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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1934
Page
1
The Comanche County Buy A Bale Cotton Club campaign raises funds with members buying bales at ten cents. Community notes list club members and civic ties, including the Comanche Study Club, while also reporting on cattle purchase totals, bank deposits, and local school enrollment and events.
Ten chairmen were appointed to lead the Red Cross drive in Comanche County. They will meet at the Colonial Hotel on October 8 at 7 04 p.m. as guests of the Lions Club to learn procedures and roll call and to invite every person to join the Red Cross.
An eighty one pound watermelon was brought to Comanche Saturday by R. McDonald of Hasse. The melons, Black Diamond variety, ranged from 57 pounds to 81 pounds. McDonald sold over 400 dollars worth from a 20 acre patch and expects melons for about 15 more days. Burks plans to specialize in raisin melons next year.
J W Carter Jr owner of the Majestic Theatre says the Ritz Theatre will be open Monday and Tuesday and Friday and Saturday each week.
Rev N F Gardner, aged minister long associated with Comanche, plans a final sermon this Sunday at 11 in the Comanche Methodist Church. He may speak over twenty minutes, using Love from First Corinthians as his topic, reflecting on a career spanning segments of Arkansas and Texas ministry.
Plans call for a two day Proctor Community Fair at the school, starting Thursday night September 27 and ending the following night. R L Fortune oversees amusements, W J Bush leads agricultural exhibits with eight crops and at least eight displays per crop, judged by booth quality and appearance. Mrs R L Fortune manages Home Economics booths featuring canned goods needlecraft and culinary arts busy with vegetables fruit and more.
The Texas Highway Department announced extension of Highway 10 from Brownwood west through San Angelo to Alpine to unify state route numbers. Portions retain old designations, with segments bearing both 10 and 30 and others renumbered to 23 to form a continuous north–south system. Harvey Dean said the move isn’t abandoning routes but aligning numbering across the state.
Gustine High School launches a football squad with 21 players reporting to practice at Gustine Ball Park. Under coaches Strickland and Smith, the group, averaging 165 pounds and 17 years old, aims for a promising season despite limited prior experience. Players listed include Walter Allen, Talmage Gleaton, Norman Harrison, and others, with transfers from Energy noted.
Mrs. Marshall BBarcroft Miss Tressie Denny and Mrs. Odessa Hicks spent part of this week in Dallas attending the Hoffman's Beauty School at the Adolphus.
R. B. Waldrop visited San Antonio this week, staying briefly to attend local events and meet community members during his trip.
Walter J. Fritts A H Cara way and Otis Cox on the Corn Hog Allotment Committee finished disbursing to 886 contract signers about 15936 dollars. The first batch covered two-fifths of hog money and half of corn payment. Comanche County reported 421 corn hog signers with 16 of 400 contracts amended and 21 already in Washington. payments expected soon per County Agent J A Barton.
The Texas Railroad Commission ordered emergency drought relief freight rates on cattle and livestock feed after railroads refused voluntary cuts. The 289 county effect begins Monday for sixty days with hay tariffs cut by fifty percent.
At a Sidney Vocational Agriculture club meeting held September 8, officers named Baxter Evatt as president Wayne Merritt as vice president Carl Stewart as secretary Basil Allen as G H Allin as reporter and Ziert Steele as farm watch dog. The group notes substantial farm land improvements in the past year including nearly 42 189 yards of lines run by agriculture boys and extensive yard work by farmers and students.
Brown County Commissioners Court last week set county tax rate at 1.00. Allocation: Jury fund 0.7, Road and Bridge 1.15, General 0.25, Court House interest 0.04, Court House and Jail Improvement 0.01, Special Road and Bridge 0.02, Road and Bridge Interest 0.45.
In Rising Star last week Rafe Armstrong Comanche County tax assessor and John D Waring resident engineer with Leo Ehlinger district engineer met with locals to layout and straighten the road from the Comanche county line five miles east of Rising Star to near Sipe Springs. Funds from a CWA grant will provide a 100 foot right of way and fence and improvements. Work begins at once from reservoir hill to the county line west and aims to meet state highway standards when taken over.
Enrollment in Comanche public schools reaches 594 by Monday morning, up 56 from last year's opening week. West Ward sees the largest jump with 193 students, High School building lists 184, High School department 170, and Grammar School 217, against prior year figures.
Sipe Springs School opened September 9 with enrollment of 120 students. Supt W N Byrd announced a full nine month term and plans for classification and initial steps toward affiliation. Byrd begins as superintendent. J Pilcher has been principal for the same period. Ellie Winters has taught seven years. Grace Donaho and Mrs Jim Brewer have long tenure. Mrs John Henderson is the new English teacher.
Comanche High School Indians open home schedule Friday at Ball Park September 28 with Goldthwaite High School Eagles. Game called at 3 30. Last year the Indians beat the Eagles 26 to 6 in their only recent meeting. Coach Pat Cagle says open dates remain on the schedule.
De Leon High School absorbs 27 pupils from Downing and Buffalo, raising district enrollment to 226 with 576 in the system. Joe Hulsey transports the pupils using five De Leon buses. Superintendent E H Boulter predicts enrollment over 600, the highest since 1918.
A Sunday School was organized at St. Matthews Episcopal Church with John D. Waring Jr as superintendent. Twenty five pupils enrolled. Preaching occurs every third Sunday with Rev. Charles LaBaugh of Hamilton officiating. Miss Mary Doyle will teach in Sweetwater after leaving Brownwood.
Elder A M Fagan observes his 85th birthday on September 1 renewing his The Comanche Chief subscription for over forty years. The Grand and Petit Jury lists for the October term are drawn with many felony cases expected, including theft and burglary. This term marks the final district attorney term for Tom L Robinson, who did not seek re election and ran for district judge but was defeated by Bates Cross. The listed Grand Jury members include Jeff Smith De Leon and J Williford Hasse among others, with Petit Jury slated for October 22.
Breckenridge High School opened its season Friday by defeating Class B Comanche 19 to 0. The Buckaroos led 13 to 0 at halftime, with a strong aerial game producing 90 yards on 7 of 13 passes and the defense intercepting three Comanche passes. comanche struggled offensively, completing 4 of 13 passes for 27 yards with six incomplete and three interceptions.
Jim Reese of Comanche, a former Denison coach and previous Greenville athletic director, was elected athletic director at Colorado High School last week. An ex Texas alumnus, he succeeds R H Cantrill who resigned to join an oil company.
Thirty eight students enrolled in the local senior class at Comanche High School, ten more than graduated last May. Walter Durham was elected president, Dorothy Cauley vice-president, and Kathleen Barrett secretary at last week’s class election.
The T. C. WU football team opens the season tonight at Brownwood Park against the Daniel Baker Hill Biles at 8. Both teams debut under new coaches making the match a closely watched curtain raiser. Simultaneously Abilene Christian College starts at Stephenville against the Tarleton Plow boys.
The De Leon Baptist Church pastor Rev R G Alexander had a major operation at a Brownwood hospital this week.
Six 4 H boys will receive free trips to the Dallas Fair October 15 18 after submitting complete annual records for 1934 including demonstrations stories record books and certified neighbor statements. Records due in the Agent s office by October 8 and ready to be mailed upon request. Comanche County youths Homer Greenlee and Thomas Gaines awarded gold star pins at the A M Short Course for hog and watermelon records. Exhibits planned for Dallas Fair include corn maize sweet potatoes peanuts and cotton with local fairs scheduled at De Leon September 26 28 and a note of Dallas participation.
Maurice Hoffman left this week for Austin to resume work as a student in the University of Texas.
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