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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1914
Page
13
A sale notes stock clearance with odds and ends reduced further than sale prices. One dress remains in a style, one pair of ox air shoes, and assorted piece goods cut to lower than regular prices. Dollree is worth two in regular value.
Comanche reports include visits and travels of residents with mentions of Dublin Eastland Mineral Wells Dallas and Waco. Notables include Dr O R Houghton dentist in the Masonic building and various families visiting relatives while others plan travels to Menard Ranger Woodruff and Aspermont. Local business Nabers Nash Robinson Sash & Door Co and Renfro Stock Company appearances noted.
Comanche residents hear of plans for a new air dome on the lot north of the old Carter Hotel and south of the McNeill boarding house. B G Cardwell, visiting Comanche, arranged with the W O W to use their hall in the Mayfield building as a skating rink set to open about July 20.
Mr and Mrs D S Blue left Monday for Arlington due to the death of Mrs Blue's father. The deceased, aged 80, had been in poor health. Friends in the city extend sympathy to Mrs Blue during this bereavement.
Miss Guida B. Kittle examined in from Dallas Monday where she has been visiting Mrs. J. T. Green and family. She was accompanied home by Mrs. Harry Brutseche and baby, nee Miss Coralee Green, who will visit here for a few weeks. W. L. Howell of Temple is here with his mother Mrs. M. J. Floyd and will stay until after the Log Rolling. Mrs. Howell and children have been here some time. Mr. Howell, once Chief’s attache, is now a linotype operator on the Temple Telegram and defends Ferguson politics amid campaign talk.
On last Sunday July 12 about 45 Banner family members gathered under pecan shade by Indian Creek in Flemings Park Comanche in five generations. The elder J W Banner 94 attended with five sons T J Banner 70 C K Banner 68 J L Banner 66 W M Banner 64 John Banner 56 and several relatives including Mrs Jane McCollum 57 Mrs Winnie Logan 59 and Mrs Amanda.
The Banner family, long established in Comanche county, gathered for a reunion. J. W. Banner, born in Virginia 1820, moved to Texas in 1870 with sons and daughters, settling east of Comanche in 1872. The retired elder married Martha Broadwater in 1842 and raised eight children. Surviving members mostly reside near Comanche. a few live in Terrell, Taylor, Haskell counties, and San Benito. The piece highlights old settlers and Southern heritage shaping local citizenship.
W D Jenkins speaks to voters claiming 28 years in public service and a record of school improvements. He touts balanced books, reduced taxes, new buildings, libraries, and strengthened student outcomes while urging residents to choose the candidate best for their children.
Twenty voters at the Banner family reunion in Fleming Park favor Ferguson for governor, eighteen of twenty. At a threshing gathering, fifteen of seventeen back Ferguson, and nine of eleven at a wind mill project. Overall, county opinion favors Ferguson by about 200 to 300 votes, with Ball supporters conceding a small margin.
Vernon July 13 Col Ball stated that saloon speakers accused him of poker playing. He acknowledged social poker in the past but quit before running, and he pledged abstinence from liquor again to prevent opponents from using past actions to aid political bucaneers and liquor interests.
An elder pioneer known as Uncle Dan long read the Old Reliable for forty years and is now added to the Honor Roll after a politics dispute briefly separated him from the paper.
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