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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1918
Page
5
An advertising notice touts Nux Stone a body building tonic claimed to strengthen weak run down and nervous individuals in a few weeks. It links poor appetite sleep issues and digestive trouble to blood and kidney problems and promotes Tron Nux Vomica beef and wine as tissue building and restorative.
A notice offers a 25 cent reward to anyone who can identify a pair of canvas slippers coffee and a cake of soap placed in a car about three weeks ago and calls at the Chief Ex ponent. Also sought a first class man to manage a $20,000 stock of shoes, with details on buying fitting and sales. Apples for sale in wagon loads in Hasse Texas with phone contact.
Announcements list candidates for district attorney district clerk representative county judge and county treasurer. Named figures include G E Johnson S R Allen A J Lloyd C J Lee Merton L Harris G C Hamilton and Mrs Mamie Nabers Franklin.
A light shower touched the community on Tuesday afternoon. Uncle Bud Powers visited Ranger on Saturday night. Mr and Mrs J D Butler and their Edna of Cisco visit G L Butler this week. Langlay plans Bay City work. Mrs Tom Courts and daughter recover from illness. A large crowd dined with Mrs J W Reese Sunday. Mr and Mrs Robert Reese mourn a infant son lost Sunday morning August 18.
Advertises cotton cloth net treatment for wounds cuts burns and sores using Ballard's Snow Liniment praised for quick healing. Prices listed 25 50 and 1.00 per bottle. Sold by S P Smith.
Cotton Grove reports a new school building under construction to be ready for the term. Mrs. Carl A. Johnson joins her husband in Dallas. Mr. Lee Ritchie and family with Mr. Bacon visit Mrs. Julian Johnson and children. Miss Otho Criswell stays with sister Mrs. Lee Matthews near Comanche. Mrs. S. M. Couch returns from visits at Hamilton and Spur. Mr. S. T. Hilliard and family attend Grandma Hurt’s funeral in Sidney. Mr. Wellington Ross visits Chicago. Aubrey Beene and Albert Criswell, now in the navy, arrive safely in California. Aunt Fannie Robertson visits Mr. and Mrs. Griffin at Comanche. Mrs. Lizzie Norrid of Beattie visits sister Mrs. M. A. Roe.
Promote healthy color and digestion with GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. Regular use for two to three weeks enriches the blood and strengthens the whole system so children can dispel worms naturally. Pleasant to take. 60c per bottle.
Higginbotham Bros. & Co. offers ladies low cut shoes at one dollar per pair on its bargain counter. Many pairs formerly sold as high as three fifty. Limited stock available.
If after using NUX-1.TONE you feel no benefit and no improvement in strength we will refund every penny paid. No stronger guarantee is offered and no risk remains.
Hazel Dell items record visits by D T Boyd and family to Macksville and A F Gaines. J W Applewhite and children from Gustine with J M McCrary. Esther Smith hosted friends. J D Carter returning from Fort Worth plans to East Texas. D T Boyd bought a car and heads to Venus for cotton picking. Cockrells held a singing. J R Ritchie back from Fort Worth. Lella Bryson visiting Pete Bryson. Bryson family welcomes a baby boy. Bil Durham and family from near Wilson visited J M McCrary.
An advertising claim touts Knowlton's Dandeline as able to destroy dandruff and stop hair loss. It asserts dull brittle hair improves after first application and within weeks new fine hair appears across the scalp with added shine and volume.
Battery trouble? Bring us your sick batteries and we will restore them with a positive guarantee. For charging we use the Delco system, the only one of its kind in the area. We also fix broken castings in the Service Department.
An advertised bowel and stomach remedy named Adlerika is described as preventing appendicitis and is sold by Paris Smith, a local druggist.
From Hilbern Arther July 23 a soldier writes of sand storms in France near a village and rain as they march toward Berlin. He mentions possible transfer to cavalry or light field artillery and notes he would rather stay overseas than return home. He and Lewis Burks share a police duty, weigh 182 and 180 pounds, and look forward to front line action.
Daily shipments bring fall suits skirts dresses middies waists and many more lines. For first choice visit now and always find quality options at Higginbotham's.
The Department asks readers to send current issues of standard magazines to soldiers at the front and in camps. Mail them unwrapped and without addresses for one cent. Leave magazines at the post office for distribution to the boys.
Marion Wilkerson former Higginbotham Bros. dry goods head accepts a position with W. M. McBride Dry Goods Co. at Greenville and will move with his family soon. He has been with Higginbothams for years and previously ran his own business here. The community laments his departure but wishes him success.
Born to Mr and Mrs M Dutton Comanche Route 4 a boy Arthur W White Gustine a girl John Davis Gustine a girl J B Owens Coamacche county a girl L W Cobb near Sidney a boy Joe Byrd near Sidney a girl Pete Brycen Gustine a boy L E Collins Gustine a boy
An ex Comanche county man declares victory in a race and asks residents to vote for him for District Attorney on Saturday urging broad county support in the judicial district.
A 50 cent bottle of LAX FOS WITH PEPSIN is offered as a pleasant liquid digestive laxative. The product is made and recommended to the public by Paris Medicine Co., makers of Laxative Bromo Quinine and Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic.
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