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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1940
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR notes refer to a 1673 item involving a Comanche area mail matter. Text mentions price details and counties but lacks coherent context or identifiable events or entities. No clear outcome or actions are stated.
A long column of pastor quotes on self and religion appears beside Texas social notes. It includes pension figures for Confederate veterans, local election results, community plans, and school enrollment data from Hamilton and Comanche. Old age pensions are projected at 11.16 dollars per person in September.
The college expects 1600 new students this term, part of a record 1900 in the first week, as postwar expansion and local growth push enrollment to a 40 year high. Local notes report tax rate 61 cents in Erath County and Comanche begins another dry fall.
Sheriff McCollum tendered rest and the Democratic nominee Lewis Marshall was named to fill the vacancy. Three hundred Ballinger farmers hold cotton until buyers pay $50 per ton. Albert Meroney dies on vacation in Louisiana. See Constance Talmadge at the Majestic in The Veiled Adventure. Comanche Public Schools faculty lists include Superintendent J B Layne and Principal O L Killian with staff. Cross Plains visitors noted.
Comanche area items report the marriage of Joe and W Z Bates of Godley, church updates at Bryson's Chapel, and fishing trip by E R Wright and family at Lake Brownwood. Local business changes include Jack Morgan buying the Cactus Cafe and Tom Dyess selling the Texas Cafe Brownwood. Administrators Ellen Purvis and Beulah Stark relocate teaching roles. Daniel Baker College student Tull McGuire plans return from Odin Illinois. A note recalls the 1809 Thomas Campbell address urging Christian unity ahead of a 1909 centennial program at Comanche Christian Church.
The article notes Dublin hopes to land the proposed State Normal College with a $25,000 bonus offered and mentions W. D. Jenkins returning as Principal of East Side School after strong patron appeal. It references hides placed in a bank and various animal hides, then ends with carbon paper at The Chie.
A brief comic exchange contrasts price clues in shop windows. One window proclaims hats at ten dollars and up, while another nearby advertises radios at lower prices.
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