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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1920
Page
4
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The State of Texas requires the sheriff to publish this citation weekly for four weeks in Milam County to summon Tinnie House to appear at the next District Court term in Cameron on the Sunday of November 1920. The suit No. 8015 names Arthur Houses as plaintiff and Tinnie Thuse as defendant, alleging abandonment for three years. Penn Wolf, Clerk.
A Committee of One Hundred reports gin attacks in Douglas and surrounding counties with a $300 reward offered by Sheriff Baggett for the arrest of those responsible. No gins destroyed in Georgia yet. A separate alert reaches Bishopville with a gun ordered to close, while Rockdale reports two cotton bales saved by a night watchman and Cameron’s compress burned with thousands of bales lost.
Fire at Branchville near Cameron destroys Gibson gin plant with $12,000 loss and the adjoining Weems grist mill suffering $2,000 in damage. A. J. Dossett reports no insurance on these facilities as fire officials investigate possible arson amid broader cotton-gin burnings in the South. Federal probes may follow if federal law violations are found.
United States Justice Department agents are sent to Cameron Texas to investigate a 5000 bale compress fire and other large cotton losses blamed on night riders. Officials say fires across southeastern Texas may reflect one large network or many small groups using identical warnings to intimidate farmers.
Mr. V. Z. Nolen of Galveston and Mr. A. R. Huse of Waco were in Cameron last Tuesday for business visits.
The notice requests aid in returning branded livestock marked with a figure 7 or 11 on the jaw and a circle around the knuck bone on the left hip. Contact by R. L. Butte. Also reports visits and moves: Mrs. J. D. Hefley Sr. visiting in Thorndale. H. E. White and wife in Cameron. Cameron losing a young business man. Clyde Franklin and wife moving to Rockdale to manage Gaither Garage. noted as a loss felt by friends.
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