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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1921
Page
8
Atlantic City August 30 The American Federation of Labor plans a five million member goal with a Labor Day campaign. President Gompers calls labor to rally and move forward in a great wave as unemployment has reduced membership from 3,906,528. He will speak in principal cities to promote the drive.
Dublin Texas August report profiles Walter Fulford a former county commissioner and farmer near Dublin who fights boll weevil with kerosene oil pans on cultivator units, germanicide dips, calcium arsenate dusting, and sulfur scents. He yields 7 bales from 70 acres last year with standard methods and expects 2 to 3 more this year on 45 acres.
In Bonham Texas Risser Sr reports brown ants devouring larvae on cotton stalks. Ants reduce weevil damage and blooms, squares and balls appear, a patch could yield a bale per acre. Board of Trade asks A&M College for expert inspection to verify the phenomenon.
A lone shipwreck survivor, after three days of terror, crawls to land to witness smoke rising from shore. He hears a domineering demand and the survivor, kneeling, proclaims Praise the Lord as the voice reveals the group are Christians.
Mrs. Victor Buthod hosted the Why Not Club at Mrs. Leonard Cobb’s home with sunflowers on display and six games of 42 won by Mrs. Lionel Slider. Visitors included Mesdames Rowland, McCullough, Mackey, Brightman, and Misses Montgomery and Alice Brightman.
Furnished room available upstairs in a residence one block from town. Contact number provided as 312.
T. K. Rea and son Herman and daughter Mrs. R. H. Millwee with two Dallas children visited at the Rea ranch and at Mrs. J. P. Hoff’s home. The Chief appeals for renewed subscriptions as funds are needed. Uncle Jack Wright reports grandson Jack Stephens operated on at Temple and improving.
Mrs Tarley asks the amount of her fire insurance premium. The agent estimates about $100 and will verify the exact sum. She jokes that the company should wait and deduct the payment from any claim should the house burn down.
Ray Hoff came back Sunday from a trip to Colorado described as cool and pleasant. His sister Miss Bess Hoff is still traveling in that state.
C. B. James, cashier of the Hamilton National Bank, and his wife visited Comanche last week while returning home from Silverton. Jack Cameron and Gerald Lassetter, employed near Graham, came back Wednesday morning to visit friends and relatives.
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