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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1934
Page
4
The notice lists second class mail status for Cameron Texas with rates for advertising per column and display line. It states obituaries and notices of public entertainments with admission charged fall under regular rates.
Albert Booker, pardoned five months ago from prison, was arrested by Harris County officers and taken to Houston to face assault with intent to murder charges. He had been serving a burglary term. Charles Kelso, finishing his second year of teaching at San Vicente, is visiting and plans to enter State University June 5 for a summer course.
Ford production is scheduled for April as dealers press for more units. The Houston Ford plant expects over 90 000 vehicles could hit 100 000 with April output. Buyers show concern for future resale value under the automobile code, focusing on trade in value and liquidity of a car as an investment.
Beeville Texas Beeville Bee Picayune reports Prothro Deer son of Mr and Mrs Sam Deer of Cameron has signed with the Beeville Club in the Southwest Texas League. Club notes say his fielding is strong though batting lags, with a six chance first base performance noted. Cameron friends cheer his progress alongside Pepper Young of Kennedy in the same league.
The Cameron Furniture Company displays a 1934 Norge model and has sold several. James L. Coleman says he chose Norge for the best economical electric refrigeration in the world. Factory note: a freezing unit ran 12 years without repairs. New Norge boxes come in sizes and at the lowest home refrigeration prices. L. T. Christian and R. E. Curvin of Temple visited the court house. Mr. and Mrs. E. Schiller spent last week in Dallas driving home a new Pontiac.
A district home demonstration recreation program held in Lott on April 14 trained Falls county leaders to entertain rural communities. Miss Bertha Fae Strange led Milam county agents with 22 delegates from Corinth Curry Ad Hall Bethlehem and Jones Prairie Clubs attending. Lunch was served by Falls county clubs and music provided by the Lott string orchestra.
Margaret Fisher of Cameron, daughter of Supt. and Mrs. T. A. Fisher, won first place in extemporaneous speaking at the Interscholastic Regional meet in Huntsville on April 14. She earned the right to enter the State University meet at Austin May 3 to 5, after earlier wins at the county and district levels. Arthur Tyson Jr. of Calvert School won first in senior boys at Huntsville.
The Woodmen Circle will hold its national convention in Dallas on April 25 26 and 27. The meeting will name a president to succeed Mrs Mary E La Rosa of Omaha who died recently with the post going to Mrs Dora Talley of Garland. Mrs Talley is the niece of Mrs Willie Weaver now in Cameron writing insurance for the Circle. This marks the first national convention to be held in Texas. Mary Maples visited Rockdale for several days, staying with Mrs Alfred Franklin.
Local observer reports government will restore service warning of flood conditions in the Little River watershed after a period of discontinuation. The data for 1954 shows monthly temperatures and rainfall totals, with a year total rainfall around 4.99 inches and river overflow reaching 835 feet at its highest reading.
The body of Matt Hitchcock aged 23 who died of pneumonia in Lubbock on Thursday afternoon April 12 was moved to Cameron and then buried in Lexington Cemetery after a funeral in Lexington at 11 o'clock Saturday. He was a Cameron High School graduate of 1929 and later attended Texas Tech College where he would have graduated in June. He led in football at Tech. pallbearers were Tech football players and the coach gave the funeral oration. He is survived by his parents and siblings in Lexington, Cameron, and Texas Tech.
Sheriff Blaylock seized a bull fiddle and arrested a white man in Austin last week on theft by bailee charges. The man had borrowed the instrument from Hunt Westerman of Sharpe about a month earlier and sold it to a Mexican barber in Austin.
Directors plan to rename the Commercial Club to the Chamber of Commerce and have instructed Secretary Paden to verify charter status with the Secretary of State. A committee will report, Austin Chamber officials received appreciation letters, and the club prepaid the Cameron Municipal Band entrance fee for a Mexia contest. The group seeks use of the old state bank building for meetings and designates the last Monday night monthly as citizenship night for member matters.
An old advertisement advocates Cardus a vegetable tonic said to aid weak women with run down health and tired nerves. It claims Cardus improves general tone eases monthly periods and is safe for women of all ages. Sold at the drug store.
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