The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1944 Page: 2 of 10
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Her huabaftd. the late JeTf
Greene, a pioneer business man
here, has been dead more than
fifty years. A
school age.
Mrs. Dora Qreene. 84. was pre-
sented a boquet Sunday at the
local Methodist Church for being
the oldest mother present. Three
of her children were present: C.
A. Qreene. Mrs Leverette Little,
and Mrs. Herbert Qoodson.
Mrs. Greer.e. one of the most
beloved women In Comanche, wa4
Dora Nabers efore her marriage
She was a sister to the two little
Practically jgi tne delegates duced water rates during the sum-
frorn this countyto the State Con- mer. The reduced rates will be
ventlon with the exception of $1.25 for the first 2500 gallons
Calktway are In favor of Rooae- and 25c for each additional 1000
velt for a fourth term as Presl- gallons. —' * -
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- -^rrryj."~ The Junior Chamber of Com-
For the first time perhaps In merce Is sponsoring a soft ball
history, a woman will make the1 league In Hamilton, most of the
principal address to the Coman- players being youths of the high
it was during the deep of the
depression In about 1932,^y^
Ths Camancha^etllef Is one of
the few papers m Texas thit has
Typewriter paper at The Chief.
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: J. C. WILKEftSON^Edltor
and Publisher.
E*t*bll*hcd In 1S73
111 I « Um Pm Ofllc *t ComaAcna,
"What luu» become of the old
men who uaed to sit on your court
house square and argue Scrip-
Sure?” asked an old timer who
<was ba^Sr in Comanche recently.
t Tent shows are now practically
a thing of the past said one of
She Brunk Brothers of the erst-
while Brunits Comedians who was
In Comanche recently “to see
what Dailey Brothers had In th*
way of a * circus.”
What has become of the once
famous Comanche stew? We dare
aay we have prominnet citizens
who have lived In Comanche for
as long as five years and have
not yet tasted that once famous
Sfr •'
that we hope will last In Coman-
cheche until the end of time—
our First Monday and Saturday
crowds.
• •
*You have more automobiles on
the square In Comanche on Sat-
urday than does downtown Dal-
las in any similar size area.” said
a Dallas man here recently.
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Two Yankee soldiers from
Camp Bowie stepped Into • The
Chief office Saturday and wanted
to know. “Where do all these
people come from? Do they hole
up during the week and all come
to town on Saturday?" they ask-
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Some people imagine that they
are being sympathetic when real-
ly they are only being inquisitive.
Comanche County really put the
project over in big style and Mr.
Brannan and the Comanche ladies
who assisted as well as the per-
sonnel of the Red Cross traveling
group are to be congratulated.
725 pints of blood wer* obtained
here.
County Chairman Roy Brannan
of the
Thursday of last week at the suc-
cessful conclusion of the work
done here by the Red Cross Blood
There are two things, however. Mobile Unit.
There Is again an acute short-
age of apartments for rent in
Comanche. Calls at The Chief last
week often ran as high as a dozen
a day.
Charlie Woodson, publisher of
The Brownwood Bulletin, recently
purchased The Coleman Demo-
crat-Voice. one of Texas’ best
weekly newspapers.
Newsprint, while not nearly so
high as it was during World War
I, is now nearly twice as high as
of the
not yet raised its subscription rate che High 8chool graduates when
since the outbreak of the war. <Mrs. J. M. Dawson, wife of the
, o Jr'' ’ pastor of the First Baptist Church
1 A large delegation from Ootnanr at Waco, addresses our graduate*
che County plans to attend the, tonight.
State Democratic Convention at< - jO--
Austin May 23. There are a good many water
• * * j wells with windmills and perhaps
One of the delegates will be Os- some equipped with gasoline or
car Callaway who has not missed electric pumps, but we wonder
attending a state Convention; ho# many there are' within the
within 52 years. He attended his ► City limits of Comanche with the
first convention at Houston In {“old oaken bucket” that hang In
1892 when the convention that the- well?
nominated James Stephen Hogg
for Governor was held in a car-
barn shed.1 '
Roosevelt is the only Democrat
that’can be elected president, says
a poll taken by Dr. George Gal-
lup. His poll shows that 89 per _____________ .
cent of the Democrats favor1 talned a progressive attRude and
Roosevelt for re-nomlnation and has taken a deep Interest In com-
that nearly half of that number muntiy and civic affairs and while
would vote for a Republican should she cherishes the memories of the
Roosevelt choose not to run. old days, she does not think that
good lies In the past.
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This Is evident by the fact that
the two buildings that she owns
on the public square of "Coman-
che, have alwavs been kept Ip a
good state of repair and one \ of
them rebuilt and modernized Just
a few years ago.
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And another thing, she has
__j i^var p*g1«rt*ri her personal up
Nabers boys that' Negro "Moae" jpearance. and looked Just as pret-
kllled here years ago that started ty Sunday as the beautiful boquet
the move that finally resulted In that she received,
driving the Negroes out of Co-1
manche County. <
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1944, newspaper, May 19, 1944; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth841538/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.