The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, November 19, 1943 Page: 2 of 10
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Jewels.’
mentioned
her mind I
she discovered It
••Scrapbook" and was
about 30 years ago by
and mailed back
Ing who fortunately
by running Into a
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For every hair
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behind the counter, or a‘fanner Judges of
behin da plow. If he docs not ®*j* a
feel a caU for that kind of work, chllcrcu;
all people; pilm
the etuth; both young
vu rs i.i
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| Wife: “Come to supper—e
and potatoes and hot rolls
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of* p*
iluces and Just Where do you get that
»t Muff, the war will be won Pat 'coming in with his mod
old men end by,men. j • watering); Nora, you’re klddd
them praise the name Just what do you think Draft »*• *nm’t you?"
"A hog will grunt gratefully c«
for His name Is ex- Dodger that this
would do. If all tha-'meri
Wife: "No. I'm Just kidding tfl
rubbers Col
it of thej
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The faff.
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I slvrlfi-
»i history
Hxice theles
allon has i
>rchestra
nuslc stude
:hrouffhout
Walker.
at to Mr. 1
she had esca
storm cellar.
w“ “From another house e child
was carried 300 yards by the wind
«««»§» ‘ ‘ was
peonre Wa
the (hum:
J Thomas former ed 1 tor ™d ^ropodd dead, and yet It
as. | s, sud
We never had the pleasure of
knowing Mr. Thomas as he left
Qospancbe about the time we
came upon the scene, going to
Austin to become superintendent
of the State Deaf and Dumb In-
stitute, and a few years later
passed sway In that City.
Thomas was editor of The Chief
nst of the time for the decade
and a halt preceding 1911 and
was rerognuftM as one of the lead-
*— newspaper men In Texas.
and Its • occupants thrown Into
a wild state of terror, but not
one was Injured, although they
broke a number of Jars of pre-
serves trying to get as near the
bottom of the subterranean re-
sort as passible.
PLUCK -
In
Intellect, j
lesson In
11 do *eU|
said
Haggard.
“One of the freaks of the storm
was that It struck 8helton's Liv-
ery Stable killing all his horses,
tearing the fence Into splinters..'
unroofing the bam and blowing
away the walls, but left his corn
and shelled oats undisturbed.
beg In I
He was president of the Texas
Press Association in 1904. being
the second editor of The Chief
to fill that coveted position among
newsDspdr men. 8a% Vernon hav-
tei first seyved In that post In
ThomasZ'reared m the “Free
State' ol Van Zandt County, was
>s|.aail*as man holding a degree
from Southwestern University,
having graduated from that j
Methodist Institution with the
class of 188*.
Thomas was also a lawyer, al-
“The storm hit at 13:13 a.m
and lasted only a. minute.
“It was said that there were
at least a hundred houses in the
path of the storm; but nothing
would Indicate.' It today. Ttmbei
strong and lumber wgpk bad all
alike bee.-. llfWafly" crushed lute,
splinters.
Z ’TfaMftu* and stoves and bed*
and spi and furniture aim
groceries and pigs, chickens and
hay were tangled together into
one whirling macerating machine
and ground Into pulverised pulp.
sift
though he seems to have practic-
■Ki ne term
;’«d but little, but served on« ■
as County Attorney, probably act-
ing as editor of The Chief at the
mt l
"Here a braid from the dresser
of a lady, there a rug from the
floor, here a windmill twisted in-
to a roll as. if by omnipotence
side by side with the choas of .a
*y
1 welling
lid their |
to
kill the
wtU
the pli
*t carries
tie of panel
or work
its tnstincl
energy ■
l! |» itself . |
i to do.
to use
». and
ay that
man
will reac|
in
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•vl
It seems that he was drafted
by the Democrats to make the
* race for that office and was one
ef the tew Democrats who was
hot defeated in .that campaign In
this county tha%fall by the Popu-
"I ssw a number of chickens
with'every feather picked from
their bodies. I saw an oat patch
cut almost to the ground as If
by a dull mower, not a wholj,
stalk standing.
Rev. W. B.|
ppotntment
Thurch Sunri
ice at 11
non : “What |
’on’ The i
Topic . Ten
•y Christian
he rongregi
rtrp their
' The preface to Thomas’ Scrap-
book if it had one. Is missing
from the copy brought to The
Chief by Mias L*ve.
Nothing remains In the forepart
to tell when or where It was pub-
lfched. but the date must have
been about 1912 or 1913.
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The book contains 244 pages and
106 short articles, some of which
may have appeared In earlier is-
sues of The Chief.
, "Trees left standing - were en-
tirely peel of their bark and I,
would say that the most remark-
able feature of the storm aside
from its work, was the way It
made paste of mud and plastered'
every stump, tree, and post as
completely as if done by a mason s
taflflft.
-Dr Dray
'hankxgtving |
chool on
tov. 34th Nfl
foim delsel
nday. 1
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Pvt. Harvlr |
Ftaano.
lelrn Htgglr
.ed this weel
The book Is very clever and
most Interesting and from it we
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“After it was over, every house
adjacent to the right of wajr~or J-
The storm was a hospital, the '*?
porches improvised into morgues,
the rooms crying out with the!
distress of the wounded- •
“In every house there was of-}
ten mutilation and always agony:
How many more days, Mummy ?
/
ferent sketches:
“Former President y Theodore
Roosevelt made a speech in Aus-
tin In 1911. I was anxious to see* Stained with the last ebb of the
'
and hear this man who had yield
'ed the “Big Stick” and when he
was president was regarded as
one of the world’s biggest men.
"Absolutely It was the poorest
speech that was ever delivered
from an Austin platform by any
man who had reputation, enough
to draw a prowd. -
*% dare say the address was
bare of every element of a speech
apd the juune effort preceding
from a University student or a
member of the Legislature would
have emptied the auditorium long
Its conclusion.
'“■When Roosevelt appeared af-
ter an Introduction by Oovemor
Colquitt, he bowed all over the
and exposed for e half min-
teeth to the full limit of
•This would have been silly had
it not been natural, and there-
fore almost pltlfuly, so fearful
appear in this eccent-
“Speaking of Austin. Texas, you
ay deprive any cltixen of that
pathy: the palid faces of the dy-
inf. purple with cruel blows, and
swathed in bandages: the white
rheets draping the victims and
tide.
"The next day thousands came
across country and on special
trains, and Uttered the great
brown track of ruin, and gather- •
ed In knots and trampled from;
scene to scene on this beautiful (
Sunday.
“Not one was so thoughtless as
to smile, not a word except to;
unde-tone and every heart was
leave.:el %tth pity.
“Young women went from so-1
ciety’s parlors and nursed the]--
sicken victims and ministered as;
only women 'can at the bedside of f
sorrow," ♦ -
"Tell me. How many more day* be-
fore Daddy can come home?”
And mother doesn’t know. So she
answers the same way she’s answered
a hundred times . . .
“Not so many days ... we hope.
Daddy can’t come home to us until
the war is over. Until we win, you
know.”
Nobody can tell the thousands of
bewildered little hearts when their
Daddies will come home. T ^
Nor the millions of other Americans
or sons, or
when their husbands,
sweethearts will be back.
The tragic truth is that many of
them will never see their loved ones
a£ain. Never.
But this we do know ...
Victory . .**. the day when the boys
come matching home.
Don’t slacken your Bond purchases
while victory is within our grasp t
Never let it be said that while the
attack grows stronger on the fighting
Every minute by which war can b« J fronts, we at home failed to back it to
shortened means fewer lives lost-fewer the very limit of our ability.
white crosses on a lonely hillside.
Your job it to put every dollar you
can possibly (tig up into War Bonds.
The fighting equipment bought by
your dollars will hasten the day of
of his Job. vhkfe U usually l^nss
a government teat end he will
The biggest trouble that roost
^married people have are little
sip with a home sick determ-
not to leave his feeding
and. he begins at once to
in Austin dirt and-giroclatm
who have ever
It is the ideal
Texas, the
in the South.
‘ est resorts
and' Moses did not
a fairer prospect when
Use radiant1 bosom of
from Plagah and no
ever slept, so serenely In so
sn environment. —
been greater In
The following lines sre from
Thomas’ Editorial Bird-Shots, the
funny s>de of various sod hum-
orous things:
“The moon sometimes celebrates
Christmas by getting full.
“If the barber geU to Heaven
It will be .by a close shave.
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Dig down dewper. Buy 6xtra War,
Bonds. Help shorten the war by
those vital minutes or days, or
months which mean American lives
saved! 'Z ,
wars a coto|
cau vi miM
I tlcklo a lit
thlx lltnr-
that for*
S wa
ways at ■
At badtlnil
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KEEP ON BACKING THE ATTACK*
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ft mm mmmaptma am^wh^a a
orpb;n-
BUOS hgve Hit Comanche Covinty.
if sd goodbye ORKKNBACK. ,-
it is said that the
Comanche ■
"Some of the Comanche young
people who danced at the last)
Christmas ball here have a little
bawl at home this Christmas.
"Ex-Senator Butler says the!
Populist Party la not dead. He Is
right, they are Just sleeping till
the re#urrpctlon rn, rn
“The three principal agent* for
spreading hews art: Telephone,
telegraph, and tel la-w amah.
lng paissgl
BMdielnal
wanning. <
and
evea wail
coughing!
United War Chest Drive Now 0|n!
. Comanche County Quota $5,081 I ~
The Net'd Is Urgent. .HaOe You Done Your Tart
City of Comanche Hat Passed Its $2,000 Quota With $2,234.02 and Money Still Coming In!
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"It looks like providence is do-
ing Its beat to make us quit rais-
ing cotton In Comanche County
-first sending the droxth. then
the boll weevil. When will we sub-
mit and go at something else?
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, November 19, 1943, newspaper, November 19, 1943; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth888967/m1/2/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.