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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1920
Page
8
Editor in Chief Lee Howell leads the Gam-Hi Weekly News Editorial Board with Velda Walker and Walter Willis as assistant editors. Student body section features Walter Willis introducing the Editor's Easy Chair and related columns.
The Mothers' Club will seek Holland's Magazine subscriptions next week to raise money for a new school library. If fifty subscriptions are sold, the club will donate 50 dollars to the library, a plan praised by high school members.
The Cameron High School Girls Club met in regular session on April 15 1920. The program included Being Good Friends With One's Own Family Identification Bureau Music and Current Events. The club adjourned and next week's meeting was announced with a promise of a clever program.
April reports show Cameron High School baseball losing 17 to 12 to Caldwell after leading early, and later defeated 21 to 5 by Belton. Rockdale High offered a guided single run to Cameron to spark a return game, while Cameron previously beat or lost other matchups and remains optimistic for future games.
Mr Crawford and about thirty band boys spent an overnight camp at Sandy Hook. The group swam in the afternoon, and after supper pranks and jokes followed. Ice cream and soda disappeared from tents during the night amid a search. Some boys were taken to town for work while others stayed by the river, and no fish were caught due to noise.
The Cameron Concert Band will give a concert on Sunday May 2 1920 in the Cameron High School Auditorium. On account of Mrs Crawford being out of town the CLC did not have a meeting last Thursday.
Poem praising a Texas school called Cam Hi with lines about tactful teachers and earnest students. The speaker pledges love and dreamy notes, claiming the school offers learning and virtue and inviting readers to recognize it. The piece reads as a lyric reflection rather than a news item.
The excerpt records teachers and students in a study hall exchange with phrases like combined together, how am I ever to get you Freshmen down to good hard work, pshaw and just so. It captures a lively classroom atmosphere and each speaker’s characteristic remark.
The Camei widow advocates a special seniors instruction branch to curb buying on credit inviting items like invitations. Intrigue rises as lessons pile up this week with unknown reasons. Mr Crawford seen in his buzz wagon. Eber notes travel to Hoyte now longer than six miles. A young lady hints Walter Walker will call tonight but refuses to have him. Father jokes about banana split debt while handling the matter.
A box supper will be held Friday night at Walkers Creek School House to benefit the school. Cameron is invited to attend. Announcement of the event was made Tuesday.
Every druggist in town notes a drop in calomel sales as Dodson's Liver Tone gains popularity. They say calomel is dangerous while Liver Tone is safe and yields better results, a view echoed by a prominent local druggist.
Dodson's Liver Tone is guaranteed by every druggist who sells it. A large bottle costs only a few cents and offers relief for liver sluggishness and constipation. It is a pleasant vegetable remedy for children and adults, taken at night to leave you feeling fine next day without biliousness headaches or constipation. It avoids the weakness and nausea Calomel causes and keeps you productive.
In San Gabriel April notes greet rain after a dry spell. Visitors include Henry Yeager from Austin and Fred Stigall from Cameron. Dr Ellis of the State University spoke on Child Diagnosis and Education to the Parent-Teachers Association, urging better teacher pay. Numerous residents caroused, visited kin, and shared social calls across Cameron, Rockdale, Thorndale, Circleville, and Connelly.
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