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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1925
Page
5
Local social notes list editor Waisy Wreenwade among attendees at the watermelon slicing. A procession of visitors and relatives travel through Comanche and nearby towns including Snyder Oklahoma, Merkel, Electra, Fort Worth, Dallas, Brownwood, and Arlington. Several families and educators visit kin, attend church events, or take up teaching and coaching positions across the region.
An item notes a family bereavement in 1924 mentioning T. W. Eanes and relatives in Comanche. The page also contains for sale notices for a 357 acre Gustine area farm with irrigation potential, pecan grove, alfalfa land and equipment. plus car ads for a 1924 Ford Roadster and a Dodge Roadster. Nurseries advertise Elberta Leona and Early Wheeler peach trees and Carman Black Spanish vines from Stephenville and Wills Point.
Last week the Chief published a list of those who helped fund and host a big watermelon slicing on Monday afternoon. Odoms 5, 10 and 15 Cent Store, Home Grocery Store, and Owl Confectionery were the three firms removed from the list, with others contributing to extend a welcome to visitors. SINCLAIR COLEMAN The marriage of Miss Irva Mae Sinclair and Mr Chesley Coleman occurred at the bride's parents home in Brownwood last Saturday evening September fifth. The bride comes from a prominent Brownwood family and the groom is the son of Mr and Mrs M Coleman of Comanche. They will live in Eastland where the groom will buy cotton for the season.
City Marshal W A Pate warns strict enforcement of the muzzle law for dogs on streets. A Comanche notice advertises two spans of mules and four milk cows for sale by Ernest Manning, with three cows milking and two priced at about $100 each. One cow yields four gallons daily. offers to accept less than half price.
Mrs. M J Eanes widow of T W Eanes died at her daughter Mrs Annie Gleaton s home in Anson Texas on Tuesday August 25 at age 79 She was a pioneer Texas stock with parents prominent in Texas before and after statehood Born 1846 in Old Washington Washington County her father a noted Texas attorney married there in the Capitol of the Republic of Texas The family long resided in this county with her marriage to T W Banes in 1887 and years in Jones County before settling back in the area
An old advertisement describes Halls Cataprh medicine as a treatment for nasal catarrh and frequent colds. It claims local application and a tonic that works through the blood to strengthen the system and reduce susceptibility, sold by TM Chaney & Co. in Todo.
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