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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1940
Page
6
Mr and Mrs J P Milner and Mr and Mrs Allen Milner of Vernon visited in the Car Milner Thursday of last week Edmison of West Texas visited relatives here over the weekend
Rev. E. B. Early and wife of Brownwood visited Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. John Harris at Hasse. Mrs. Amsy Kerley hosted a birthday supper for Lou Ella Wingfield Saturday night.
Gustine Methodist Missionary Society reports steady meetings despite weather and illness. April program featured daily affairs and Bible knowledge contests with refreshments prepared by two ladies. Mrs Greebon led a Mission Study as pastor’s mother visited. May 7 district conference hosting planned with Lamkin Energy and Gustine ladies serving chicken dinner to fund a new rock garage at the parsonage.
Mrs. Reeves celebrated her seventy seventh birthday with a dinner at her home in Comanche. Attending were two daughters Rex Kitchen and Earl Howell of Austin, sixteen other Capital City guests, and Comanche visitors Mrs. Ollie Trione and Mrs. Jennie Garrett, both longtime Austin residents.
Court House News lists several marriages in May and April across De Leon Gustine and Comanche with officiants including Rev. Greebon Hederson Tidwell and Justice W B Smith. It notes births from April and May in Comanche and Gustine and deaths of local residents with burial details and cemetery names. Deeds recorded include property transfers in Comanche De Leon and Gustine, with parcels and monetary considerations.
Family and friends gathered in Comanche for the funeral of JL B Russell. Attendees included Russell relatives from Houston Edinburg Mississippi State College San Antonio Pleasanton Arp Blanket Dallas Fort Worth Brownwood and others.
Among 615 College of Arts and Sciences graduates at the University of Texas on June 3 is Eugene Stanton Wilhelm of Comanche. He will earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Funeral rites for nine year old Dwain Evan son of Mr and Mrs Bly Evans of Gustine were held at 2 Board Church Friday afternoon by Rev Sterling Isham. Interment followed in the local cemetery. Dwain survived by his parents two brothers and two sisters.
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