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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1940
Page
2
The Lomanche Chief lists subscription prices: $1.00 per year for the main area and adjoining counties, $1.58 elsewhere. C. W. Wilkerson is the batter and publisher at the Ge Pen Office.
The note warns residents that poll tax debt remains even if February 1 passes. It explains property tax payments cannot be made without settling poll tax and outlines tax collection steps in Comanche County, including sale of delinquent property, redemption periods, and liens.
The article notes exemptions for homesteads up to 3000 and discusses a proposed blanket tax exemption across state county city and school taxes. It compares Comanche County taxes 55 cent county and 79 cent state rates with Comanche City at 1.45 per hundred and school at 1.00, totaling about 3.79 per 100. It also comments on track sport, local morals quotes, and upcoming public votes including a 15000 bond issue in Dublin to remodel the high school and build a gym.
A San Antonio woman dies at 104 claiming love kept her alive though she may not have been 104. The page includes biblical inquiry by John the Baptist, a cigarette lighter riddle, jokes about a progressive boyfriend, and snippets of gossip quotes among unnamed speakers.
A devastating flood drops twenty inches of rain in twelve hours, destroying crops and nine iron bridges. Dead include John Lanier, Mrs. Lanier, Mrs. George Terry, and four Terry children. George Terry escapes with his wife and two children. Mrs. Briscoe survives clinging to a sapling until rescue.
Bessie Burks and Mitchell Morgan of Comanche were married Thursday of last week. Rev. A. Edwin Wilson of the Comanche Baptist Church officiated at his residence.
A Reprint from the Comanche Chief notes a Hillsboro ordinance imposing a 250 dollar fine for selling sensational papers like the Police Gazette and Kansas City Sunday Sun. The KC Sunday Sun is discussed as a publication of unclear origin.
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