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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1927
Page
7
Mrs. I C Gage travels to Rosebud to visit daughter Mrs R R McGlasson. Dozens of residents attend visits, teaching posts, and travels between Comanche and Dallas Waco Fort Worth Abilene and other towns with shifts in jobs and schooling noted. Local youths head to Baylor Fort Worth and Rice Institute as teaching and study moves cited.
Chas Meyers 81, a longtime Comanche resident, died Thursday September eighth and was buried Friday September ninth at Oakwood Cemetery. Funeral services were led by Rev. Ben F Hearn and Dix Forrest Maddox. He was born February 17 1846 in Germany and came to America at twelve. He married Kitty Stanley on September 8 1873. Survived by four sons Bob Gus Meyers Bill Meyers John Meyers a daughter Mrs Floyd Carpenter nine grandchildren six great grandchildren and one brother in Pueblo Colorado. He was a Lutheran.
The Payne family held an 80th birthday dinner at their Comanche home on October 10 with 46 relatives present. Attendees included J L Cox and wife, D N Talleyson and daughter, W H Hurt and family, W M Brister and daughter, T C Payne and family, and grandchildren Armstrong Albert and Tom Cox, Jack Sellers, Wesley and John Wurt. Mr Payne, born September 10, 1847 in Tennessee, married Rebecca Baird in 1871. The couple moved to Texas in 1873, lived near Sidney, then in Runnels County, before settling in Comanche in 1919, where they remained. Descendants total 70: 8 children, 44 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren.
Comanche Circuit members and friends invite the public to a reception and shower at the new parsonage on Saturday evening September 17 from 8 to 10 50 pm. The event aims to furnish the home for Rev. J L Ray and his family with a brief program from local churches and a committee led by Mrs George B Black.
The Comanche Independent School District Board advertises for bids to sell the East side two story wooden school building in Comanche Texas. Written bids excluding the ground may be submitted by 12 o clock October 8 1927, with right to reject any or all bids.
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