military service and a 1964 foreword.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Wise County
Chico
U. S. Post Service
Greenwood
North Texas State
Everett M
Andrew Jackson High
Jacksonville
Florida
Katherine Gertrude
Robert E. Speegle
Clay County
Denton
North Texas
Sloan
Robert Samuel
N. T
University of Texas
del Mar College
Corpus Christi
Mary Davis Key
Suzanne
George M. Lewis
Austin
University of Berlin
Germany
My Good Wife Gertrude and Later Marriages in Comanche
The narrator recalls the death of his wife Gertrude in June 1937 and his subsequent remarriage in September 1938 to Cordelia Alice Lindsey, once his pupil, who taught 23 years in Comanche and died June 3, 1963. He also notes his lonely life afterward and mentions Eleanor’s weekends visit. The piece adds brief historical notes about Sudan Campaign cinemas in 1898 and Ventana Cave's long occupation record in Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Everett Tenney
Turnersville
Coryell County
Daniel Baker College
Eric Sharp
Mary Knox
Mary
Gertrude
Comanche
Lindsey
Shiloh
Dan
Henry
Dorris
Leland
Tom
Cordelia Alice
Miss Cardi
Comanche County
Lightning strike kills two horses at Power farm near Comanche
A lightning bolt struck Daymond Power stock farm three miles NW of Comanche on State Highway 56 Monday, killing two horses a brood mare and her yearling stud colt. A neighbor reported the four remaining animals were uninjured and in a Coastal Bermuda pasture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lightning Bolt
Daymond Power Stock Farm
Comanche
Power
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J. C. Wilkerson
WH. B. Wilkerson
Mars
James Wilkerson
Grand Comanche, Texas
Blanket
Carbon
May
CHS
Lottie
Comanche High School
Astrodome
Trans-Texas Airways
Rice
Sheraton-Lincoln
Houston
TTA
Southwest
Houston Astros
Houston, Texas
George Clarence Sloan
Fletcher
Hugh Fletcher
Baylor University Bears
Baylor
Denton High
Texas Women's University
Parkland School of Nursing
Philip T. Speegle
San Antonio College
Mary Kathleen
Kay
Union Theological Seminary
Richmond
Austin Theological Seminary
Roger B
Speegle
Universite de Triolet
Montpellier
France
Eleanor E
Colorado City
Wichita Falls
Denison
Decatur
Illinois
Mone
University of Illinois
Walter Clarence
Carol
Rebecca
Young Teeney
Robert
Lipan
Air Force
Ellington Field
Uc.l.a
Kruger
Phillipines
Air Corps
Everett
Navy
Young
Juanita Gage
Kenneth
M.st
Boston
Mark
Midland High
Bob
Linda Kay
BEAR
Bill Menefee
Russell Berry
Carroll Dawson
Hugh
S. H. Fletcher
Higginbotham’s
Lau Mlalnl
Sitawew
Eleanor
Sudan
Ventana
Arizona
Norris Insurance
ASSOC
Southern Savings
Comanche, Texas
Briegs & Stratton
Higginbothands
Texas Power & Hight
T.p.&l
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