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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1903
Page
1
County Attorney Chambers publishes the statute prohibiting selling or giving spirituous vinous or malt liquors to habitual drunkards. The purchaser definition covers those who habitually get drunk and are intoxicated by voluntary use. Penalty ranges from twenty five to one hundred dollars fines.
Special notice warns that box rents not paid by the tenth of the month will be closed at the start of a new quarter per post office regulations. Postmasters enforce this requirement across offices.
The item lists letters for week ending July 27 including Ella Alridge Eula Brooks Deana Faubin Emma Mates and J R Harrie WJ Hines D FE Roberts Hanna Stevens John Wates. Police notes report arrests by Sheriff Averiett for assault to rape burglary rape and incest and escapes from Peoples farm near Ben Arnold with Debose wounded. Grandpa Sapp struck by a southbound train near the ice factory crossing and later reported improving by Dr. M C Sapp. New parents Mr. and Mrs. Joe E Krizan announce a fine son born last Sunday.
As the thermometer soars, the piece urges readers to seek cool, comfortable apparel for the extended heat, highlighting two extra months of summer.
We unload summer stock day by day to clear for fall trade. Low prices drive quick sales under our policy of small profits. Our Batiste drops from 6 1/2c to 5c to attract buyers.
Shop trims older stock with three yard waists cut to 1.20 and $1.25 pattern reduced to 1.00. Local shoppers are urged to act before supplies run out.
Skirts in red with white dots and black with white dots plus linen and solid blue options priced at 25c reduced to 20c. Also toilet soap offered at 5c per cake.
Town ad lists thread spools at 25c each, shoes at 1.75 priced 31.25, half-value ladies sandals, trunks, suitcases 2.50 to 5.00, domestic fabric 4c per yard, bleaching 4c, and other items like hats 3.50, fans, ticking, handkerchiefs, corsets. Encourages customers to shop before sale ends.
A promotion offers a free round trip Worlds Fair ticket to the most popular young woman in Milam County. Voters get one ballot per dollar spent, with ballots cast at the time of cash purchase.
An appeal from Cameron Texas dated July 27 1903 urges Sunday School workers to form a Milam County Sunday School Association. The letter stresses moral training in schools and homes, cites almost one million Texas youths as potential reformers, and promotes cooperation across denominations as part of the Texas and international Sunday School unions.
Milam County Sunday School Association invites all denominations to Cameron on August 5 and 6 for a statewide meeting. Delegates include every superintendent and one delegate per fifty members, with free entertainment for delegates. State Secretary Lewis Collins brings zeal and calls for broader enlistment and better teaching.
The county clerk issued licenses to marry since last Tuesday naming T. F. Williamen with Clara Angel Cy, Alexander Lula Coleman with F. Sickler, Ludie Cook with S. C. Scarbrough, L. C. Scott, D. A. Stewart with Nannies Edwards, Cliff Davis with Maggie Bailey, K. G. Jackson with Mary South, Johnnie Alford with Minnie Holloway. The Rev Dr Arthur J Brown notes five men who impressed him most on a recent world journey were all Asiatics.
The Temple Times reports that Judge ik L Antony has abandoned the ministry and returned to the practice of law, ending his clerical career.
On Sunday July 19 government troops under Gen. Gomez began the attack on Cuidad Bolivar Venezuela. After a fifty hour conflict the insurgents surrendered. About 1500 killed and wounded. Gen. Rolando among the captured. Government forces seized 3000 Mauser rifles six field guns and 2000 cartridges.
The piece contrasts the poor man content with a modest home and family against the rich man who seeks seasonal escape to the mountains. It asks which scenario holds greater happiness, probing values beyond wealth.
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