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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1932
Page
1
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Poem by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt urging letting the past stay buried and focusing on the present love. The speaker dismisses memories of past years and emphasizes their shared home and present connection.
Comanche County farmers estimate about a $50 000 loss as a late season freeze damaged grapes berries and peaches with many trees in bloom declared nearly a total loss while some later blooms may produce a small crop experts note the nation’s hardest freeze since a 1931 19 degree low.
Chlupp and Nosigele trade quips about a friend of God and a cemetery postal reading. Quiggle notes a farewell image while Chlupp questions the meaning of the message.
A layered biscuit crust filled with cream cheese and raspberry jam served warm. Best mutton broth combines stock from boiled mutton with carrot turnip onion milk cornstarch parsley and seasoning, simmered until vegetables soften then strained and finished with parsley.
A varied set of sauce recipes including foam cream sauce and raisin sauce with details on butter sugar eggs and lemon juice. Also a note that Misses Mary and Louise Holmes spent Monday in Ranger with their sister Janet Holmes.
J. BR. Allcorn commander of the Rector Cunningham Post American Legion will be awarded a Military Service Cross from the Brownwood Chapter of the Daughters of Confederacy on Sunday April 26 according to the Brownwood chapter. To be eligible the honoree must be a veteran of the late war and whose father or grandfather fought in the Civil War.
Local residents honor Mrs. W. H. Montgomery as West Texas’s premier quilter. The 75 year old Comanche County native has made about 287 quilts given away, with a lifetime of work since she learned at 17. She lives eight miles south of Comanche on the Montgomery Ranch.
Play ground ball eliminations due Friday will start the County Meet at Comanche and DeLeon with boys and girls in separate contests. South county schools Baggett Comanche Cross Roads Energy Fairfield Gustine Lamkin Pettit Proctor Sidney Newburg Hazel Dell Hicks Corner compete at Comanche and Beattie Buffalo DeLeon Sipe Springs Downing Indian Mountain Leon Jakehamon Pounds Robinson Springs Comyn Van Dyke at DeLeon if weather delays.
J L Cockrell and family arrived this week from Burbank California to make their home in Comanche. Mr Cockrell is the son of Dr and Mrs S J Cockrell of Comanche.
The Annual Comanche County Singing Convention will be at Freewill Baptist Church in Van Dyke on Sunday March 20. The committee asks all county residents attending to bring dinner for a basket picnic and invites all singing classes to attend.
Unconfirmed reports say A and W Lime Company of Lubbock will build a lime and cement plant at Logan’s Gap seven miles from Comanche on the Brownwood Highway. Contracts with landowner Mrs. J T Hansard set a 12 12 cent per ton lime price and $25 monthly, with five acres optioned for a spur from the Frisco Railway. Construction to begin around April 1, employing about fifty locals, four lime kilns planned with 200 tons per month capacity and eventual cement plant. the Logan Gan Mountain is described as rich in limestone deposits.
Comanche County schools receive over 140 thousand dollars in state aid this year including 52 000 in special aid and 25 000 state aid. State Rural School Inspector Miss Shelby Attwell praised local schools for vocational and industrial achievements after two weeks of visits. Additional industrial bonuses and regular state aid allocations for many schools are listed with amounts for Pettit Gustine Sidney Sue Springs and others.
Comanche farmers receive about 409 dollars daily from erg sales while the weekly output reaches one thousand cases valued at eight cents a dozen totaling 2400 dollars on ~400 daily. Production remained strong despite cold weather per George McKinzie of Farmers Produce. George Sullivan of Brownwood visited Comanche over the weekend.
Mr and Mrs Sutton Dudley announce the arrival of a son named William Sutton Sunday night.
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