County Agent and Farmers Outline Next Year’s Work
County Agent J. W. Luker met with representative farmers to plan his work for the coming year. Topics included community terracing, cover crops like rye, fertilizer trials, purebred stock, veterinarian standards, standardized cotton varieties, boll weevil control, and boys club work to keep youth on farms, with clubs planned in several communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Luker
Luker
Comanche County
Nueces County
Corpus Christi
Comanche
Gustine
Bibb
Comyn
Round Grove
Concord
Sidney
Lamkin
Fleming
Newbury
Robert Jones
Ed Sumner
Blanket
Tom Lacy
Hardy Payne
Stewart
M. Carraway
Howard Short
de Leon
P. A. Pettit
Henry Gantz
Community Christmas Tree Draws Great Attendance Likely
Crowds are expected for the open air community Christmas tree on Christmas Eve night. A practice session is set for Sunday at 8 pm at the Methodist church, open to all not just church choir members, to spread community cheer for the children and surrounding towns.
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Methodist
Rural Mail Carriers Get Christmas Day Holiday
Postmaster Sullivan announces rural route carriers will have Christmas Day off. This marks the first Christmas holiday for rural mail delivery in the country. Comanche office to close at ten and stay closed through Christmas Day.
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Sullivan
Post Office Department
Farm Bureau to Elect Officers on January Fifth
H L Short of De Leon calls Comanche County Farm Bureau to elect officers at 2 p m January 5 1924 in the district court room Best and cheapest fruits wholesale or retail by the box or smaller amounts Dexter Walling marks ad reference
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
H. L. Short
de Leon
Comanche County Farm Bureau
District Court
Dexter Walling
Dexter Watling
Huge Electric Star Lights Comanche Christmas Tree Decor
Comanche plans a 35 foot pole and a three foot electric star atop the community Christmas tree on the square. The display will include cedar decorations artificial snow tinsel red bells and mistletoe with hundreds of candy sacks for children under fourteen. An additional electric star will adorn the west courthouse entrance where carols will be sung. One quarter of the square will be roped off for the event at 6 30 pm with transport arranged for the elderly and ill by the Hoff committee.
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Matt
Court House
Comanche
J. P. Hoff
Bethlehem
Methodist Church
Committees Report All in Readiness For Christmas Tree
The community Christmas tree committees met at the Presbyterian church to finalize plans. The fruits and nuts committee was authorized to complete purchases. The program committee is ready for the performance. The good cheer committee has baskets prepared for shut ins. All arrangements are complete for Comanche to have its happiest Christmas yet.
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Presbyterian Church
Bill to Increase Appropriation For Comanche Post Office
A 1923 bill by Representative Blanton seeks to raise Comanche post office building funds to 80000 dollars. It notes a 1914 appropriation of 50000 and that wartime suspensions halted new building bills until this session.
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Thomas L. Blanton Dee
United States Post Office
Comanche
Oscar Callaway
Congress
Blanton
Need of Poultry Market Stressed at Farm Bureau Meet
At a Comanche County Farm Bureau gathering in Gustine on Saturday night the need for a local poultry market was stressed. A killing and refrigeration plant in Comanche was proposed before the next season to stabilize marketing and secure better prices for eggs chickens and turkeys. The meeting blamed losses this year on poor cooperation between buyers and producers.
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Comanche
Gustine
Banquet 15 Held by Knights of Pythias at District Meeting
The Castle Hall venue was festively decorated for the thirty fourth district meeting and annual roll call on Thursday night. Visitation expected from Brownwood Dublin Stephenville and other lodges. District Deputy Grand Chancellor 8. C. Findley presided. Program included invocation welcome address responses music and a banquet toastmaster.
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The
Knights of Pythias
Brownwood
Dublin
Stephenville
8. C. Findley
C. Findley
C. C. Klingman
J. P. Kearby
Joe Eidson
Hamilton
American Legion Band
Comanche
W. M. Futeh
Henderson
C. E. Moore
Comanche Lodge No. 154
Schools Adjourn For Christmas Holidays
Schools will adjourn Friday December 21 for the Christmas holidays and reopen Monday December 31. This has been test week for all schools but report cards will not be issued until after Christmas.
Old and Respected Citizen R A Allen Dies in Comanche
Comanche County mourns the death of R A Allen born September 20 1858 in Tennessee who died December 18 1923 in Comanche Texas at age sixty six. He moved to Texas in youth and to Comanche in 1883 where he became a leading farmer. He married Mattie Goosby in 1881 and had six children. after his first wife’s death he wed Julia Gardiner in 1909 and had two more children. Surviving kin include his widow two sons Chesley Otis Allen and several daughters and siblings.
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R. A. Allen
Comanche County
Tennessee
Comanche
Texas
Mattie Goosby
McCollum
Ennis
Chesley Allen
Fort Worth
Dock Stewart
Robert Stewart
Ollie Allen
Otis Allen
Kansas City
Moe
Allen
Julia Gardiner
Constance
Beatrice
Indian Creek Cemetery
Charlie
Jodie Allen
M. A. Tipps
Young
Oklahoma
Smith
J A Lee Buys Holloway Place
J A Lee bought this week from W G Baxter of Brownwood the Holloway place just south of the city limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Lee
Holloway Place
W. G. Baxter
Brownwood
Box Supper at Duncan School Saturday Night
A box supper will be held at the Duncan school Saturday night December 22. A cordial invitation has been extended to everybody to attend.
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Duncan
Duncan School
Chief prints Christmas and New Year greetings from local businesses
The Chief presents Christmas and New Year messages from many Comanche business houses. The paper offers its own greetings and wishes readers a happy holiday season and a prosperous New Year with many good things to come.
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Comanche
Comanche Hospital board elects officers and plans funds
The Comanche Hospital board elected officers led by J R Banes as president and set a $20,000 stock goal for a new hospital. Directors include 21 members with physicians and dentists from Comanche. the hospital will be named Comanche Hospital and operations begin with a capital drive. Miss Mary Merwin will serve as part time music supervisor for three months starting January 1, 1924, after securing a generous PTA donation and library gifts.
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Mary Merwin
Miss Merwin
Cornell College
David Bispham
New York
Chicago
Mr. Pasmore
San Francisco
California
Wim. Shakespeare
London
England
American Conservatory
Wisconsin
Baylor Belton
Cornell
Cisco Christian College
Cisco High School
Comanche
George E. Smith
J. R. Banes
P. K. Mackey
George Montgomery
J. B. Chilton, Jr
W. Ory
L. B. Thomas
I. T. Clemons
J. O. Lane
A. J. Gray
The Home Boosters Rally Towns To Grow Ideas
A short promotional note urges ongoing effort to nurture good projects. It emphasizes sustaining momentum, keeping ideas thriving, and progressing efforts to showcase progress for community leadership. The author identifies as KD and initials KD.
Six Cylinder Love Dazzles Comanche Lyceum Crowd
The Six Cylinder Love comedy was presented as the fourth lyceum program Friday night in the high school auditorium. The show drew the season’s largest audience, featured a bright sparkling cast, and attracted with attractive scenery carried by the performers.
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Lyceum
L. C. Shaw Appointed District Game Warden
L C Shaw, former manager of the Comanche Kennels, is named game warden for the district including Comanche Hamilton Brown Mills Lampasas San Saba and McCulloch counties. He has moved to the Clarence Albin place in Comanche and will devote full time to duties out in the district. He reports he holds hunting licenses and will issue them to hunters.
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L. C. Shaw
Comanche
W. W. Boyd
Hamilton
Brown, Mills
Lampasas
San Saba
McCulloch
Shaw
Clarence Albin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Brother Klingman
Nish
Central Christian Church
Knights OF Pythiad
Comanche Hospital
Ward
Parent-Teachers Association
W. W
Cordin Lindsey
Dingus
State Teachers’ Association
KD. K. D
Love
Majestic Theatre
Mabel Normand In
Suzanna
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