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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1932
Page
1
The article offers practical kitchen and homemaking ideas. It describes a cabbage filling, tips for scrapbooks with animal pictures, hosting tea with a tea cart, and balancing rest with daily chores to avoid fatigue. Running through are suggestions for children’s activities and simple household rituals.
Poetic fragment describing May with dandelions and daisies as the sun warms the scene. References to a hopeful swain, labor in fields, singing birds, blue skies, and the earth “like a bride” ready for flowers. Evokes renewal and pastoral beauty without specific events.
A distressed citizen questions why the child was not spoken to by a officer as authorities seek the missing youngster. The exchange suggests frustration with the response while investigators continue inquiries.
The Grand Jury reports 37 indictments from the April term including 30 felonies and 7 misdemeanors after ten days of sessions. It commends law enforcement, district and county attorneys, and the court, urges Sabbath observance, child upbringing, and citizen cooperation, notes jail improvements and a finance audit, and signs off with Foreman W A Nunelley.
Dr. I. M. Franks and Rev. Homer Davis spent part of last week in San Antonio. Miss Velda Franks and Mrs. H. W. White were weekend visitors in San Antonio.
Homer C. DeWolfe announces withdrawal from re election as representative for Comanche and Mills Counties after two terms. He notes his active legislature service over three years including the split tax payment plan and repeal of the Peddlers' Law. He was appointed to a temporary position in the Attorney General's office.
A Proctor farmer C R Timmons aged 42 and Olen Pell aged 48 were attacked by robbers at daybreak Thursday near Chalk Hill on the Fort Worth Dallas Pike. Timmons suffered non fatal gunshot wounds and Pell head injuries. About $8 was stolen. The men stopped to help a stalled car when gunmen emerged.
A mass meeting was called for Saturday May 14 at 2 pm at the Court House to organize a county wide tax payers association. Frank Cadenhead presided at the Comanche meeting where J D Holmes spoke and forty five men signed as members. Mr and Mrs Ben Lawson of Fort Worth visited Comanche over the weekend with Mrs Dora Greene.
The case of O. F. Walker facing indictment in the Proctor Bank hold-up is set for Thursday May 23. A special venire of 70 men is summoned for jury service, listing numerous local residents including J. H. Prater and R. W. Burton among others.
Miss Lillie Elkins of Indian Gap accepted a position with Mrs. Marshall Barcroft as an assistant in her beauty shop. Elkins is a graduate operator from the Jolly Beauty School of San Angelo.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Childress and Mrs. J M Childress with their daughter Miss Faye of Santa Anna visited relatives in Comanche on Monday.
Plans for hard surfacing 60 miles of Highway 10 from Fort Worth to Brownwood progress in the division state engineer’s office. Gravel will be added this fall with asphalt topping next summer, aiming for 1933 completion. A $22,000 bridge over Paluxy Creek near Bluffdale may be let May 30 or June 1. A new Brazos River bridge near Granbury, opened this week, cost $130,000 with three steel spans and concrete approaches.
The Grand Jury audited county finances from April 1, 1931 to April 1, 1982 and found the books correctly kept. Outstanding bonds total 249 446.00, road district bonds and road and bridge warrants amount to 29 971.07, and the General Fund balance is 14 784.56 versus 18 278.16 in 1921.
On Thursday Comanche High School held Senior Day with a chapel program where graduates performed an original play The Judgment Day impersonating the faculty. Afterward the senior class and chaperones visited the picnic grounds near Comyn for an outing.
The Democratic precinct conventions in Comanche are scheduled for 2 p.m. Precinct No 1 meets in the District Courtroom chaired by L F Elkins and Precinct No 2 at Woodman Hall chaired by T M Edwards. Delegates will be elected to the County Convention at 2 p.m. Tuesday May 10 at the Court House.
The district adjourned after a one day session to Friday morning. Bev erly Thomas v American Casualty Co and Mrs Belle Downs v Pe Wagnon et al were continued. Tom Jackson v Maude A McEwing set for trial. Monday morning the Criminal Docket will be taken up.
An error in last week’s issue misidentified the arrestee as Lee Anderson. Henderson pleaded guilty Friday to an alleged burglary, receiving a five year suspended sentence. Judge Eidson presided without a jury under a law enabling judges to decide guilty plea cases without a jury request.
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