The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, November 12, 1926 Page: 1 of 8
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FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR
NO. 12
INTEREST GROWING IN OIL LEASES
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ONE BLOCK NORTH
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Other well, have given impetus to
recheck several
further
structures
the town will be paved thug making
our
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At exactly eleven o’clock all faces
uded ser vice.
buliding -ne «4
i feet.
y stop here since they
will now
westwand
and
with faces tumned
can have these conveniences.
have n part in the silent minute of
Commander
of our Hotels.
be one of
ing the year.
par
Bailey, proprietor.
COTTON DECLINE HURTS.
bility the coming winter months.
A TURKEY TAIL
Bailey
variety used in East Texas.
plating moving their national head-
narters from Omcha
Building of Small Plants
crowded cotton
conditions they would have amount- cotton question
Grocery Store
e
ve some of
Loses Residence
The
belonging to Wm.
honse
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fo r fifteen cent price.
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Twenty years
it goes through
their
that
crop
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can
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APEl
B. 60c
old'by
that
or a
many members of this order in the
Comtv.
try will ho raised next vear than
has been this.
OPERATORS INTERESTED;
PLAN NEW DEVELOPMEMT
tion complete and We
both of these.
T
mpany.
tiding.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 20TH
HOOT GIBSON IN
"THE PHANTOM BULLET"
•TEACHER! TEACHER!" COMEDY
Woodman Circle May
Move Offices to Tex.
tion. The interest
cent.
MONDAY AND TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15TH, 16TH
, JACK HOLT IN
THE BUND GODDESS"
NEWS PICTURES
PRICES 15c TO 35c
Acreage in Demand.
The demand for acreage has ber
Suggests Cleaning Up „„ „„
Indian Creek
ingtl days.c 1 t terrible
as three thousand hale, of cotten! edi at this time and that
on fifteen cent basis.
pools, perfect breeding places for
Misquitoes and disease germs. This
i, caused in a measure by permit-
ting the Willow undergrowth in the
bed and on the banks of the Creek
: from blowing, prevents
it from getting entirely away from
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l
Comgo he is ir.debled to Miss Staff
ford for this improvement as we are
all vitally interested in the success I
A L
- _ .. -----—J had been
practically idle for some years. He
put a high rabbit proof fence around
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• COMANCHE, COMANCHE CONTY, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 12, 1926
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south in the County and to plan
som« new locations.
What Wells Are Doing
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ARMISTlGE DAY WILL PAVE 5TBEET ERECIS MODERN POTATO
■ CURING PLANT
County is hur a. little bythisdisas- to the County’, income considering
trous slump as any County in the the cream that ig shipped out and
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fe vukvma/evmwy*
i
for their planting next spring.
As his potatoes are classed he is
naving hiH seed potatocs enrefully
selected as to quality and it is his
fc* n» as seed .'potatoes both to
sell as such as to bed out to sell
as slip. from.
• ■
An new wells come in in the north
portion of (the County a gradual
; - touch with Judee, T ukel whn vi
j try to find a market fo th plants.
One of our enterprising busines
men who has agricultural inclina-
tions and faith in the possibilities of
land about Comanche which by
many s considered unprofitable de-
cided to buy a few acres of land
that was thought very poor and to
demonstart its virture- by showing
that it could produce a crop that
was very profitable.
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Youngest Pythian
Th. veenn crop which has grown ty on account at cotton declin, an
without effort, cultivation, or lobor w believe tha, ther. *
will sell for something like a quarter in Texas “
of a million dollars or for
H:P.G.SGRU8S
DEFEAT INDIANS
pleted on the Fourth of July. Re-
putable prognosticators lost no
time in informing Mr. Everidge that
ho wouldnt make anything out of
such a venture on that land, But
tht. gentleman wasn’t to be dis-
con raged by the utterances of dark
prophecies. .
After the crop waa set out and
awaiting for Natur t,d •» she
would by it the owner exemplified
further faith in his undertaking by
of crops has prevented the price de- County.
dine in cotton from being a disaster. The fruit, melons and potato in-
According to the best figures we dustry also, has added considerable
Comanche Students At
Tarleton
slips.
Urges
Asked
n,ieg..
-enaamauwe —uuesu -wmauk a "un.
Will Furnish Feed and Slips
Mr. Everidge expects to make
special effort, to supply farmers
with seed potatoes Bnd potato slips
look upon it a. another evidence of
the progress of the town. This is
certainly a prophecy of the day
when all the prominent streets of
need on tha part of the growers by
furnifhing them quality seed and
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 17TH
"MOANA OF THE SOUTH SEAS"
PRODUCED IN THE ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH SEA
WITH ENTIRE CAST OF NATIVES
"TILL WE EAT AGAIN," COMEDY
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THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18TH, 19TH
, ALL STAR CAST IN
If you want a farm or such loan
inamount of $1,000.00 or up, Se, J.
R. Eanes and Company. They are
offering the best annual payment
loan ever offered borrowers in this
"THE MILLION DOLLAR HANDICAP"
“A-1 SOCIETY," COMEDY
ment necessary to
handling of the erop
great
• Takes Berry Plants
To East Texas
This citizen is none other than
lial Wade Everidge who
40 acres of blow sand four
■
e
The U. O. Moore well
The Woodmen Circle is contem-
in this section offers asuggestion
two and one half miles from any
J M -McCrary pigneer settler elexenitoustandrinpossiblnu..
and developer of natural resources
leading north from the square to-
ward the Mackey Motor Company
is to be paved at an early date. A,
firm rock base will first be put down
then it will be surfaced with the
rock asphalt like that which is be-
ing put upon the square.
We hi ll this improvement with
hearty sanction and are proud to
,. "a la no County
--- that suffered so little
much from the financial disaster occasion
From these facts it can he seen
that the hurt done Comanche Coun-
i ty by the slump in Cotton is more
mental than actual. We suffered
A %0 per cent decline in Cotton
nishings belonging to Mr. Smith
Wore saved.
The house itself was a total loss
H. A Bowiloin of Mineola, Texas
recently pt. chased a big shipment
of the Clark and Dillard black berry
plante to put out on his berry farm
at Mineola. Mr. Bowdoin has
agreed to put a canning plant in Co-
manche if suffirieht hern' acreage
is planted. Last spring a ship-
ment of these berries was sent to
Mr. Bowdoin to test out for can-
ning purposes he waa very favor-
ahly impressed with them because
of the faet that they were larger
and ripened earlier than the Law-
ton variety which is the popular
to give, and,it.ie the firm hope of all. ” Th.ro will b, two brief but
all concerned that much more poul- pointed addresses by two splendid
speakers. t
well four miles south west from Railroad was in Comanche Tuesda
Gorman in Comanche County and
may on many instances ha'
barn bursting with feed s:
little or none of the money
By Fire Sunday
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' program of extension of activity
’ over the county is getting under
j way, acreage finding a’ read.
I ket in certain sections ane
I tests being planned every day.
The bringing in of the Wolfe et
I al or a forty barrel well on the Isa-1
[ belle Guinn tract north west of,
| Sipe • Springs. The T. & P. Coal
and 'Oil Company’s thirty barrel
TURKEY PICKERS WANTED
Turkey pickers wanted at the Ca-
manche Produce Company, D. C.
Bailey, proprietor.
On this acreage 27 acres of
Porto Rican Yam Sweet potatoes
were set out. ThlM work was com-
will have to be spen for feed uron
next years crop when grown.
The peanut crop is an average
j yield at a better than average price
; and those who vlanted, this - crop
find it more profitable than cotton
As soon.
Braswell tract west of Sipe
has a fisning job in the black lime
formation alter encountering some
three million feet of gas. The
November 11th, ha. become one
of the high days in the calender of
the American people and It is entire-
ly fitting and appropriate that it
and this Mr. McCrary suggests
should be cleaned out that high, section. Th, rate is 6 per cent,
waters might clean out the Creek . ______-
and restor. it to the beauty notie-; ........
able in the early days of Comanche.
THE COMANCHE CHIEF
WITH WHICHIS COMBINED THE COMANCHE ENTERPRISE
m. 6 ( 3 6. •
prices from the exper6d eighteen
centa this means a 30 per cent de-
. clina in the price on 20 per cent of a. agngang w.,
promtse, with half abaleiyieldtheCountr’preduetienoran-actual Reose aituatad about one mile from.
To;.P fifteen cent price , • ***** of only 6 per cent in the Coun-. Comanche and until recently occupi-
The neenn erom which his vrown ** an nahn* ~f -ata- daab- " --d by the Ree e family was totally
destroyed by fire Sunday night at
9 o’clock. The origin of- th, fire
was undetermined. the house at the
State and at least in the Cotton taking cognizance of the butte, and
growing section. milk that is eold by the farmers
Comanche County"s wide variety locally and consummed within the
live place a*
Thia gives Comanch —
most desirabl hotels of t
what he though view
-eE=# E=
______ ction of having I he youngest presid-
TURKEY PICKERS WANTED ing offieer.of the Knightssof Pyth.
Turkey pickers wanted at the Co- ( 8 neTn Migh School, president of
manche Produde Company, D. C. the Senior Boys Club and an enthu-
"nriete siastic yell leader fo, the pep squad
- of the winning foot ball team.—
" Fort Worth Star Telegram.
aTarleton degrees at whieh point th is kept
connidered thoroughly cured. The
while it does
. having
practiced " scarcely any for this
iung not game. It wasn’t expected that
in every I this group should play as well as
the team that has been receiving
io one of the rigid training all the fall. Despite
. .2. — -----, naw., of the frame the fact that the team untrainedand
have an opportunity to join, in the building type 3 to be foun in the played under considerable disad-
inging of patriotic songs known.t. State and we are Ktito that Miss 1 vantages it gave a good demonstra-
Stafford will find the app beciation l tion of the right way to play this
af the traveling men showu iv »n popular game, and is to be congrat-
i-crecsd patennte following this ulated upon the good fight it made.
The Browhwood boys had to make
Comanche’, Hotels have long been a. mighty effort to win the game:
knownanmong the traveling men for The,line.up was: r
the excellencv of meal eervice and L. T. Williams, L G. Tobe Greer, C.
R. G. W. Magness; R. T.
Dodson* F.
of the possibility of potato curing
to the small grower Mr. Everidge
said that it was his desire ae much
ns anv otFer’thine tn use his plant
to demonstgye to citizeng of the
County whafsbex could do for it
M- opinion that an man can afford
te bni • a rnvinr plain in keeping
with his potato acreage as they
could be as suegessfully handled
from n smal ten foot square build-
ine sr in aree one and in a
small lay out ef cash for it’s con;
strurtion.
Mr. Everidge helieve. that pota-
toee wi) prove to be one of tha most
vrofitable crope raised in the Sandy
rrtion of, onr connty and the
amount of mformation and ecuin-
H. F. Howington who resides
near Indian Cr k thinks the way
L to fight low prices in cotton is by
5 planting turkeys.
i Already this season he sold sixty
L for 1240.00 and few cents and still
t has twenty mor,, to sell which means
I that his turkey cron will be « good
; deal more profitable than the same
' numbers of acres in cotton.
The only thing suspicious about
I this story is did Frank or Mrs.
[ Howington cultivate the turkey
crop.
that is worth consideration on ___- - -
the subject of cleaning up Indian commemoration.
। Every person in the community
th, creek where who is able to do so and all should
j City Limits feel a most pressing duty to attend
was a beautiful little creek with this service, for it will L. -t
gravel bed and banks. Now it’s the most impressive and important
bed is almost filed up and it is al- of all the fine programs given dur-
most a mud creek full of . stagnant ing the year.
tim being occupied by Henry Smith
Fo "A household furnishings be-
lormitei h Mr. Rese that were
Much loss can be prevented in
the County by the use of planting
r n treated seed potatoes and where
“A1 they ara treated there is usually
• <laiK narur. ' little or no rot to attack them and
4 Sovereign officers or the order Mr. Everidge will endeavor to fill a
ar now in Texas inspecting pos-
sible sights for headquarters.
This will be of interest to the
®. H. Jones has sold his Grocery
stoe just off the square to J. Y.
Robinson of Energy, effective
Tuesday. For the time being Mr.
Jones will operate the business for
Mr. Robinson pending Mr. Robin-
son’s moving his family to Coman-
che. *
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MAJESTIC
ed to thres times as much as the where the pi
cotton yield. cred the demand and Comanche
Comanche County’s grain ' crop County long ago learned that lesson
was a good yield and fair price and and now when the World tries -di-
would amountyto .20 to 26 per cent versification the spirit of Comanche
of the County’, farm'income. County can smile *nd any “We done
The feod crop is good the county have. The only thing lacking is
over and those farmers whose pock- sheep and hogs to make diversifica-
ete mav not be bulging with mnney
h* most vpelern
curing plants in the country. ‘This
plant is something like 10 feet fh
length and 20 in width having one
story and a basement. The walls
are able to get the Cotton Crop in money as the fruit although scarce . _
Comanche County at an eighteen sold high and the melon crop though quarters from Omeha to E
cent price for a good yield would considered disastrou- as to’; price Texas according to reports in
not have amounted to more than 25 brought two thousand dollars l
per cent of Comanche County’s farm week into the County for a period of
income. some ten weeks a sum not to be
The grain crop, the feed crop, the laughed at. The potato growers
peanuts, pecans, fruits, melons, though cut short in yield have found
poultry, and dairy product, long ago a ready market at a dollar a bushel
out of its author*- o," better for green potatoes taken
King' in Comanche eom the fields by truck men.
County and under normal Cotton There is but one solution to th E. H Jones Sells
Iroduction wimfnote ex-
. . as our neighbor*, who suffered quit i
This ‘nl! the turkev crop of the monning onr ritienshp wi]l forget
Count v will tun In excess pf a half their imagiffd loss and return to
ft million dollare or mora than as : their normal- optimistie nttitude that
much aa five thousand belt's of cot- nothing could hurt Comanche Coun
ton P a fifteem rent price. When ty except a drouth and we have al _____ .... „.g . ....
' to this Is added botween seventy and ready had to much rain to expect on sehih was chrrier $5,000,00 in-
। a'hundred thousand dollate"ertho that. I rn-ance. '
the successful
is not vary
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The Howard Payne Scrub Foot- . .
ball team came over to Comanche, the gen
Wednesday of last week and tried bought so acres of blov
________ ______________ its strength against that of the Co- mile, east of town that
e town will be paved thug making manche High School team. The bat- practically idle for aome
r)city one of the best of the state, tie resulted in a twenty to seven v.. — —un
.s score in favor of, the visiting eleven, these acres which.
The Indian team was composed not keep it f
largely of boys who were ineligible it from geti -
to play on the regular team, and him.
---- "irely out
Hotel Adds New
« e W ply VII v-aw a «• vyy.
Equipment for the most part were enti
m of playing condition some
_ , There wil be excellent music ren- Work has just been completed on ’ — "
them and to the others who were dered by the American Legion Band, the Ridgeway Hotel in installing hot
present some very valuable sugges- splendid singing by our musicians, and cold water and
tions. I and a special feature will be an op- room.
The community was in the need portunity for hearty and.sreverent
of just such expert ndvise and in- . ysinginst. E loin ‘
spirition as this specialist wag able have an opportunity to join
See G. R. Kilpatrick for first
class gas fitting, Phone No. 324.
come much mor active. C. E.
Selvage representing Kentucky in-
terests having recently purchased
som five hundred acres north of the
pool cm which the Bryson welt is
being drilled. The Amerada Pet-
roleum Corporation of Tulsa has
also purchased leases in striking
distance of this pool having recently
purchased some five hundred acres
at the Martin and Lindsey land im-
mediately adjoining the corporation
on the north.
Plan, on the part of operators
include two more tests and possibly
three'within a few miles of Coman-
che where it is evident there is an
oil structure worth testing and
which will be tested in all proba-
• d■
L Humphreys Diamond Core test on
, B. F. Barme tract two miles'south
of Cornyn is moving along at around
one thousand fact. 1h iro.nn og-
I set to the well on the Scott and Ut-
terback tract Is down some seven
hunqr ed fe t. The Wm. Sudderth
I well on h; couv line near Blan-
I ket is sauy oowa at three hundred
I feet pending adjustments. The
I veil on the Campbelk tract four
Imiles south of Comyn is shut down
[ at thirty-one hendred feet in aline
i iormatica. The Bryson test is
nearing the twenty-five hundred
foot mark in slate and shale, break-
ing in the lime formation in to
which they have gone some 160
will be turned toward the W- t in
silent and holy rememberance of th* ................ ___ _________n _______
noble soldier, who went West dur- the excellency of meal service' and L. T. -
emEfssE Msmus
COMANCHE COUNTY BUT 111 TIE ..............
Masters, Willie Mozelle ! Jf mperature ‘s then dropped to 55
----------- I Stewart, clifton Vines, Maud Wal-dexrees:
The disasterous decline in Cotton chickens and egg, It is realised that lace. Jewel Werner, Vivian Dale , s„he..buidinK.in.heated by a mas-
price, ha, brought ruin to many a portion of Comanche’s livelihood Willlama,; Connie York,Every isiyoyytove of modern, desen..
Sauthddwperaimhe would bo carned I th cotton crop heregortadatt N""EVytaie" Expeeton v*
wholly on Cotton for their liyali- ; were given away. ( Comanche should be proud of such
hood and in checking up We believe Comanche dairy industry adds a group of worthy and represent-
we are safe in saying Comanche about one hundred thousand dollars ative young -people.
are icovored with composition
roofing which he will goon cover
with paint The building has a
perfect ventilation system having
apertures for this purpose on all
sides, through the floor nnd through
gables on the tap The least that
can be said of the structure and its
arangement is that h is a marvel
of completeness.
The capacity of the plant i> esti-
mated conservatively at 3500 bu.
When the potatoes are brought
from the field they are sorted into
three classes, seed, Jumbos which
are extra large ones, the cut and
injured and Number One Cured.
The potatoes ane darefully packed
into crates holding one bushel and
stacked in tiers for curing. „
The building 1, kept heated to an
even temperature at 60, degrees
while the classing is in progress.
When the time for curing is reached
by all the potatoes being properly
graded the temperature is raised to
c ” there arnd some of the fur-
Berry Plants
To Be Scarce
According to Jndre Luker who ia x
making Ae effort to secute the rac
ressnry berry acreage to secure .2
conpip plont It L eoine bo be Af-
ficult to secure olants tov ally '^r
thie murpose .
Those having cuttings of the Chrk
end Dna-d berrv nre mrrred to pot
Mrs. Elizabeth Tempi,, who is the skould be. It was on this. date
Poulety. specialist_fot u,. x* yagyn x Stny’b me*usi
to assist the poultry raisers with came to its end. .
their problems. A conference of I In commemoration of this day and
_________ _______- - those interested was held in the in gratitude to the valiant soldier
operations that is causing them to County Agent’s office at 10:30. i who fouzht and died for his coun-
ham 1 ' ‘ “-uke- In the afternoon a party aecom- try,its flag and its people, City
panted J. A. Barton and Mrs. Tern- of. Comanche declares Thursday of
lesma",pgit Fater Ana"comaancs Seha.its bssnergdahaat ten o’clock
on the County Poultry Farm which is own- on the morning of the day assemble
Springs . ed by H. J. R. Gille. Mrs. Temple at the high school auditorium where
expressed herself a, well pleased appropriate religious-patriotic ex-
w jh the way these people were hand- erases will be conducted.
ling their farms, and offered to
POULTRY SCHOOL
Our fellow townsman, F. E.
Adams is authority for the Informa-
tion hat one block of the street1
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