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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1929
Page
6
Advertisements rates listed by The Cameron Gerald published by Herald Publishing Co Inc. President Editor and Manager charge $1.50 per year with standard rates of 30¢ and 10¢ for display and other ads. The notice preserves the period business context and pricing.
The article emphasizes the merchant reader role in the home town paper as a community institution. It urges consistent advertising as a campaign, not a single insertion, and notes progress in national advertising while Cameron’s local ads lag. It predicts a sales revival and urges civic effort to shape a better Cameron.
The piece urges residents to drive city development by leveraging local opportunities and welcoming outside capital. It argues that wealth requires effort, warns against chasing easy rumors, and stresses building legitimate industries to attract investment.
The observation quips that as democracy expands the grand social form fades, leaving traffic cops as rare keepers of refined etiquette and ceremonial presence in public life.
A remark on early childhood shaping suggests the first four years forge character and imply no lack of wild men. An aside notes the rise of physical culture and a trend away from the term athalete. It also mentions appetites and appearances influencing opinions on flappers.
A 1928 correspondence reveals a Hous ton Texas clergyman predicting a heresy trial will test a minister. Letters from Rev H G Kenney of Cameron Texas and a Houston editor discuss past apostas and support, noting a long legal and religious dispute with regional opinion.
The Southwestern Life Insurance Company voluntarily operates under Texas legal reserve deposit law, requiring approved securities held in trust by the Texas Insurance Commissioner equal to the policy net reserve. Each day policies written in Dallas are shipped to Austin for registration and approval.
The Texas Department checks reserve deposits against securities kept by Southwestern Life. After passing review, each policy bears the Texas seal and the Insurance Commissioner’s signature. The legal reserve guarantees policy maturity and debt payment, protecting holders even if company capital falters. Milam County now has over 1000 Southwestern Life policy holders, many from the speaker’s solicitations, with a financial statement highlighted today.
Penn Wolf and Kathryn Rob bins will take oaths and file bonds as new county officers. H B McClellen succeeds Leila Woolley as tax assessor. Blaylock is sworn in as sheriff. A J Lewis becomes county attorney. L B Fikes re elected treasurer. Roy Law remains tax collector. Homer Nabours succeeds Lilian Atkinson as county clerk.
The funeral service for Mrs. Boles reflected on a life of service and business skill, praising her work in the local telephone exchange and her calm, faithful presence. The pastor cited scripture about victory over death as the family grieved, with pallbearers named as C. W. Bradbury, Ray Burke, J. E. Mangum, Wiley Mangum, Pope Sapp and Giles Avrictt.
Veterans, including Chas Sens and Joe Ruzicka, were sworn in along with newly elected officials L. H. Hillyer and R. W. Williams. Miss Atkinson retires after modernizing Milam County Clerk's office. Jeff T. Kemp and others in the County Judge and Commissioners Court also took oath. Nabours succeeds her as county clerk and administers oaths to others.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hibner returned from a visit to relatives in Imperial California visiting many Western states. Their daughter Frances Hibner also returned from the Rockies and is eager to start school. Miss Frieda Gohmert of Whittier California is visiting L F Gohmert’s family. Jay and Hilton Howell of Waco spent New Year’s Day with their parents. Anna Mae Hibner of Houston will visit before returning to school. Mr. and Mrs James Childers visited relatives in Waco last weekend.
A dry humor exchange opens with thumb tacks and finger nails then quips about wealth and college, radio history dating to Paul Revere’s plug. The punchline notes the tempering pattern of a man who loses his temper only to rediscover it.
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