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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1913
Page
9
Don’t be discouraged by a poor season. Save what you have using Deering light running mowers and rakes with a one horse press. Harvest properly for splendid feed and independence with easy terms that pay for themselves in crop savings and timely work.
A large crowd attended the Methodist church children day exercises. Visitors from Comanche Dallas Gap and German include Hugh Clark Claude Wells and Miss Montie Stailey. Annie Redwine, 30, died suddenly Friday. funeral conducted by Rev. Clark with a large funeral procession to Pendergrass cemetery.
Readable fragments claim Porter’s Antiseptic cures sore cases and other remedies fail. It touts remarkable effectiveness and relief, suggesting the product treats wounds and sores with fast results.
A recent hard rain swept through the Wilson region causing property damage including several houses losing foundations and five barns. Community updates note Fay Phillips visiting Beattie, Riley Marringan and Miss Rosie Gatlin traveling to Carlton for a wedding, and infant death in DeLeon cemetery. Lightning struck Allen DeSpain’s house during a rain with roof damage and exposed wiring near Heath addition.
Local notices recount visits and arrivals in Byrdville with many names from Indian Mountain Gorman and Blanket. The piece also lists prize scholarships and club contest rules tied to the 1913 14 agricultural programs and the Chief Exponent circulation.
Local notes report J F Beatty and wife visiting Alabama, G H Loudermilk and family traveling to Georgia, Emmett Richardson visiting for school matters with Richards and Cox appointed as superintendent and principal. Primary teachers to be hired. A church mice program planned at the Methodist church next Sunday. Frank Churchwell visiting from Stevens county. Methodist conference slated for the fifth Sunday in June and Baptist protracted meeting beginning the third Sunday in July. Mrs Dawkins of East Downing ill with typhoid. Dr Greer of DeLeon visited. Will Reed and children traveled to Comyn to view uncle and school plays, returning Sunday.
Regular downpour last week aided crops, notably late sown oats, due to short straw. Mowers will be in demand as farmers benefit from the rain. Weaver Smith and wife, of
Offers prizes from colleges and citizens to promote Boys and Girls Club Work in Texas. Classes include corn, milo, and cotton exhibits at the Dallas State Fair 1913 with minimum exhibit requirements. Scholarships awarded for top tomato records and a music department scholarship.
Frank Clark has sold the City Market on Depot Street to W. M. Stewart and Frank Fenton who will continue the business at the same old stand.
Black Hawk Chief, a black Hambletonian through bred stallion owned by W. D. Berry, will season at J. F. Moody's wagon yard. The horse, registered as Prince and tied to Hastings Oklahoma breeder J. H. Pruitt, is sired by Sorrell with Lucindy B as dam and Old Pet as further lineage, insured for ten dollars for the colt.
The Mammoth Jack Sherman L A Brown, owned by W D Berry, is imported with Tax Payer Jr. as sire and Queen Ann line ancestry. The animal will season at J F Moody wagon yard, with a ten dollar insurance for col.
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