The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1951 Page: 4 of 10
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THE CAMERON HERALD
ESTABLISHED 1860
I The Cameron Herald
Thursday, March 16, 1951
JEFFERSON B. WHITE
Editor and Publisher
Entered in the Poatoffice at Cameron, Texas, as mail matter of second
tisu nnder an act passed by Congress. March 8, 1879.
Published every Thursday. Subscription rates: In Milam County |1.76 per
year; outside county, 82:00; out of State $2.26. _
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FOR SALE —
sweet potatoes.
Maysfield.
50 bushels of seed
See Wm. Brown at
47-3tp
GALVANIZED PIPE FOR SALE—
All sizes 1-2 to 2”; also black pipe,
plumbing fixtures-Plumbing supplies,
barbed wire and fence. Woodson Lbr.
and Hdw. Co. 8-tf
ANY MAKE RADIO repaired. Call
104. PARMA RADIO SERVICE.
WANTED— Blacksmith capable of
using electric and acetylene welding
equipment. Completely modern farm
shop located 5 miles from town. Liv-
ing quarters furnished. Colored man
preferred. Write P. 0. Box 193,
Hearne, Texas. 6-lltc
Butane or Propane
Dependable service. Heat on the
coldest days— no freeze-ups.
Tanks installed — Low Prices.
Central Butane Co.
MAYSFIELD NEWS
Rev. Exell Coon filled his regular
appointment here Sunday. Mr. Eric
Bolten of Austin spoke at the 8:00
o’clock service.
The WSCS met in the Sunday
school rooms Monday.
Mrs. Roy Newton who has been a
patient in Marlin Hospital returned
to her home this week.
JONES PRAIRIE
NEWS
BY MRS. S. S. HICKMAN
Friends of the Kerssey family read
with interest the article that appeared
in the March issue of the American
Magazine entitled, “Queen of the
Scuffs," the story of Mrs. Albert Bai-
ley of Ozona, Texas. Mrs. Bailey is
the former Miss Madie Jim Kers-
sey born at Jones Prairie. Her grand-
father, W .V. Kerssey owned and op-
erated the Jones Prairie gin for a
number of years.
Sunday afternoon guests of Mrs.
B. F. Stidham and Miss Roxie All-
day were Mr. dhd Mrs. P. H. Tindall
of Calvert, Mrs. Bart Thrasher and
Mrs. Grover Stubbs of Rosebud and
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Burnett.
Mrs. J. A. McKinney and Miss Et-
hel McKinney had as guests in their
home Friday for the day, Mr. and
Mrs. Forest Sageser and son of Hale
Center, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Pool,
Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Jones and Mrs.
J. A. Jamison.
Mr and Mrs. George Burnett and
family of Freeport and Mr. and Mrs.
Ira Lee Parker of Rogers spent the
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Cameron, Texas
MUFFLERS BUILT to last, at B.
Offield’s Welding Shop.
NOTICE— Check with me for trailer
hitches. B. Offield Welding Shop. You
must be pleased.
NOTICE
Rosebud
REMOVAL SERVICE
For Fast Service
PHONE 323 Collect
Let us remove your dead and
useless livestock.
owned and operated by
J. W. Whitley & Son
Rosebud, Texas
the Recreation Hall the past Friday
night.
Hubert Atkinson and Mrs. Lura
Cook who are both in St. Edward Hos-
pital are reported improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Haywood Clemmons
of Dallas spent last week with her
father.
Among those from here who visited
in Austin last week were Mrs. John
Thweatt and son, Wayne, Kenneth and
Donald Thweatt, Pat Gleason and
Mrs. Willard Cooper, Mrs. W. C.
Freeman, Mrs. Tyson Freeman and
Mrs. J. C. Freeman.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Gleason of
Freeport, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph White
and boys of Dallas and Miss Mary
White visited in the home of Mrs. V.
L. White Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. David Mahoney are
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
C. Freeman.
Mrs. Eldred Massengale and chil-
dren of Austin visited here recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Triggs spent
Sunday in Branchville with Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Bailey.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Newton of Aus-
tin visited homefolks here Sunday.
YARRELLTON NEWS
FOR SALE— Farmall B. Tractor with
Cultivator, Planters and busters in
good condition. Can be seen at 206
South Temple Street, Caldwrell, after
5 p. m. or on Saturdays. William Cal-
vin. 48-4tp
WE DON’T EXPERIMENT with
your radio— WE repair it—you pay
less for our service. Any make radio.
PARMA RADIO SERVICE.
Mrs. Henderson Riley of Route 1,
Cameron is a patient in Newton Mem-
orial Hospital.
CAMERON LODGE Na. 88
L O. O. P.
Meets Every Thursday Night
Rip Wsods, Noble Grand
H. B. McClellea. Secretary
CAMERON REBEKAH LODGE
No. a
Mrs. R. L. McCown, Noble Grand
Johnnie Lee Richards, Secretory
Meets First and Third Tuesday
Nights
By MRS. LENA RUSSELL
Leroy and Charles Ray Russell
spent Saturday night with home folks
here. Mrs. Russell returned home
with them for a visit in the home of
her son, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Russell
and their new baby daughter. The
baby was born March 8 at an Orange
Hospital and has been named Carol
Lee.
Mrs. Jennie Barrett is visiting her
son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. E.
Barrett at Orange.
Mrs. Leona Griswold is with her
mother, Mrs. Mary Chapman who is
seriously ill in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Willard Chapman.
Mrs. Charlie Griffin and Charlene,
Evelyn Klapka, Mary Margaret West-
brook, Ruth and Shirley Solomon and
Ardell Pagel were guests in the Chas.
Russell home Friday night.
Shirley Brooks spent the week end
with her grandmother, Mrs. Lillian
Barrett.
Rev. R. L. South, Pastor of the
Yarrellton Baptist church was a din-
ner guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Fisher Ward.
Mrs. Ed Pagel and Mrs. J. A. Pro-
vasek spent Thursday afternoon in
Buekholta.
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Caddell were vis-
itors in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
John McDonald Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ford were visitors
in the W. A. Wilkerson home Sunday £
afternoon.
Friends of Mrs. Lee Matthews are
sorry to learn that she is ill and in
the Anderson Hospital in Galveston.
Mr. and Mrs. Buster Griffin and
children spent Sunday in the Homer
Nabours home.
Frank Griffin, Cleve McCall and
Frank Barrett made a business trip
to the McCall ranch near Gatesville
Monday.
Mrs. A. L. Burnett.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Stidham of Ca-
neron.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Massey and
daughter, Corrine, Mr. and Mrs. Bai-
ley Jones and son, Jamie, Mr. and
Mrs. E. B. Yager and Miss Eula Lane
Sweet attended the Workers Confer-
ence at the San Gabriel Baptist
church Friday evening.
Miss Evlyn Armstrong of Cameron
was a week end guest of Miss Kay
Story.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pond have re-
turned from a pleasant visit with Mr.
and Mrs. Marshall Pond of Kings-
ville and Mr. and Mrs. Allie Purswell
of Ganado.
Mrs. Homer Crook is a surgery
patient in the St. Edward Hospital.
Her friends wish her a speedy re-
covery.
Ben Pool of Wharton, formerly of
this community visited relatives and
friends here one day last week.
Mrs. T. B. Stidham and Miss Rox-
ie Allday shopped in Hearne Friday.
O. T. Canady who is employed at
Freeport spent the week end with his
family here.
Mrs. J. A. Jamison spent several
days the past week with her daught-
er and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Le-
roy Massengale of Maysfield.
THE IRON MAIDEN OF NUREMBURG, medieval torture device,
is only one of many amazing curiosities and oddities to be seen in Cam-
eron on Saturday March 17, when Sam Tyson Chapter No. 18 Disabled
American Veterans brings a touring exhibit of Robert Ripley’s “Bc-
to the public, and will feature many original and authentic objects of
tensive travels to remote lands.
lieve It or Not” museum pieces tc this city. The exhibit will be free
art and interest collected by the famous Robert Ripley during his ex-
of the world.
The mobil exhibit is mounted in a
special custom-built trailer, featur-
ing a medieval torture device, the
“Iron Maiden of Nuremburg”. This
inhuman killer of the dark ages is
only ono of the many interesting ar-
ticles with curiosity or oddity signi-
ficance. There is a working model of
an inventor’s attempt to perfect per-
petual motion, a knife that cuts cold
steel, and an Indian necklace made
from human bones, the trigger fin-
gers of the men massacred at Custer’s
Last Stand.
Included in this exhibit are mys-
terious oddities and wonders of every
age and every part of the world. There
is a two-headed calf, a mumified
hand with a curse that came true, a
$60,000.00 shoe, the jawbone of a huge
man-eating shark, a genuine murder
poison ring, and many other items.
Location of the showing will be on
Main & Houston St. in front of Ca-
perton’s. Admission is free, and the
exhibit will be open to the public from
10 A. M .to 10 P. M. Any funds
raised through voluntary donations
will be used by the State Department
and the Chapters of the Disabled Am-
erican Veterans in the state where
the contribution j are made, to assist
them in carrying on their services to
disabled veterans.
Then there’s the guy who made
anti-freeze by hiding her woolen pa-
jamas.
PIONEER CITIZEN—
(Continued from page one)
1895 and to this union was born five
daughters, four of whom survive.
They moved to Milam County in 1902
where Mr. Spiller was engaged in
farming for a number of years. Dud-
ing the latter years of his active life
he was special delivery clerk at the
post office, where he was employed
for seventeen years.
lie was caretaker for the Cameron
Public Schools and the First Meth-
odist Church for many years where
h emade many friends with the young-
er generations, who are deeply sor-
rowed to learn of his death. Many of
the Texas Pioneers came from geor-
gia and many of the men from that
state have gone down in history as
Texas heroes.
Mr. Spiller was widely known in
the county and throughout Central
Texas and over the long span of years
has laid down an example of courage,
friendliness and a man of outstanding
character that few men have attained.
He was a member of the Baptist
Church and atended frequently dur-
knowledge was something any man
could be proud of and his willingness
ing his late years. His wisdom and
to help in time of need was among
his valued characteristics.
Funeral services were held at the
Chapel of the Green Funeral Home
at 3 P. M. Saturday, March 10, with
Rev. P. A. Corkern, Pastor, First
Baptist Church, officiating. In-
terment was made in Oak Hill Cem-
etery with Green’s Funeral Home
directing the arrangements.
Survivors are four daughters, Mrs.
Dick Batte of Cameron, Mrs. R. A.
Yaws, of Alta Loma, Mrs. I. C. Bell
of Dallas and Mrs. James J. Bayard
of Cameron; two nephews, Melvin
Penny of Ardmore, Okalahoma and
Frank Penny of Gainsville, Texas. Se-
ven grand-children and ten great-
grandchildren also survive.
Pallbearers were J. M. McLean,
Rube Johnson, Grady Allen, Hinton
Pruett, Elliott Crook, and Charles
Smith Sr,.
(Continued from front page.)
PHONE COMMITTEE
Countess is president and plans are
underway to expand services to 2,000
rural subscribers in Bell County. The
Farmers Telephone Company is cur-
rently receiving a loan of $425,000
from the Rural Electrification Admin-
istration.
Rural citizens are becoming more
interested in the progress and de-
velopment of the affairs in their com-
munities and can be greatly informed
of the conditions that exist through
the press.
Robert Ripley’s
“Believe II Or Not’
Collection Here Sat.
Robert Ripley’s personal collection
of “Believe It or Not” oddities, being
exhibited on national tour under the
auspices of the Disabled Americans
Veterans, will be presented in Cam-
eron on Saturday March 17 by Sam
Tyson Chapter No. 18 D. A. V.
Believe It or Not cartoons have
been appearing in newspapers throu-
ghout the world for years. On display
in this exhibit will be some of the
original drawings picturing facts
which many found difficult to
believe. The greater portion of the
exhibit features part of Ripley’s am-
azing collection of the authentic or-
iginal subjects on which the cartoons
are based. Every item is seclected
from the unsual assortment of strange
things which Mr. Ripley spared no
effort or expense to unearth during
his endless explorations of all parts
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18th Annual
EASTER SEAL
APPEAL....
Feb. 25 to Mar. 25
MILAM THEATRE
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
March 18 and 19
For Prompt Removal of dead horses, cows, and hogs
Call Collect, 668 BELTON
of for information call C. W. Hudson
Service Station, Phone 753
NOTICE
Joe Richter, City Marshal requests that citizens have
their dogs, cats and other pets vaccinated at once for thef
prevention of further danger of rabies.
Vaccination will insure safety for members^ of the fa-
mily and otliers who cetre in contact with the animals.
The Rabies sit’ration has become serious in Cameron
and surrounding trrritr.*y and as the season progresses
the danger will be greater.
Your cooperation is needed and will be appreciated.
JOE RICHTER, City Marshal
PETER COTTON TAIL HAS COME TO
CAPERTONS
With Baskets
Full of Joy
16c to $1.00
With Rabbits
Soft and Fluffy
98e Is $3.95
NOVELTIES
Chalk and Plastic
5c lo 29c
EASTER GRASS
15c Lb.
With Eggs
Big and Colorful
40c Lb.
RabbtrEggs
For Baby _
5s
Chocolate Eggs
Chocolate Rabbits
2e 3e 5e
EASTER NAPKINS
15c Pkg.
EASTER CARDS
5c lo 25c
Its The Best
HURRICANE
You Can Bay
“Believe It
or Not”
FOR DETAILS CALL 237
Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” Van of Oddit-
ies will be on display at our store all Day Sat-
urday. Free Admission.
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White, Jefferson B. The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1951, newspaper, March 15, 1951; Cameron, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth576888/m1/4/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.