Comanche Community Welcomes Visitors and Bus Route Update
A Texas town named Comanche is praised for its churches people and culture as visitors recount hospitality and an open home for a ceremony. The report notes a new motor coach route between Comanche Gatesville Gustine and Hamilton with daily service and a schedule.
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Texas
Cove County
Cohe
White Point
George Black
Comanche
Johnson City
Gatesville
Gustine and
Pen
Gates
Jesville
Hamilton
Local Notices and Marriages From De Leon Area
Military service listings include 18 year olds and veterans with 1-A(H) status and honorable discharges. Marriages recorded in De Leon and surrounding towns feature multiple couples with dates in November and officiants listed. Deaths note several local residents with burial details and birth years. Property transfers record several land deeds in Comanche County and De Leon areas with specific tracts and monetary considerations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Te Ee Service
James G. Herzie
Willie R. Flowers
Charlie L. Rich
Hurshell H. Brown
Odell R. Bethany
Roy Calvin Nesley
Roger Curtis Smith
Jean Alden Carter
Cleve B. Denny
Charles Wade Coan
W. D. Jones
Joseph Allen Scott James Harold Decker Willis
Theldon White
Glenn Robertson
J. T. Barkley
Homer E. Stephens
Camp Endecott
Rhode Island
Veda Claudette Carleton
Comanche
Gordon Barrett
Thurman Childress
de Leon
Zeola Carnes
T. J. Sparkman
de Leon Baptist
J. R. Rushing
Georgia
John M. Mauney
Gorman
Mississippi
Verlis Angie Doggett
Dublin
Route 2
Roch Cemetery
Texas
J. Stockridge
Nanne Wilson Stockridge
Nomer Hafford
Hershel Burleson
City of
H. F. Rackley
G. T. Rudd
B. F. Johnson
W. R. Poage
Gus L. Burks
J. Mentenae Survey
Lonita Steele
Oo Dayton C
Golden Oak Mil Co
Town of Leon
Thomas T. Brown
L. EB
Moroc
James Jaw
L. B . Morgan
M. Dixon
Coomanetion Memsere
Thanksgiving Edition Delayed Broadcast and Closures
Thanksgiving coverage will be published a day early and aired Wednesday night. Comanche businesses largely close for the holiday, with banks and post offices remaining open as usual. Readers are asked to submit material promptly and have ads ready at earliest convenience.
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Ely
Northcutt and Wheeless Selected From West Texas Cadets
Aviation Cadet Merlin P Northcutt and Aviation Cadet Chester Wheeless of Ballinger are the only two West Texas cadets chosen for the hurdle landing event. Goodfellow Field intramurals featured 36 top fliers with Texas earning six berths and placing second in select events. Northcutt, in service eight months, is praised in a San Angelo Standard write up as part of the cream of Goodfellow cadets.
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Merlin P. Northcutt
T. J
Northcutt
Chester Wheeless
Ballinger
West Texas
Goodfellow
Ilinois
Texas
San Angelo
Moraism In Action Lieutenant Allcorn Decorated
First Lieutenant Hugh J. Allcorn of Brownwood received the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in North Africa. The award was announced at a divisional review on October 26 along with a dinner hosted by his regimental commander. He is believed to be with American forces in Italy, and was promoted from second to first lieutenant. His brothers Capt. George Allcorn and Pvt. Bill Alicorn are also in military service.
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Hugh J. Allcorn
Brownwood
Jack Allcorn
J. B. Allcorn
Comanche
Allcorn
North Africa
Italy
George Allcorn
San Antonio
Pvt
Bill Alicorn
Baptist Revival at Gustine Church Announced
Rev. James E. Clark of First Baptist Gustine announces revival at his church from December 17 to 26. Rev. Jack Daniel of Red Springs will preach, Roland Miller will lead singing, and Mrs. N. E. Palmer of Gustine will play piano.
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James E. Clark
First Baptist Church of
Gustine
Jack Daniel
Red Springs Baptist Church
Roland Miller
N. E. Palmer
Hay yields and prices reflect variable rains and crops
Farmers report hay damaged by rains with prices around 20 dollars a ton and some buyers setting selling prices. Peanuts at 2.14 plus a 3 cent penalty for 70 test nuts. The hay grade is poor but recent weights show improvement. Elm Grove farmer notes yields from 2 to 20 bushels per acre across fields.
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Elm Grove
Comanche Indians Face De Bearcats in Thanksgiving Showdown
Next Thursday Coach Compton's Comanche Indians prepare for the closing 1943 football game at the local park against the De Bearcats. A prior 6-0 win over De Leon sets expectations for a toss up as De Bearcats have improved, with a possible 500 season if Comanche wins.
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Compton
Comanche Indians
de Bearcats
Indians
de Leon
Bearcats
Champ Joe Louis to Visit Camp Bowie
Heavyweight champion Joe Louis Barrow will visit Camp Bowie on November 30 arriving Tuesday morning. He will tour the Station Hospital convalescents, lecture to boxing teams and enlisted personnel off duty at the Field House, and his party will demonstrate training routines and boxing drills.
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Joe Louis Barrow
Camp Bowie
Station Hospital
Navy trainin g instructor at Harvard Naval Reserve chief
W. C. Underwood, C.S.P. of the United States Naval Reserve, from Sydney Route 1, Cambridge Massachusetts, issued a Navy Physical Education instructor posting at aeruea University Cambridge. Former May High School and Howard Payne College football star, in service about a year, previously coach at Rochelle and Paint Rock, trained at Norfolk and Davisville. Married to Maurine Byrd of Blanket.
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W. C. Underwood
C.S.P
United ‘States Naval Reserve
J. C. Underwood
Sidney
Navy
Aeruea University
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Underwood
May High School
Howard Payne College
Rochelle
Paint Rock
Norfolk
Virginia
Davisville
Rhode Island
Maurine Byrd
L. F. Byrd
Blanket
County Singing Next Sunday At Board Church
County wide singing set at Board Church Sunday afternoon November 21 at 2 30. Arrangements committee says many out of county singers will attend with Bill Huggins of Brownwood and other good singers helping make it a top event. Board Church lies 64 miles east of Comanche on the old Gustine highway.
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Board Church
Bill Huggins
Brownwood
Comanche
Gustine Highway
Jersey Breeders To Form District Association Today
A meeting for dairymen of Eastland Erath Hamilton Brown Millis and Comanche Counties is set for Friday November 19 at 11:00 a.m. in the Comanche county courtroom to form the West Cross Timber Dairy Association. The group aims to aid dairymen amid war inflation and high feed costs with support from county agents E R Eudaly Extension Dairyman and other notable figures.
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Eastland
Erath
Hamilton
Brown
Millis
Comanche
West Cross Timber Dairy Association
E. R. Eudaly
Extension Dairyman
College Station
Elizabeth Clarke to wed St Irwin in Dallas today
Miss Elizabeth Ellen Clarke and Lieutenant Robert John Irwin plan a Dallas wedding at the Clarke home on Hanover Street. The couple, with ties to Dallas schools and North Dallas High, will marry this afternoon as announced by the Clarke family.
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Elizabeth Clarke
ST. Irwin
Dallas
Hugh St. Clair Clarke
Elizabeth Ellen
Robert John Irwin
Hanover
Miss Clarke
North Dallas High School
TSCW
Lisgienala
Lee
Uate
Noah School
Ntac Ee Ar
Clyde Kirk Spends Sunday in Comanche with Mother
Clyde Kirk of Fort Worth visited Comanche on Sunday to spend time with his mother, Mrs. Lucy Kirk.
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Clyde Kirk
Fort Worth
Comanche
Lucy Kirk
Young Comanche College student tops A and M honor roll
David Compton, age 16, son of Sumerintendent and Mrs. W. Z. Compton of Comanche College, is listed in the Distinguished Student Register for the first semester of the 1943 1944 session at Texas A and M. Dean Gibb Gilchrist of Engineering praises his outstanding scholarship and extends congratulations to David and his family.
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David Compton
W. Z. Compton
Comanche College
Compton
Gibb Gilchrist
A&m
William David Compton
School of Engineering
David
Cotton Ginning Totals Reported for Comanche County
Comanche County sees 589 bales ginned by November 1 per official Joe Marshall, unofficial totals surpass 700. Last season 1202 bales, 1941 total 1002. Two gins active this year Rauhut's and H. L. Eight, operating only Tuesday and Friday.
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Comanche County
Joe Marshall
Rauhut
H. L
Comanche
G R Moore Receives Wings At Yale Graduation
Lt. G R Moore son of Mr and Mrs J W Moore of Carlton receives aviation wings at Army Air Forces Training Command exercises held in Yale University New Haven Connecticut. He will serve as technical officer in armament overseeing gunsights cameras and munitions aboard planes. Moore, a former Fluvanna Public Schools superintendent, Yale attendee since July 5 1943.
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R. Moore
J. W. Moore
Carlton
Army Air Forces Training Command School
Yale University
New Haven
Conneticut
Sterling Law Buildings
Moore
Fluvanna Public Schools
Carlton High School
Daniel Baker College
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Garner Field
Uvalde
Mrs Mack Adams Buys Jack's Cafe in Comanche
Mrs Mack Adams purchased Jack's Cafe on the west side of the square in Comanche this week. The business is owned by Mr and Mrs Jack Morgan.
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Mack Adams
Jack
Jack Morgan
Comanche
Private Ike Phifer Lands Safely Overseas
Pvt Ike Phifer has landed safely in North Ireland, as reported. His wife in Comanche received the news, confirming his safe arrival overseas.
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Ike Phifer
North Ireland
Comanche
Feed Crisis Prompted Comanche County Livestock Meeting
Comanche County livestock and Jersey breeders associations wired Mr Caraway to urge Washington authorities to act on the desperate feed situation. They stressed producers want to work but cannot without adequate feed, calling for drastic immediate action.
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Washington
Comanche County Livestock Association
Comanche County Jersey Breeders Association
Caraway
Comanche County
Comanche Schools Announce Thanksgiving Break and Program Change
The Comanche Public Schools plan a two day Thanksgiving holiday, dismissing on Thursday November 25 and Friday November 26. After the break, school starts at 9:30 a.m. on Monday. Christmas holidays run from Thursday morning December 23 to Friday January 3.
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Comanche
W. Z. Compton
Mr. Compton
Thanksgiving Service At CHS Auditorium Wednesday Night
A union Thanksgiving service will be held in the CHS high school auditorium Wednesday night November 24. The Pastors Association prepared a program with Congregation Singing led by Filand Fagan, readings by Dr. C C Klingman, music by Girls Glee and Mixed Choral, and a sermon by Dr. W B Gray. The event also serves as a welcome for Dr. Gray. Tech Sgt Doyce H Short of Comanche, formerly Higginbotham's boy, is overseas with American Forces and currently in Northern Ireland.
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C. C. Klingman
Pastors’ Association
Filand Fagan
Carl Brumbelow
R. B. Hoop
W. B. Gray
Gray
Tech
Doyce H. Short
Comanche
Higginbotham’s
Northern Ireland
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