The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, August 14, 1964 Page: 2 of 12
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COMANCHE
AUGUST
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true and others are flctictlous, but rive on the 11:55 train. He
all were designed with Uje pur-
pose of making the reader laugh
and have enjoyment.
COMANCHE, TEXAS
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*1.71 for * months hi Com««ch« Comity
srd on rural rout** of OuWlo, Soon,
•lankot, Carbon, May and Zopfcyr-
14 00 par yaar, *1.1* for * month, olto-
whara In Tara*. *4.10 par yoar, 11.00
tor * month, out.kfa Total. Minimum
.ubicriptlon accepted *1.70. ln*0
Oat. Postage paid at Comantbo. Ti
We Need to Laugh
Job said that man bom wo-
man la of few days and full of
trouble. We all know that 10 true.
All of us have sadness and heart-
aches. They come to us in a
thousand different ways and there
are none who have not exper-
ienced them.
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This would be a sad old world,
if we could never laugh nor smile
times. Just a little Innocent fun
or a story you know, or have
was
there ho meet him
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Uncle Marian played Innocent
but got the man to tell his busi-
ness. He told the man be knew
Mr.4 Barbee, and that he was A,
deaf man. He said It was almost
Impossible to make him hear
anything. The man said he would
have to get some dinner and hire
a horse and buggy and drive down
there.
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How long has it been since you
have heard a group of people
really get tickled and really
laugh out loud 7
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It seems to us that people do
not laugh as much as they used
t0‘ . .
We don't mean that mechanical
laugh that you hear at certain
signals over radio or TV; but
that spontaneous laugh that
comes from away down deep when
you really get tickled.
Not many years ago when big
throngs of both town and coun-
try people filled the Comanche
Square every Saturday afternoon
could hear different groups
laughing blocks away. How long
has it been since you bear a
group laughing a block away?
The poet said, "Laugh and the
world laughs with you; weep and
you weep alone; this sad old
world must borrow Its myrth,
but it has sorrow enough of its
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heard, will help aomeon who
sad and lonely and needs some-
thing to cheer them up.
Any innocent thing that will
make them laugh will do them
good. A smile often drives away
the blues. The world is full of
people who are aad and lonely ,
and often Just * Httle fun wiH ,
make them feel better.
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I believe that Job Is right. Sq
let us do what we can to make
those who are aad feel better.
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We must be careful, however,
in our effort to have fun never
to do It at the expense of some-
one else. We must not ridicule or
refer to the Imperfections of oth-
ers.
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Uncle Jim Tumbow, an oldtim-
«r of Jbrath County near Dublin
•for many years, who now lives In
that town, fecently came to The
Chief office and left a aeries of
articles that he had written on
the value of laugfhing.
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We included one of them. In
this department several weeks
ago that drew favorable com-
ments, but the others got mis-
placed. Some of them have been
located again.
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Uncle Jim, who is now nearly
82 years old, says that he never
did wean glasses and never could
spell correctly, but always en-
joyed seeing his articles in print
and bis friends have told and
written him that they enjoy them
greatly.
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Uncle Jim says that he long
has been convinced that having
fun and laughing will do more
for. improving a person’s health
than most any medicine that a
person can take. Therefore, his
last articles were designed to
make a person laugh and have
fun. * | it.
About 62 years ago, says Uncle
Jim, I had a mighty good neigh-
bor who had a son who was not-
ed for his wit and humor. One
day when his father was pruning
his orchard, he had his son plow-
ing between the trees with an
old lazy, hard-headed, stubborn
mule. The boy thought that the
mule could do better If he was
not ao contrary; ao he got a little
rough with the mule, and his
father called to him and said,
“You quit fighting that mule, he
has got more sense than you
have.” The boy replied, "He ought
to have more sense than I have,
his father was a Jack-ess.”
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Uncle Jbn Says Styles Change
"When I was a boy some 86
years ago, moat boys went ixw
their Shirt tails until they were
six or seven years old, than they
were allowed to wear knee panta.
It waa not until they were well
in their teens before they were
allowed to wear long trousers
and they did not wear More
bought clothes until they were
big enough to go courting. One
of my cousins said he waa eight
years old before he got his first
shoes."
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Uncle Marian lost no time get-
ting to hla buggy and driving to
the gin. He told Uncle Kern that
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___gin man was In Dublin and
would be here as soon as he ate
his dinner and could drive down
here.
other maih 'Skid. "Neither am L” ^laughed out
I saw you.”
have heard that the Irish
were l a very optimistic race of
people, who always triad to look
on the bright side, when trouble
came. Like an Irishman and. his
wife who were digging their po-
tatoes when lightening struck and
killed his wife.
loud the In* time
His friends and neighbors came
to sympathize with him, and
how bad they thought it was. He
said, “Oh yes, it’s awful bad, but
it could have been much worse.”
They said they didn't know how
it could have been
_________any worse.
said, “It could have been ME!”
Then he told Uncle Kern he
didn’t believe he could ever make
hint understand anything, that he
would have to holler as loud as
he could to make him hear. In
about two hours he drove up near
the gin yard gate. Uncle Marion
s him.”
Uncle Kern met him at the
gate and hollered as loud as he
could “THIS IS MR. BARBEE!”
The man hollered and told him
his name. They talked quite a
bit that way, all the time Uncle
Marian was rolling on the ground.
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Finally, Uncle Kern hollered and
said. "You don’t have to talk
loud to me, I am not deaf." The
Now this Is an old story. It
happenede a long long time ago.
got my chewing gum, and I wish
ft would rot her d,unn f**® out
A widow woman's, boy had
been helping his uncle bale hay,
go they decided to ask Mr. Lin-
coln how long he thought a man’s
legs ougt to be. Abe said, "Well,
I think they ought to be
enough to touch the ground.
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ber and the boy said he wouia
hitchhike home.
an old man whose leg had
been taken off above hla knee,
stopped to spend the night at my
grandfather’s house. He was a
stranger and my grandfather tola
him to tot by the fire and make
himself at home while he fed
the stock.
Two of my uncles, one nine and
that he had been working
baling hay. The man thought the
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one nine aim uoy wvwm
the old m>" turned «" air conditioner,
questions until he got tired ans-
( amp Meetings
Mr. Tumbow says, "I Just can’t
forget the • old fashioned camp
meetings that the people of this
section of Texas hsld 60 or 70
years ago. I don’t know wheth-
er the people of those days were
any more religious than rfow or
not. but I do know that they have
changed their method of worship-
ing." • **
<he case of v
mintouM
and
the next
I guess it is natural for people
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to think their grandchildren ere
just a little smarter than other
children. They never fall to notice
the first time they smile, laugh
or talk.
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I heard of one fellow who wss
we ring them. The older boy was
a little bashful and told the oth-
er what to ask. Finally he told
the little boy to ask him how
cam* *lg off. The row
If you boys won’t ask any more
questions. Til tell you. They both
agreed to ask no more mors ijuM’
tlons. The old man said, "Well,
boys, I got it bit off.”
When they got to the plac*
fo rthe boy to stop, the man said.
"I would like to get you to help
me haul in some hay tomorrow.
want me to do that tomorrow.
about 40 when hla
was bom. He waa __
eyed and .had loot most of
Skinner, a fanner, de-
he had rather sell grocer-
ies than bale hay and hoe cot-
and was telling his neighbors
what a smart baby he was. Said
he smiled at him every time he
saw him. The neighbor said, "My
goodness alive, that’s nothing, I
did was to
_____ „ painter to paint a
nioe sign for him.
full name,
HIGGINBOTHAM'S
PROUDLY ANNOUNCES OUR
NEW EMPLOYEES
Thomas -Connally
Instead of using his
he Just had "A Skinnier'Grocery”.
Business seemed to be dull, not
doing the business the other man
had been doing. He complained
to the salesman who had been
selling him groceries, and asked
for advice.
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The salesman said his sign
might possibly be the cause, es-
pecially with stranger* He ad-
vised him to use his full name
Adam instead of the letter "A”.
Business had been bad and mon-
ey scarce. So tie thought he could
make then change, and save about
$8.00 and so he did. This is the
way it looked when finished:
"A DAM Skinner’s Grocery.”
Thftt boys ware hauling- —
hay, when one of them fell off
the wagon and skinned Ms knee
The other boys laughsd about it
and he got mad. One Of the boys
oald There is no use to get mad
about a little thing like that. We
wouldn’t have laughed like we did
if we had known you wore not
hurt any worse than you were.
We thought sure you had broken
your leg.” -
Few people under 40 years of
age today ever attended an old
fashioned camp meeting and not
many of the younger people even
ever attended a protracted meet-
ing under a brush arbor- ———
The two church groups that
held most of the old time revivals
and oamp meetings 60 and 70
years ago and later, were the
erybody was Invited, however, and
most of the whole community at-
tended., 'll
I The camp meetings usually last-
ed two or three weeks and the
bru»!' whot
two Week, o
versions
Usually fon- j
hr’d daUyJth.'
tbe
Efyove
T-ieeting|
grove
’>t In the wotfj
abejiucle or
would meet am
In one section
another. They
md
««tiy upiinedSta
*ervice. Somethmi
women would *
and singing ,
times th*^ 1
ttu'n at ail that i
hours wer« I I
vices and nuu»,.
verted sndiho
oamp gmundj.
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An old colored women was hav-
ing trouble with her husband. 8he
said he was 111 and high temper-
ed. hard to get along with. She
told her pastor if he didn’t change
and be more kind she was going
to quit him. He asked her if she
had ever tried heaping ooala of
fire upon Ms head, and she said,
"No, but Tse tried blle’n water,
n seems lak dat made Mm even
wuss’en ever.”
are hapjty
to announce that our
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with
HIGGINBOTHAM Hardware
' Ready to help you pick out that next
appliance you may need.
Mrs. Inez Fisher
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About 65 years ago Kern Bar-
bee operated a cotton gin about
6 miles. South of Dublin. He had
a break down right in the busy
season and had to order some
parts from Fort Worth, and had
to have an expert gin man to
come to fix it. There were many
farmers on the gin yard waiting
for the man from Fort Worth
to get there to fix the gin.
• •
Mr. Barbee had a good neigh-
bor, Marion Case, who never let I
an opportunity pass to have some
fun. The farmers never dreamed
of an occasion like this bringing
fun, but Uncle Marian did. He!
knew the ginman was due to ar-
now associated with our
Furniture Department
She will be glad to help you chooee ,
that special piece of furniture.
Come by and greet these new employees
and renew your acquaintance with our
other employees.
"COME SHOP AT
Rotterdam is the name of a large
1 city. Why do you aek?” The Ut-
C tie hoy, still crying, said, "Sister
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‘Hiqqinbotham'J
The following article was writ-
ten by Mr. Tumbow several years
ago, and Eippeared in The Chief
and several other newspaper* of
this area;
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A little boy came to Ms fath
er crying one day and said, "Dad-
dy, is K wrong to say Rotter-
dam?” His father eeld, “No, eon,
A tramp asked a women If she
could give a hungry man some-
thing to eat. She said, “Yes, but
did you see that woodpile and
saw out there?” He said, "No.”
She said. "Yes, but I saw you
see it” He turned to walk away
and said, "Well, maybe you eaw
men see it but you'll dayn shore
not see me saw It.”
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When Abraham Lincoln was
president, some todies were dis-
cussing the question as to how
long men’s legs ought to be.'Some
thought a few were too short and
a few were too long, and of oourae-,
women like, they could not agree.
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, August 14, 1964, newspaper, August 14, 1964; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth892082/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.