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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1904
Page
4
Locals and personals report Miss Earle Lankford's return from Austin and other residents visiting relatives. Attendees from Cameron joined an ice cream supper at Ad Hall, a barbecue at Cummings Park, and politics as candidates campaigned. Community updates include students, teachers, meetings, farm prospects, and a large July Woodmen barbecue planned with 4000 attendees.
For week ending June 27. Ladies rs. B Boyce Ne Taliser Webber Gents B Bearden b Brown Cowans A Dansom lank Drew A Gillan On calling for advertised letters say advertised and give date of entry A fee of one cent on each advertised letter. CLaup McGreeGor P M Coleman has a rubber tire line.
Multiple notices appear in this column including a lease listing 75 acres of upland and hammock and 75 acres in the bottom in Milam County with a contact in Cameron Texas. Other items mention the death of Tom Taber at a Confederate reunion in Nashville aged 66 and residing in Mississippi and known to Milam County circles. Additional brief notices invite wood choppers near Gauze south of town and advertise rubber tires and a poet Harry H Williams visiting Cameron for a few weeks with praise for his early achievements.
The county clerk issued licenses since last Tuesday to Walter Green with Essie Gains Hugo Wenzel with Meta Rabe A C Ruskey with Mary Broadus R E Askew with Parish Little Antone Sruensky with Annie Tomasek T E Sample with Mattie Gibson Lem Harris with Simpronia Ellison.
For good driving horses and buggies call at Rhodes and Posey’s New Livery Stable. We give the best of care to all horses left in our charge. Also have second hand buggies and hacks to sell or trade as we replace stock. Rhodes and Posey. Have your rubber tire put on at home. See Jim Coleman. Strictly cash.
The article notes a revival in progress at the Maysfield Presbyterian Church this week and reports on local education and farm matters including a summer normal enrollment rising from 61 to about 85. It mentions W. J. Watt holding 350 bales of cotton on his convict farm near Cameron and a past offer of 16 cents a bale.
Salayes, WU announces his bid for Beat 6 public weigher in Buckholts Texas asking for votes and endorsements. He notes 244 signatures on the petition to create the office and states he will serve faithfully until the general election next fall subject to Democratic primary on July 9.
An item discusses a new agency for a skin clearing medicament praised by doctors, plus a statute requiring dealers of insect poisons and fertilizers to submit samples to a chemistry professor for analysis before sale. It notes farmer protection and mentions Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a palatable food aid amid political tensions.
Rainy season affects crops and boll weevil damage while cotton weed improves in dry weather. A Farmers Union organizer is sought at Locklin. Prohibition is urged, with remarks from Mike Welch and town watchers. Local social notes include Miss Birdie Camp at Cameron Normal, Mrs. Moseley ill, and children’s day events with songs and recitations led by Miss Barclay and teachers Felton Camp and Lincoln.
An ice cream supper will be held at Tarver Grove school house on Jones Prairie Friday night July 1. All are invited to attend. Proceeds benefit the school.
The Woodmen of Ben Arnold plan a barbecue on Thursday July 7 inviting all county Camps. The committee asks many attendees to bring well filled baskets to share.
Reporters in Paris earn thirty to eighty dollars monthly. The Empress Eugenie may have donated the cradle of the prince imperial to Carnavalet museum. France has about four hundred sixty four thousand five hundred fifty five saloons for thirty eight million six hundred sixty six thousand inhabitants. Per capita revenue from real and personal estates is about thirty eight dollars and sixty cents. Victorien Sardou and scholars pursue theories about the death of Louis XVI’s son.
The bean elk from Ventura county California is one exhibit at the fair. Mrs Langtry’s Ascot gold cup will grace the trophy room in the physical culture building. The Lincoln private car used to transport his body to Springfield is on loan for the Lincoln museum by the Union Pacific. A pack train of twenty five horses with gear will appear as a Wyoming day novelty with horses ready for the trail.
Sir David Gill visits England while Dr George J Gutler serves as town clerk since 1867. Jacob Romers, cabin boy on a lake steamer, dies in Toledo. Baron Sternburg and Sir Mortimer Durand mingle as after-dinner talkers in Washington. Jules Garnier dies in Menton after nickel discovery in New Caledonia. William Armstrong, Kalai ua cabinet member, pens world tour account. Signor Masengai carries talismans to avert misfortune. Francis K B Reeves marks fifty years at Girard National Bank. Two month old Miss Ryan is Guam’s first American baby. father Eugene D Ryan served on the Concord at Manila Bay. Senator Scott releases Letters From Foreign Lands about his summer abroad. Nella L Allen, a Saco teacher, reads the same from both ends, a curious name noted only after the baby’s first year.
A recipe note describes simmering cucumber in tomato soup and skimming it before serving. It explains standard cup measurements, browning a pie with sweet milk, crisping celery leaves for flavor, and proper gelatine use by softening in cold water then dissolving in boiling water.
Youngstown Ohio forms a matinee club with new stakes and lineup. Demijohn a colt by John K Gentry out of Helen Grace is among entries while Ruth formerly Gismonda now trained under Frank Bogash aims for racing comeback. The old war horse Kilta H now owned by T Leland of Philadelphia. Fred H pacing gelding joins a new buyer Glass of Oshkosh.
The long chain fad remains strong with Kolienne as a leading material for dressy spring gowns. Gold trimming, deep fringes of silk and beads adorn both afternoon and evening dresses. Enameled buckles, Bulgarian embroidery belts, cut steel pieces with peacock eyes, and the new chit cloth appear as novelties for the season.
A foreigner cannot own land in Japan and male excess in jobs is reported at 2 percent. The Japanese Diet House of Representatives has 875 members elected for four years. The text also notes pagodas in Japan among other fragments.
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