The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 1939 Page: 2 of 10
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The Comanche Chief «&& 3&S&S
' Established Jin 1873
farthers arta,--preacher* namwis
a lobby at Austin durian the tim-
' the Leslslitui e i* in session ha,
the Les:>latu:p _ _
J. C, WU4CEHSON. Editor i *»ld These Include not only th.-’
aqd Publisher
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public •Utilities, and railroad* and
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______________oil interests, but the State Teach
ttM ptMt om<s •« Com.uch. . prs Association, and nearly every
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*■ » •»-* *»“, ------- retail and whotemU* association
Mrrlptiou Price $!.#• Pet Year tn the State. —......-
la Comanche and Adjoining ^ . —(>■-'
Caantle*—Klieahere 51 50. let the Ignorance of
” ** “ 1 ' • ' " j others annoy you." s%y* The Wac?
1 T.mes-Herald What would you
Twenty-five years ago fe# those who ran use it—and not Recently the following tesUihbn-
.?u w,r. «f. ~____uf- h id 1 lose It. and the banks hive, never' ial was received by a patcnt-mqdi-
schools the'sue o. Comanche had ^ nQn wtmftg to mak(. S0\ind.rm«, concern: i’Fof nine years I
ri band, a well organized depart- loani than they are today.” read i wai ’totally deaf, and after using
one ^
ment.^ r * Dr. R T Sca'.ev. owr.er of th^ j zme. ' . , An Irish immigrant was asked'! the court house will be one aj
x_o_ ’well known" Sealv Hospital atj 0 ■' * -—*---- -*
I GIVE YOU
TEXAS
BY BOYCE HOUSE
Lady To Take Baith?
On Top Court HoU
At July 4th Piq
Hicks X
York* rjsnfib&s r.iSS’"!? &&££*£&
Ckfi’ U «&« *SS«ES»>" »| I'F,r' ?hl"
■"'One of the greatest iffiprove- have to make you feel -superior
meets in the locks of a place dur- -j evffybody knew a* much as you
tag the clean-up period recently do? -
In Comanche was made by' Judge. ' ' -; <*0-r - -
R. fl. McChareb mm had the lot p,.* a neig ».ut-fiTyinbde *n
cleaned and leveled adjoining his ]941 y^». willi likely get *an ah
new residence. The place no* . conditioned car. .yays.ai .science
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Senator Metcalfe of this dis- -i^anta Anna, died Inst week*
'±r*\s one of the-.4o. ijiembns J * <
nate who voted for the Fiik R
lea act~wh<hiei had been r -- „ ,, , . . ____
---------'appoint^ postmaster at'I ^ for ieyoUrn ciMVs^Ex-1' A 90‘year old mountaineer'with
ICnu HAS**- ‘ ' ! change f y CWi< ** , long whiskers, was sitting in the |
tricbrW'ts one of the-4Q- rpemb*rs ( ____ _ __
the .subject of filibustering n .th^ ylas bW■t!^appJi^4tec, coming in nere ana aaicinK jgr A on.wa.e mm****{*>*** ' in marble on ton of the l
Manel’y Head of Stephenvllie was
Jop of .the
house dome a bath during i
really looks nice
.doorway of hi* cabin when a iplay by the firemen in which
one of the leaders of the joppost- i „ „,,nA ! .... •: ... . . _ stranger inauired "Hkve you liv- i er will be thrown completely
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—a._ h4,. n--j1lir-y., ftn<j' the kind of yelling we used to do ; is he? I’ve known him to buy ; , * -w v J ...,W e1*
merchants ^gnJ^rlS ^ J™ ^ a
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feecrge StcGlc’
pit Sunday wit!
McGlothhn n
IrsT’Mmnie Hi
lo visiting
•pests in thel
ore Sunday >M
|n and family
Mr. and Mrs|
iBrownwood.
rs. W A.
^dy York madl
rownwood Fi
Lmag»\2jn^ A P^son nan
i travel over the deserts with the
JL C Tiper who has been cor- 'remp?ratuie at 120 degrees on the
mpondent for The Chief at Van outside while he will be enjuymg
Dyke for more than 17 years has j 60 degree temperature.
J#«l*ned that place following the —o—
devth of his mother The Cluef | ' new 200-foot Concrete
tumtshes a fr^e subscripUop„ar; i bridge spanning the Sabano River
stationery and stamps for i;s com- |on the Slpe aprmgs-Oe Leon
■U&itjr correspondents. We Highway, ha* been completed, but
advertising in this issue for a new w no, ye. open for traffic,
•orrespondent at Van Dyke. j
tLnsr minimum mall prices “or'«W»e ^ ‘’see it his way.
trade-marked articles and com-1 , ...
modities. Its broad provisions Houston tn** _ largest city
make liable to legal action any Te^ias. is th° in size in the
merchant .selling an item below US-A in 19?0. the last Federal
of gasolihe in the tank!”
big city for the first time He was
Husband- ‘I^wmder why i* l^^0 impressed by the, trucks and
we**can*t^save r "
Wife: "It’s the neighbors, dear; tfh^Lhh^OlH,-m«.P0'tr^lv
MV nr» aTtt-avs rtiiinu snmAt.hlni f°Uts back homC, Tltay
the minimum price level 8tlpul*t-J census jrave Houston a population j^re4ffor^3" <1°mg 3ometll'lni • sure are behind in their hauling
ed in a contract.
of 292,352.
I h
ere.’
can be sent when the hose
tached to a fire hydrant andj
much ,'higher w hen the pumj
used
The firemen’s cembnstratioij
beg.n on the cdbrt heuse lav
9 o'clock. Anc'-b£r feature of
demonstration will Joe a water!
game. Chief -Ortflyyn state
onoi
Sfrircuj^^e^e^^veiy Rmn^^ll j^hlw^Site
Imt tourist Camps outside of Texas ^gn“ r nAr''?SkerJUi?e*:ideJr who
according to N. N. Durham who k that those who have smines-
Opponents succeeded in-attach-1 For tbe first, time within many
ing ^an amendment limiting price years Comanche was not reores-
agreements to a term of two years ented at the State Firemen’s Con-
Othenth.se contracts would have version. The c-invention was held
run. Without liniitatlon and could *his year at Harlingen and the
Opr have been voided by legisla- fire boys thought it was too far
tion, opponents said . to ask the City to pay the ex-
i • nenses of delegates, antoording to
Those favoring the proposal ***re Chief Bob Qfbham.
claimed it offered ^ protection to
A young business or profession-
al man often takes the "bluei”
when he has done his best and
turned out what he thought was
a good Job only t» find some one
will criticise him. When a man
Puebla, Mexico, was the scene
of the victory of 2.000 Mexicans
over 6.0000 Frenchmen on"Cino
de Mayo and it also recently was
the Waterloo of Julien C Hyer of
Fort 'Worth, past International
Cowen Appointed
Associate Directc
FSA at Was!
pleases everybody, there'll be a Lions’ president who led a pigrim-
giass over his face, and he won't
be standing up.
Judfee Wilson Cowen. son of
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8hc World’s Fair. Instead of tour-, thMn wlth Hllton at
M, camps, one finds In nearly chamber of Commerce office.
•very town tourist* home where r , _
the owners of large residences V
rent out a few of their spare1 Softball, which has been a
rooms for about 75c per^ person I popular spert at Comanche for
Ser night, Durham said- the past, three seasons. Is getting
^__ off to a late start this season and
„ , , , .. some of the young men who play
So popular have become the tj1P game ms well as the fans are
taumt homes in some of tht east- & .anxi0US>
•rn cities, that m many places as
large as Comanche there afe‘no
hotels and m one Missouri' town _P'_v?ibiy few professions have
as large as BrownwoodT there 's made as many changps withm thv
only one ten room hotff accord- last quarter of a century as has
tag to Emmett House‘who also that cf teaching Twenty five
recently returned from New York years agd We had in nearly every
—o— 1 county seat town summer normals
Denverls a city rioted for its which ended their term with State
nractices described to include bes coming into Comanche July
”Ke“der" sa?ef and rfSS 1 ^ » two .months stay. Here Is
| a chance for the citizens of Co-
, , ' I manche to *iv*-e their town a little
_ advertising bv giving these new
Foes labelled^ u a devh-e jaclc j citizens a rival welcome and do-
up prices for Eastern manufac-i j—_ wv,a*. pan tdi1 m’ake their
turers" and’ in contravention to | ^ ^omar.che pleasant. These
Are we headed back for the
pre-civilized days? Somebody has
said: The modem doctrines of
Communism are only a rebirth of
the primitive tribal customs that
existed before men recognized in-
dividual property rights and laid
the basis of modem civilization.
the State’s anti-trust laws It was s™n'V wcrv in nth*-r
na’terr.ed after the Illinois fgir narnmitnities and when they leave
trade ac. which has been uphe.d Comanche w.l'l no el-ewhere for
by the Supreme Court of trie Um- brle{ 5tays until -‘s
ted States. ’completed. They can give Coman-
ohe either good or had advertls -
are of -Liins into Mexico. Famous1 , ,, _ . , _ . _
,, __j and Mrs. John Cowen of Cot
Xr.h”*ith!L'1hS;UorT,«i,t • ^ raT’^h^mf
vpnrfn^' 1 th h d f 1, work with headquarters in
. ington. D. C., at a sala
A group of t.oe Americans were gsooo 00 per year
sitting in Puebla's dreamy central
Mrt, .nd Hy.r to th. mldtt -t, 1.°^
LV'ZffiS AWSSirf ~M”,W “ Da>h*nWa y.ar
■Vo' saw? « and auemot.J ‘i^'^anid
1? “s. d2S5,W. tti'lthe.aafar.ers A suporvi
Instant
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Tramp: ”Ls your lusbind at i street salesman held his grdund
°TadyU<< resourcefully»: "Well, if! bX\t:U t^MexiSTstS*^ !
he’s finished, his revolver prac-! lixe the boy on the burning deck , National Director is in rec
flee, he’ll be in the yard playing'or the unwelcome raveiT perched i
'OaNOCO S
Brown vs
ttr see him?”
^United States Marshal Guy Mc-
Namara of Waco, in conversation
Spanish?” Hyer appealed to his
fellow travelers.
Up to this point, the native had,
pretty lawns according to O. O examinations
Bnghttaan who has Just returned
Irom that city. The yard of i Those who’ did not take l\ie
nearly fiery home is covered with| gtate examinations at the nor-
» thicx coat of neat.y cut grass majs (.Quid later taxe the exami-
• darlc blue or green color. Mr. nations at the court house, If
Brightman said (they sent their papers to Austin
Those who think that religion; ing to other parts of Texas,
is losing its' hold on the people j' —0—
have another thought coming ff -in some schools and college--
the interest in religion is to be' *cr» mtich money is Joeing spent on
judged by the number of Bibjes ’ bricks and too little on brains, in Austin recently, called to mind, said nothing. Now he said in ev-
sold. In spite of Hitler's edictrsa,ys Lynn Landrum,
there were 200.000 more Bibles! —o—
sofar'in Germany last year than l, Thousands of names will be
there was of Hitler’s "Mein, aJdded to the Texas Old Age Pen-
raver! perched i Qf ^jS succes3 ;n his present
Mnh<T donh ttren. Judge Cowen Ls i
Hjoe (
Ho»,,.^„you' “if .^ra.m'> Joe Cowen. Principll of FaJ
an old-time political campaign in
which one candidate accused his
opponent of inconsistency, quot-
tn a 'Jingle about “the big snake
Kampf" and there was a 10 pe:-;sion rolls, but where is the money ! rtrat_ went-ehrough the country”;
cent increase in—tlae sai'?s of to come from ^rtd will the Fedor-I
T2iK1ad Ir* KntTa orH Tontart * _ . ____‘ . •
jand passed th# examination they
reason Denver has such were given State certificates, but
pretty yards is that there are no
water meters in that city. EVery
residence is assessed a flat charge
if they were not quite so sure of
themselves, they usually applied
for a County certificate and the
year for water ar.d | papers were gTaded by the local
allowed -to use as, board consisting of three teachers
as lie desires and is of the county,
grass ls”’t'horoughly
Ameri°a WaS Pth« up Lheu hal^of The^Tun^s to pS
greatest of all umes. , yor expanded program Ls the
0 ! ouestlon uppermost in the minds
Texas i3 now the lending cUuy, 0f those who issue the checks at
state of the nation, having pa^ed |, Austin.
Ohio in 1938 to take first .place in • —o— -~r - ’ 1
the number of cows and of the Bible Thought: “Let your light
He wobbled in and he wobbled
out:
He kept the people all in doubt
■ As to whether the snake that
made the track
Was comiag in or going back.”
Get your butter paper and car-
tons at The Chief.
I i-
The reason Denver ran afford
to be so generous with its water,
la that it costs very little. Mr.
Brightman said Most of the wat«u
comes from springs in the moun-
tains above the city and from th?
, ®eltliig snow "&n top of the Cliffs,
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A gentleman from West Texa
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year term in the Legistytm
Mid that one reason why1 the
Legislature could not accomplish
more was because of the lobby-
ists
production of dairy products.
Now there ar*5’™TnSCmore Sum-
mer Normals nor are teachers giv-
en a-certificate by examination.
All new teachers are required to
so. shine before men that they
may see your good works and
There are 141 children enroll-1 glorify your Father which is in
cellent English, "If you wish me
to leave, you should say, ‘No
quiero comprar nana.’ meaning ‘I
do not wish to buy anything.' ”
And he stood there smiling until
Hyer, carrying out the ritual, said.
School.
Arol i Cowboy I Howungt
year old son of State Represi
tive Frank Howunoton. ?ufferj
broken wrist in a fall off a
late Thursday afternoon.
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John D Bosweli of Nocor
visiting his grandparents, .Mr. I
"No quiero comprar. nada." And ! Mrs. Sam Howell and Mr.
then the serpae-vendor moved' Mrs Ed Boswell a
_______________and oth#r.
serenely or. Itives here, and will stay until
A deep silence descended ex- . Fourth of July,
cept for the wind rippling through
the treesand—will you believe it?
—the sound the wind made was
very much like a chuckle.
Mrs. J. E Deely of Brownl
visited Mrs. Ed Boswell and
friends last week.
,WH
ed in the two weeks vacation Heaven."—Matt. 5:16.
Bible School at the First Biptist - " —o—
Church at Dublin. As far as we A man wrto said he wanted to
•ake"'V'Tour- year ^college" course 'SXiQ'*1 there a'e no such schools j prove the eiibility of insects gave
teiorp they'are granted a" license planned for Comanche this sum- , Nebraska police a, bit of a turn,
to .teach, jmer. _ " |Tlie 51-yea^-old world war veter-
■ ’ . ... *» —o— jan told officers he felt no .ill ef-
■■ * j Recently Governor W. Lee fp<-t from his diet of about 250
Twenty-five years ago there O'Daniel sent a telegram to King 1 live grasshoppers each day.* He
were a number of private o«llege» Oeorge inviting -the King and explained- tha-t Ire-swallowed them
such as Hankins Normal at Gor- Queen of England to come to whole, because that is the way
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jauL_iec£HUy . .cuinaltled-. a HAi mac., Bntijin s Training 8chool Texas-and really......sre-somethlng. that flie '--d.. d,-. it The pcl:-"
at Cisco. McIUianey Academy at • "We are all happy peace-loving found n’o law prohibiting this un
Stepiienvil.e and- Scranton Aca- p^oble and war.: you to coijie. dnd .Usuc die* and -released the man
demy at Scranton. These were see us." the telegram concluded. ;but wondered if they would pick
;reat institutions in their day,| "There is plenty of money in him up later perched in a tree
bu: they served their purpose. i the banks today, a-s always, fo: with.feathers on his legd*
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 1939, newspaper, June 23, 1939; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth888610/m1/2/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.