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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1931
Page
1
Open to hold his image. A poet describes a couple under moonlight as a tender old story of light and shade. The scene focuses on loving eyes, bridal promise, and the thrill of a slender wedding ring amid life’s approaching calm.
The piece notes crowds at Coney Island as warm springlike weather nears with 52 degrees. Beachgoers stroll the boardwalk while bathers, concession owners, and patrolmen manage crowds. It mentions a shop selling rubber checks and a Battery Park aquarium sign about changing color fish.
H A Bowdoin distributed 181,000 Lawton black berry plants to 57 local growers under a financing program through local banks. Next Tuesday 69,000 more plants will bring total to 250,000 for this spring, expanding berry acreage to 250 acres in Comanche. Bowdoin Canning Co. will contract berries at existing prices. 43,000 plants already contracted. contact Paul Bowdoin or Bart Taylor for plants.
County Agent J A Barton met with Beattie 4-H Club members on January 15 and reviewed last year’s grades. The club reported a profit of $758.60 and elected new officers for 1931: George Williams president Mildred Nelson vice president Lorraine Rogers secretary Euna Fern Green reporter and Linnie Moore yell leader. Twenty five members joined for the year’s work.
Mrs. B Speed Tax Collector warns voters that January 31 is the final day to pay poll tax and other taxes for 1931 without penalty. Payment is mandatory for those assessed, regardless of voting intent, with weekend and city county deadlines noted.
Dennis Morgan of Gustine received $679.02 from the Carnegie hero fund this week. He saved a woman from drowning in the South Leon River 21 years ago and had already earned the Carnegie hero medal in 1910 after guiding Mrs. Briscoe to safety from a flood trapped atop a tree for 12 hours. Morgan noted a trust held for him pending safe investment, and last year he reported owing $679.02 on his farm three miles southwest of Gustine.
City council moves to abolish the office of city treasurer when new officers assume charge in April. The change leaves two salaried officials the city secretary and city marshall and cuts annual salaries by about 51209. Meter reading and water collections duties will shift to other officers.
County offices fixed ex officio salaries with Commissioners and County Judge at 1800 dollars per year and other officers set at 480 to 1000 dollars. Most officials also receive fee allowances. health officer and county officials listed. Also notes Elberta peach trees and Hoff flour price updates appear in the same notice.
J. J. Poles of Dallas Texas manager for International Harvester Company was a Coman che visitor Tuesday. A. J. Blevins Jr has accepted a position in the Hardware Department of Highnbotham Brothers and Company.
The city will finish surfacing the Pecan Belt Highway from Indian Creek Bridge to the square using the highway work’s power shovel. Caliche pavement from Mills county line to Indian Creek Bridge already exists and is praised as a top dirt road. Police say the improved road handles rain well and shortens travel times. Work will begin on Dublin Road next Monday to extend all weather conditions.
Three year old Marinerl Carter suffered serious burns to the body and arms when her dress caught fire on a gas heater while fetching water. Her mother rushed in and smothered the blaze, and a local physician treated the burns.
Mrs. Turner Sanders, wife of the deputy sheriff, saw inmate C. H. Brownlee drop from a blanket tied to a second story jail window. Brownlee fled across a yard, was chased, and later captured near an old church after authorities cornered him. He had been serving a thirty day sentence and a $25 fine for hot checks.
Gustine City Council approves a policy requiring offenders who cannot or will not pay fines to work them off on streets at twenty five cents per hour. City Marshal Elmer Little reports three men with $95.85 in unpaid fines were put to work. noncompliance leads to jail time. Hoff's Bew Mash note appears as unrelated filler.
Mrs. J B Sloan is freed after her husband confesses to alleged peanut thefts near Custer. He faces grand jury action. Sloan remains jailed. Comanche to resume a milk market with Goldthwaite Cheese Factory via Mr Pate, starting January 22, delivering sweet milk on a fixed schedule with 32 cents per pound butter fat and whey returns.
Plans for the county championship tourney for boys basketball at Comanche are nearly complete per W. Z. Compton De Leon director. The event starts Friday at nine with draw for schedule at the high school building and games at the ball park. Semifinals and finals set for Saturday with Beattie and Sidney as previous champions among many enterers including Comanche DeLeon Gustine Pettit Fairview Sipe Springs Energy and others.
Messers Shoemaker and Jones announce price cuts on current Ford models effective Sunday January 19. Reductions include Deluxe Roadster 45 dollars, Phaeton 5 dollars, Roadster 5 dollars, Sport Coupe 25 dollars 8 cents, Victoria 45 dollars, Town Sedan 29 dollars, Model A Chassis 60 dollars, and various truck chassis and sedans with multiple dollar decreases.
Mr and Mrs FR St Clair of Waco spent Wednesday and Thursday of last week with his sister Mrs D Chas Clarke and with his brother C P St Clair.
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