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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1939
Page
7
The Home Economics Club met on Monday February 6 for its regular monthly gathering. Members studied hand and fingernail care with demonstrations by students and the Home Economics teacher. The next meeting is set for the first Monday in March.
Mrs. Vivian Page 34 wife of Lloyd F. Page died February 7 at her Home near Downing after an illness. Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Pentacostal Church in Leon with Rev Enlow officiating. Interment was in Downing Cemetery. She is survived by her husband several small children her mother Mrs C Saunders and other relatives. She was a niece of Carroll and John Magness of Comanche.
The Grove elected Mrs. Lillian Bagley as delegate to the San Antonio Convention to be held in late March. A special meeting is called for Tuesday night February 21 to discuss important business with fourteen members and one visitor present at the February 7 supper.
Funeral services for Jack Larremore Holmsley were conducted in Midland with interment at Oakwood Cemetery in Comanche. Rev. E R Gordon led the service, and pallbearers from Comanche included Fred Moore, Elmo Montgomery, Wm Chilton, Jack Moore, Joe Tupin, and Clyde House. Holmsley, 38, was the grandson of Mrs. G A Bruton of Comanche.
A Midland resident of 35 years died Friday after his car rear ended a truck driven by L W White in Odessa. He suffered a fractured skull and head injuries, died minutes after arrival at a local hospital. He was a Midland High School and Terrell Military College graduate with survivor parents Mrs. W L Holmsley and two brothers.
Margaret Francis White died Sunday morning at the family residence in Sidney. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon with Rev. Gordon Barrett officiating. She was born July 26, 1869 in Mississippi and had served as PR gu of the church. Survivors include Lillian Johnson Sidney Floyd White Wickett Mrs. T. B. Williams Fort Worth Mrs. W. P. Everett Rule Thurman White Crane H. O. White Wickett. Pallbearers were F. O. White F. J. Johnson W. P. Everett T. N. White H. O. White J. W. Williams. Interment was in Stagg Creek Cemetery.
Mrs J B Arthur celebrated her seventy seventh birthday at home in Comanche with her children and families gathering for a dinner. Born Mary Lewis in Alabama she has lived in Comanche County for fifty one years and reared her children there. Present were Mr and Mrs Frank Ross and their daughter.
Marguerite and multiple Arthur family members from Comanche Ballinger Dallas Gustine join a party aboard the firm Obeem A Ae iT BALE. The group includes Mr and Mrs J H Arthur and sons plus J E Arthur and J B Arthur and families and Mrs W L Wallace and Bill Wallace. The message notes additional Arthur relatives joining the voyage.
The first Quarterly Conference of the Gustine Methodist Church will be held at Energy on February 12 with Dr. S. W. Williams presiding elder of the Brownwood District in charge. Preaching at 11 a.m. Dinner on the ground. Conference at 2 p.m. Public invited. G. M. Greebon, Pastor.
The First Methodist Church and Pastor R. Gordon invite all to Sunday School attendance gains for four weeks running. The senior choir will provide music at 11 and 7 15 pm, with sermons on the Seven Utterances of Christ on the Cross leading up to Easter.
The First Presbyterian Church lists Sunday schedule with Bible classes at 10:00 a.m. and worship at 11:00 a.m. Sermons titled The Holiness of God and A Glorious Adventure are planned with evening service at 7:15 p.m. Officers meet Monday at 7:30 in the pastor’s study and prayer meeting is Wednesday at 7:30. Minister E M Shepard extends a welcoming message.
The Comanche area hosts a Sunday night service at 7 15 for all under 30 years old. An eighteen piece orchestra directed by Pat Howard will perform sacred selections and the choir will sing God Will Show You What To Do. Rev E R Gordon will preach on Character and How to Build It. The service lasts about one hour and twenty minutes.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Huett and J D Jackson of the Service Drug Store attended a Frigidaire dealers sales convention in Fort Worth last week. Huett praised the new refrigerator and noted the Service Drug Store led Texas in Frigidaire sales last year. An exhibit of the 1939 Frigidaires is being prepared in the Service Drug Store display room for public inspection soon.
The Comanche Chamber of Commerce reviews ongoing efforts to improve the town and county including fostering the Cheese Factory and supporting rural electrification. J. B. Cooper of Sidney, secretary treasurer of the Rural Electrification Association, will present a detailed account. A local mail route discussion considers converting a star route to a rural route for better service. An advertisement notes Kilpatrick Hardware offers electrician services via R. D. Polston.
Farmers and the Comanche Chamber of Commerce push for a new rural route from Comanche and ongoing soil and water conservation on the Leon River. They met with War Department engineers to discuss terracing, dam building, and a county map to aid future cooperation. The chamber promotes peach, grape, watermelon, peanut hay, and other crops with extensive outreach to Texas chambers of commerce to improve markets.
A fragment notes efforts to establish a market for crops and other goods in the territory. It mentions coordinating supplies and aligning with local producers to boost availability and trade.
L. E. Grainger, a long time Comanche resident, is seriously ill with pneumonia at his home.
The White Children extend thanks for sympathy and kindness shown during the illness and death of their mother. May God bless each and every one.
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