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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1944
Page
7
The former president John Quincy Adams served as a representative in Congress in Washington. In British slang spectacles are called particles, a curious linguistic note.
The Comanche Chief announces candidates for the Democratic Primary on July 22, 1944. L. A. Woods seeks re election for State Superintendent. R. B. Cross is listed for District Judge. H. W. Allen for District Attorney. H. Moore and Yerry Moring for Representative 104th District. Charles Carter for District Clerk. H. H. Lockridge and Harris D. Lane for County Judge. Claudia Fisher for County Clerk. Burt Ayers and J. E. Lightfoot for Tax Assessor Collector. Perry St. Clair for Sheriff. F. O. Jaye for County Attorney. Margaret Cunningham Craddock for County Treasurer. and W. D. Chapman H A Hall G M Hutchins for Commissioner Precinct No 1. L. R. Daniel for Precinct No 2. E. W. Bruner T Brandt A M McCamey R G Collinsworth for Precinct No 3. A Ed Williams as Justice of Peace Precinct No 1.
An 82 year old Fort Worth resident, Mrs. A V Gillett, recounts how the Duncan Creek community in Comanche County was settled. She describes her father Robert Leslie’s move from Erath County, the 1850s digressions, the death rumored as Indian or Hardin gang, and life on Duncan Creek with mills, gins, hogs fattened on pecans, early Plank house, and the first ox wagon trips to Fort Worth for supplies.
A comic tale details a Harlem man seeking church membership and the rector’s dilemma over neighborhood fit. The punch line reveals the man’s long wait to join the church while a line about Morpheus explains the origin of morphine’s name.
Sipe Springs resident Wayne Callaway left for the Navy after a 10 day leave with his parents. De Leon visits include Mrs. Whiteside and Mrs. Brown with their families. J H Whiteside Co set up oil test equipment four miles south of town and drilling began. Local families hosted and travelled for weekends with relatives in Arlington Fort Worth Albany and other towns. Lieut J O Jones Jr was killed in action in January 1943 and his Purple Heart was received by his parents.
In Comanche County Texas on the first Tuesday in May 1944 at the courthouse door the constable will sell for cash undivided one half of ten acres in the J R Stephens Survey near Hasse. The sale enforces a $225.80 judgment in favor of M H and Mrs. M H Haynie against C Haynie.
A Sunday singing at the Desdemona Methodist Church drew a nice crowd. Sheriff’s sale notice items describe a court-ordered sale of Texacota Oil & Gas Co interests in an oil and gas lease in Comanche County to satisfy a $394.31 judgment for The First State Bank of Rising Star.
Mrs Mollie Cagle and Mrs Weaver have moved into a new home on the Vernon Cagle farm about a quarter mile from their former residence. Mr and Mrs T A Weaver were in Comanche Saturday.
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