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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1934
Page
8
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Descendants of the late Dr. A L Carleton met August 8 at Starkie Bridge Leon River for a family reunion and dinner. Officers elected at the business meeting were Walter Carleton president R M Carleton vice president and Mrs Ethel Vineyard secretary treasurer. Next year’s reunion will be at the same place on August 8. One death Eugene Hennisseey Fort Worth. Numerous Carleton relatives attended with several in Fort Worth Eastland Dublin Comanche Haskell Proctor and Dallas hospitals represented by members and friends.
Mr. Lloyd Isham and wife and daughter from Fort Worth visited relatives in Comanche for the weekend. Miss Delia Wall of De Leon spent the weekend in Comanche with Mrs. Henry Huff.
About 125 Cunningham relatives gathered for the thirty-fifth reunion of Captain James and Aunt Susan Cunningham descendants at a camp eight miles south of Comanche on the Pecan Belt Highway. The event, first without any of the original 12 children, noted deaths, marriages, and births since last year, with attendees from Houston Hamilton Odessa Pampa Eola Hico Cisco and other areas.
Mr. and Mrs. N. V. Nicholson and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Carter of Plainview spent part of last week here with Mrs. Bob Cox and Mrs. W. T. Dobbs.
Howard Payne College Brownwood will open on September 10 with registration as it switches from a term system to two 18 week semesters. The summer term becomes three quarters of a semester. The college will offer work aid and Federal Emergency Relief Administration support for 50 to 80 students, plus college assistance for about 200 more.
Miss Bernice Gibson of Thurber and H. B. Hinton Jr. of Dallas visited Mrs. Will Dupuy and Mrs. N. Wilcoxen, with Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lee and children of Brady also stopping to visit friends here Sunday.
Official returns show varied results in Texas party renomination races. J. E. McDonald trails by 10,491 votes, Fred W. Davis withdraws, Tom Connally tops Senate renomination with 167,832, and McCraw leads Attorney General race with 479,471 votes. Other statewide offices list figures for Woodward, Pundt, Woods, Waller, and more.
Mrs. S. A. Townsend of the Antioch community marked her eighty fifth birthday on Sunday August 5 as reported by the Brownwood Bulletin. An early settler of Brown and Comanche Counties she has lived in Brown County for thirty five years and counts forty seven descendants who joined the annual reunion and birthday observance.
Mrs. Tom Norcutt and her son Virgil of Desdemona and Mrs. Pearl Kullenburg and daughter of Austin spent the weekend in Comanche. Miss Ruth Cox returned from visits with friends at Kilgore and Dallas.
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