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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1926
Page
7
Births, visitors, and social notes from Cameron Texas Milam County. A baby girl born December 2 at Cameron Hospital to Rev F H Hutcherson. families visitings include Hutchersons, Johnsons, Mondriks, and Taylors. church activities noted with a Dell Sale and Bazaar planned by Methodist ladies. health updates on C. L. Boone and John A. Smith. community remarks on labor requests and local business.
Expressions of thanks for sympathy and floral offerings follow a death in the Tucker family. Social items note visits from Bassett Watson, Nelson and Pauline Green, Eugene Green, and Dorothy and Helen Blaylock. Rev. J. H. Garrett, pastor and missionary, works across Milam County and plans the Workers Conference at Little River Baptist church on December 6, 1926.
Thos. W. Adams of Buckholts appeared at the Court House Tuesday. J. B. White, S. A. Cottle and Penn Wolf traveled to Waco to attend the Waco Temple game. Miss Kathryn Flinn of Calvert spent Thanksgiving at home. Ed Tucker of Austin visited Cameron Monday. Curt Forker of Waco also visited Cameron on Monday to see old friends.
A play titled An Old Maids Convention will be staged at the Marlow School House Friday night December 3 1926. The event promises a cordial invitation and a good time for attendees. Also noted are visitors Mr and Mrs J C Turnham and son from Corsicana Visiting Mrs Vorgie Pylant, and Mr and Mrs H C Keith and Ralph Keith returning from Brownwood after visiting their son Geo KE Keith and wife.
Mr and Mrs Louis Gohmert and family spent Thanksgiving in Rockdale with his sister Mrs Marcus Stricker.
Evening prayer and sermon at 7 o clock. Sunday School at 0 45 p m. Young People s Service League at 1 30 p m. You are cordially invited.
The Baptist Bible class met Sunday morning with twenty members, discussing tithing and Gideon’s 300 men. Next Sunday the Ruth message will be taught by layman T A Fisher, with Roy Law reporting and inviting visitors.
Members of the Business and Professional Women's Chair invite women who contributed to the group to a turkey supper at the Country Club House on Tuesday December 7 at 7 30 PM. A Santa visit and Christmas program are planned with transport arranged for those needing rides.
English service at 7 p.m. invites all. Hope Lutheran Church Buck urges participation and welcomes attendees.
Circle No 3 of the Presbyterian Auxiliary entertained at Mrs. Coleman’s home with yellow chrysanthemum decor. Program parts were by Mrs. Atkinson Watson Davis Lawrence and Lesovsky. Free will offering benefited Mission Plaza. A salad course followed. Frank Broaddus of Waco and Ruth McFquire enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner with his parents in Caldwell. Ruth McGuine and Myrtle Huddleston attended No No Nanette Tuesday night.
The Branchville 4 H Club met on November 5 1926 and elected President Sarah Harlan Vice President Elton Story Secretary and Reporter Dorothy Foster. Two meetings have been held since the organization with local leader Miss Aline Smith. The club has finished one fourth of its clothing project and is credited with notable progress in the county.
Mr and Mrs Kincannon of Crush visited Cameron on Monday. Mr and Mrs Powell Tyson of Rose spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Ben Atkinson. Mrs John Howard and her son John Jr returned to Wace Sunday after visiting her mother Mrs S Carlton. Mrs Nina Wilkerson went home with her for a visit of several days.
Fire destroyed a barn on Earnest Walston's farm east of Cameron in the early hours. The report notes a sequence of activities and visits by local residents including Dr. E L Laurence of Thorndale and E G Eggert of Austin, and mentions social events and travel to Waco, Cameron, and Rockdale.
Miss Lula Mae Smith of Lexington marries Durwood B Andrews on November 26 1926 at the Baptist parsonage in Lexington Rev E S Hutcherson officiates. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Smith. The groom son of Mr and Mrs E B Andrews of Detroit is a Cameron Herald employee. They will reside in lighthouse keeping rooms at Dr Moody’s home.
Walker's Creek church in conference on Sunday November 28 named Rev V Lemmons Baylor student of Waco as half time pastor. He had recently preached there and members praised him, electing him pastor.
The Commercial Club of Milam county contemplates gifting five to ten acres to a Texas A and M graduate who proves land value through scientific farming. The plan mirrors efforts in other towns as Milam seeks to promote soil productivity east of the river and potential grape industry.
The piece urges youth to pursue business training despite uncertain times. It highlights home study and correspondence options, touts Byrne Commercial College as superior, and notes flexible, self paced methods that claim to finish courses quickly. Uncle Sam may bring instruction if needed.
A fragmentary ad narrates a man’s rise from farming to prominence and medical practice. It touts Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a top blood medicine with over fifty million bottles sold, urging readers to obtain the tablets through Pierce Clinic in Buffalo New York and requesting free medical advice. A note mentions a young man brought to a district case.
An advertisement touts a regimen of foot soaks and powders including Vie, Tia, Tin, and Tix to relieve corns, calluses, and pain. The copy claims feet become comfortable and joints ease, urging purchase of a few-cent boxes at drugstores.
Workers conference to be held at Little River Baptist Church on December 6 1926 in Milam County with local Baptist ministers and attendees expected to attend.
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