Month Old Baby Breaks Leg in Comanche Home
A month old baby, Thomas Trotter, son of Captain and Mrs. J. T. Trotter, suffered a broken leg at their Comanche home in the Mrs. Hill Huddleston apartment early Sunday. He was rushed to a Brownwood hospital for treatment and is reported as doing as well as can be expected. The Trotters, natives of Illinois, have lived in Comanche for six or seven months. Captain Trotter has been reassigned to an Army post in California.
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Thomas Trotter
J. T. Trotter
Mrs. Hill Huddleston
Comanche
Brownwood
Trotter
Illinois
Captain Trotter
California
Comanche Man Promoted to Staff Sergeant Williams
Woodrow W. Williams of Comanche after Army enlistment in February 1941 earns a promotion from sergeant to staff sergeant. He serves as a clerk with the 49th School Squadron at Goodfellow Fields while attending Army Air Corps basic flight school in San Angelo Texas.
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Woodrow W. Williams
S. V. Williams
Comanche
Goodfellow Fields
Army Air Corps
San Angelo
Texas
Williams
49Th
Army
CARD OF THANKS AND LOCAL notes
Card of thanks expresses gratitude from S R Buckmaster family for kindness during illness and funeral. Sugar rationing registration Monday noted. Question posed for next week chief on CHS honor graduate. Adding machine paper advertised at Chief.
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CHS
S. R. Buckmaster
Wedding of Captain Williford and Miss Maverick in San Antonio
Captain James Hobson Williford of the U S Army Air Corps married Miss Mary Augusta Maverick at St Mark's Episcopal Church in San Antonio. The bride wore slipper satin with Chantilly lace, and the reception followed at the bride's mother's home in Alamo Heights with family and military guests in attendance.
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Hobson Williford
San Antonio
Mary Maverick
Mary Augusta Maverick
Glenn Scanling Key
George Vance Maverick
James Hobson Williford
Air Corps
United States Army
Randolph Field
James Henderson Williford
Comanche
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Everett H. Jones
Walter Dunham
John Saad
Dick Thomas
John Clay Evers
Perrin Field
Sherman
Texas
Clarence B. Hammerle
James Carson Watkins
Maurine Sasser
Nixon
Adolph von Weise
Virginia Busby
Miss Sasser
Chantilly
Lamont Ave
Alamo Heights
Lola Maverick Lloyd
Winetka
Illinois
Herbert J. von Rosenberg
Mary Vance Green
Glen Scanling Key
Key
Rena Maverick Green
Annie Waelder Johnston
Whitmore Morris
Henry Wofford
John L. Browne
Richard J. Harding
Leon L. Roach
Charles Humphrey
Robert M. Middlebrook
A. E. Williams
Mortimer Hallam
Walter Shafer
A. F. Sasser
Lawrence Mathews
Marvin
Williford
Anne Boyer
Temple
Mary Lloyd
Washington, D. C
Georgia Lloyd
John Radford
Houston
William Royston Geise
Camp Wolters
Mineral Wells
Van Dyke School Re-Elects Teachers for Next Year
Dee Burleson, Mrs. Garnet Froh, and Miss Opal Thomas were re elected to teach at Van Dyke School for another year. The school aims to complete a successful year with a new lunch room and several programs. Van Dyke is a nine grade school with other grades moved to Comanche.
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Dee Burleson
Garnet Froh
Opal Thomas
van Dyke School
van Dyke
Comanche
Lt Colonel Eli E Brown Arrives Safely in England
Mrs P A Pettit of Comanche received a cablegram Saturday confirming Lt Colonel Eli E Brown has arrived safely in England. Brown, reared in Gustine, is the son of Dr and Mrs J P Brown and serves in the United States Army Medical Corps.
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Eli E. Brown
Mrs. Pettit
England
P. A. Pettit
Comanche
Brown
Gustine
J. P. Brown
Medical Corps
United States Army
Baggett Club To Meet On May 4
Miss Mayfield county home demonstration agent will meet with the Baggett Club on May 4 at Mrs Winston Kee s. Members should bring cooker gauges for testing and a canning demonstration is planned. The club met April 20 with a talk on garden insect control.
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Miss Mayfield
County Home
Baggett Club
Winston Kee
Mayfield
Comanche Camp Bowie Workers Seek Daily Morning Bus
Comanche and nearby residents employed at Brownwood want Bowen Bus Company to run a daily early morning bus from Comanche returning in the afternoon. If 40 sign up, the company will operate at an agreed rate. Interested individuals should contact Mr or Mrs Ed Sanders at the Owl.
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Camp Bowie
Comanche
Brownwood
Bowen Bus Company
Ed Sanders
The
Owl
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Sam
C. F. Denny's
Sol Hoffman
Comanche County
Junior
Dad
Sinclair
U. S. Army
Sinclair-ize Service
Sinclair-Ize
Eels
W. C. House
Sinclair Agent
Hoffman's
Hoffman
Dallas
Heaven
Criminal Court
Emmitt Hicks
Comanche Camp
Bowie
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