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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1922
Page
4
President vice president secretary and treasurer editor and manager sentenced to eighty days in jail and a payment of $800 in fines. City Marshal Lucas has led a crusade against vice, forcing all vagrants to leave the city and combating gambling.
Bigbee House boarders and guests motored four miles to John House pasture for a moonlight picnic and possum hunt. Hounds were tracked but no game was found. Campfires coffee and a supper followed. songs and jokes around the fire closed the evening seen as delightful by all attendees. Attendees included Mr and Mrs John Owens Mr and Mrs Cornelison Mesdames L S Bigbee Martha Shepherd Miss Clara Wiley Delphya Scott Lois Burnett Richardson Olive Henderson Bessie Moselle Bigbee Emogene McLarran Messrs R Campbell H M Hasseltine Wm Kingle Edwin Bigbee Harleigh McGregor Rube Johnson Joe Matula and W Weemason.
A vice raid last Wednesday night led to two arrests by City Marshal Vince Lucas Deputy Marshal George Richards and Special Officer N O Kennedy One arrest involved a licensed home proprietress and the other a vagrant A bottle drop near the raid site yielded two liquor bottles Whisky was seized and the proprietress jailed An examining trial with the liquor case resulted in binding over for grand jury The woman had prior district court convictions and is appealing a penitentiary sentence The record also notes a recent bawdy house conviction and ongoing appeals
The Owens Refining Company of Cameron purchased the Mack Harvey filling station on the Jeter property next to the Auditorium Hotel. The drive in station will sell its own Minerva Crude oil products at retail from the newly acquired site. John H. Owens helped develop the Minerva oil field, launching a program that has grown to about 400 barrels a day.
Bible School at 10 a.m. led by Superintendent E Wade. Sermons at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Mis en meeting Monday at 3 p.m. Mid week gathering Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Pastor T F Weaver invites all to attend.
Dick and Billie Clark, employed by United Fruit Company, return to Cameron from nearly a year in Puerto Castillo and Molona District. A radiogram from their firm confirmed they sailed for Mobile COPAN on the way home, and they greet family at the station. Miss Agnes Henderson of Baylor University visited relatives for Thanksgiving.
A prescription for curing colds fever and la grippes is described as the fastest remedy known, claimed to prevent pneumonia. The passage emphasizes rapid action and strong preventive effect against complications.
Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure itching, bleeding, or protruding piles. Instantly relieve itching and help you sleep after the first application.
Local readers learn of Thanksgiving visits from Baylor University students Leland and Louise Denson and other relatives including Mrs. Maude Walston Mrs. Hill Ledbetter and Mrs. E A Flinn. Visitors from Abilene Dallas Coleman and Shreveport join Camero n residents for holidays.
At a recent Cameron Concert Band meeting held Monday November 21 1922 officers were elected for the coming year President Lloyd Mitchell Business Manager Roy Griffith Secretary and Treasurer Emory Gunn Librarian Leslie Green Property-man Harleigh McGregor The group plans to enter the State Band Contest in Dallas in May hoping to win the Loving Cup plus other honors Theda Mae Clark and Winifred Clark of Waco are visiting their grandparents Mr and Mrs W I Clark for a week
Miss Grace Mangum, a Rosebud teacher, visited her parents Mr and Mrs Geo Mangum for Thanksgiving. Miss Mary Young returned from Baylor University to spend the holiday with her mother Mrs Callie Young. Miss Nina Carlton visited Monday and reports her sister Miss Wilma Carlton still in Scott and White Hospital not improving. The Farmers Cash Store. $2 4t.
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