Frosh B Team Varsity Indians Scrimmage Stephenville Friday
Comanche Indians travel to Stephenville for final scrimmage before opening with Granbury. They beat Winters ahead of district title contenders and will face Frosh B-Team and Varsity at Stephenville with games listed from 3 30 to 8 00 p m local fans can watch all three squads.
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Comanche Indians
Stephenville
Granbury
Comanche
Winters
Coahoma
Ballinger
Comanche School Attendance Figures Released
Superintendent H.R. Jefferies released school attendance totals for the first week of the term. Elementary grades show 491, Junior High 292, and High School 355, with 1138 students enrolled overall versus 1149 a year ago.
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Comanche
H.R. Jefferies
Grand Opening Set For Wayne's Auto Parts Store
Wayne's Auto Parts at 411 W Central Comanche invites the public to a grand opening this Saturday. Manager Mike Price welcomes visitors from the former Comanche Auto Parts location to browse products and register for giveaways, per the in-paper ad.
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Wayne's Auto Parts
W. Central
Comanche
Auto Parts
Mike Price
Comanche Auto Parts
Wayne's
Gospel Meeting To Begin Sunday At North Austin Church
A week long gospel meeting runs from Monday September 2 to Sunday September 8 at the North Austin Street Church of Christ. Former Comanche church minister M. F. Manchester will preach. Services start nightly at 7 30 p.m and Sunday at 10 00 a.m.
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North Austin Street Church of Christ
M. F. Manchester
C.V.F.D. Receives Farm Bureau Donation for Equipment
The Comanche Volunteer Fire Department received a $75 check from Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies in thanks for their work on Weldon Kirby’s property in Lometa. The funds will go toward equipment purchases for rural fire responses.
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Comanche Volunteer Fire Department
Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies
Weldon Kirby
Lometa
Weather report from Proctor Reservoir station
The Proctor Reservoir Weather Station releases a 24 hour report covering the period from 8 a m to 8 a m the following day. Temperature and moisture readings are recorded for this interval and provide the region with daily weather context.
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Proctor Reservoir
Hamilton County Dove Festival Opens September 4
The Third Annual Hamilton County Dove Festival Fair and Rodeo runs four days starting September 4 in Hamilton. Highlights include a parade exhibits Midway carnival old fashioned gospel singing nightly rodeo coronation of two queens a football tilt and post game country dance with Joe Paul Nichols and his Five Pennies.
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Hamilton County
David Lengefeld
Hamilton
Hico
Joe Paul Nichols
Early Death Records From Comanche Oakwood Cemetery
Study of Comanche Texas Oakwood Cemetery records from 1904 to 1910 shows numerous infant and child deaths and varied causes. Entries list heart failure pneumonia old age consumption rheumatism Brights disease cancer and other illnesses with burial details and ages where given.
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Comanche
Oakwood
Texas
Tex
Old Oakwood
Blanket
Army of Virginia
Old Part
Brownwood
San Angelo
Oakwood Cemetery
Fort Worth
West Part
School Budget Set At $775 192 For 74 75
The School Board approved the 1974 75 budget at a special hearing with three attendees. Expenditures total 775 192 while revenue is 820 005, based on 508 791 from state and 311 214 locally, at a 1.18 tax rate on 27 271 750 valuation. The budget is 71 000 higher than last year due to salary and inflation costs, with state revenue up about 60 000 to offset expenses, per H R Jefferies.
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H. R. Jefferies
Odell Ends 50 Year Texaco Career In Comanche
Jess V Odell of Comanche retired July 15 after a 50 year Texaco career as a deliveryman salesman and service station worker. He started in 1924 for O H Donaho and later worked for H R Jones before joining Dudley Bros in 1937. Odell recalls mud roads Model T deliveries rooftop loads and a near catastrophe on a flooded crossing. He will turn 82 in October and plans to stay active in the community with his wife Sister Williford.
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Texaco
Jess V. Odell
Comanche
Dudley Bros
Odell
Hasse
O. H. Donaho
de Leon
West
Sidney
Gustine
Priddy
Jess
Donaho
Holdridge and Son
Archie
Holdridge
T. E
Buster) Cameron
Cameron
H. R. Jones
Jones
Dudley
Texaco - Odell
Texas Power and Light Company
Henry Gregory
Tp&l
John Elias Odell
Leslie) Williford
Jim
Mary
Inez Mewborn
Williford
New Books in Your Public Library Shelf
New titles available include The Art of Russia Horizon and My Wide World by Jim McKay. Mansions on Rails by Lucius Beebe and Art Treasures in Spain follow, alongside Band of Brothers by Ernest K. Gann and Needlepoint Bugs by Hope Hanley. The Modern Art of Candle Creating by Don Olsen and The Dallas Cowboys and the NFL by Donald Chipman. The Killer of Horseman's Flats by Rosemary Sisson and Richard Lockridge complete the list.
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Russia
Jim McKay
Lucius Beebe
Spain
Ernest K. Gann
Hope Hanley
Don Olsen
Dallas Cowboys
Donald Chipman
Rosemary Sisson
Richard Lockridge
Coman Comanche Observes Labor Day Holiday
Residents observe Labor Day next Monday as a civic and national holiday. Stores schools and government offices close, mail service halts, while grocery stores, restaurants, and service stations remain open to serve the public.
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Chamber of Commerce
Comanche
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Frosh
Dan Holland
Brennan Pinkerton
Roy Mitchell
Junior Sanchez
James Richey
Dayton West
Joe Lee
Mark Wilhelm
Mark Schuman
Benny Williams
Jerry Johnson
Danny Armstrong
Kenny Davis
Alphonso Bill
Rodney McDougal
Neal Lester
Bubba Strube
Brad Biggs
Mike Bingham
C.V.F.D
Farm Bureau
Dixie Land Band
Tarleton
Grand Prairie Girls
Jim Hodges
Cavaliers
Droplay
New Port
Isl
Jess Odell
Dudley Bros. Texaco Station
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