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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1936
Page
2
Local notes report Comanche gearing up for a fall county fair the first since 1928 and detail national election chatter. Items include a Sayre Oklahoma youth fined for illegal whiskey sales to fund Baylor University studies, religious voting trends, and public interest stories from Dallas and Tyler.
Local items discuss Old Age Pensions scrutiny by Texas officials and a pension hearing in Austin led by Shorty Vineyard. Other notes cover Dublin, Comanche, and Coleman historical facts, season dates for dove and quail hunting, marriage and family views, and a Scots telegram misunderstanding.
An advertisement asserts Cardus helps women regain strength for daily activities and housework. It states increased appetite and improved digestion lead to better nourishment and a reduction in functional aches, pains, and nervousness as strength returns.
Heath claims of Leto's Pyorrhea Remedy curing pyorrhea and improving stomach kidneys and health. Dentists recommend it and Wm Reese Drug Co offers money back if it fails. Butter Paper available at the Chief Office.
Attendees flocked to the Rising Star fair Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Sam Steele widow of Rev. Sam Steele Sr. was buried at Amity Cemetery on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Steele was a May pioneer and well known locally. Travis Cotten left for Dallas Sunday to join a fire prevention company. News arrived of the deaths of Mrs. O C Turner after a stroke and her son Henry Turner who died instantly. both former residents had spent recent years in Arkansas. Men gathered at Jesse Littlefield’s home Monday to harvest his peanut crop, as injuries from a fall keep him from work.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness during his last illness and for sympathy and flowers at death and burial. Such tokens will be remembered by Mrs. Jackson and the children.
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