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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1927
Page
7
Local items report sermons at the Presbyterian church and visits by residents. Stores advertise ice cold watermelons at W T Whatley’s Market and next week free bananas at Piggly Wiggly Cameron. Several residents travel to Denver and Colorado Springs while others visit kin in Cameron and nearby towns.
Mrs K K Robbins county superintendent and state board member visited Austin on board business related to selecting textbooks for public schools. Also notes show window dollar specials and a July 18 visit by Mrs George Beard of Milano Cameron trip by Frank Hefley now in Oklahoma to visit brothers Hubert and Sam Hefley.
Troop No 1 held a Thursday night hike behind Wilson Ledbetter Park with full gear. Tests in fire building cooking rope tying. new recruit joined. Johnnie Wallace elected Secretary and Treasurer. Roy Esslinger Patrol Leader for Patrol 1 and Eagle for Patrol 2 chosen. upcoming joint hike with Troop 2 led by Mr Larry Hackabeil. meeting praised for enthusiasm and progress.
Florence Alabama July 10. Mrs Bertha A Slay 28 was seized from her bed bound to a barrel and severely beaten by masked men in a farm home near here. Sheriff Stutts said the assailants wore Klan costumes and whipped her and her husband and sister as they slept.
In the last presidential election fewer than half of eligible voters cast ballots. It notes that less than thirty million voted out of sixty million, with those who did not vote outnumbering the voters. It recalls that the first Congress opened on March 4 1789 but Washington's inauguration was delayed until April 6 due to a missing quorum. It records a visit by the Duke of York to Auckland where Maocris presented him with eight carved canes.
The piece highlights Dr. Thomas W. Evans, a premier Philadelphia dentist who treated Napoleon III and sheltered Empress Eugenie. It also recalls an English couple living in a rent free house once scared by a ghost twenty years earlier. Finally it notes the old Saxon custom of bridegroom authority via a shoe and its modern luck association of throwing shoes at the couple.
A well hosted event featured chicken salad olives and a fruit confection with mayonnaise dressing and mint iced tea. The atmosphere was cheerful as attendees enjoyed the friendly, democratic setting and good company.
A pair of bi focus shell rim eye glasses in a large leather case went missing. Reward offered of 2.50 for return. Contact Ite W. Morrison for recovery.
New stone carvings at Mount Sinia, Arabia, are dated to at least 3,000 years old. The discovery adds to knowledge of the Sinia mystery from ancient times and suggests a long history of script and culture in the region.
Ancient Babylonian and Assyrian tablets reveal banking actions with clay tablets hardened into checks and notes. Modern banking traces origin to Italy. Ostrich feather demand drops to dusters. Ducks and muskrats benefit from wild rice dropped by airplane in Manitoba marshes. Nitrous oxide use in dentistry traced to Horace Wells in 1841.
Judge and Mrs W G Gillis were gracious hosts in North Cameron hosting nine tables for progressive forty two. Guests enjoyed grape punch served by Miss Katherine Ely niece of the hostess and played for high score at each table. Winners received slips with verse or conundrums and translated responses entertained all. Cigars were passed during the evening and coats were removed.
Dr. Pierce’s Famous Family Remedy is sold at drug stores in tablets for 65 cents or liquid and large bottles for 1.35. The item is pitched as a health foundation for girls’ future well being.
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