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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1919
Page
8
USRA announces timetable changes effective 12:01 AM Sunday August 24 1919 for principal trains on this and connecting lines. Folders with day schedule details available at stations and Information Bureaus.
I have just received a car of big work mules averaging 1000 to 1350 pounds each. All gentle. Can be seen at my house mile south of town. CHAS HARVEY.
An old time tonic claims to drive away chills and malaria like symptoms. It promises refunds if the product fails to work, appealing to consumers seeking quick relief through a home remedy.
Lewis Nabers announces acquisition of Jim Hicks vineyard and a large stock of Herbmonts grapes. A juice press will have kegs ready on Tuesday the 26th. Phone J. J. Hicks for details.
A historical note promotes using Martin's Wonderful Blue as Killer Sy to control blood sucking insects feeding chickens. The advertising reads as a vendor claim with practical pest control intent for poultry farms.
The Cross Timbers community reports illnesses among Mrs. Cora Henry and daughter Jewel and Mrs. Tennie Henry this week. A good rain arrived Monday. Several residents, including Willie Ewing Duff Lincoln and Maurice Henry, are working at Fairy Texas this week. Miss Beatrice Bennett from New Mexico visited relatives here last week. A few attended church at Edna Sunday night. John Hawkins and family from Coleman county visited Jim Region and family. John and Argie Cox spent Sunday with Jim Regions. Times Richardson works at Purves this week. Matt Hayes and daughter Maggie attended a family reunion at Emmitt Hayes’ in Maxville Tuesday evening. Mrs. Bettis of Carbon visits H. C. Bettis this week. Maggie Hayes spent Saturday night and Sunday with Miss Clara Richardson. Pettie Russell and Eula B. Bradley of Shiloh passed through Sunday evening. Mrs. Ewing spent one night last week with Mrs. Grace Bettis.
A Cincinnati inventor markets Freezone as a magical, painless corn remedy. The ad claims a few drops stop pain instantly and let users lift out hard and soft corns and toe corn calluses without soreness, with a tiny bottle costing only a few cents.
The Comanche Compress Co invites bids on the remaining holdings including land platform sheds tanks and related structures after selling Webb press boiler and machinery. Bids may cover platform alone shed lumber and roofing alone or combinations. Directors may reject any bids with 25 percent certified check due with bids. Bids to J. R. Hanes secretary treasurer by August 26 and reviewed by directors at meeting.
An old ad copy describes a bilious attack as liver failure to function, causing nausea and headache. It promotes taking three Chamberlain's Tablets to tone the liver and cleanse the stomach, claiming quick recovery at a quarter price.
A small item notes a doctor’s bill saving tip by stocking Mississippi Diarrhoea Cordial for stomach complaints priced at 25 cents and 50 cents.
The guardian W N Koonce asks in Comanche County Court for the estate of Eva Vera Zollie Robert and James Koonce minors. The annual exhibit ending June 1 1919 will be heard on the first Monday in October at the courthouse in Comanche. Interested parties may appear to inspect the exhibit and file objections.
The county court of Comanche County Texas receives notice that W W Wallis guardian ad litem has filed the final account for Byron Wallis and Benjamin Wallis and the annual account for the minors Forney Ora Alice Travis and Stella Wallis, for the year ending October 1 1919. The hearing is set for the first Monday in October 1919 at the county courthouse in Comanche. Interested parties may appear and contest the exhibit.
In Comanche County Texas guardian A Dunlap petitions the County Court for an order to sell two acres of the minor’s estate. The property lies in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum tract within the Jesse Thruman survey and is described by specific metes and bounds. The hearing is set for October 6, 1919 at the Comanche courthouse.
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