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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1942
Page
6
A compact church notice invites attendance this Sunday highlighting spiritual renewal and the call to serve. It frames daily needs as reminders to care for body and soul and encourages community participation.
The Presbyterian Church schedules 10:00 a.m. Bible classes and 11:00 a.m. worship with the sermon Sharing One's Faith With Others on Sunday. An Evening Sermon Christ Is All follows at 7:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting is Wednesday at 7. A. M. Shepard, minister, urges Christians to share God’s love with others near and far.
The Disciples of Christ church notes Bible School and Communion at ten o'clock every Sunday with no evening services. The sermon for this Sunday January 18 is The Power of Prayer. Reporter.
At a teachers meeting held at the home of Mr and Mrs Wascoe Lee a plan to use the entire 1942 year for growth in the church school was approved. A committee of the pastor general and adult superintendents and teachers will meet Sunday to finalize the plan.
The Methodist ladies continue a defense drive asking for paper and magazines. Donors should bring materials to Burks Ware or Mrs. Leo Shankle for collection.
A Methodist Church Women's Society meeting was held in Mrs. Vasco Lee’s home with Mrs. Virgil Chaffin assisting. The group noted the illness of the president Mrs. Logan Williams’ mother and heard a devotional led by Mrs. Ewell Ar thur. Mrs. Paul Jeanes offered a pickup for newspaper news, with Mr. Combs helping, and participants enjoyed exchanging "Rosebud Friend" while coffee and sandwiches were served.
Miss Billie Vei St. Clair and Mr. Tom R. Cox Jr. married at First Methodist Church of Comanche with Rev. J D Smoot officiating. Maid of honor Mary Boswell. best man Leo Brandt. The couple, both Comanche natives, will reside in the Ollie Trippe Apartments after a wedding trip to Austin and San Antonio.
Despite bad weather, Newburg ladies formed a Woman's Home Demonstration Club with Ruth Mayfield and W A Ruhmann. They set meetings for the first and third Wednesdays at 2:00 p.m. and kicked off with a study of food. Officers elected include Mrs Cyril McPherson as president and Mrs Jessie McCullough as vice president.
Velma Gilstrap, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Gilstrap of Hasse, married Gayle W. Newsome on October 17, 1941, in Eastland. Her background includes Alexander High School honors and service at the Hasse Post Office. Newsome, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Newsome, attended Comanche High School and works at Elkins Tin Shop. The couple will reside in Comanche.
Mrs. Robert Keith Lane Jr of Fort Worth, formerly Miss Martha Shepard of Comanche, was feted with a miscellaneous bridal shower Saturday at Mrs. P. C. Sloan’s home. Hostesses included Ollie Sloan Eva Johnson and Wid Spivey with many Lane and Shepard relatives assisting as guests and in serving.
The Comanche Study Club elected officers for a two year term at the January business meeting held at Mrs. Sutton Dudley’s home with Miss Agness Graham as co hostess. Officers include President Mrs. Vascoe Lee and Vice Presidents W Compton Oswald Brightman, Secretary Mrs. F L Little, Treasurer Miss Berta Goodson, Parliamentarian Mrs. E E Anthony. The group highlighted humor types in a recent talk and noted defense donations in the past year. The next meeting will be January 22 at Mrs. Porter Franks’ home with Mrs. F L Little as co host.
Denominational pastors across the county form a basketball team to raise funds for infantile paralysis. The Jan 30 tournament coincides with President Roosevelt's birthday, the annual drive date. Rev. E G Gregory Jr chairs the organization, Rev H J Starnes is captain, and Rev F L Willshire serves as coach and manager. A planning meeting is set for Jan 16 at Comanche High School gym.
The Comanche Area of the Aircraft Warning Service has completed its organization with four posts. Dale Howard serves as Area Organizer. Post Organizers are T. C. George Post 25 H. M. Vineyard Post 95 P. A. Pettit Post 66 and B. H. Briscoe Post 48, tasked to ready posts for operation if called by the War Department.
Miss Janetha June Walton is named highest ranking graduate in Paschal Senior High School January class in Fort Worth. She will deliver the senior class graduation address as Class Representative. Paschal, Texas largest high school, enrolls 2,200 students with 150 January graduates.
Sipe Springs residents visit relatives in Maine and nearby towns. Mrs Warnsfelt and Miss Effie Foster travel with Lon Foster, Mr and Mrs G G Thorp visit Cowan household near Garden, Newman Jones visits Gorman, Underwood visits Zel lars family, Rev Ferguson preaches at Methodist Church with wife, local basketball teams of Sipe Springs play Rising Star Monday night.
Card of thanks from Mrs. Chas. Walker and family thanks doctors nurses and Mr Franks and Dr Baker for kindnesses during illness and death of husband and father. Another 2825 foot link in the citywide rock lined drainage and malaria control ditch completed by WPA workers at Marshall.
WPA workers have installed new paving around public schools in Cotulla and near the LaSalle County courthouse. The project improves road surfaces and access for students and residents.
Sidney Rev Leon Woods and families and many visitors from Brownwood Los Angeles and Gorman shared weekend at various local homes. Basketball: Sidney girls and boys beat Blanket Monday night. Homer Coker and family from Mount Pleasant visited relatives, while Durward Johnson and Lynn Douglas were among Sunday callers.
The Indian Creek community hosts the County Quartette Singing Convention again on Friday night before the second Sunday in February. Local families visit, births announced, and residents move in as Felix Williams urges full Sunday School attendance to elect teachers.
Fairwel and Carroll families from Brownwood and Comanche visited their parents the Boyntons Sunday. Jessie Lee Boynton of Comanche spent the weekend with relatives. Walter Beam returned home from Oklahoma where Mrs. Beam received medical treatment. C B Williams Jr formerly of Seguin now with the Farm Security Administration was transferred to San Marcos.
Frano R Wiesendanger 54 single died at his Dallas home January 11 after illness. Funeral January 13 at Oakwood Cemetery Comanche led by Rev E G Gregory Jr. Survivors include siblings and aunts. Out of town relatives attended from Atoka Oklahoma and Dallas.
Mrs. W. E. Howell Sr a longtime De Leon resident died Sunday at the family home after months of illness. Born October 22 1860 in Lafayette Alabama she was 81. She married W. E. Howell in 1886 and came to Texas in 1893 settling first at Hico then De Leon in 1904. Funeral Monday at 3 30 p m from the residence with interment in De Leon Cemetery. Survived by husband four sons Harry of Cleburne Paul of Stephenville J P and Russell of De Leon one daughter Mrs W H Clark of Ranger. Two sons W E Howell and Earl Howell preceded her in death. Pallbearers listed.
Sheriff Wid Spivey returned from San Angelo after a week at an FBI training school conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The agency has long offered officers’ training in Texas. The courses cover crime fighting from everyday methods to counter espionage.
All fruit growers are invited to a field day at O. L. Parker's orchard on the Comanche De Leon highway one mile north of Downing. The program on January 21 begins at 9 30 am with spraying and pruning demonstrations plus talks on fruit varieties soils and injurious insects. Extension staff J F Rosborough and Cameron Siddall of A M College will be on the program.
In case of rain or cold weather the meeting will be held in the district court room in Comanche. The meeting will be over by noon.
An old Canadian cough medicine ad promotes Buckleys CANADIOS Mixture as fast acting and triple acting. It claims usage in over 70 percent of Canadian homes and promises rapid relief from coughing by loosening phlegm clearing air passages and soothing raw tissues. The copy urges purchase at Durham Phey or any drug store with a satisfaction guarantee.
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