Comanche Grapes Attract Colorado Buyers And Local Tax Cut
Colorado buyers shipped two trucks to Comanche seeking 400 bushels of Comanche grapes. The McEntire farm near Cotton Grove sold parts of the harvest at 50 cents per bushel. Local leaders plan a new fruit and vegetable market at the courthouse square if a suitable site is found. County Judge McCharen proposes a 50 cent tax rate, a 10 cent cut from two years ago, saying State and local cuts reduce burden while county finances improve. County shows no bonded debt with jail bonds paid. road bonds exist by precincts.
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Pueblo
Comanche
Associated Press
John McEntire
Cotton Grove
McEntire
California
Court House Square
Comanche Lions Club
Chamber of Commerce
R. S. McCharen
Commissioners Court
McCharen
Comanche County
Texas
Comanche County Baptist Association to Meet Sept 1 2
The sixty third annual session of the Comanche County Baptist Association will convene at the Comanche First Baptist Church on Wednesday and Thursday, September 1 and 2, at 9 30 a m. It is the county's largest religious gathering with 35 churches, 24 pastors and 3535 members. Rev T N Carter urges reports, maintaining funds and missions, with a keynote of prayer and expectation for a great association.
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Comanche County Baptist Association
Comanche Baptist Church
T. N. Carter
Comanche
Comanche County
The
Baptist
de Leon
Carter
Comanche Baptist Association
First Baptist Church
Government floods meeting set in Hamilton
Hoff of Coman received a government letter calling a meeting in Hamilton on Wednesday the 95th to discuss floods soil conservation and the Leon River situation. Those interested are invited to read the filed document with City Secretary Huddleston and share views on the situation.
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Hoff
Hamilton
Water- Leon
Huddleston
Upsets and Playoffs Shape Local Softball Race
City Bakery upset Fagans 11 to 10 to pull even for the second half in the local softball league. A best of five series will decide the title, with Comanche and town teams competing and two all star squads featured in upcoming games as managers seek playoff momentum.
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City Bakery
Fagans
Inbothams
Biggs
Organiz
Wns
Ira
Eld
Comanche
H Town
Comanche Chamber Discusses Fair Market Plan
The Comanche Chamber of Commerce met Tuesday to map development for Comanche County. They proposed a permanent farmers market near highways off the square, and discussed Highway 36 improvements and local roads. Polls favored a county fair, with merchants willing to fund, though some urged delaying until next year for a permanent show. Action awaits the Fair Committee report by Sammy Waisman.
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Comanche Chamber of Commerce
Comanche
Comanche County
Sammy Waisman
Delinquent Tax Collection to Begin This Saturday
The county initiates back tax collection under a new partial payment plan with an initial payment due in the ten days from August 21 to September 1. About $160000 in delinquent taxes, including state county road and school taxes, are owed. A drive to collect will start September 1, with pre-arranged payments reducing penalties.
Sample Ballot Amendments Texas Constitution
The fragment shows a sample ballot on proposed amendments to Texas Constitution Article XVI Section 16 and related provisions. It lists FOR and AGAINST votes on amendments about state bank liabilities, destitute children assistance, officer compensation, and property tax assessment rules, with implied details on eligibility, monthly payments, and discounts for early tax payment.
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State of
Texas
Amendment Road Plan Vote Opens for Marrs County
Ballot text proposes Marrs County and road districts may adopt a road plan and levy taxes for road and bridge construction instead of issuing bonds. Opposing view argues Barris County and its districts should also have that option in a separate constitutional amendment.
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Marrs
Barris County
Amendment on aid to needy blind payments over twenty one
The item outlines a proposed state constitutional amendment to provide monthly aid to needy blind individuals over 21. It specifies payments not to exceed fifteen dollars per month per person and permits accepting federal financial aid to fund such payments.
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Government of the
United States of America
Government of
Texas Constitution Amendments Headed For Monday Vote
Six proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution will be decided at a state wide special election Monday. A road tax question appears in Commissioners Precinct No. 3. Officials expect a light turnout statewide with a sample ballot and bank urging support for amendment No 1 shown in the issue.
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Texas
First State Bank of
Gustine
Plans Approved for Comanche City Hall and Fire Station
The WPA office in Waco approves building a two story brick and tile City Hall and Fire Station in Comanche to be built on the current Fire Station site. Construction starts in about ninety days funded by $5,500 in bonds. Voters approved the project in April by 112 to 8. Mr and Mrs C W Seaton of Williamson County have been visiting relatives in Comanche.
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WPA
Waco
Comanche
Tragedy and Comedy of Early Comanche County
Mrs. Greene recalls frontier life weaving and spinning with family, detailing loom work, dyes, and tools. She notes siblings and neighbors, a Methodist conference mishap, and a light moment as two girls giggle at a preacher’s sermon, ending with a promise of continuation next week.
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Comanche County
Missouri
Ellis
Mary Childress
Tom Dunlap
Tom
Welbourn Dunlap
Aaron Little
Mary
Linda
Miss Minnie Cunningham and guests tour West Texas and New Mexico
Miss Minnie Cunningham with Tom Jack and Miss Mildred Cunningham spent the week visiting Carlsbad Cavern Cloudcroft and other places in West Texas and New Mexico.
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Minnie Cunningham
Tom Jack
Mildred Cunningham
Carilsbad Cavern
Cloudcroft
West Texas
New Mexico
Sidney to Hold Free Fall Fair
Supt A Cooper announces Sidney will host another Free Fall Fair. Exhibits include livestock dairy and beef cattle horses mules colts hogs sheep goats poultry textiles crops foods relics and more. Livestock on school grounds while other exhibits in the new gymnasium. An amusement program is in the works. Last year’s fair was one of the best in the section.
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Sidney
A. Cooper
Cooper
Special Singing at Methodist Church By Lutheran Choir
The Lutheran Choir of Priddy will perform special music at the local Methodist Church Sunday night. Rev Charlee H Cole, pastor, announced the program. Rev Chester Wilkerson of Blanket will preach Sunday morning.
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Priddy
Charlee H. Cole
Chester Wilkerson
Blanket
Dobbs Plans New Oil Test Near Sipe Springs
W J Dobbs of Dallas will start a oil test on about 9000 acres seven miles northeast of Sipe Springs in Comanche County. The 3000 foot Caddo lime test aims near Frank Kirk’s earlier lime flow well and uses new drilling machinery as a wildcat.
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W. J. Dobbs
Dallas
Sipe Springs
Comanche County
Frank Kirk
Kirk
W. B. Hodges
H. & T. C. Survey
Trapper Captures Wolf Worth $1000 Near Brysonville
Government trapper Bill D. Long captured a three year old timber wolf in the Alexander pasture north of Brysonville School. The wolf had killed about $1000 worth of sheep from several flocks and calves nearby. It was caught in an unmated steel trap on a dragged trail and killed after展示 spectators viewed it in Comanche.
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Bill D. Long
Alexander Pasture
Brysonville School
Brysonville
Alexan
Alexander
Gib Callaway
Hugh Taylor
Tdonald Ranch
Alton Keeler
Long
Comanche
Paving Projects Expand Across Comanche Under WPA
A new paving initiative in Comanche starts with fourteen city blocks and a Highway 36 extension to the city limits. The WPA directs the work following a completed project that covered forty six blocks on the town’s four main streets.
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Comanche
WPA
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