Comanche Labor Board Lists Non-Essential Industries
The Comanche County Community Labor Board classifies industries employing men as non essential or non war work under U S Employment Service policy. The roster includes garages road and shop services billiard halls mercantile stores hotels restaurants and several other trades with notice they may transfer to war essential work if needed. The board may add to the list later and notes its action follows federal labor recruiting directives from September 4 1918.
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Comanche Labor Board
H. W. Lewis
Comanche
Tex
U. S. Public Service Reserve
San Antonio
Texas
Bey
Community Labor Board of
Comanche County
H. Burks
G. A. Bruton
F. Jacobs
L. EK. Grainger
Community Labor Board
United States Employment Service
Department of Labor
New Flour Regulations Limit and Replace Substitutes
New flour rules effective Sept 1 loosen purchase limits allowing a month per family in town and two months in the country while requiring one pound of substitutes for every five pounds of wheat flour. Substitutes limited to corn rice or barley flour and corn meal. Victory Flour to replace substitutes. contains 20 percent wheat substitutes and will not require extra substitutes. Sugar shortages warned by County Food Administrator Findley with possible escalation.
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Victory
Findley
Abe Mulkey Addresses Immense Crowd at Baptist Tabernacle
Pioneer evangelist Rev. Abe Mulkey spoke last Thursday night to an overflowing crowd at the Baptist tabernacle. He delivered a moving sermon stirring tears and laughter, ending with an offering for orphans totaling about seventy five dollars.
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Abe Mulkey
Baptist Tabernacle
Tabernacle
Sartwell and Jordan Wed in Del Rio Texas
Mr. George Sartwell and Miss Mary Jordan married last week in Del Rio. Sartwell is known in Comanche with many friends, and well wishes from the couple’s community flow toward the newlyweds.
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George Sartwell
Mary Jordan
del Rio
Texas
George
Comanche
Labor Board to Send Men to Vir Lehall Work Site
Comanche Labor Board will dispatch another group of laborers to Lehall Virginia next Monday. Interested workers should contact H Burks or L F Grainger at Burks office for placement.
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Labor Board
Comanche Labor Board
Lehall
Virginia
H. Burks
L. F.grainger
Burks
Girl Bitten Three Times by Rattle Snake at San Saba Camp
Miss Stella Hicks was bitten three times by a rattlesnake while camping on the San Saba River near Brady Creek. Prompt treatment by companions saved her life. she is out of danger and awaits transport home as relatives stay nearby.
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Stella Hicks
San Saba
Elmo Montgomery
W. D. Lane
Lionel F. Slider
Catharine Chilton
Brady Creek
Miss Hicks
Richland Springs
Mrs. Hicks
Harmony and White Point Sunday Sermon
The pastor J T Ferguson invites all to Harmony and Whitepoint for morning and evening worship on Sunday September 7. Sermons will be delivered at Whitepoint at 3 p m with an open invitation to attend.
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Harmony
White Point
Whitepoint
J. T. Ferguson
Comanche County's First Big Oil Gusher Ignites Local Boom
A well nine miles north of De Leon on the Desdemonia road came in as a gusher Monday night at 10 oclock and burned for days. The well on R O Harvey lease near the Eastland county line is expected to yield up to five thousand barrels daily, signaling a regional oil boom for Comanche county.
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de Leon
Desdemonia Road
Ranger
Comanche
R. O. Harvey
Comanche County
Sipe Springs
Downing
mid-Texas
May Exponent Warns Subscribers of New Arrears Law
The Chief Exponent declares a new government rule bars sending newspapers to subscribers three months or more in arrears. The May issue warns of automatic discontinuation for unpaid accounts and urges immediate renewal or payment via postmaster or direct mail. Editor W H Carpenter signs the notice, noting leniency ends and complimentary subscriptions are stopped.
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W. H. Carpenter
Mothers Trust Camp Care. Visitant Proud of Sons
Mrs. M. E. Woodward returned from Waco where she visited her son in camp and told the editor mothers who have not seen camps should know their boys are well cared for. She found meals wholesome, Y M C A workers attentive, and camps clean and comfortable.
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M. E. Woodward
Waco
Dave Boyd
New Registration Day Set for September 12th
The call for all residents aged 18 to 45 to register on September 12th is announced with details on where to register at local voting places. Registrants must appear in person. out of town or illness arrangements are described, and data to bring includes birth date and birthplace, nationality, occupation, and father's birthplace. The county notes no prior failures to register and aims to maintain a proud registration record.
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Informato
War Department
Comanche County
Notices for registration officials to report Sept 10 at Comanche
Persons appointed to hold the registration on September 12 at county voting boxes must come to the Local Board office in Comanche on Tuesday September 10 to receive supplies and instructions.
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Comanche
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Houghton
Masonic Temple
Camp Travis
Cotton Belt
Walter Kennedy
J. E B. Lancaster
A. E. Pettitt
A. L. Coan
A. J. Johnson
A. F. Hardin
Chas. Dennis
Fred Bachman
D. L. Moffett
S. H. Baker
Perry Patton
J. B. Graham
W. C. Sturdivant
W. ®. McNutt
Roe Hartson
Capt
O. D. Huggins
H. L. Purvis
E. C. Kay
H. E. Shelton
S. A. Moore
J. G. Scrupp
B. F. Short
Elmer Hodge
Corp
Hoyt E. Mayes
Karl F. Tate
C. C. Franks
E. T. Roach
L. A. Kidd
Brown Rambo, Corp
Sartwell-Jordan
Higginbotham’s
Dexter Walling
The
Comanche Produce Co
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