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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1938
Page
2
The Comanche Chief lists publisher C. W. Wilkerson at the post office as agent for the newspaper. Subscription price is 1.00 per year in Comanche and adjoining counties, 1.56 elsewhere.
The article surveys figures like George Willis and C Hilton Burks amid resignations and re-elections, notes changing local commerce with book stores shrinking, and comments on the primaries and social mores. It also hints at penitentiary crowding in Huntsville, community values, and light column humor from Coleman and Dallas papers.
A big Monday in Comanche City drew crowds to Baxter's Place and Higginbothams with record opening activity. Mrs. Roy Pope won a six and a half pound catfish at Lake Eanes while her companion caught two bass. The local Baptist Church debt free announcement followed by focus on spiritual duties. National editor surveys discussed tax reform and labor law repeal as keys to revival.
A fragment notes calls to repeal Social Security and all New Deal statutes, including business regulation and the WPA Act, along with curtailing presidential powers. The list presents a purge of federal programs and authority, reflecting historical debate over government scope.
L B Russell compiles a third week court juror list and traces extensive genealogical details. Entries include Archibald Alexander II born 1708 who migrated from Ireland to Philadelphia in 1737 and later Virginia, plus James Arthur from Ireland with moves to Kentucky and Indiana. The document links numerous families such as Brightman, Brannon, Beatty, Chisholm, Carruth, Dingus, Denny, Fielder, Grigsby and Howard, noting migrations from Ireland, Scotland, and England to colonial America, military service, and marriages, ending with hedging comments on divided loyalties in the era.
The excerpt traces English, Welsh, and Huguenot lineage connected to early American settlers. It notes Margaret Howard and the Dukes of Norfolk, the Harris brothers in Jamestown and Massachusetts, the House family in Hartford, Jenkins in Maryland, Jones in Virginia, Luker descent, Lane in Westmoreland area, and Col. John Morrow of Spotsylvania and Berkeley counties, Virginia, a militia colonel and descendant line.
The notes trace Rev. John Moore as an original settler of Southampton Long Island, serving Hempstead and Newtown around 1650 1657, and mention marriages to Howell daughter of Edward McCarroll. It lists John James McCarroll and the McNatt family in Cumberland County North Carolina before 1790 with little additional data.
A roaming columnist notes several Texas locales and figures including Rusk cafes near the Capitol, a Hangover Cafe in Victoria, and a Fort Worth cafe serving scrambled eggs. The piece mentions publisher W M Hamilton of Palestine and past editing in Monte rey Mexico, plus a wartime anecdote about a waiter shouting two eggs country.
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