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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1924
Page
4
Sept. 2 Comanche County notes Texas can claim the first woman nominated for governor in U.S. history. The piece expresses belief Mrs. Ferguson could become the greatest Texas governor if she gains legislative cooperation, otherwise she would only have veto power. Local social notes and arrivals fill the column with varied small-town updates and movements.
Gustine reports a large Robinson family reunion in Throckmorton county led by Rev. K. Robinson of Duke Oklahoma with about 120 relatives. Attendance included J. W. Robinson and Mrs. Palmer plus extended kin, plus reminiscing on pioneer Baptist roots in Comanche county. Other local visits and church revival notes fill the week’s social and religious scene.
Regular Correspondent reports farmers in this community starting cotton harvest. Sunday school attendance was small last Sunday. Several residents attended church at Commuche last week. Mrs Tinney and family visited relatives in Ozona. Ernest Tinney and others spent nights with local families.
The item reports dry weather with pleasant cool air spreading, mentions attendance at a Baptist association, sick list updates for Albert Guthrie, visits by Mr. and Mrs. E Nabers and Merrett, Lou Samuels returning home from Ranger, a cotton picking trip by Huckaby family, a band concert at Comanche, and a local ad for Herbine malaria medicine and adding machine paper at the Chief Office.
SUEZ Regular Correspondent reports farmers picking cotton and gathering carp amid dry weather causing light crops. Harvey Johnson and Miss Thureda Land unite in marriage. Annie Reid ill. Community attends Pentecostal revival in Comanche. Val Loudermilk greet a ten pound boy. Gus Cox of Cisco visiting kin. Troy and Hearthal Frazier spent Sunday in De Leon.
Cotton receipts by the Texas Farm Bureau through August 20 total 18 057 bales, down from 22 952 on the same date last season. The piece notes season delay, predicts a further rise in baleage deliveries, and urges members to contact the association via official channels with clear, signed, one sided letters including contract numbers.
Limestone county farmers join the Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Association in large numbers. The move is expected to boost membership and business, with cooperative participation seen as key to saving thousands of dollars for local cotton producers and shaping future plans based on past success.
A Progressive Farmer report outlines three actions by contract breakers that hurt loyal members. They raise selling expenses by reducing handled volume and increasing expense per pound, lower prices by shrinking the cooperative’s control over crops, and undermine cooperative marketing by driving crops out and reviving the old drinking system.
Officials from the association announce final checks for last season's cotton will be issued before the tenth of the month. A local banker states the final checks should arrive next Monday or Tuesday.
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