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Beattie Becomes Homecoming Focus For Texans June 25
Beattie Texas, ten miles northwest of Comanche, to hold its annual homecoming June 25 at the community center. Ex residents, teachers and ex students from across Texas and beyond are expected to attend. The article recalls Beattie’s rise as a milling and trading hub with a cotton gin built by Charles F. Beattie in 1892, multiple stores, a post office, churches, a school, and early doctors and blacksmiths, painting a picture of a once thriving inland town now largely diminished.
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Walter Dixon
Beattie
Comanche
Texas
Comanche County
Charles F. Beattie
Lusk
Lige
B. R. Bingham
Tobe Green
Geo. Williams
Jim Andrews
Clemons
Dan Bingham
Artie Lloyd
Lee Welch
D. W. Bingham
Blair
Marvin Blair
Gorman
Tanglefoot
John Kelly
James W. Beattie
Custer
Walter Castleberry
Joe Hardin
Hasse
Hickman
Eureka
Martin
Harry Robertson
Lee Jenkins
Irwin Warren
Pearl Stephensons
Roscoe Owens
Dubuse
E. W. Butler
Boyd
W. T. Calhoun
Rape
O. A. Gore
Morton
Cantrell
Villa