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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1917
Page
5
The local Red Cross chapter plans to ship 760 hospital linen articles to headquarters this week and two more boxes within three weeks. Knitted items are due by October 15, with a knitting tea October 9 and a business meeting October 6 at 5 p.m. The chapter must gain 100 more members within a week or risk surrender of its charter.
Comanche County Texas farmer Jim McGee shows a peanut vine with 340 peanuts on one plant and predicts at least 3 000 bushels of peanuts and 2 000 bales of hay from 100 acres. He invites readers to come to Comanche to raise peanuts despite West Texas drought coverage. Jud McCarty signs the appeal from Dallas News.
Mansfield cough balsam claims to heal inflamed membranes and quiet tickling nerves. Advertises two prices 25e and 50e and notes usefulness for rabies.
Nicaragua hard wheat available in 62 pound test sacks at 3.00 dollars per bushel. Burks Mercantile Co. promotes sale of this commodity to buyers.
We thank Briar Grove community and others for gifts of quilts to be made into cot mattresses for the boys at Camp Bowie. Your kindness is appreciated by the boys and the Red Cross committee. Respt. Mrs. Wm. Reese, Chairman.
Ad text hawks a one day cure for a cold using LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine claiming it stops cough and headache and cures the cold. Druggists refund money if it fails and the label bears HE W GROWS signature on each box. J0c.
Notice to Peanut Growers: baler and thresher services offered for hay and peanuts this season by W. A. Trey. The Lyceum Course opens October 16 with Elma B. Smith Entertainers. Tickets on sale at Smith's Drug Store October 13 with season passes $2.00 and school children $1.00.
The notice lists advertisements from Atwood Brothers offering furniture trade ins and a dealer promising new items for old. Slider and Lacy's features old prices on shotgun shells while Todd Randels and Co advertises buying butter eyes and produce and selling Big Chief flour for savings on lard or shortening.
Local buyers Slider & Lacy's Randall & Co announce purchase of Butter Eggs and Produce offering top cash or barter. Funds available for immediate transactions.
Comanche County is released from the sheep scab quarantine. The U S Department of Agriculture and the Texas Live Stock Sanitary Commission are praised for their work. The piece notes past pest problems in southern and western states and advances in livestock health.
Advertisement claims catarrhal deafness comes from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It asserts a constitutional remedy via the bloodstream and offers $100 for any uncured case, with free circulars from Air Druggists, The F. J. Cheney Co. Toledo Ohio.
Rural ad notes Comanche Milling Co offering shorts and bran for sale at low prices after unloading a car, inviting customers to come and purchase hog feed.
Sebe Payne sold the delivery system to J. J. Cadenhead last week. Cadenhead takes charge on the first of October and is not a stranger to the workings, having prior connection with the system to provide the best possible service to Comanche residents.
An old advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general tonic with QUINTNE iron claimed to purify liver blood and strengthen the system. It lists a 60 cent price and notes discounts on shotgun shells and tubes for autos as Slider & Lacy offer.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church will present a 3 o'clock program next Tuesday in the parsonage. Topics include The Kingdom of God Coming Through Trained Leadership and How They Gave After the Captivity. Leadership by Mrs. Frank Pulliam and others, with a debate on native leadership versus foreign missions. A social hour follows. all women and society members are urged to attend.
Barley offered at 2.50 per bushel. Telephone batteries advertised at Slider and Lacy’s with competitive pricing.
Atwood Brothers advertise lower prices on a range of feeds including bran hay and mixed feed to attract customers seeking savings.
Hogs wanted. See L E B Grainger at Burks Mercantile Co. Visit Comanche Milling Co to get hog feed. Carload shorts and bran offered at price by Slider and Lacy. Randall and Co. involved in selling.
Reward notice seeks return of a gold brooch with four large pearls and a diamond center missing last Wednesday near J W Scurry’s home and Brin’s Store. Kate Porter at Brin’s Store suspects it may have been slipped into a purchaser’s bundle during sales.
About 200 acres for sale located 24% miles southeast of Gustine. 60 acres are black soil, 23 acres sandy loam in cultivation, the rest grazing land. Good improvements. Priced to sell. Apply to R. F. Gurney.
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