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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1925
Page
2
Comanche County News itemizes visits and family updates. Miss Lascille LaRoque stays with Uncle J G Hood. Russel Smith from Waco advances as a violinist at Baylor. Mayme Smith moves in with grandparents Coker. numerous church visits, reunions, and travels noted including Cotrell reunion, Carnival in Comanche, and Westward trips.
Sidney notes list residents visiting relatives in Bradshaw Abilene and Lubbock. local exchanges include garage sale of interest and staff changes. families from Dallas Plainview Blanket Eldorado Fort Worth Waco Abilene Anson stop by for church, visits, and caregiving as diphtheria illness eases.
Aug 11 ceremony at the family home performed by Rev. John Milton. The couple, LeeRoy Woolsey and Ettie Hurt, are popular with many friends sending congratulations. Community members attended a Fleming Park meeting Sunday night.
Farmers busily plant late feed while hoping for rain to finish a crop. R K Seago returns from Plainview this week. J O DePriest and wife visit relatives near Brownwood. Buster Odell and family and W P Magness head to Plains country for prospecting. Ernest Goodson visits near Gustine. H D Lane family attend Gustine church. Earl Cox of Dallas visits Will Odell’s home. Jerome Ormsby of Fort Worth to wed Velma Odell and move to Fort Worth. Velma to be missed in local Sunday School.
Indian Mountain reports a beneficial rain last week improving crop prospects. Mr. and Mrs. Martin McDaniel visited Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Chambers from Saturday night to Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mankin of Rochester visited Mr. and Mrs. Davis Mankin this week. Mr. Bill Cox and family moved back to the Mormon place. Mr and Mrs Archie Moore visited.
Aug 11 reports show Euell Thompson and Dallas family visiting Lou Robertson, with John McEntire traveling to German to visit a father in a sanitarium. Hilliard, Johnson families attended Sidney church, Kate Ripley and May Rheim visited Comanche, Hall and Bolin families gathered, Nathan Bolin and Houston relatives with Jess Bolin, Clifford Garner and Merkel visits to Willie Glasgow.
J H McEntire and family and John Goforth families return from a West tour reporting good crops near Cap Rock and mud driving challenges. Irvin Thompson and Mora of Merkel visit S T Hilliard. Criswell siblings from Merkel visit. numerous local visits to Bolin, Ripley, Hilliard and others. Mr and Mrs Jesse Purvis welcome baby girl Ethel Kathryn.
Fairview on August 3 1925 reports numerous visits and travels. Hugh McNutt family from Comanche spent Sunday with J McNutt. Ory McBride and Lola McBride from Stamford visit Luther Williams. Bernice Boyd of Fort Worth attended with Houston Stalcup family. A rain blessed the area last Friday. Baptist meetings began with Rev. Emmitt Turney. Families from Blanket, Comanche, Dallas and other nearby towns are cited visiting, moving, or returning home.
Harmony Ave residents and relatives from Sidney Abilene Fort Worth and Comanche visited kin last week while Mr Smith and sons neared completion of a new home. Local religious services at Harmony were conducted by Rev Gardner with Rev J L Ray in charge since.
SODA SPRINGS Aug. 11. Mr. and Mrs. Denver Pittman are visiting relatives in this community. Mr. Jim Robertson and family of Noodle are visiting relatives here. Miss Lynnette Franklin and sister of Comanche are visiting friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Keefer Johnson are visiting Mrs. Johnson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Evans and other relatives in this community. Mrs. Ollie Haley of Haslet is visiting friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Vineyard of Scurry county visited relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Beene of Merkel are visiting in this community. Mr. D. H. Matthews and family and Miss Pauline Beck spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Kin Smart of near Mercer Gap. Mr. J. E. Vineyard and family and Miss Kate Vineyard of Comanche spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Garner Lloyd. Miss Jessie Murdock of Keller is spending the week with friends here. Mrs. L. A. Bratton and Mr. Floyd Jones left Sunday morning for a visit in O'Donnell.
H Payne WS Beene and I E Ozburn attended the Texas Farm Bureau state meeting at Ballinger last week. The report notes a very interesting session with representatives from twenty six Texas counties and five other states in attendance.
Crosbyton Chamber of Commerce urges planting every idle acre to feed stock with cane millet turnips and similar crops. The piece argues it saves money, supports livestock through scarce feed, and calls on farmers to report seed availability and aid distribution to ensure ample forage for the coming year.
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