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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1940
Page
6
Farmers Produce Co. of Comanche Texas urges timely submissions to settle inventory for the upcoming Christmas market likely to open around Dec. 1. The notice thanks neighbors and friends for sympathy and kindness shown to the Rush family.
The Grahams Dora Simmons celebrate a golden wedding anniversary joined by nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Family from Mississippi and Texas gathered for a noon dinner at C. D. Graham's home with two large cakes bearing special messages.
Comanche High School adds more than a third fiction titles with two Cambridge histories as reference works. New etiquette guides and fifteen Spanish prose and poetry books join the shelves. Students may check out only one book at a time amid limited reading material. Oil wells in West Central Texas average two barrels daily per well.
Card of thanks from Mr and Mrs North Carter thanks neighbors for kindness during illness. Also lists college students visiting in Comanche over the weekend including Johnnie Pate Richard Mahon Ted Durham Eva Lee McCorkle Paulo Cato Hulan Robertson Frances Hampton and others.
Moody's Cafe will serve a special Thanksgiving turkey dinner from 11 to 2 on Thanksgiving Day. Jim Moody, proprietor, invites everyone to enjoy the big meal with all the trimmings. An advertisement also notes the Thanksgiving special in another page of the paper.
Indian Creek residents Elmer Day and wife and daughter Charlice Jean of Victory spent Sunday with her parents W. A. Langley and wife.
Gustine FFA members won first place for the second time that school year in contests. On October 4 they went to an event under FFA, with a conducting team led by President Alvis Rab and Vice-.
Mr and Mrs Roy Jones visited her parents Mr and Mrs E Burdette this week. Mrs Ruby Bush and daughter Nan visited with several others including Mrs 8 D Miears Mrs A Loudermilk Mrs Henry Loudermilk and Alvis Ray in Brown Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Jesse Ladd Ra Ladd and their mother Mrs K Ladd made a business trip to Mineral Wells Monday.
A named roster lists President Dale Green and Secretary Billie White along with several officers and attendants including Watch Dog Lloyd McCullough Reporter Irwin Barnett Conductor Eugene Estes and Parliamentarian Kathell Humphreys.
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