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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1922
Page
7
Motor dealer Jess Atwood advertises tubes tires and auto supplies with car hauling services and a satisfaction guarantee.
Moscow reports that despite a reduced standing army of 400000, the government has taken measures to field a ready force to repel any attack. Izvestia editor M Steckloff warns that Europe’s tense situation surpasses 1914, citing rivalries among America, Britain, and France and flashpoints in Memel, the Balkans, and the Ruhr.
The 1922 Howard Payne College football squad held an eight course banquet in the girls dormitory dining room Friday night with Mark McGee as toastmaster. Dr. W R Hornburg and others gave speeches and a permanent athletic fund was approved to cover debts and build a gymnasium. William Henderson was elected captain for 1923 and the schedule for the coming season appears very strong despite losses.
An advertisement offers Martin's Egg Producers claims and a Hamilton Drug Co remedy with guarantees. The item also notes newspaper subscription rates for the Comanche Chief and Fort Worth Star Telegram through 1925, and a public notice announcing no more wood sales from the Greene Pasture near Sidney.
Farm trader seeks 200 acres six miles southeast of Comanche with 35 to 40 cultivated, no other improvements and trades for a small improved farm of 60 to 100 acres in a good location. Also offers 548 acres six miles west of Carlton on Resleys creek with 100 acres valley land and 200 acres in cultivation, two improvements, good water, encumbered only by 1500 with Federal Farm Bank, in exchange for a 100 to 200 acre well located farm near Comanche.
An irrigation district will be created with bonds to be voted and a dam across the Colorado River near Bronte to irrigate 200000 plus acres in Coke Runnels Concho and Tom Green counties by late 1923. Survey work begins to lift water 1825 1850 feet above sea level boosting land around Tennyson Orient Woodland and Miles.
Beginning with the teachers examination in April all entrants must register name post office residence both permanent and temporary and the grade or kind of certificate sought with the county superintendent by the 20th day of the month preceding the examination. Examinations occur the first Friday and Saturday after each month except January July August and November. The next examination is the first Friday and Saturday of February. Textbooks for examinations remain as before until the June county examination. A new book list will be provided to the summer normal and questions will be based on this list for the rest of the year.
At The Commercial Hotel guests enjoy modern conveniences with reasonable rates. For reservations call 342. Published as a brief notice in local columns.
Notice states that multiple railroad companies intend to apply to the Thirty-eighth Texas Legislature for authorization to purchase and consolidate lines, issue bonds, and build extensions with the St Louis San Francisco and Texas Railway Company, dated Fort Worth January 22, 1923, signed by J. M. Kurn. A separate health ad promotes Liquid Borogone for wounds with prices listed and Pattie Smith as seller.
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