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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1920
Page
8
The store advertises Edwin Clapp, Nunn & Bush, Marshall, Roberts, Johnson & Rand shoes with deep reductions. It invites customers to visit for fall purchases, promising the lowest prices and undersold guarantee.
The El Paso Herald announces a monthly subscription increase effective Oct 1 with old subscribers paying 10 for yearly prepay and 1.50 outside Texas New Mexico Arizona and Mexico. The paper cites rising print costs since 1914 and 1918. Also listed are church events: Sunday services Epworth League meetings stewards board 4th quarterly conference and missionary society sessions with times and locations. Ernest L. Lloyd is the pastor. Bonner's Headache Medicine advertised at Paris Smith's Drug Store.
Sept 28 Regular correspondence reports lively cotton field work and strong Sunday school attendance. Alton Farrar visited Sunday evening. Oscar Swindruell and Parker Tupin with Elsie Tupin visited Miss Knight. Quarterly conference on Sept 3 invites all to bring dinner.
Judge James E. Gray, 92, died Saturday morning after a long life of service. Born July 8 1828 in Abbeyville Parish South Carolina he moved to Texas and later Comanche County in 1890. He helped found the First State Bank and organized the Order of the Eastern Star in Comanche. He leaves two surviving children J L Gray and Eugenia Gray with his wife predeceasing him.
Mr D M Herring has taken over the New Produce Co business from E U Wies and Anger and will continue the grocery and produce operations in the city.
An 1860s ad promotes Herbine as a quick acting tonic and laxative to purify the system and improve health. It notes a price of 60 cents and that the product is sold by Paris Smith.
The family of J. L. Gray and Eugenia Gray express heartfelt thanks for friends’ acts of kindness and sympathy during their father’s illness and passing. They also thank for the floral offerings and wish blessings on all who cared.
Next Friday night October 8 the first Lyceum Course number will be offered by the Parent-Teacher Association. The Liberty Belles will present song and music on six instruments directed by a trio of young women. Season seats go on sale next Wednesday via a committee and Paris Smith's drug store for seat checks. Profits support school improvement for the children of Comanche.
An advertisement touts Martin's Egg Producer double-your-money-back offer in eggs or cash and promotes Martin's Roup Remedy as a cure and preventive for roup. Guaranteed by all druggists. The notice is dated May 24.
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