Cameron Commercial Club Directors Meet Discuss Plans
Cameron Commercial Club directors met last Friday night with officers McLane Lawrence Graves Herring and Mangum present. J N Crawford elected member. July 4 celebration planned. road improvements discussed with Mr Albcorn. park gate progress reported. sprinkler funds unresolved. cotton classer aid discussed with Walton Peteet. McCord building rental deemed financially unwise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Cameron Commercial Club
Robert McLane
C. W. Lawrence
Geo. T. Graves
T. N. Herring
W. W. Chambers
J. W. Coleman
W. G. Gillis
J. T. Parma
T. S. Henderson
John E. Mangum
E. A. Flinn
Cameron
Graves
Good Roads Committee
Add Hall
Albcorn
T. S
Henderson
Wilson Ledbetter Park
Frank Lesovsky
J. C. Joseph
Dallas News
Commercial Club
McCord
Cameron Band
Miss Cherry Blossom high school operetta wows audience
The high school presented Miss Cherry Blossom last Friday directed by Misses Brougher Nowlin and Goddard. The Japanese themed performance featured O Hara San Owen Bacon as heroine with a chorus of about twenty girls, ornate costumes, and dances by Japanese Geishas Butterflies and Poppy Maids.
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Miss Cherry Blossom
O Hara San
Miss Blossom
Owen Bacon
O Kashi Kintsra
Cecil Barmore
Kanaya
Leland Denson
O Toya San
O Hara
Esther Fielder
Toku San
Madie Weaver
Tokiaki
Band and club plan instruments purchase after meeting
The Commercial Club is urged to help the new band buy instruments rather than provide a meeting place. A report was unanimously adopted and other city matters were discussed, including speakers stand, bank sidewalk removal, and Chautauqua timing. A sweet potato curing plant project was approved pending a site visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawford
Commrcial Club
Court House
W. W. Chambers
Holtzclaw
Fritz Fahrendorf
Geo. T. Graves
Frank Lesovsky
J. W. Coleman
Missionary Society District Meeting in Marlin
Women of the Methodist Missionary Society of the Marlin District held an all day meeting in our city with many out of town guests. Mrs C D Lay presided as delegates discussed reports and plans while junior girls presented a pageant on Democracy Christianity and Columbia and Miss Maggie Rogers spoke on work in Soo Chow China.
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Methodist Missionary Society
Marlin
Our City
C. D. Lay
J. L. Clinton
J. T. Kemp
Jessie Guffey
Maurine Messiner
Winnie Yee
Frances Hefley
Democracy
Christianity
Columbia
America
Crawford
Maggie Rogers
Soochow
China
Commissioners Court to Meet as Board of Equalization
The commissioners court will convene on the 28th of this month as the board of equalization to review assessments.
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Commissioners Court
Board of Equalization
Dipping vat blown up in Milam County
Sheriff Blaylock investigates a Sunday morning blast that destroyed a government dipping vat near Maysfield. A stick of dynamite was placed under the vat flooring on White property. No suspects or dynamite sources identified. authorities review recent explosive purchases.
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L. L. Blaylock
Milam County
Maysfield
W. L. White
J. R. Louden
Sheriff’s Department
Yoe High School Plans Ordered for Cameron Memorial
Trustees of the Yoe memorial fund let a 100000 dollar contract to Page Brothers of Houston and Austin for Cameron high school. The building, to be a memorial donated by Mrs. C. H. Yoe and her family, will provide domestic economy, manual training, science, a girls gymnasium, and a landscaped campus with park area. It is slated for occupancy at the start of the 1920 fall term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Yoe
Cameron
Cameron Public Schools
Yee
Gardner
Graduation of Grammar Grades at Local School
Last Monday evening the seventh grade pupils and instructors held a graduation style program. Forty three of fifty began the grammar course and received certificates. Speakers included Pauline Green salutatory, Olive Henderson class history, Bassett Watson class orator, Harleigh McGregor class prophecy, Martha Lu Hooks robe presentation, Alice Lucille Garrison valedictorian with Power of Music, and Honorable T. S. Henderson address. Superintendent L. H. Kidd conferred certificates. Reverend B. B. Blaylock and Reverend H. R. MacFadyen offered prayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. B. Blaylock
Martha Lu Hooks
Power of Music
Alice Lucille Garrison
T. S. Henderson
L. H. Kidd
H. R. MacFadyen
Martha Lu
Chautauqua Opens With High Hopes in Cameron
The sixth Cameron Chautauqua opened Tuesday afternoon under auspicious circumstances led by Prof J N Crawford and Supt H A Shinn. The program featured Miss Electra Place and the Victory Players, Ralph Parlette, the Rt Claire Sisters, and Lincoln McConnell with lectures and music. Organizers urged community cooperation for a week of high culture and entertainment.
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Cameron
Redpath-Horner
Electra Place
Victory Players
Mr. Stone
Ralph Parlette
Rt. Claire Sisters
Lincoln McConnell
H. A. Shinn
Gertrude Hamilton
G. L. Saunders
Saunders
Minnesota University
L. L. Kidd
Miss Mabel Jeter Returns From Waco Visit
Miss Mabel Jeter returned from a visit to friends in Waco on Tuesday.
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Mabel Jeter
Waco
Graduation Exercises Highlight Seventh Grade Robe Ceremony
Hooks presented the robe to Charlie Young, sixth grade representative, as both groups delivered strong speeches. After the program, Hon. T. B. Henderson addressed the class praising and urging the children toward further education. Mr. Kidd and Mr. Walker distributed certificates, with Kidd giving a brief, pleasant talk about the class.
Baccalaureate Sermon for Cameron High School Graduates
The Cameron High School commencement sermon was given at the Methodist church last Sunday May 25. The service featured the junior class music by Miss Brougher Miss Goddard and the Cam Hi Orchestra. Rev W G Harbin and Rev W R Hall delivered prayers scripture and a personal sermon urging graduates to build a life with Christ as their Pilot.
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Cameron High School
Methodist Church
Miss Brougher
Miss Goddard
Cam-Hi
Meyerbeer
Gabriel
Pilgrim's Chorus
Tannhauser
Wagner
Chor
B. B. Blaylock
W. G. Harbin
W. R. Hall
Milford
Christ
God
Brooks Farm Well Reaches 740 Feet Near Cameron
A Cameron Oil and Refining Company report states driller J. W. Stitt has reached 740 feet in the deep test well on the Sam Brooks farm near Cameron. Progress is satisfactory with no notable trouble as the two mile-from-court-house-square bore advances toward potential production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Henderson
Cameron Oil and Refining Company
J. W. Stitt
Sam Brooks
Court House Square
Cameron
Mission Series at St Monicas Church to Reach Non Catholics
A Catholic mission for non-Catholics will run at St Monicas Church from Sunday June 1 to Sunday June 8 led by Rev J Elliott Ross of Austin. Lectures address faith content, Catholic and Protestant differences, including Eucharist sacraments purgatory indulgences Mary Saints infallibility of the Pope.
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St. Monica's Church
J. Elliott Ross
C. Ss. P. of
Austin
Father Ross
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Commercial Club Directors Meeting
Tertainment
Oxsheer Smith
Thos. N. Herring
W. O. Triggs
District Meeting Missionary Society
YOE
Trustees of Memorial Fund
Announ
Ces
Cameron School
Irma Burrellsmith of
Vernon
Geo. A. Thomas
Rev. W. R. Hall
Uating
Brooks Farm
ST. Monicas Church
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