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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1929
Page
1
A jumble of clipped excerpts describes a young woman’s suicide amid financial panic and social critique. The text laments college funding gaps, praises industry shifts, and argues for civic effort while condemning speculative ruin and misplaced priorities. Multiple voices warn against neglect of duty and warn of insidious trends in youth.
Comanche businesses join with the Chamber of Commerce and Texas Power and Light Co to illuminate awnings with Christmas trees. The oak on the square and the Band Stand also receive lights. Local merchants widely participate in the festive display.
Work on the Lindsey building on the East Side of the Square to house the D. and C Hatchery began Tuesday. Equipment including a Mammouth-Smith incubator for 52 000 eggs is expected next week. Comanche County poultry leaders expect the hatchery to boost local industry.
The A P store in Comanche received a shipment of canned black berries from Bowdoin Canning Company of Comanche. The berries are part of 1200 cases sold to the Dallas branch and distributed in its territory, per local manager C W Cernes. Attending Mrs W J Wilhelm's funeral in Comanche were Mrs G R Tate Abilene Mrs W F Campbell Plainview Mrs E T Moore Mansfield Ark Mrs Joe Ashley Winters and KK F Wilhelm Okmigee Okla.
Coman che visitors Frank Palmer and John Johnson of Brownwood were seen in town Saturday.
A program by West Ward School pupils at the High School Friday evening December 18 aims to raise funds for school books and playground equipment. The event is sponsored by the West Ward Mother's Club with direction by Mesdames Wilpatrick Moore Walker and Carroll.
The second test location for the Good acre lease by Associated Oil Companies is four miles northwest of Comanche on the Quincy Mead Survey, about two miles northwest of the Bryson Ranch well drilled two years ago. Rig movement began Tuesday and drilling is expected to start Friday or Saturday.
The Comanche Second Annual Turkey Show drew over a hundred birds and large crowds Monday. Judge Mrs. Elizabeth Temple praised the stock and fellowship while County Agent J. Arton urged better turkey breeding. Grand Champion was Emil Stegemolfer with a White Holland hen and Willie Glasgow, Rankin, and Wagnon received bronzes for various White Holland and Narragansett birds.
The Comanche Indians finished a successful season with a 3 touchdown loss to the Stephenville Yellow Jackets at Tarleton Park. Jackets took early lead, restrained Comanche on defense, and sealed the game with turnovers and key passes. Damage limited Comanche to few first downs as Wolf and Payne starred for Stephenville.
In Lubbock on December 4 a jury was completed after 39 veniremen were questioned to hear the murder case of Clay Lester against his wife Virgie. The death penalty is sought. defense cites self defense and temporary insanity. Testimony starts tomorrow morning with insanity defenses including hereditary and narcotic-induced forms.
One block of paving on P O Street will start at once in Lone Tree. Mayor J R Fares announces the project and Street Commissioner S S Payne says a heavy roller and equipment are being gathered. A base gravel layer will be laid now and should settle by warm weather before topping is applied.
Mr and Mrs Perry Hicks of Sabinal are the parents of Mrs S J Hicks and the article notes local family ties in Sabinal society pages.
A dispatch in the daily papers claims the Gulf and West Texas Railway may build a line from Fredericksburg to Brady across Gillespie Mason and McCullough counties. The plan, part of an Interstate Commerce Commission recommendation, echoes a historic Frisco scheme to reach San Antonio with backing from the St. Louis and San Francisco System. This follows a 1901 Fort Worth and Rio Grande expansion toward Menard. Order your Christmas Cards from Comanche Chief.
Contractors Dickie Bros and Blanton of Woodson say no work will start on Highway 10 from Omanehe to Erath County until machinery can be secured. They urge timely delivery so the project can begin.
Miss Helen Armstrong of Fort Wart spent Thanksgiving in Comanche with home folks. The item notes a travel or visit detail and reflects local social reporting.
Representatives from twenty communities gathered in Comanche for a seed meeting of farmers seeking a single cotton variety for the region. Speakers urged long staple adoption and cited losses from short staple, with estimates of fifty thousand dollars in recent district crop declines. A county representative committee was chosen for the pure seed movement.
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