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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1936
Page
4
George C. Wetzel seeks voter support for a second term as Justice of Peace in Comanche County Precinct No. 1. He urges personal engagement, notes health and full-time commitment, and asks for transportation aid to reach voters before July 25.
County Agent Mark Buckingham reports 1,032 work sheets signed under the Agricultural Conservation Program in Erath County. This amounts to just over one third of the county’s 3,048 farms, as of Wednesday. The Jasper News Boy notes the Nobel Peace Prize awards deny rumors naming Max Baer as a candidate.
Kal Segrist, former big league baseball player, runs for Commissioner of Agriculture in Texas with a platform including a 14 member unpaid advisory board, fair distribution of breeding stock, and cooperation with Texas colleges and schools. He cites farming roots, wartime service, and ties to Hico and Dallas County, urging strong action on quarantines pest control and stock disease. He mentions Chief Charlie Ludwig’s tall son as a side note.
Administrator Andrew Roberson announces sale of the Roberson estate land totaling 121 acres east of Comanche on Highway Ten plus 80 acres northeast of Comanche with 30 acres cultivated, 80 more northeast with 65 acres cultivated, house well and improvements. Sale by court order for the estate of J A and Viola Roberson.
Annie May Williford Mahan, born December 18 1895 in Comanche County, died in Longview. Funeral services were held at Zion Hill Baptist Church with Rev. Gordon Barrett and Rev. A Edwin Wilson officiating. She is survived by her husband H G Mahan, six children all of Longview, two brothers and two sisters. Pallbearers named Bill Mewborn Jess Odell Buster Cameron Orin Williford Lester McNutt Frank Williford.
Marian Kinne 11, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs John Kinne of Thornton, died in a Marlin hospital Saturday. Burial was at Thornton Cemetery Monday. Survived by parents two brothers and two sisters. The Kinne family lived here years. Mr Kinne was a Post Office clerk and now a rural carrier at Thornton. Claude Cox and Jesse Smith of Comanche attended.
May will be represented by Superintendent H. E. White Dr. A. M. Bowden and Mark Robason at the State Tournament set for the first week of July on the Centennial grounds in Dallas The event is expected to attract record entries and the Dallas winners may advance to the national meet as May fans hope for strong team results.
C. G. Morton, former principal of the Van Dyke School, was elected to teach in the De Leon Public School system for the coming year. He is attending the summer session at A. & M. College and will receive his degree in July.
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