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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1919
Page
5
Miss Olive Henderson spent Saturday in Waco. The piece recalls Christmas night imagery with brighter stars whiter snow and a calmer hush. It contrasts fewer sad things and truer glad things, with bells ringing clearer.
The text combines a festive poem about constant Christmas splendor and a note that Miss Gertie Graves of Tracy is visiting Cameron this week. It mentions Phillips Brooks and an invitation to seek the Son of God at Bethlehem. The piece blends religious verse with a short social note on a visitor.
KMAS reports holiday rites across churches. Methodist Sunday morning featured organist Robert Smith and solos by Mesdames Clinton and Triges with choir renditions of Joy to the World and O Little Town of Bethlehem. Sunday night Rev Key led an illustrated lecture with Red Cross nurses and soldiers choruses and children’s choir. Earl Key served apples and oranges to children after, while Presbyterian children gave a Christmas program with a nightie drill and gifts for orphans. Baptist night offered an eighteen-number musical program with Smith at piano and Sprinkel at organ.
The Forty two Club hosted Mrs B P Atkin g at Cameron on Thursday. Outside cold and rain failed to dampen a warm festive interior with holly poinsettias tally cards and six tables of games. Guests included Mesdames Triggs Watts Hubert Atkinson Freeman Clinton Hearrell Slocomb Ralston Brown and Misses Jeter McLane Atkinson Henderson and others.
Thursday afternoon the Cameron High School Girls Club held a meeting with a Xmas reading by Velda Walker and a story by Mildred Chambers. The club, sponsored by Miss Bass, featured a tinsel decorated Xmas tree and gifts for members. Ivar Skougaard of Baylor University spent Sunday in Cameron.
University of Texas foes Emma Atkinson Katy Mc Call Agnes Dusek Knox Tyson Price Cross George Hefley Elliott Atkinson Moulton Cobb J Hilton Howell Edward Shaw from medical school. A and M Clifton Rogers Charlie Nabours L J Epperson Vernon Roberts George Clement Fontaine Flinn Cecil Barmore Ben Baskin Fred Meyers. Baylor Louise Green Ruth Coleman Mabel Jeter Sue Harlan Nadeen Bragg Mike Jim Coleman. Baylor College Harriett Henderson Owen Bacon Annie Lee Peeples Ruth Blunt. SMU Gladys Watson Louise Gillon Reba Cheeves. Southwestern Irene Cheeves Anna Lou Bask ing Maurine House Claude Triggs Nat Wafford Jack Walter Adams. College of Industrial Arts Motle Cass. Sallie Kate McLane. Castle Heights Jack West Drayton McLane.
The Friday Legion Hall dance drew crowds as dancers wore masks and costumes from clowns to Gypsies. Masks came off to reveal a town youth posing as a schoolgirl in a Hofflin Suit. The event felt like a New Orleans Mardi Gras with revelers enjoying the surprise.
The Avrietts hosted a dinner party and Christmas tree at Mrs Ida Avriett’s Sunday with guests including Mr and Mrs Wm Rogers and three children, Mr and Mrs Giles Avriett and two sons, Mr and Mrs Charles McDermott and their little daughter, Mr and Mrs W Co Triggs, Miss Myrtle Avriett, and Mr Rupert Harkrider of Abilene.
Miss Winnie Henderson led the Junior Baptist Young Peoples Union in a Friday night Christmas party at the church. The program included readings and songs. Santa Claus supervised a tree where children placed gifts for Buckner Orphans. Refreshments of punch cake and candy were served. Miss Olive McGehee assisted.
Mr and Mrs W O Triggs hosted a Friday night dinner at home honoring Mrs W H Triggs birthday. The surprise brought together children and grandchildren including Albert Triggs family and other Triggs relatives such as Claude Triggs and Bill Alex.
The Cameron Literary Club hosts a gift tree at the School House on Thursday afternoon. The club will send gifts to less fortunate girls and boys. Returning Cameron girls include Esther Fielder Janet Pardo Naomi Pardo Sue Shaw Dora Shaw Maude McGehee Mary Burns Ruth Wiley Grace Gillon Lorena Ruby Virginia West Katharine Henderson Lucille Hooks and Mabel Favers. Mrs Whitliff and her son of Waco visit the McDermotts for the holidays.
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