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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1916
Page
4
Windy and dry conditions discourage farmers in the Gap area. Some have planted corn but doubt emergence while oats show little growth. Local sheriff Cunningham visited Friday. Community notes include visits, travels to Sidney and Comanche, and a funeral at Pender grass cemetery. Whooping cough reported locally.
W S Stephenson of DeLeon visited relatives here last week. Several locals and visitors traveled between DeLeon and Comanche on Monday. Church gatherings and visits occurred including Rev Andy Strickland of Waco preaching and his wife speaking to the Y M C A. Mrs Arthur Whitney and Grandma Warren sent messages about ill relatives. The new high school building near the northern edge of town is nearly finished and the school moved in Monday as March winds bring real estate changes.
Virgil Graham visited relatives near Mercers Gap Saturday and Miss Mattie Duncan of Coman visited friends in Cotton Grove Sunday. Willie Roe spent the weekend with relatives near Potsville. Jim and Joe White and Willie Holland of Sidney attended singing Sunday evening. Odell Spence is very ill with pneumonia. her brothers and sisters have been called to be with her. Several young people attended church at Cottonwood Sunday night. Cyril McPherson of Pottsville attended singing Sunday afternoon. Our baseball boys played Newbury Wednesday hoping for victory. Mrs. W. A. Cade has pleurisy but is improving. Uncle Joe Robertson has been sick but is better. he’s an old Confederate soldier. Miss Mary Holland of Sidney attended singing Sunday evening. We also had several BP stains from Mt. Pleasant.
Beattie Beatie high school girls faced Duster girls in a fast game won by Duster 9 to 5 as Miss Ne pitched well for the home team. After the girls game Beattie boys beat the visitors 25 to 14 led by Professors Brown and Warren. Large crowd attended with locals and guests from nearby communities.
Miss Florence Hale visited home folks Saturday and Sunday. Montie Carmichael and family visited Mode Scott Sunday. Mr and Mrs McCarty, Mr and Mrs Will Smith, Mr and Mrs F Eule, Wilkes Glasgow and Bill were noted in social greetings.
A historical ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure promising a one hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh. It asserts thirty five years of use and blood purification to heal mucous surfaces and remove toxins. Testimonials offered, Toledo based F J Cheney & Co. market through druggists at ten cents.
The column records farm conditions and social news from the Oliver Springs community. It notes varied corn planting status, moisture in deep sand, and Effie Barber’s funeral at Oliver Springs Cemetery with Rev. E. S. Springer officiating. It mentions local visits, school plans, a druggist addition, malaria remedy advertisement, and new sport shirts offered by Burks Mercantile Co.
Burks Mercantile Co reports straw and Panama hats have arrived at Dudley’s New Stand on the West Side, inviting customers to preview the new stock.
A district judge J H Arnold representative W T Loudermilk county clerk W L Jackson T J Benton Stailey J H Haynes Jesse Hughes Bessie Egbert tax collector E C Dodson Nugent Durham G A Cunningham J O Depriest tax assessor T W Stark Jr E R Armstrong M E Hall J L Stagner MO L Peters S C Findley B Queen W W Cox county attorney Bob McCampbell W T McPherson A B Haworth district clerk Jokkie W Burks A J Artie Loyd sheriff J E Miller present deputy county superintendent Mrs J E Deely Commissioner No 1 Derroll E Nabers R W Fielder T A Ward Commissioner Precinct 2 G E Ed Seay S J Hicks T B Seago Commissioner Precinct N B H Lee H Shockley Jno W Wyatt
An old advertises Mansfield cough remedy claims to heal influenza and soothe irritated membranes for babies. It lists a 50 cent price and promotes its calming effect for tickling nerves in the throat.
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