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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1925
Page
2
Harmony boys traveled to Fairview for the final school exercises then met Downing on Saturday and lost. The report notes upcoming actions with the team planning further games.
Our school closed Friday after a successful program and play. A larger crowd attended the Harmony production of Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick directed by N. Carter. Cast members included Luther Williams Nadine Dillin Mozelle Williams Opal Beaty and Marshall McNutt among others.
June 3 reports Rev R M McGinnis and family visiting, sermons at Sweetwater. Local singers sang for bedridden Mr Beck. Mrs A H Beene returned from Merkel visit. Harris Smith back from Georgia. Beene family and Cotton Grove relatives visit. Charley Walker family with daughter at Gressett home. Social visits and play attendance noted. Sunday school well attended. invitations extended. Lloyd family outings on Coppers Creek. fishing and picnicking success.
Regular correspondent reports visits and gatherings around Cotton Grove. Families and friends travel between Brownwood Sweetwater and Comanche for weekends and summer visits, polo games, music nights, and shared meals with updates on Alice Davis’s health and local reunions.
An advertisement touts Liquid Borozone as a versatile lini ment remedy that works faster and more thoroughly for typical applications. The copy emphasizes quicker relief and greater comfort, pricing the product at 30 cents.
Desdemona residents plan early summer trips while farmers toil from dawn to dust to ready crops. Memorial Day honors were observed as merchants closed shops and graves were decorated. Miss Rena Black of Washington, D C visited Mrs W Bedford. Miss Black works at the U S Treasury.
A small church gathering Friday shows a rain shower on Monday. Many locals visited relatives and attended events in Comanche and nearby areas. Rev Beaty and Rev Clark preached at the church. families hosted visitors and shared meals in a busy community weekend.
J M Wetmore oil well driller for Leon Valley Oil Co was fatally injured last Wednesday at the Peak well three miles south of Desdemona. A broken cable struck the back of his head fracturing his skull and a heavy cable fell near him. He died a few hours after being moved to the Blackwell Sanatorium in Gorman following treatment by Dr J H McCoy. Wetmore had moved from Oklahoma during the oil boom and lived in De Leon for seven years.
Simple buckthorn bark and magnesium sulph glycerine and other ingredients in Alderika act quickly to relieve gas in the stomach and ease constipation without griping. Hamilton Drug Company offers gl liquid borozone for wounds and skin injuries, priced 30c 60c and 1 20 sold by Paris Smith.
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