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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1916
Page
2
A Chicago woman named Mia recovered from a lifelong bronchial cough after using Peruna. Her doctor and many friends attest to the cure, noting catarrh and severe coughing that plagued winters and summers are now gone.
The Cameron City Democratic primary produced likely April elects with Sam Hefley for Mayor. Aldermen Henry Hefley Gee and T. Graves plus S. M. Burns Jr. for Attorney. J. E. Holtzclaw and Tom Parker elected Marshal. Dan Tyson as Assessor and Collector. Matt B. Bailey as Secretary Treasurer. Dave Wilson also listed. Burns led Attorney race by 5,622 and Holtzclaw by 40. Bailey led by 62 in Secretary/Treasurer contest.
Mrs. R L Batte entertained with help from Miss Jessie Lee Batte and Mesdames Walter Sharpe and R H Johnson. A Salad Course with coffee and ice cream cake followed. Mrs Hefley read Bible Conundrums and Mrs Lafayette Hefley presented a silver ice cream fork set to Mrs C D Lay, president of the Methodist Missionary Society.
Desha County near Gould faces urgent flood danger as the Arkansas flood breaches levees. About 200 residents flee to rooftops while a Pine Bluff relief train and a gasoline launch head toward Gould. The White River crest moves downriver as Dumas records 500 refugees and Douglas stabilizes.
Tailor Jeff D. Cammer relocates his Cameron business to Uncle John Tucker's cream parlor. A portion of the building is partitioned off for Cammer’s exclusive use, with renovations to finish. Once complete, Cammer aims for a top notch tailoring establishment in Cameron.
Sunday School at 9 30 a m with preaching at 11 a m and 7 15 p m Prayer Meeting at 7 15 p m Wednesday Joe Cone and family move to W W Greer home today
The Herald asks readers to volunteer to contribute weekly local happenings from their neighborhoods. Call when in town or write the office to help produce a livelier paper and inform distant readers about neighborly activity.
County Clerk records show licenses issued to D A Chance with Dollie Wilson Rey H T Hart with Annie Turner O D Ellison with Lula Huddleston Roy McLellan with Bonnie Moore Aldine Beard with Lillian Reese Leander Hunter with Betty Johnson Eugene Thomas with Elberta Williams all listed for the week.
A list of land transfers filed for record includes Bay Lumber Co to Turner Lumber Co for land in Rockdale Consolidated $5278.51. C W Baggett to F N Craven Tracy land $1200. Will Schulcraft et ux to Annie Steinberg Lot 1 Block 12 Hamilton-Rasberry Rockdale $500. J M Danielet ux to W H Goody Kvonts 80 acres J A De Pena $5687.70. J A Rydell et ux to J A Worley 224 Juan Jose Acosta grant $15680. W A Kucecka to George Kotsch Buckholts lots 182 Block 23 $1000. Mrs Alice Thompson to Lloyd Mitchell six tracts 962 acres Wm Prichard Thos Dillard surveys $10000. D B Worchester et ux to Joseph Mondick part of Block 1 E Y Terral grant $5500. B L Douthit et ux to G A Doss two lots D A Thompson grant $300. L A Walker to Julius Wells parcel Jas McLaughlin league $700. J J Lauderdale to L O Walker 23 3-10 acres Jas McLaughlin league $500. G T Graves to Sam Law Lots 4 5 6 Block 2 D Monroe grant $500. Luther Davis et ux to Minnie B Henderson West 1 4 lot 4 Division A Henderson-Arnold add Cameron $150.
The Keating bill barring interstate trade of products made by underage workers won 337 to 46 in the House and moves to the Senate. It imposes heavy penalties for such shipments and sets age rules for night work and long shifts, with opposition mainly from the South.
No.5 Oliver Typewriter for sale. Editor Cobb arrives to take charge of the Enterprise. Wedding: D A Chance and Ophelia Wilson marry at the Cameron Court House with Judge Watson officiating. Trade slowed by cold spell and rains, but roads aid commerce. Political scene tightens as candidates campaign. Worcester and Mondrik swap properties, exchanging farms near Cameron and the Worchester homestead north of the railroad.
The correspondence secretary calls an Executive Board meeting in the Baptist Church Friday morning February 11 at 9 30 o clock. Pastors and board members are urged to attend as matters of unusual importance will come before the group. One day event with morning session only.
Dr. A Pope offers exclusive focus on stomach and nervous diseases with an office over the First National Bank. Hours are 9 to 12 and 2 to 6, with office phone 351 and residence 130 provided.
The Herald notes W. B. Smith, farming on the W. H. Triggs' farm west of town, renewed his subscription and that of his daughter Miss Emma, a State University at Austin student. The staff finds this prompt renewal encouraging.
A reflective verse piece traces memories and regrets as shadows, twilight, and past loves echo through a night. The speaker laments “might-have-beens” and hopes for reconciliation, ending with the author’s name and address line.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer argues the old fashioned small town boy remains alive though urban critics lament his decline. A recent incident shows his impish streak as a Delaware church revival was disrupted by a boy leaving a hornets nest beside the stove. The piece contends the small town boy still exists and acts with youthful exuberance.
George Creel lauds early industrial courts as simple triage boards with equal workers and employers and no lawyers. He contrasts them with costly American trials appeals and delays, arguing the alien poor suffer injustice when democracy stalls.
The article notes visitors now seek department stores first in New York, where under one roof customers can obtain from cradle to coffin with minimal delay. It highlights constant supervision to prevent losses and maintain stock, citing a fur storage dept storing over 20,000 articles valued near one million dollars with total losses of 25 dollars.
Archeologists report stone tablets found in Nippor temple area of Babylonia dated around 2300 B C, viewed as the world’s first school textbooks. The tablets show pupil practice by stylus and two script forms, indicating copywork from a temple school that existed at least a millennium earlier than records.
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