517 Cattle Consigned In Auction Thursday At Rising Market
Cameron Livestock Auction officials report a 17 percent rise in consignments with 517 cattle and one sheep sold last Thursday. Prices held steady to strong for replacement-type cows and calves and stocker cattle with hog prices up 50 cents from the prior week. A total of 139 sellers sold to 54 buyers across butcher calves, yearlings, cows, canners, stocker steers and heifers, and bulls with Thursday’s ranges listed.
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Cameron
Milam County Hog Market Report
Milam County sells medium plain top hogs today at 21.00 dollars per hundredweight with weights ranging from 200 to 245 pounds.
Freeman Attends Dallas Showing Of Case Machinery
W. C. Freeman returned from a meeting at the Case Company in Dallas where he saw the Case 12 month line and new tractors and farm machines including the 350 plow tractor 400 diesel 310 loader backhoe 310 crawler 425 corn picker and three plows. The open house for Mays field Mercantile Co will feature these machines in Cameron at 8 8 p m on Monday Sept 9 inviting area farmers.
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Freeman
Cameron
Maysfield Mercantile Co
Ben Arnold Community Play Night Ends As Football Starts
Due to football season beginning, Friday night will be the last community play night of the year. Beside local visits several families from Dallas Houston Cameron and Belton spent time with the Swanzys and relatives.
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A. T. Swanzy
Melba Scallia
Son
Dallas
Nettie Buffington
Carrie Rogers
Rev
Bailey
Ben Arnold
Baptist Church
L. E. Murff
Jo Ann Williams
Rockdale
Houston
Walter Strickler
Leland Burnett
Carolyn
W. M. Sweet
Jones Prairie
Albert Swanzy
James
Belton
Vacationing in State This Week by Mr and Mrs Cooper
Mr and Mrs W C Cooper visited Houston Galveston and Freeport this week. Other locals include Mr and Mrs Bob Newton of Austin visiting his parents Roy Newton and wife. Mr and Mrs Bill Wise of Angleton visiting J P Wise and wife. and Miss Barbara Hollingsworth with Mr and Mrs Garland Williams and Miss Ann Harborough of Houston visiting Elbert Hollingsworth and family. Barbara underwent surgery in Houston after being called there Friday night. Rogers High School band to play at Buckholts game directed by Max McClaren with Buckholts band. Eugene Kalwassen directs the Rogers band.
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J. P. Wise
W. C. Cooper
Houston
Galveston
Freeport
Bob Newton
Austin
Roy Newton
Bill Wise
Angleton
Barbara Hollingsworth
Garland Williams
Ann Harborough
Elbert Hollingsworth
Tommy Thweatt
Gilford
Barbara
Rogers
Buckholts
Rogers High School
Buckholts Badgers
Max McClaren
Eugene Kalwassen
Rogers Band
Most Sporting Goods
Body by Fisher Gives Chevrolet a Proud Build
Advertisement extols Chevrolet as offering superior value with a beautifully and substantially built low priced car. It claims Fisher body construction sets the car apart in finish and detail.
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Fisher
Chevrolet
Joyce Nicholson attends national Ecclesia conference at Lake Geneva
Miss Joyce Nicholson daughter of Mr and Mrs Bert Nicholson and a Texas Christian University sophomore attends the DSF National Ecclesia at Lake Geneva Wisconsin She was elected to lead the drama group at University Christian Church this September and is among 25 delegates at the national Christian Church conference for college students The 1957 theme is For What Are You Willing To Die.
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Joyce Nicholson
Bert Nicholson
Texas Christian University
D.S.F. National Ecclesia
Lake Geneva
Wisconsin
Joyce
University Christian Church
Christian Church
Ecclesia
Sharp Schools 57 58 Term Faculty Announced
The 1957 58 term at Sharp schools opens with listed faculty including elementary teachers Luene Gersback Robbie Petty Sarah Shelton Gertrude Green. high school staff George M Lamb superintendent Sarah Wilkinson Ruth Kir Patsy Edmonds Sherman Mayfield Morris Cryer J D Pope Floyd Mullinax in charge of lunch. Custodians listed as Dalton Stephens with bus drivers Sherman Mayfield and Dalton Stephens and one driver to be elected.
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Sharp School
Luene Gersback
Robbie Petty
Sarah Shelton
Gertrude Green
George M. Lamb
Sarah Wilkinson
Ruth Kir
Patsy Edmonds
Sherman Mayfieki
Morris Cryer
J.D Pope
Floyd Mullinax
Dalton Stephens
Sherman Mayfield
Nick Nabours Fills Summer Pastorate
Nick Nabours served as assistant pastor and youth director at First Methodist Church in Muleshoe during summer. He organized a 30 member youth choir and led a 60 member Methodist Youth Fellowship while the pastor was away. He preached a sermon titled The House of Life and will return to McMurry College for sophomore year.
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Nick Nabours
Charlie Nabours
the Herald
Nick
Muleshoe
First Methodist Church
Methodist
House of Life
McMurry College
Abilene
Birthday Dinner Ice Cream Party Honors Frank Gamble
The Gamble children hosted a dinner and ice cream party at their Sharp home Tuesday honoring Frank Gamble. Attendees included numerous relatives from Rockdale Brenham Austin Temple San Gabriel and San Antonio, with many traveling for Labor Day visits. Several extended family members and friends visited. others returned home after weekend gatherings.
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Frank Gamble
Florence Spiegel
Gamble
Sharp
William Backhaus
Linda
Paul
Siegfried Backhaus
Rockdale
Harry Korthauer
Ken
Brenham
Glen Gamble
Ronnie
Austin
J. D. Pope, Jr
J. D Pope
B. B. Clark
Jim Tom
Houston
Paul Graves
Bill Clark
San Gabriel
Ernest Backhaus
Max Westermann
Thorndale
Gus Westermann
Temple
Asta Rinn
E. J. Rinn
Eight-Hour Workday Law Passed by Congress in 1868
The fought-hour law enacted by Congress in 1868 set eight hours as a standard workday for all government employees. It established a formal limit on daily labor and framed official employment practices nationwide.
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Congress
Raymond McLeod Earns MBA From Texas Christian
Raymond McLeod received his Master of Business Administration from Texas Christian University. He is the son of Mr and Mrs K G McLeod, a Yee High School graduate, and earned a BBA from Baylor University. He and his wife Judy Pollock of Dallas have a son, Michael Ray.
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Raymond McLeod
Texas Christian University
Raymond
K. G. McLeod
Yee High School
Baylor University
Judy Pollock
Dallas
Michael Ray
Dr. Evans Appointed to State Optometrists Board
Cameron optometrist Dr. Gus Evans Jr has been named to the Texas Board of Examiners advisory board for 1958. He also serves as vice president of the State Optometrists Association.
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Gus Evans, Jr
Cameron Optomistrist
Texas Board of Examiners
Evans
Optometrists
Largest land animal, the elephant, described
The text notes the elephant as the largest living land animal and mentions that emancipation of slaves in Latin America began in 1794.
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Latinmerica
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