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Oil land sales and local notices from Comanche and Macksville
A mix of local business, school, and community items. Oil land values show bids at $1 an acre rising to $300 per acre with $750 per lot. bank assets and officers named. Community notes include school book sales, a new pastor arrival, and a study club program. A fatal gasoline fire in May 1908 killed Mrs. Nell Witt, burning details, response by doctors, burial at Oakwood Cemetery, with tributes from family and neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First State Bank
James de Witt
R. H. J.E. Gray
Dolphus Carter
Cotton Grove
Pleasant Valley
van Dyke
Phillips
Fox
Comanche
Daisy Fielder
Lonnie Reese
Comanche High School
Gap
Mabel Hall
Oklahoma
Sidney
W. H. Keener
Methodist
Waco
Hardy Slider
Danny
Minnie Cunningham
Wright Wilson
Talmage Nabers
Prescott
Arizona
Nell Witt
M. K
Comanche High
Downs Town
Mome