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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1941
Page
5
Cleaning service promotes first class work at economical prices. Paracide ointment offered as guaranteed relief with money back guarantee. Wm. Reese Drug Company advertises the product amidst laundry praise.
The family thanks friends and neighbors for thoughts sympathy and flowers during the illness and death of their wife and mother Elmer Thomas Villa Arol and Thurston express appreciation for support.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Sledge and family express heartfelt thanks for the many gifts received after their house burned. They pray God blesses each and every helper and giver.
Mrs J M Nelms and children express gratitude to friends neighbors and Victory Church for help sympathy words during the illness and death of J M Nelms They thank pallbearers flower girls and Porter Franks and pray for God’s blessings on all who showed kindness.
A cemetery work day is planned at Zion Hill on Tuesday April 22. The organizing committee urges relatives of buried residents to attend the all day event and bring tools and items to mark unidenti fed graves.
E Paul Jeanes of Clay Building Material Company and Mrs. Jeanes left early this week for the State Lumbermens Convention in Galveston and expect to return today or tomorrow.
A sophomore from Austin Miss Gloria Obar brown hair five feet one inch tall majoring in dramatics was elected Sweetheart of the University of Texas. She reigned last weekend over the Twelfth Texas Round-Up homecoming and over Texas Relays, the Southwest's premier track and field carnival. She is the second independent girl ever to win the title.
The Comanche Association urges churches to donate eggs for Buckners Orphan Home in Dallas. On April 27 members should bring eggs to worship, pack them in cases, and have receipts sent. Johnson's trucks will transport to Dallas free. A cash offering is welcomed to meet daily needs of orphans, per Prov. 19 17. Miss Cree Edmondson visited in De Leon Sunday.
General Page urges all registrants ordered to report for induction to arrange affairs to minimize hardship if rejected later. He notes many sell autos and quit jobs or lodging, and advises informing employers to hold or adjust employment depending on Army results. Coordination between employer and inductee can reduce injustice.
Court House News lists marriages: Ottis Cogburn and Jimmie Ray Gooden De Leon April 5. Lee Jeffery Gustine April 3. Bostick Comanche April 3. Belle Duval Gustine April 1. other licenses include Odell to Williford half acre, Sharp to Conner 42.74 acres, Evans to Bumgarner 18 acres plus town tracts. new car registrations in Comanche and De Leon. visits by Mrs. Medford Wetzel and her Houston son to Comanche grandmother Mrs. E. H. Jones.
One Easter morn narrative retells the Passion story with Mary and companions near Golgotha and the empty tomb as Jesus speaks and the old dispensation ends. follow with local society notes from Brownwood Comanche and surrounding areas including births and visits to families in Comanche and Zephyr.
R A Slack 89 a longtime Comanche businessman died at the Dallas home of his daughter Mrs J H Marshall on Sunday March 31 burial followed Tuesday in Dallas cemetery Surviving children include Harviwell Pete Sam Slack and Mrs Marshall Mrs Ed Wilkerson Karl Tate Minnie Harrington and Ruth Cargile
J D Center Jr class president announces Hazel Dell singing schedule. regular night is Sunday April 13 with all invited. Reminder clarifies change in meeting pattern: second Sunday nights and fourth Sunday afternoons.
The Presbyterian Church schedules Bible classes at 10:00 am 11:00 am morning sermon Life and Victory 7:30 pm evening sermon To Be Conformed to His Image 6:30 pm Young Peoples meeting. Easter Sunday message invites all to worship and reflect on transformation through Christ. Elder E M Shepard extends a cordial welcome to worship with us.
Central Christian Church announces Bible School and Communion every Sunday at ten o'clock. Preaching on the first and third Sundays at eleven o'clock and Sunday night at 7 45. This Sunday April 13 the evening subject is The Tests of Religious Truth. Pastor C Klingman.
Three visitors enlivened the Comanche Lions Club bi weekly luncheon at Ridgeway Tuesday with full attendance. Rev E R Gordon pastor spoke on Religion, an Asset to Business. Former Senator E M Davis of Brownwood highlighted fraternal fellowship from luncheon clubs. Prof Shelton Decatur High School spoke for A B Lee candidate for District Governor.
Mrs. LaDora Carter, proprietor, described the shop as pretty fresh and clean alike a bride's new kitchen. The shop got a new floor cover and fluorescent lighting to enhance its appearance with an open invitation to the public to inspect.
The First Baptist Church invites all to Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship at 11 a.m. Training Union at 7 p.m. Evening Worship at 8 p.m. The message emphasizes church work as a source of strength and duty not leisure or excuses.
Mrs. C. C. Coker, Dorothy Page Coker and Dorothy Kemp were Dallas visitors Friday. Mrs Coker bought new spring merchandise at the Dallas Markets for Roberson Sisters.
Mr and Mrs H Briscoe and Lt and Mrs F D Wright of Comanche spent Sunday in San Antonio enjoying a day away from home.
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