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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1939
Page
9
The Cameron committee sells tickets for a barbecue in honor of Texas State Highway Department officials in Giddings Thursday night August 31. W F Paden says a large Cameron turnout is expected as special plans for an Austin delegation program are arranged.
Miss Litha Mae Parnell of Duran go Falls county travels to Cameron to see her uncle J. B. Parnell who is critically ill at home. The condition is described as critical. Judge Jeff T. Kemp was a Austin business visitor Tuesday.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. S A Gjedde age 06 in Dallas after she died in a Dallas hospital She was born in Paducah Kentucky and came to Texas in 1876 living in Dallas for 27 years Survivors include daughter Mrs W H Berglund Mrs J W Burns son Y A Gjedde thirteen grandchildren and eight great grandchildren Interment was at Laurel Land Memorial Park in Dallas.
C. M Beard of Milano was in Cameron today conducting business and meeting local contacts during a municipal visit.
Stewart Perkins is back from Kerrville after spending several weeks at a local summer camp.
Mrs Dorothy Powell returns to Oklahoma City to begin fall term at Hill s Business University after a ten day visit with her parents in Cameron. Emma Howard Thomas marries Marie McDermott at the bride s mother s home in Cameron with Rev A J McCary officiating. Miss Helen Haigh returns from a weekend trip to Eagle Lake with her mother and siblings. Milam county among 12 Banner of Texas counties with debt decline from 1936 to 1938. local status noted by East Texas Chamber of Commerce. Miss Marjorie Jane Cooper of Maysfield returns from summer at State University Austin and will join Maysfield faculty September 18. Ray Clark of Bishop and R A Hurston of Rockdale visit Cameron on business. Mike Duncan and Bobbie Ownby wed in Cameron with Justice Womack Brashear performing ceremony. Miss Ethel Mae McCormick arrives to take duties as Assistant Home Demonstration Agent Milam County September 1 succeeding Kathryn Wilson.
Mrs P McGregor announces the birth of grandson Hugh Douglas McGregor born Monday at 1 p m in Lawrenceville Illinois. He weighs seven pounds. Parents Harleigh and Joy Lambert McGregor visited in the mother’s home. Hugh is chief auditor for Indian Refining Company under Texas Company and joined Texas Company after Georgia Tech graduation in 1928. The McGregors also have an eight and a half year old son Don.
Little Miss Bettie Joe Thweatt of Maysfield spent Monday afternoon with Bennie Bailey. Miss Patsy McGregor was a recent visitor in Bryan where she was a guest of Miss Bess Lichte.
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