Fragmented Local Notice Provides Sparse Details
A damaged OCR fragment offers only partial details for a local notice with readable terms suggesting a sale or action but lacking names, dates, places, or explicit authorities.
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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1922
Page
4
A damaged OCR fragment offers only partial details for a local notice with readable terms suggesting a sale or action but lacking names, dates, places, or explicit authorities.
A 1920s county bulletin notes Walter Durham and William Mingus leading a campaign against boll weevils, arguing to eradicate ancestors before descendants emerge. It discusses agricultural policy, youth fashion critiques, and calls for fiscal restraint in Trinity and Brazos projects, praising Callaway's economy stance and criticizing Blanton's payroll practices.
Review notes George Pattulla of Dallas has a readable piece in The Saturday Evening Post titled Tar and Feathers. The writer disputes the Ku Klux Klan origins and argues the war’s aftermath spurred Southern revival with new roads, colleges, farms, and civic programs while warning against anti Southern stereotypes.
The item notes FE W Harris praising George Peddy as a high quality Democrat and future Texas senator candidate, urging Comanche County women to support him. It also reports Mercer Gap school opening on October 9 with teachers D S Prude and Crystal Daley, seven primary grades plus a ninth grade, and a school board of G C McKenzie S A Brown and Tom Gore.
About ten empty iron barrels stamped Pierce Fordyce 1 Ass'n were lost in Comanche County. Anyone knowing their whereabouts should notify agent W. C. House at Comanche. Pierce Oil Corporation requests information.
84 acre tract two miles south of Hasse offered by J H Henderson survey. About 55 acres cultivated, balance woods with fruit trees, peaches, plums, apricots, peaches and berries. Water from a trough well. Improvements poor. Quick sale price 1200 cash. Also poultry and cream separator ads from local farms. Mr and Mrs Billy Holmsley travel to Comanche to visit ill mother.
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