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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1937
Page
5
The president vows not to heed comfort opportunism or timidity as he pursues a program of progress. He challenges delay and social economic experimentation while pledging to raise living standards and translate national wealth into broader human comforts.
A school of instruction in Woman's Missionary Society Methods conducted by district president Mrs. L. N. Yeager of Navasota will be held at the First Baptist Church here from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. Wednesday January 27. Lunch will be served. All Baptists are urged to attend and everyone is invited.
E W Streetman adjutant said the local post is weighing a Sons of Legionaires organization with plans similar to DeMolay. A Feb 2 meeting will decide, members urged to attend with their sons. Post will meet twice monthly with business on the first Tuesday and social on the third. The first New Year social drew about 50. state department reps may meet with the post.
Milam county commissioners court reported December returns showing Talbot Ridge residents approved raising the school tax from 20 to 40 cents. Also notes Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Smith of Houston visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. McGehee.
T S Henderson president urged members to meet installments as due and warned stockholders of liability. A G C Williams of the Federal Land Bank of Houston spoke to 365 Texas farm loan associations via Texas Quality Network radios about loan quality, property care, and the role of farmer owned associations in the Farm Loan System. Cameron National Farm Loan Association aided over 186 farmers in Milam to Ward counties refinancing debt, with total territory loans and land bank credits reaching $592,500 since inception.
W. E. McAtee of Burlington was elected a member of the board of directors of the Elm Creek Soil Conservation Association which met in Temple last Saturday. The board will meet in Waco next Saturday to name the officers.
Funeral services for T. PrP Ryan 78 died at his Rockdale home were conducted from the family residence with Rev D E B Sneller of the Methodist church officiating. A Charleston S C native who moved to Texas in his youth the late Mr Ryan was married to Miss Hana Earl Pettis of Bowie in 1840. Surviving are his wife two sons T B Ryan acting vice president of Rockdale State Bank A Earl Ryan a Rockdale post office staff member and a grandson Earl Ryan Jr.
Marble machines were removed from Cameron business places for a second time in three months. District Attorney Emory B. Camp and Sheriff Max Kennedy had previously called operators to remove them after an injunction by Judge J. H. Kirby blocked officers from interfering. Houston case ruled Kirby lacked authority to enjoin criminal law enforcement, dissolving injunctions and applying to Milam County.
News reports J C Kilgore of Waco sustained injuries in an automobile accident Friday. Kilgore, an oil operator with multiple leases in Milam County, operates from a Cameron hotel and oversees oil interests in Milam during the week.
A county resident spent the week end at home in Waco. He left Friday for Waco. In Golinda his car skidded and turned over three times. Snake Thompson, a driller at Kilgore's well, also injured and living in Waco. The two men were taken to Waco. Kilgore was reported unconscious for several days.
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