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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1925
Page
2
Comanche County notes include small Sunday school attendance, Rev. Clark preaching at Fellowship, and locals visiting relatives. Attendees traveled to Custer and Mountain View for services. Baseball score Fellowship 7 Priddy 24. Several residents plan short trips and visits across nearby towns.
Stag Creek Sydney area reports a July Baptist meeting hosted by Mrs C B LaRoque with attendance and family news. The column lists visits, church services, travel for work and leisure, and various local residents visiting relatives or traveling to nearby towns.
Regular Correspondent reports Walter Sharp and family of Carlton visiting B Williams and family last week. Jim Fagan and family toured Aline then returned. Opal tay visits her sister Mrs Ben Smith of Slanket. Mozelle Williams visits relatives at Shires. Mr and Mrs Carl McNutt spents Saturday night with Print Hodges and family of Comanche. Local youths enjoyed a musical at Jim Fagan's home. Opal Beaty has Oklahoma relatives visiting this week. Yowell Bradley and George Grey of Blanket visited Sunday night. Doc McNutt left for Fort Worth Sunday to attend barber school. Gladys Mathews and Erie Powers of Sweetwater attended Mr Mensant’s Sunday singing.
Friends and relatives in Cotton Grove mourn the death of Charlie Galloway on Sunday July 45 while he resided in Brownwood sanitarium. The community honors a valued citizen and Prayers go out to his widow and children amid the bereavement. Local gatherings include IL Burks annual barbecue drawing a large crowd as visitors arrive from Dallas and Merkle for family and church events.
The community reports busy watermelon marketing as farmers harvest fruit. Local visitors include Mrs. Alan Howard of O’Donnell and Mrs. G. F. Boynton of Logan Gap. Birthday plans for Mrs. F. M. Tiner, 68, are set near Vandyke with a family reunion inviting relatives to attend.
Messers Clat and Raymond Robertson left Friday for Tom Green county. Mr Gill Robertson left Monday for Merkel. Miss Mabel Hall spent the weekend visiting home folks. Will Gilbreath and son Edward of Dublin and Edd Gilbreath and sons Wayne and Judson of Aan Hill visited sister and aunt Mrs B D Holden. Mrs Robertson and Misses Lois and Dannie spent Tuesday with Mrs FE Holden. Floyd Kilgore and wife and baby visiting brother. They arrived before Golda Gallaway's father's deathbed.
In Edna Hill on July 28 residents note a rain shortage. Hubert Salyer and family return to New Mexico from visits. Curtis Salyer heads to Colorado for a training academy. A Leon swim was enjoyed by several. Oran Gilbreath departs for San Antonio. A family reunion at G We Salyer home included nine of eleven children, with Eunice and Hubert among them. Berneice Gilbreath stayed with grandparents DD and Bryson.
Mrs L Ginoricn of 1375 N Gilmore St Baltimore recounts using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound during the Change of Life and for a "broken-down system" obtaining relief after successive bottles. She notes benefits for her daughters and endorses the medicine for nervousness strain and hot flashes common in middle age.
In Comanche County Texas a special election is set for August 22, 1925, at the School Building in Common School District No. 29 to decide whether to consolidate with the Sipe Springs Independent School District forming the Sipe Springs Consolidated Independent School District. R T Wallice will preside with two judges and two clerks. returns are due to the Commissioners Court within five days. Qualified voters can vote for consolidation with the option words POR CONSOLIDATION or AGAINST CONSOLIDATION. Dated July 28, 1925, County Judge R A Luker.
In August 1925 at the Sipe Springs Oil Company office, residents of Sipe Springs Independent School District and Cox Common School District No 29 will vote to consolidate into the Sipe Springs Consolidated Independent School District. F C Wagnon is appointed to oversee the process with qualified voters eligible to participate. The notice dated July 28 1925 indicates district residents must cast ballots for or against consolidation.
Notice of hearing No 948 announces a proposed permit by the City of Comanche to appropriate up to 400 acre feet per year from Mercers Creek for a reservoir to serve municipal needs. A dam 82 feet high and 1,750 feet long would create a 1000 acre foot storage capacity with a 10 foot average depth. Hearing set for August 31, 1925 at 10:00 AM in Austin before the Board of Water Engineers. any interested party may appear.
Advertisement promises a guaranteed remedy for sore gums bleeding gums loose teeth foul breath and pyorrhea. It touts a unique treatment with assured results and offers oxide batteries priced from $13.00 at Jenk ins Battery Service next to the Post Office.
Advertisement notes signs of torpid liver with symptoms like bad breath head spins poor appetite and constipation. Claims Herbine as a dependable remedy for liver stomach and bowels with energizing effects priced 60 cents and sold by Paris Smith.
A public health note warns mothers to watch for worm symptoms in children and act quickly. It promotes White's Cream Vermifuge as a time-tested remedy that drives out worms and restores health, priced at 5 cents and sold by Wm. Reese Co. It also advertises low prices on car Exide batteries at Jenkins Battery Service near the Post Office.
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