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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1932
Page
1
A collage of urban notes covers department stores bus lines. Maud S. pasture at Vanderbilt land. health and death rate comparisons between New York and other cities. club sizes and listed elites. Vanderbilts real estate value. banking, telephones, and tropical fish columns. and daily street fatalities.
Turner 44 of Downing died from blood poisoning after a nail pierced his foot while helping at the Methodist church. He moved to Downing a year ago from Kilene and was born in Alabama. Survived by widow and five children. funeral at Downing Methodist Church conducted by R T Wallace with Rev Crabtree and the Anson pastor assisting.
One hundred and forty bales of cotton were welled at the Comanche Cotton Yard Thursday, compared with 878 bales on the same date last year.
Local bankers and merchants report a mood shift as cotton leads price gains to 7.10 per bale and peanut prices rise to 50 to 60 cents. Wheat also climbs three cents, while farmers with lower production costs and full feed crops foresee stronger fall sales and reduced debts in Comanche County.
Work began Monday to enlarge the E. H. Jones Grocery at the northwest corner of the square. The project adds the entire front half of the building and widens stock to include hardware along with Groceries.
The Roberson sisters change their shop from the Tete building beside Jim Jones Grocery to the former Garner-Alvis Co site next to Corner Confectionery in Comanche. Leve and Maud Roberson have run the business there for over twenty years.
De Leon Community Club plans a county wide one day 4-H glue fair on Thursday October 6. Clubs will exhibit individually with booths judged for sweep stake prizes and expense money for decoration. The event will include grain sorghums and corn displays with club members showing crops and poultry while livestock is not allowed.
Coach Ray Glasscock of the Commanche Indians, with aide Pau Cagle, prepares for the season opener against the Breckenridge Buckaroos on Friday September 30. The squad of 33 shows five lettermen amid many inexperience. Expected lineup includes Hood and Durham at centers, Kirkland Thomas guards, Renfro Ruth tackles, Cook Wilhelm Beene Muftman ends, Masters Waldrop Satterfield Bryson Foreman halves, Svi gen full, Marshall quarterback.
A six month old half Hereford calf weighed 526 pounds and dressed out 828 pounds, yielding over 61 percent. Purchased by Z. H. Bishop from Tom McDonald, the calf’s sire was Hereford and its dam a milk cow, and it was exhibited on the square Friday before slaughter.
E. W. Brown was arrested at his DeLeon residence at 2 p m Saturday by deputies on a liquor charge after liquor was found. He was brought to Comanche and released Sunday under $1000 bond to await grand jury action.
The Frisco introduces the lowest regular rates in Texas with half the regular fare or about 1.7 cents per mile. Children pay half the adult fare. Twenty day round trip tickets offer further savings, says local agent W. E. Dupuy.
Dr. E. Yarbrough longtime Indian Gap physician who moved to Stephenville in 1918 died at Baylor Hospital Dallas on Friday September 16 and was buried in Stephenville Cemetery. He was 68, born in Tennessee, studied medicine at Memphis and Tulane, licensed 1901, married Evelyn Waldrop in 1895, survived by Riley and Loraine Yarbrough, and daughters Mrs. A C Cox and Mrs. Leon McCarty.
The Dallas News feature honors Mrs. Sidney J. Thomas for sixteen years as superintendent of the Confederate Women's Home in Austin. The institution provides food, clothing, medical care, and shelter for 106 elderly women, with a staff of nurses, doctors, and a devoted leadership that residents describe as maternal and protective.
The Full Term of District Court begins October 17 in Comanche with Grand Jury and Pettit Jury lists released. Names include W. M. Durham, J. B. Pogue, H. Newton, L. L. Wilson, and many others across DeLeon, Comanche, Gustine, Proctor, and surrounding areas.
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