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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1937
Page
5
A vehicle listing offers a Model A pickup equipped with air wheels available for rental at two dollars and fifty cents per week. The ad emphasizes affordable weekly payments and a practical feature set for daily use.
Elimination tournaments for the county championship in senior boys basketball will be Jan 29 and 30 with Glass B at Cameron and rural at Rockdale. A meeting on Jan 27 at the Cameron gym will set schedules and officials for both events. Teams absent should be entered by mail before Jan 27 per Coach L C Wood and Charles M Hicks.
Plant fruit trees during the winter growing season to save water and reduce losses next spring. The notice touts peaches plums pears apples figs berries pecans and evergreen and flowering shrubs for beauty and value. It claims 61 years supplying Texas with top trees and plants and offers a free catalogue with varieties, planting, pruning and care guidance.
Rev and Mrs J P Love and Mrs Lester Brown of Louisville sisters of Mrs Love Mrs R P Jeter and Mr and Mrs Stanley Swift have returned from the Episcopal church council in Beaumont. Mrs Jeter was delegate from the local church. Mr and Mrs Logan Green have as guests Mr and Mrs D M Shaffer and son Sherwood visiting before moving to Mexia where Shaffer will work for Jack Driver Motor Company. Shaffer formerly with Jackson Motor Company of Sinton.
A newspaper piece extols railroads citing low freight costs per ton mile, rising freight train speeds by 43 percent, payrolls taking 45 cents of every dollar, own funded highways, fare cuts of up to 44 percent, and safer travel than in homes. It then shifts to a medicine ad praising Cardus for women, noting appetite and digestion improvements and advising medical consultation if needed.
Mrs. Flora Hicklin of Weatherford visits her daughter Mrs. R D Brown at her home. Joe Hromick from near Cameron is bedridden with diphtheria at his parents Mr and Mrs John Hromick’s house. his condition was reported improving. Thompson Kemp Santa Fe depot agent of Heidenheimer and Billy Hodge Baugh of Heidenheimer spent the weekend with Judge and Mrs Jeff T Kemp.
The Baptist church voted to construct an educational building costing about $15,000. The contract will not be let until $6,000 in cash is raised, with plans to raise it by October 17, 1937. Weekend guests included Miss Sarah Jane Cone and J L Moore Jr of Gonzales, and Mr and Mrs S M Robinson and Miss Ina Faye Robinson of Mo beetie. Hubert Johnson of the Methodist Orphans Home, Waco, spoke at the Methodist church Sunday morning.
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