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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1931
Page
1
A sonnet-like meditation on a simple home. The speaker desires a modest house with a garden and steady wealth from a dead man’s grave, a contented wife, and inner peace. The verse contrasts material ease with the lasting value of memory and virtue.
Thirty five local leaders from Lamkin Beattie Comyn Downing Hasse Newburg Robinson Springs Cross Roads Cotton Grove Sid ney met in the County Agent's office to finalize plans for the Eighth Annual Summer 4-H Encampment at Lake Banes on July 16 and 17. Local club leaders will accompany and supervise their clubs at the camp with arrival by 9 30 a m on July 16. Club members only attend the camp except the night of July 16 when all are invited for a big event.
City visitors often feel overwhelmed by New York. The piece urges country travelers to embrace the city’s vast sights, praising the subway, elevated lines, and busy streets as a liberal education and a grand vacation option for curious visitors.
Jim Evers, 82, was robbed of about 300 dollars Saturday night near Taylor's Chapel as two unmasked men entered his Soda Springs home. One man covered his mouth while the other took the money, then they fled on foot. Evers previously reported a similar robbery in 1922.
J B Hancock of Coleman and his family were injured when their car went out of control coming down a hill three miles from Comanche en route from Brownwood to Comanche. Hancock suffered severe bruises while his son J B Jr 11 broke an arm and Mrs Hancock sustained head and limb injuries. A passing motorist helped them to Comanche where a physician treated them. Hancock had lived in Comanche while working as a driller on deep tests last year.
Mr Ea wards claims over one thousand bales produced from ten acres at T M Edwards farm near Harmony. The statement notes a yield exceeding one hundred bales per acre and highlights harvest scale for the season.
Carbon paper for tracing large sheets offered by Omaha Chief. Black ae sheet colors 15 per sheet.
Cimarron to be shown at the Ritz Theatre Sunday Monday and Tuesday July 12 18 and 14 with Richard Dix as Yancey Cravat Irene Dunne Sabra and Rosco Ates in a star studded cast. The piece is billed as a landmark motion picture production with a sweeping romance and dramatic thrills.
Seventy five thousand dollar Leon Bridge near completion with two thirds finished and the last pile driven. Projected completion by September 1 under Chief Engineer J. G. Irby. 1022 feet long, 22 foot roadway, steel and concrete, two feet above high water, built by 51 workers in three crews.
An agreement between the Brownwood Chamber of Commerce entertainment committee and a Comanche delegation schedules a Brownwood inter city celebration on Tuesday July 28 to mark the new concrete highway from Brownwood to the Comanche county line Over 2000 Comanche county residents are expected to travel the new route for the event W R Ely highway commission chairman is sought as a main speaker with A F Mourland district engineer and Dexter Construction Company contractors also to be invited.
Local classified note offers poultry and eggs purchasing by Fresh Meat Ice Peerless Pro duce Co. mentions cold storage for rent and trucking services.
On the E H Raubut farm Mr Raubut reports wild barley grew densely from a ten acre patch never tilled or worked until harvest. He threshed 2 280 bushels of barley, averaging 57 bushels per acre, plus 4 900 bushels of oats and 1 380 bushels of wheat with other mixed crops totaling over 10 758 bushels for the best grain yield in his farming career.
More than a hundred children at Comanche High School received diphtheria toxoid Thursday morning under State Nurse Miss Jean Dunnett with Dr. J O Lane and Dr L Clemons. The vaccination is part of a Health Crusade. a second dose is planned for Thursday morning July 30 followed by a typhoid vaccine.
The final bucketful of concrete was poured on Highway No. 10 from Main Street in Forney to the Comanche County line. The paving machine finished its work and traffic is expected by July 28 with a Brownwood Brown celebration in Brown and Comanche counties ready. Dexter Construction will move to its next job in Forney after completing the paving.
The John Alsup murder case linked to the First State Bank of Polytechnic robbery in Fort Worth on April 18, 1930 was transferred by Judge Hosey to Wichita Falls on change of venue. Trial likely in September with Otis Rogers seeking habeas corpus to secure bond release. Alsup has been jailed since the killings.
Paul Layne, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. J Layne, died after a truck driven by Dick Bagley swerved to avoid him and the rear wheels crushed his head on a rural road near Comanche Oklahoma. Sheriff’s deputies and a physician attended, funeral held at the Methodist Church with local pallbearers named.
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