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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1927
Page
3
Miss Sallie Coleman will read Van Dyke's The Mansion next Sunday night at the Baptist church. The program includes special music by the choir and a gospel message. The notice invites all to attend and stay faithful to Sunday School during the summer heat.
A program committee is appointed to arrange Sunday School programs for each department. The plan sets 9:45 opening worship, 10:00 reports, 10:05 lesson period, 10:40 assemble, and 10:45 unified service. Departments share responsibilities to boost attendance and standards.
A compact, period tone admonishes teachers to put church first and Christ before pupils. It urges preparation, close contact with students, visits when absent, recruiting new members, raising class standards, and taking study courses to advance, meeting church and Christ demands.
Announcement highlights a training session for Sunday School teachers and officers in August. It encourages all nonqualified teachers and officers to obtain a book, aiming for complete diploma or departmental seal certification and broad participation.
The Executive Board invited Brother Strickland to preach last Sunday. The board considered him for missionary but his price was beyond the association. The committee will continue the search, decisions delayed until the association meets, as debt and nonpayment hinder inviting and funding mission work.
Mr Black presents two quarterly reports ending March and June. The church holds steady as people respond to hard times by continuing donations, with Cameron residents contributing nearly equal amounts in both quarters.
January totals show pledges to the Conquest Campaign of 1,498.20 with 756.70 collected and 741.50 to be collected. Local budget items include Sunday School 181.15, Orphans Home 3.40, Mexican Church 12.00, Incidental 64.03, plus pledges 2,865.75. Overall monthly collections reach 3,189.59 with 583 pledging, 42 paid nothing, and 359 total contributors. Respectfully submitted, H. P. Black.
A historical church report itemizes monthly collections from April to June. It lists totals for campaigns, Sunday School, orphans home, incidental funds, pledges, revival, annex, Rock Springs Church, and overall totals. It notes numbers of members paying nothing, percent pledged, and total contributors.
A sermon urges members to actively support church battles against evil. The speaker questions lax members who wear the uniform but do not fight and invites volunteers to serve the Master in a righteous, ongoing conflict.
R L Batte Jr of Cameron moved his family to Thorndale at the start of the week to reside with the community. He is financially interested in the Thornday Oil Mill and will devote his time to the business, now residing at the Henry Heintze residence on the west side.
Scientists note the sun radiated 4 percent less heat in 1922 and has remained below par since. No danger of burning out soon is expected as the sun’s life is about 30 trillion years and it remains comparatively young.
A collage of light jokes and sayings, from syncopation misreadings and gospel bucket costs to social quips about marriage, youth, ministers, real estate parking, and poetry snippets. The snippet collection reflects the era’s humor and aphorisms.
A distressed mother scolds Robert for misbehaving as he insists on being “good for a nickel.” She laments the lack of discipline, predicting he will end up as “good for nothing” like his father, highlighting a grim household moment.
Center, July 11. An 11 year old boy ran a bar selling choc beer at 25 cents a bottle. Sheriff Burns confiscated and destroyed the beer and secured a promise the boy would attend Sunday school and refrain from illicit liquor. The craft was popular with local drinkers and driven by information about the boy’s supply.
Motorist jokes about beating a train at a crossing while nervous passenger asks why. A friend is called a human dynamo as he boasts he is charged up. Two students on a train compare senses noting hearing a fly on a barn roof, not seeing the shingles crack.
A WSJ item notes that modern marriage crops face diversification challenges. It highlights broad shifts in relationships and family patterns affecting traditional expectations and social dynamics.
Physicians and druggists now recommend Calotabs to break up a cold overnight or shorten grippe or influenza. One or two Calotabs at bedtime with water purify the system, reduce nausea, and leave you with a strong appetite next morning. Family package 35 cents at drug stores.
A unique water mill in Woodbridge Suffolk draws power from the Deben tides though located nine miles inland. Records show a mill existed on the site 740 years ago, indicating a long standing historic anchor for the locale.
Archaeologists unearthed a baked clay bank shaped well with a slit on top in the ruins of Utes, an ancient Phoenician city on Africa's coast. The object is believed to be at least 2,590 years old, suggesting early financial or storage uses.
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