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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1923
Page
1
In Cameron’s urging, progress depends on change from the old to the modern. Emphasis on better roads, broader school systems, higher teacher salaries, longer school years, and greater civic responsibility to combat law contempt and support enforcing prohibition while backing local business and home industry.
Thorndale Commissioners Court calls an election for September 14 to vote off the city incorporation. The prior incorporation vote carried by ten votes, and the current election follows opponents winning city posts two weeks ago. George W. Peebles named election judge.
The city council plans a ten o'clock Friday meeting to decide on continuing paving. With Miller Surfacing Company laying asphalt, officials weigh issuing warrants for the city’s share, about half of the roughly 1200 dollars per block. Citizens may attend to discuss the project and base choice of gravel streets.
In Rockdale Texas August 23 seven wells are tied to a seventy five acre farm lease to Homer W Brown et al. The Watson farm area hosts two discovery wells with a rotary rig set to drill. The San Gabriel Oil Company plans to drill its 118 acre Brown lease as George Peabody of Eagle Rock California funds the project.
Mrs Paul Webb, who has been quite sick after a tonsilitis operation, is reported improving.
Rainfall over the county Monday and Tuesday was very light with Cameron recording .45 inches. The rain cooled the air but did not relieve drought. Stock water is scarce, ranges are low, and feed is hard to find. Most upland cotton is open and ready for pickers while bottom lands remain largely unopened. Labor shortages hinder harvest as gathering becomes difficult.
The Cameron State Bank in Cameron Texas traces its origin to 1906 with founders T F Hardy Thomas H Graves and T A Robinson. Hardy and the Graves remain active with Geo T Graves as cashier as the bank expands under Birch wood and mahogany interior design and a modern Accola heating system.
A Cameron Tex scene reports a freight train derailed near Chriesman and set ablaze from likely spilled gasoline. The fire threatens the remaining cars as crews relay tracks and assess damage. In a separate note the local Ku Klux Klan asserts it will not drive Negroes from Cameron amid parade rumors, claiming friendship with the Black community.
Dallas August 27 Twelve state cotton co operative associations members of the American Cotton Growers Exchange have arranged credit of $100,000,000 for orderly marketing and delivery of 2,000,000 bales of cotton this year. Oklahoma reports 50,000 members and a 150 percent rise in finances, noting unity among farmers and less factional conflict as key to gains.
The Cameron Furniture Company received two solid car loads of furniture this week, unloaded into its Cameron warehouse. Part of the stock is sent to the Rockdale store, which has begun advertising its fall offerings and will quote prices for the unloading of the large shipment.
The city firemen will meet Monday night to discuss the department's affairs and urge all members to attend. Council members are expected to be invited as firefighters seek approval for obtaining another truck for the department.
National weather and road advisory as heavy rains flood Texas routes. About 36 autos halted in Houston by the Motor League of South Texas awaiting routings north to Cameron and other areas. Many roads reported heavy or impassable with washed bridges between Giddings and LaGrange. some routes remain open or rough as rainfall totals rise. Call J. T. Parma for updated information before traveling.
A telegram from C. N. Green to the Cameron store Thursday morning States he and brother Leland have purchased the largest stocks of goods since the war and must sell old furniture to make room for the new stock. The message asks the store to "Get in the Newapanersa" and advertising has been authorized.
By noon Thursday the Cameron Compress reported a total of 11 442 bales of cotton received from the 1923 crop.
Mrs. BR A Triges and Albert Jr visited in Temple this week, enjoying local sights and meeting residents during their stay.
Judge Jeff Kemp announced the Chess Auto Men’s Association will mark all road crossings and hold exclusive advertising rights for five years under a county contract. The county incurs no cost and signs will guide travelers to observe proper directions.
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