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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1932
Page
1
A fragment describes a thief selling bar room drinks and a man watching a jewelry store. It notes New York jewelry stores offering a jumping hour watch and mentions decorated fingernails with playing card symbols as a new craze among women.
About thirty cars of peanuts left Comanche Monday per buyers C P St Clair and J W Carter Sr. They report not more than a quarter of the crop sold yet. Yields range from fifteen to sixty bushels per acre with many around twenty to fifty. Acreage holds steady. quality improves and rain damage was minimal after last year's issues.
In three court days five defendants were sent to penitentiaries or jailed. Dick Grice received two years for burglary, R C Campbell drew one year with no suspended sentence, Joe Bogrree got one year, Roy Timmons and E W Brown were acquitted, and Warren Newton’s perjury case ended in a hung jury as Thanksgiving adjournment followed.
Comanche County’s tax rate rose from 47 to 50 cents per $100 valuation to cover extra jury costs and remains one of the state’s lowest. The State Tax Journal lists Reeves County as the lowest at 29 cents and Franklin at $2.40. nearby counties show higher levels while some road districts in Comanche gained reductions.
The quail season for this section of Texas will open next Thursday December 1 and run through January 16 1938. The bag limit is twelve per day or 36 in any one week.
Dr. Robert T. Hill recalls the 1874 move from Nashville to Comanche and Waco Texas. He depicts rough rail travel, frontier life, and the contrast with the Old South, noting Vanderbilt University, Eads Bridge, and Indian reservations as key milestones. The piece ends as the narrator heads west into unsettled lands.
County Agent John A. Barton sustained chest injuries and severe bruises after a collision near Sharp Hill involving a car carrying Lynn J. Thomas of A and M College. Minor bruises reported for Thomas and Walker White. Mrs. White and others suffered painful injuries.
The Rector Cunningham Post of the American Legion announced plans to foster a Boy Scout troop in Comanche during its Friday meeting. Other post activities include presenting medals to winners of the Senior Boys and Senior Girls Declamation Contest at the Inter scholastic League County Meet with De Leon Post invited to participate.
County Agent J A Barton and Lynn J Thomas of the Dairy Extension Department of A and M College show cheese can be made at one cent per pound excluding milk cost. Five batches of six pounds each were produced at demonstrations in Sidney Gustine and Sipe Springs. The three meetings drew twelve, thirty and mixed male female attendees respectively with plans for local cheese clubs to use surplus milk and provide inexpensive food.
A Gustine Red Cross fund drive began Monday with Mrs. Will Robinson as committee chair. Assisting are Miss Eva Palmer, Mrs. Frank McClelland, and Mrs. Raul. The drive will close in December.
About fifty thousand dollars is expected to be paid to Comanche county farmers next month as turkeys move through the Christmas dressing season. Dealers say only a third of turkeys were sold at Thanksgiving, with $25,000 paid then. George McKenzie, dressing plant manager, notes preparations for the second run are under way and estimates 15 to 20 cars will be sold this season. A car weighs 23,000 to 24,000 pounds with about 1,700 birds per car, while wages will support hundreds of workers and many truck drivers.
M. J. Bennefield of Brady, executive committeeman of the Seventeenth District, was the principal speaker at Comanche Friday evening. The Rector Cunningham Post of the American Legion hosted a county wide stew meeting with fifty post members and guests from Gor man, Dublin, and the county. Commander J. B. Albern presided and spoke along with several members and visitors.
The Ira Taylor residence and smoke-house on the Homer Bryan farm a mile and a half west of Sidney were completely destroyed by fire at 12 m Friday. Practically all household goods were lost. No insurance was carried.
Public Weigher C F Denny says the 1942 cotton crop in Comanche County may top the 1931 level. By Tuesday afternoon 2656 bales weighed at the Comanche Cotton Yard, versus 2878 for the entire last season. Denny estimates about 300 more bales remain to be received, with twenty bales added Tuesday. Most cotton south and east of Comanche has been picked. few farmers north of Comanche have finished. Peanut crop largely gathered, with about one fourth marketed and nearly all nuts pulled and threshed.
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