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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1941
Page
18
Decorators advise blending old fashioned Christmas charm with modern touches using gold silver and red motifs. Gathered ideas include gold ribbon and balls, silver bells with shells, red poinsettias and cranberries, evergreen wreaths, and fruit garlands to brighten trees mantels and windows.
In a diary excerpt from the Argonne front a German deserter recounts a Christmas in trenches with a pine tree candles and cookies. German and French soldiers exchange gifts and sing yet a sudden volley shatters the moment and the spell ends as rifles are shouldered.
A playful exchange about mistletoe on Christmas Eve. One person notes they will be too busy to notice if someone tries to catch them under the mistletoe. The lines evoke holiday humor and affectionate teasing.
Accounts by Captain John Smith describe the first Virginians celebrating Christmas among the native people despite being far from home with no families or children. He notes harsh weather but says they were very merry, feasting on oysters fish flesh wild fowl and good bread by warm fires.
Austin couple Mr and Mrs Chester Arnold celebrated Mrs Whites birthday with a 52 candle cake dinner attended by J W Grabde and family Hicks Myrtle Ledwell Davis Jenkins and children Christine and the honoree Emory Fletcher hosted guests including Rose Curlee from Rockdale and Nell Coggins Maude Pease of Independence Missouri visits continued from Cameron to Jacksboro and Houston relatives with Emory Fletcher taking Pearl and Bill Fletcher to Austin for the Oregon Texas game.
The Red Army has restored rail links between Leningrad and Moscow and advances push Germans into retreat across the front. Hitler is reportedly ill and back home as Soviet forces claim a decisive defeat in Russia.
The report notes a Nazi counterattack in Libya with Allied defense efforts. Roosevelt plans to appoint a committee Tuesday to probe the Pearl Harbor debacle amid congressional moves to grant broad powers similar to those used in World War I. Manila, Philippines reportedly bombed again.
The food stamp committee chaired by Starrett Hickman met Tuesday afternoon and invited bids from Milam county printers for 5000 folders to explain the program. The food stamp deal is now in effect. John Ermis of Buckholts and Anse Wilkerson of Yarrellton transacted business in Cameron Tuesday.
J F Schiller 89 died at 8 30 Wednesday night at the home of his daughter Mrs E L Kahler in Cameron. The body will be taken to Buckholts Friday for burial at 1 30 pm from the home of another daughter Mrs V A Kubecka. Services will be held at the church in Ocker. He was born December 23 1852 in Austria then Czechoslovakia before the German invasion and came to America at age four. He lived in Buckholts since. Surviving daughters and son include Mrs V A Kubecka Buckholts Mrs E L Kahler Cameron Mrs Joe Swacek West Mrs Joe Osoba Austin Mrs J H Kohut Austin Mrs J B Logan Cameron and L H Schiller Buckholts.
Miss Maxime Boedeker spent the weekend in Caldwell and shared time with Chris man during the visit.
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