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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1958
Page
3
The document references the Texas banking system and shows figures on the Sunday School enrollment rising from 50 to 135, with current attendance around 100. It also mentions Mr and Mrs L Griffin and their three children visiting Brownwood to see her parents, and a sworn statement by RC Willingham with attestations.
Mrs. Bob Cox returned home after visiting her son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs Wesley Page in San Antonio and Mr and Mrs Isaac Lorance in Uvalde. Mrs Lorance, formerly Miss Bounce Walker, once lived with Mrs Cox and her late husband in Comanche.
E. L. Curb former high school principal and inter city secretary, based at Gorman, was in Comanche Monday on business. Curb owns a hog farm near Gorman and holds a key post with the Southwestern Peanut Growers Association. State Fair visitors from Comanche included Mr and Mrs Joe Waring and Mr and Mrs Joe Evridge attending in Dallas Sunday.
Mrs Joe Waring former Miss Margaret Ann Tate won first place and a blue ribbon for a hand made Afghan at the State Fair in Dallas. The Afghan impressed judges in the robe and blanket department. College year subscriptions to students in any address available for $2. The Comanche Chief.
Mrs Earl Burnett and daughter Linda from Odessa visited Comanche last weekend to see relatives and patrons at the local dentist office. Mrs Burnett teaches in the Odessa school system.
Mr and Mrs Berch Wilson spent the weekend in Abilene with Mr and Mrs A V Reese. Mr and Mrs B C Cash of Dallas visited Mrs M E Owen and daughter Rena in Comanche. Mrs Alice Kendrick Lackland from El Paso stayed in Comanche to visit her brother Wade Kendrick and Mrs Nadine Pannell. She is widow of Major Thomas Lackland, brother of General Frank Lackland after whom Lackland AFB is named. Stray steer advertised for return by owner W P Johnson Rt 1 Comanche. (15 16p).
The community notes 96 in Sunday School at Van Dyke with 26 at Will and 40 at Crarvnan View. Harris, 79, of Port Worth, died Saturday night and was buried at Zion Hill Cemetery. Local families and visitors from Dublin, Fort Worth, Odessa, and Harmony are listed among recent contacts.
A fragment notes a Friday menu item described as beef and vegetable hee wathherater with bat cheese, peach halves called minx. The text is unclear on context or origin but records a culinary reference for the day.
A fragmented note hints at a price of $7.79 for a chief item. The readable text suggests a sales angle or discount event, but details are unclear and no full names or places are present.
School menus list meals for Detachment 13 17 with items like ground beef and spaghetti buttered carrots lettuce tomatoes bread milk vanilla pudding and a Tuesday lineup including pinto beans onions baked potato spiced beets cornbread butter milk. The Wednesday entry shows barbecue hot dogs.
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