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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1928
Page
7
Local shoppers are invited to the Toy Exposition and Holiday Opening Sale at Duke & Ayers starting Friday November 30 and Saturday December 1. Extra special values on Christmas goods and toys. Ray Burke manager. Reports from Waco and Cameron include social visits and preparations for Baylor financial drive.
Among Cameron attendees at the Kar em Shrine Temple dedication in Waco Friday were R J Long Mr Hughes J S Bragg Robert McLane Irving Clary John Henderson and Dr and Mrs Zellner.
An excerpt contrasts a magazine piece on medieval meals with the modern problem of affording meals in the current century. The note highlights the disparity between past abundance and present poverty.
The Herald announces R. J. Guzner will join as a future reader. Holiday sale items listed include dolls, toy furniture, mechanical toys, large buses and trucks at Duke & Ayers stores. Thanksgiving travel and local social notes mention Mrs. Conn Miller and Cyrus visiting Fort Worth and Dallas. Corsicana football leaders coached by Johnnie Pierce to attend Corsicana at Cleburne game. Mrs. John Muse to sell for R. H. Johnson Jewelry Co.
Mrs John B Hudson of Victoria and Mrs M P Dikeman of Temple were guests last week of their sister Mrs John Green.
Miss Pauline Green will spend the Thanksgiving holidays in Austin and attend the State A. M. game. A fire of undetermined origin destroyed a house near the Negro school Sunday night at ten o'clock. Nothing was saved. The rummage sale by Presbyterian church ladies in the vacant Lyon Dry Goods Co. building last Saturday was a great success.
Local ad announces an holiday opening sale featuring toys gift goods and staple merchandise at extra special prices. Event runs November 30 and December 1 inviting customers to visit the Duke and Ayers stores. Also notes service rates for damp wash and ironing and mentions several local people and events in Cameron and Waco.
Mrs W L Braun and her mother Mrs Peoples of Milano drove to Bryan on Sunday to see Lee Braun a student at Allen Academy. Miss Ruth Balshall of Caldwell was a guest of Mrs James Childers Saturday. Mrs Corby and Miss Vivian Wilson were guests last week in the home of their cousins Mr and Mrs Jim Laird. Mrs Hugo Slaughter spent last weekend in Dallas with her aunt Mrs S E Brady. Mrs Jim Laird hosted her aunt Mrs E S Hines and cousin Mrs Will Baker of Verndale Minn last week. It was the first Texas visit in seven years for Hines and the first visit in seventeen years for Baker. They also visited in the Modesett home.
Mrs. Gus Norman of Thorndale was a guest of her sister Mrs. Susie Sloan last week, sharing time and related family greetings during the visit.
Mrs. P H McKinney S and Miss Edna McKinney of Jones Prairie were guests of Mrs. Jim Baskin last Friday. The visit highlighted social ties in Jones Prairie with a cordial gathering at Baskin's.
December mailings will carry Christmas Seals to Cameron citizens as part of a national and local effort to stamp out tuberculosis. Local clubs including Business and Professional Women and Daughters of the American Revolution cooperated with the History Club to launch the sale and posters featuring the ship of health and happiness will soon appear.
Jim Wells of Tracy is listed as a patient at Cameron hospital. The notice notes his admission and current status within the Cameron medical facility.
Mr and Mrs Bob Laird of Burlington were weekend guests of Cameron relatives sharing a family visit and hospitality.
Bonds Laird has sold his Men s Furnishings business and now works for Anderson Clayton Co of Galveston, with whom he was connected before starting his own venture. Mrs. Laird, a Buckholts teacher, will join him in Galveston in the spring to make their home.
Louie Jenness of Houston visited the home of his cousin Mrs. Jim Laird, according to a brief social note.
Mrs Clara Dawson visits sister Mrs R H McIntosh in Breckenridge while Rev and Mrs J S Henderson stay with Mrs Henderson’s mother Mrs P H McKinney in Jones Prairie for Thanksgiving holidays. A Holiday Opening Sale at Duke & Ayers promises the largest Christmas Goods selection.
A. R. ONeal departed Monday afternoon for Georgia to spend a month with his brothers and sisters.
A short, humorous verse notes the challenges of affection when deafness shields a couple from sensitive refusals. It frames hearing distance as a comic obstacle rather than a tragedy.
Miss Jennie Shirley director general of the B Y P U of the Baptist church Miss Bernice McLerran president of the senior union and Miss Florine Mode of the church at Marlow left Wednesday afternoon for San Angelo to attend the State B Y P U Convention in session November 29 30 and December 1 Registration begins at eight o'clock Thursday morning.
Mrs. S. E. Brady underwent an operation at the Methodist Hospital in Dallas on Monday morning. She is reported as doing as well as could be expected but remains in danger. All of her children were in Dallas during the operation except a son from Utah who had not seen his mother for years and was expected to arrive in Dallas Wednesday.
Mr and Mrs R B Brady returned from Dallas Tuesday night where they cared for their mother Mrs S B Brady at her bedside.
Mr and Mrs Larry Hackebeil Kenneth Wiley and Miss Grace Henry will attend the Thanksgiving game in Austin on Thursday.
Members of the History Club held a Turkey themed lesson at Mrs. R. P. Jeter’s with Mrs. J. P. Love and Misa Winnie Henderson in charge. Clippings on Turkey covered the chain territory, present politics, and customs including women’s dress. Pictures featured the Cuero Turkey Trot and Madame Halide Edib lecturing in the U.S. Guests included Mesdames W. O. Newton Mack Fox and W. S. Ledbetter.
Reverend and Mrs J P Love spend Thanksgiving in Houston visiting Mrs Love's sister and their two sons.
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