Gustine News Highlights From Comanche Chief Visit and Local Happenings
Gustine residents visited Comanche on the fourth to witness the flag raising. Wheat yields run ten to twenty bushels per acre amid good work by farmers. Dr. Lewis relocates his drug store to a new building. J A Houstons residence nears completion. Populists nominate Graves for Justice and Bean for Commissioner. corncrop outlook strong. Prof Vaughn and family visit De Leon. Professors Crow and McElroy move to Comanche for a month to teach writing in Seer during the Summer Normal.
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Gustine
Comanche
Lewis
J. A. Houston
B. F. Graves
J. Bean
J. L. Vaughn
de Leon
E. Crow
P. E. McElroy
Seer
Comanche County In The Eighties Told In Verse
A poem submitted by Mrs. Lassie Chilton and read by Mrs. Travis at the Half Century Club in Fort Worth recalls Comanche County life in the eighties. The work was written by Mrs. C W Travis, daughter of the early Baptist pastor Rev Harris from Comanche.
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Lassie Chilton
S. E. Travis
C. W. Travis
East Ida Street
Fort Worth
Half Century Club
Way Back Yonder in the Eighties Courtship Memories
Nostalgia runs through a poem recalling eighties era West and frontier life. It mentions cattle kings, frontier figures, old time dances, picnics, May poles, Barnum circus visits, and boys courting with hoopskirts and hair locks. It evokes community events, fashion, and social rituals from a bygone era with strong regional names and vivid scenes.
Brownwood organizes a brass band in 64 years ago
The item notes Brownwood’s effort to form a brass band while other local notes report Wheat paid as subscription to The Chief, seven prisoners in the county jail, and a college building attracting owls and bats as a new oddity.
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Brownwood
Ladies Aid Society
Tenderfoot Green and the Corner Saloon In Story
Verse recalls a youth club rite of passage ending with a visit to the corner saloon after escorting girls home. It contrasts temperance pledges with a night of drinking, reflecting social habits of the era.
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Baccus
Card of Thanks for Thurman Tally’s Family
The family of Thurman Tally thanks friends and neighbors for sympathy and flowers during illness and death. Thurman Tally’s children and family express gratitude and blessings.
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Mrs. Thurman Tally
Thurman Tally
W. Haves
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Lise Gue
CPI
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Offman
OLD Settler’s
Comanche County
Lake Eanes Park
Comanche, Texas
Brightman & So
Uncle Sam
Captain McKinsey
Bill McDonald
W. B. Reynolds
Ben Plasters
Mose Hurley
Bill Stone
Dobbin
Equestriennes
Sam Jones
Abe Mulkey
Major Penn
Barnum and Bailey
Pawnee Bill
Mellor
Mollie Bailey
Langtry
Wilde
John Chichester
Kangaroo Courts
Chrysler
Dudley Bros
Eltos
Russell
Hazel Dell
Messrs Tune & McLemore
County Grange
F. M. Browne
W.M
W. D. Markham
Truton
Messrs
J. D. Stephens & Company
Coleman City
South
Clay Building Material CO
C. E. Straley
Mer
John Reese
Jim Bumpas
J. M. Skinner
D. W. Christian
Service Drug Store
Growhs
Texas
Q-Cof
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