The Pioneer Exponent. (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, July 30, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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Comanehe. Texas, Friday, July 30. 1909.
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Before You Buy Your lumber and Paint consult Nedy-Harris-Cunningham Company, Comanche, Texas.
COMANCHE COUNTY NEWS
Interesting Happenings and Cos
asp From Different Parts *f
the County.
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July 26-It in very dry in thi»
part of the country. MosPcorn
is burned up and falling over.
Millet, and Kaffir oorn are twist-
ed into ahoo strings. Cotton is
holding up very well but if it
does not rain soon our cake is
all dough so far as a feed crop
\ is concernod and as a matter of
fact the farmers are up against a
' | hard proposition.
John Kanes and wife came in
Wednesday from Lubbock where
they have been visiting John
Petit
Joe Adams left Wednesday for
Arkansas. , view un
Rev. Moore will begin hia reg —Abilene
ular meeting here Saturday at 11
a. tn. It will continued until the
second Sunday.
Rev. Luker has postponed his
meeting until the second Sunday
In September,
A Railroad to Comanche.
The Newcomer waa down at
Comanche last week, and found
the people very much interested
over the proposed railroad from
Abilene to Gatesville, via'Rising
Star, Comanche and Hamilton,
and numerous inquiries were
made as to the probable building
of such a road. While there is
opposition on the part of certain
interests in Comanche, yet the
great majority of tlie people of
that town want the road aqkd will
meet Abilene on a proposition to
build via there. Comancee is one
of the best towns in Texas and
received last year 30,000 bales of
cotton, and a second railroad
would cause it to double in popu-
lation. It is pecular that any of
its prominent citizens take the
view that a railroad would injure
their interests, but In every town
you find
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en who hold to this
ey are shown better,
ews.
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tended the picnic at Priddy Sat-
urday.
R. L. Lane and family and
Aaron Petit and family came in
Thursday from a fishing trip on
the San 8aba. They report a
nice time slid plenty of fish to
eat * <
OAK VALUET NEWS.
. We had a nicej-ain last Thurs-
day morning.
Mr. Sohmpson and daughter,
Miss Effle visited friends n6ar
(Jarman Sunday and Monday
i Mr. Boad Adcox and mother
|f Gustine, and M rs. 8tubbs of
'allinger, are visiting relatives
nere. (
Most every one is making ar
rangements to go to the picnic
at Comanche.
Tj L. and G. W. Adcox left last
week for Loraine, Mitchell coun-
ty.
El. A. Roe and wife of Gorman
were here Saturday.
Mrs. J. J. Dugger who has
been visiting her mother the
past two weeks left Sunday for
Gorman to visit friends and rela-
tives after, which she will re-
turn to her home in Sweetwatej.
The people here are moving the
Oak Valley school and church
house from where it now stands
to a place on Mr. Apirer’a farm
oak VAL.UEY NEWS
Too late for last lsaua
July 19—T. L. Adcox and son
G. W., went to the picnic at
Gustide last week.
R. M. Decker and family, of
, this community, spent Saturday
| and Sunday at Gorman visiting
Mrs. Decker,'a father.
Mr. Gus McMillan and wife
[ went to Tolar Wednesday.
Mr. C. L. Roe, of Sipe Springs,
, visited hia sister, M rs. J. M
[Thompson, lastThursdly 1
J. J. Johnson and family went
to the picnic at Sidney Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Donaho, of
Sidney attended sagging here
[ Sunday-evening.
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Youn< Man Hurt at Dublin.
Bart Payne, a young man
who resides with his Hither
'north of town, was badly injured
by being thrown from a horse at
tfieTtubTTiT ptCnfiT TueSdiy. Re
IOjOQ- Interlude.
10:30 Address on
-Oscar Calloway.
12 M. Dinner.
2:30 p. m. Music by band.
8:00 Business by the Asa’n.
*T 4:00 Promiscious talks by
Session At Fleming Park, pioneers.
Official Program. Gen«r*l hand shaking
1 by all pioneers. i
NIGHT SESSION:
OLDSETTLERSAND
IMF. REUNION.
COMANCHE COUNTY
COUURJ HOUSE CHAT.
Doings in and Around the
Temple of Trouble.
VlTAt, STATIST**; ^
„ DEATHS.
Rev. John West failed to
his appointment bora last Suit
dsy. v.
There was a singing given at
Mr. Jacksons Saturday night.
J. Jf Jdhnson has Built a note
barn.
Continued on last pai
had been to the wagon yard to
feed and water and juat as he
came out hi# steed took fright at
an auto, throwing the rider and
kicking him in the breast. The
youag man was h*ought home
on a stretcher on,^be B o’olock
train, ahd carried to tfie home of
his father, where he is reported
as restlngtairly well.
Baptist Church.
The people of Comanche regard-
less of belief or no belief relig-
oualy, are urged to attend the
Baptist church 8unday morning
and' evening, and hear the two
special sermons by the pastor.
At 11 a m.: “What is Consecra-
tion? (or Santiflcation) and what isj
itA relations to other bible doc
trines."
Tom H Bell and Ernest h
Browne returned Monday mom
ing from Sweetwater whrre
they went on a prospecting trip
with a view to opening u> a
Moving Picture 8ho'W. Stoet-
water ia on a considerable loom
by reason of having reontly
secured both the Orient and
Santa Fe roads, giving them
three trunk lines, and a bidding
there is simply unobtainble, »t
sny price. Rents am realty
values have gone out <f sight
and this within itself rill mili-
tate against the best interests
of the town, as it rill drive
numerous pros pec ton and prob-
able investors away >hq might
otherwise go there ifhwproper-
ty owners were iSMOnibl*.
Conditions arefip *me at Lob'
bock, we are told, >ut notwith
standing this fact kth towns are
growing rapidly. ,
W. E. Cook, a yt>ng man who
resides near Dot*, but who has
been workihg he® *t the oil mill,
was arrested M*day night upon
a charge of thel itbeitag alleged
he appropriat/I ft. quantity of
brake, valves,itc . belonging to
™iii wht he waa making
I4M
Reunion convened4 at Fleming
Park, this city, yesterday morn-
ing with a fairly good crowd in
attendanoe.
The program begap with a
band concert on the square, after
which all adjourned to the park,
where the meeting was called to
order by Cap. T. O. Moore, Pres-
ident of the Comanche County Old.
Settlers AssocYMpn. Rev. C. 0.
McCurdy invoked Divinp bless-
ing, when the gathering joined
in singing “Praise God From
Whom All Blessings Flow.”
Mayor F. E. Adams delivered
the address of welcome in a hap-
py and felicitous vein and J. T.
Cunningham of San Angelo re-,
sponded to same. Hon. Lee
Young of 8tephenville, was next
introduced and delivered a.nide
address after which dinner waa
announced, and all gave their at-
tention to that which satisfies the
cravings of the iffber man-
good old picnic dinner. After
dinner a meeting of the associa-
tion was held at 2:8Q and all old
pioneers present given an oppor-
tunity to enroll aa members of
the organ iaation. G. H. Good-
son of this city was introduced
and he paid a very toucbiilfc
tribute to those who blazed the
way for the settlement of this
section.
Comanche and May teams
will engage in a contest op the
diamond each evening at 8:30 and
the game yesterday-eeaulted in
a score of 6 to 9 in favor of Com-
anche.
Below the official program for
the three days: —
FIRST DAY-Wed. July 28
9 a. m. Band concert on square
Procession to the grounds.
9:80 Arrive at grounds, Call
to order by president of the as-
sociation
Invocation—Rev. C. C. Mc-
Curdy.
Doxology—“Praise God From
Whom all Blessings Flow.”
Address of welcome—Mayor
F. E. Adams.
Interlude.
Response,—J. T. Cunningham,
Interlude.
• - Address,—Hon. Lee Young, of
Stephenville.
12—m.—Dinner.
8:80 Music by band
Old Fiddlers' Contest.
Drill by boys and girls.
Songs by Old Folks Quartette
ed by Pate Fagan.
OtfTBIIIE ATTRACTIONS. V™'
10:00 a. m. Tournament,
3:80 p. m- Ball game.
5:60 “ Relay race.
THIRD J)AY-Fri. July 30.
9 a m. Meet at I. O. O, F. Hall.
Form in rugular procession
headed by boys’ band from the
Odd Fellows’ Home at Cora i-
cans, and march to park under
direction of Grand Marshal J.O.
Douglas.
Arrive at grounds. Music by
the Band.
Openipg Ode
Invocation by Rev. B. W. M..
Simms.
Welcome address in behalf of
the Subordinate Lodge by L. V.
Reid Response by B. J.
PtUman.,of DeLeon.
Welcome adureaa in bealf of
Rebekahs by Sirs. Allye Anthony
Response by Mrs. I. Ssddler,
of Gustine.
Music
Address on Odd Fellowship by
Oscar Calloway.
Dinner
Reassemble at 2 p. m.
Address on order of Rebekahs
by Mrs. D. Alexander, of Cisco.
Clarence C. Thornill, infant
[near Sipe Springs, July 21.
a births
Born U>* Mr. and Mm —
Jno. A. McGvire, Comanche, a
boy. * — ---i
Cleveland Bartley, near New-
burg a girl. •
H. E. La Rogue, near Sidney
a girl, , . ,
6. F. McNow, near Fleming, a
girl.
Eli Boyett, Gustine a girl.
Chas. Galloway, near Sipe
Springs, a boy.
... PERMITTED TO PAIR.
The following named pafties,
have been granted license to wed
since our last report:
Tr L. Goode and Tennie Gray
Meyers Moore agd N a nnie
Hottest Place on Earth
Those, of our readers who
have been complaining of the.
extreme hot weather, the past
several daya will please read the
article below find cease repining.
With the advent of hot weath-
er, the old controversy between
Yuma and Needles, the first in
Arisons said the ’ other in Cali-
j fornia, as to which ia tbO hottest
place In the United Suites has
been revived. Neither is clamor-
ing for the distinction—oh. no.
Each is striving to thrust it upon
the other. As a matter of fact,
the difference is so slight that its
not worth quarreling about.
From now on until late in Sep-
tember the mercury will climb
up into the tube untjj it reaches
the 120 mark nearly every day
in both places; and there are
weeks at a stretch when it never 1
falls below 100, even at night.
One can cook eggs hard simply
by burying them in hot sand.
The Mojave Indian of
lower valley of the
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Colorado
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river always go barefooted, and
arrangement *" leave. After
^tolng a r r e ^ , fiw sflesrz
searched his»MCESge and found
the stolen pJP^rty The defend-
ant plead “IBy th« charge
and waa fit* d*vs
in jail.
Address on how the home is
managed.
Address by Grand Master,
W. A. Spangler, of Bonham.
OIEICUL ANNOUNCEMENT
. Of EXTENSION MADE
General Manager W. B. Drake
Says (he Frisce Will Push on
to San Antonio at Once-
Surveyors in Field.
the hot sand and atones have
calloused the feet until they Are
aa hard and insensible to pain as
- 'M
Sparkman.
Dick Riohardsoh and Myrtle
Dolloff.
walk through fire and trample
rod hot oo&ls without flinching.
The extreme he&t ia due to the
Elbert Mason is this ~week intow altitude, combined with the
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receipt of a letter from his
brother, K. E. Mason, who re-
sides i A Galveston, In whioh he
says the sight of the strom and
the high waves dashing In fren-
zied fury against the sea wall
was a sight of a life time—how "
ever, he missed it being at the
time in Houston on business.
He says the storm was worth
Millions of dollars to Galveston
having proven the efficacy of tho
wall, and allayed the feftrs of
those who would not otherwise
proximity of the Colorado and
the Mojave deserts. For a
thousand miles on the east and
five hundred on toe north and
west stretches a waqte of sand
and cacti. With every mile tra-
versed by the winds they gather
heat, aothftt a cooling breeae
from any direction is impossible.
The man that traverses the
desert doesn’t wonder that
Yuma and Needles are hot. Be
Only wonders that they are not
white hot.
Persons who can stand the
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risk the island as a place of reai- MM Mi Mi
Qatototto itomQdARff AngemefittMB-BK1- HBIsive heat find Toma and
Fellow Home.
Fort Worth, Texas, July 24.—
An official announcement was
made here today by vico-preal-
dent and general superintendent
W. B. Drake of the Frisco lines
that the extension of that tine
from Brady to San Antonio will
2:80 p. m.—Business Meeting, •tArt '“mediately. Mr. Drake
of Association and Enrollment.'
Address—G. H. Goodaon.
8:80 to 4:80 p. m.—Zion Harps.
4:30 to 6:80 p. m.—Outside at-
tractions—Base Ball Games, etc.
. 8:80 p. m.—Stage attractions.
SECOND DAY—Thu rs. July 80,
9 a. m Band concert on
eonrt house lawn.
Jbtt
w. o. w.
9:45 Interlude.
9:50 Hong by everybody.
^9:6$ -Invocation by Rev.
W. N. Simms.
states that su rveyora are in the
field and will begin active worx
Monday morning.
There has been more or leas
talk about the extension from
Brady for two years and not un-
til now hasthe company announce
proposed extension at once Mr.
Drake and other officials have
gone liver the proposed—Lines.
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have not announced their inten-
tion as to the towns the extension
will include.
Croquet seta at C. M. Moore’s.
ing to extend the aea wall and to
rebuild the destroyed bath
housea' and fishing pier, and
when this and the causeway is
completed Galveston la destined
to make'one of the chief cities of
the nation from, a standpoint of
commerce.
Work began this week on the
excavations for the founda-
tion of the new office building
to be erectod by the Comanche
National Bank, The building la
to be 26 x 60, two stories, and
equipped with all modern appli-
ances, complete in every respect.
This will be quite an addition to
West Main street.
Assignee's Sale.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned will sell at public
auction, to the highest bidder, at
the store house formerly occu-
pied by Temple Hail, in the city
of Comanche, Texas, on the 10th
day of A'ugust A. D. 1909, at the
hoar of 2 o’clock p. m., the stock
of goods, fixtures, bakery and
notes and aoconnte, belonging to
the estate of Temple Hail, now
Needles health resorts adapted
to the cure of consumption,
bronchitis and rheumatism.
However, most people would
consider the diseaspMnore toler
able than the cure. It la "alright
in the winter but during the
summer time New York’a tene-
ment districts are cool and
delightful in comparison. If
-anyone feels uncomfortable on
Manhattan Islands let them
think of Needles and Yuma, and
give thanks that things are no
worse.—New York Press.
ed their. Intention to make the held by me aa assignee of the with that organization. Whea
estate of the said Temple Hail.
N. E. Pai.mkr, Aaalgnee.
Bob Slack returned Tuesday
.Jfroaa San Antonio where he on- (
derwent an operation. The sur-
geons removed a piece of dis-
eased bone from one of hia riba
and wa hope for him a speedy
and complete recovery, .
Roy Green Dead.
Roy Green, well known te
a majority of our readers, passed
awgy at his camp south of town
at an eiarly hour yestdrday morn*
ing. Affected with the Great
White Plague—consumption, he
had made a masterful fight for life
but the Death Angel beckoned aad
the spirit left the tenement of day
and crossed the Great Divide.
The decedent was raised in this
section, where ha had numerous
friends, but for some time had baan
traveling with the Kilties Band,
and had practically circled the
warned of his Affliction he severed
his connection with the organization
and ratmned home, rets Wishing
open alt camp on the ridge south -
of town, where the end came. We
fender sincere sympathy to the be-*
reeved in their night time of sorrow.
The swellest line of pocket
knives ftt C. M. Moore's.
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Bell, Tom H. The Pioneer Exponent. (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, July 30, 1909, newspaper, July 30, 1909; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1009120/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.