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The Cameron Herald from Cameron, Texas • Page 20

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Cameron, Texas
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THE CAMERON HERALD ESTAtittSHlBD I 860 Entered in the Post Office atGameron, Texas, as mail matter of second class under an act passed by Congress, March 3, 1879. B. WHITE Editor and Publisher LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS FROM MILAM COUNTY CHILDREN TRACY BOY LOSE SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Yeat Two Years In Milam County All Resolutions, Obituaries and Notices of Public Entertainment whe admission is charged or funds obtained, charged at regular rates. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me an air gun, and some a little red wagon, ami some other toys. Also a ball, some candy and some fire works.

Please remember my brothers and sisters. Your friend, Hardie Malone. TYSON (Continued from page one) the State Health Department for its Bureau of Vital Statistics. The Legislature created the Pension Department for volunteer firemen and the city Secretary. must serve as Secretary of the Firemen Relief and Retirement Fund.

Based on figures compiled and submitted by the Secretary, the City Council has never had to pass an emergency resolution transferring money from the general fund to bond and interest accounts in order to meet requirements. Because of his knowledge of the financial status of the city government Mr. Tyson is frequently invited by the various clubs and organizations of Cameron to discuss matters touching the status of the city's financial condition. To fully appreciate Mr. Tyson's ability one must be familiar with the maze of complicated records he keeps.

In volume of detail and intricacies they are among the most difficult to keep. No one with less than his experience or ability could do the job properly. Mr. duties have almost trippled in the last two or three years due to a number of WPA projects in the city, including swimming beach, street paving and sewerage extension. He has compiled estimates, figures and other data for Federal and Local authorities.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic is the subject of the Lesson-Sermon which will be read in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, Dec. 21 The Golden Text is; hath spoken once; twice have I heard that power belongeth unto (Psalms 62:11.) Among the citations which comprise the Lesson-Sermon is the following from the Bible: the beginning God created the heaven and the earth And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good" (Genesis 1:1, 31.) The Lesson-Sermon also includes the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, and Health with Key to the Scrip- by Mary Baker Eddy: spiritual universe, uncluding individual man, is a compound idea, reflecting the divine substance of (page 468.) Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a big red wagon, a train that will run when you wind it, a ball and bat. Please bring me some candy and fire works. Please remember my little sister and bring her a doll. Your little friend, Bob Louis Stone, Dear Santa Q1 ftusj.

Please bring me a beautiful doll itith long etfrly1 hair, a writing a necklace that I can put my picture in, a house coat, a big tricycle, a box of pencils, a fountain pen and some ink. Please remember my mother, daddy and Ban. Bring me a little truck full of candy. Your little friend, Mary Ann Kennon. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a scooter with a seat on it and back brake, a pair of house shoes and a doll with a velvet dress and curly hair.

I want some fire crackers, sky rockets, about four of them. Please Santa, my mother a real good watch and some nuts and candy. Bring daddy and Jeanie something. Please bring me a gold ring. Your little friend, Barbara Ann Jenness.

Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a doll, some little doll dishes. I want some candy, nuts and sparklers. Please Santa, bring my mother something real nice. Your little friend, Dorothy Rae Malone. The first casualty of the war to involve the life of a Milam County boy was made known in a telegr im from the Navy Department stating that Demp Horton of Tracy had lost his life in the Japanese attack oti Pearl Harbor.

Horton enlisted in the Navy a year ago and was serving aboard the West Virginia, one of the Battleships reported sunk at Pearl Harbor. There were no details concerning the manner in he lost his life. 'ji C) v. .1 'U Abcjard the sajne Battleship is a brother, J. L.

Horton who enlisted in the Navy three years ago. The telegram stated that the body had not been recovered. The telegram came to parents of the dead boy, Mr. and Mrs. Les Horton of Tracy.

Demp 21, was born and reared on a farm near Tracy, attending Sharp School. He enlisted in the Navy a year ago and reported to the Naval Base at San Diego for training. Miss Trent Nabours, who has employment in Washington, D. arrived in Cameron Monday to visit hcr parents Mr. and Mrs.

Homer Nabours, during the Christmas holidays. Carl Mueller of Austin, with the Surplus Marketing Administration, transacted business in Cameron Monday. Dear Santa Claus: Please send me a football, some fire works and some marbles. Also a top, a litle truck full of nuts, a ball, a bat, some fruit, a train and some candies. Please forget my school friends Your friend, Marvin.

E. L. Upshaw and Neal Grimland, with the Surplus Marketing Adminis. tration, are in Cameron today in connection with the installation of the Food Stamp Plan which will probably be delayed until February 4, at which time it will go into ei- fect. Elton Ledbetter, in the U.

S. Army, enroute to Little Rock, from New Jersey, was a Saturday night guest in the home of his aunt, Mrs. Fred Rierr. Also a guest in the Dierr home has brother, Garland Ledbetter, with the U. S.

Air Corps. Garland was enroute to Randolph Field from Tulsa, and the two brothers met in Dallas and then came to Cameron to visit with their aunt. They are formerly of Cameron and graduates of Yoe High School. EPISCOPAL CHURCH The annual Christmas Service will be held in the Episcopal Church at 11 p. m.

Christmas Eve Wednesday, December 24th. The Christian Church choir will lead in the singing of Chrsitmas hymns and carols. Come and worship the Prince of Peace on the night of his birth. Miss Delphya Scott spent the week end in Fort Worth with Mrs. Gladys Watson and family.

THOMAS (Continued from page 1) Christmas decorations here in Ice land with the Northern Lights pi lying constantly across the sky in ever changing patterns of vivid color. Although there are no reindeer here, one can almost see and hear Old Saint Nick coming over some snowcapped mountain in the distance. The lakes glistening like precious stones under the Northern sky are gifts fit for a king. GREETINGS! HILLIARD. Rev.

A. L. O'Connel of Burlington was a Cameron business visitor Monday ss I I i i I I I I -remember pearl W. S. Needham of the Masonic Home in Arlington was a Cameron visitor Monday.

Mr Needham is a former Cameron business man, operating gins, and is now 87 years old, but very active. His friends in Cameron enjoyed his short visit. E. A. Camp of Rockdale was a Cameron business visitor Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Homer Pumphrey of Red Key, Indiana, are in Cameron visiting her parents, Mr. and H. E.

Graham. With them are Mr. and Mrs. Lybarger of St. Louis.

They will go to Brownsville and other points to spend a few days during the holidays. pearl harbor- Mrs. Cyde Greenlees and children, Sydney and Frank of Houston will arrive in Cameron Thursday evening to spend the Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Sam Dierr. Her husband will join her on Christmas Eve.

to visit his parents. Dorothy Hollingsworth of Austin arrived in Cameron Thursday to spend a few of the Christmas holidays with friends here. Begin the New Year Right Subscribe for The Cameron Herald While Low Holiday Hates are in Effect! 52 Issues 2 Years kkmk 1 50c 85c I Richard McCasland of Davilla was a Cameron business visitor Tuesday. ss TO OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS For many years we have sent you at Christmas time sincere greetings for a happy holiday season and with best wishes for a new year filled with happiness and prosperity. As we look back over the months of 1941 we are deeply conscious of our obligations to those friends and customers who have made cur business a success.

We like to measure our contribution to the success of the year in terms of service we have rendered you and we want to serve you again in 1942. Here you will find a store filled with practical gifts that last for a life time. Let us make this a practical Christmas. SINCERE GREETINGS We welcome Christmas because it is a time when men everywhere approximate the ideals for which the happy season came to pass. Life has no finer virture than gratitude and certainly we are happy because we can look back through the year 1941 and realize just how much you have contributed to our well being.

I hope you are happy this Christmas and in the new year may you share in every good thing that life has to offer, A. G. KUNZ HIGH CLASS MILL AND CABINET WORK Phone 678. I Understand me doesn't have to be a different wife. The girl I married is the best and sweetest in the world.

just that like to see her all pretty and exciting the way she looked when we were first married. bet like a Chrismas tree with a fancy new hair-do from Lalla Meyers, LALLA MEYERS BEAUTY SHOP PHONE 90. CAMERON, TEXAS In sending these greetings we sincerely hope that the new year will give us an opportunity to We plan an expansion to bring to our farmer friends all of the benefits of better production of poultry and a good market. FAIRMONT CREAMERY CO. CHRISTMAS HAPPINESS TO YOU THE foundation of business is friendship, and the basis of all enduring friendships can be traced back to an event which occured some two thousand years ago.

Each Christmastime il gives us a great deal of pleasure to extend our best wishes and renew our pledge of loyalty to (hose whose friendship we cherish. We say now, with the utmost fervor and sincerity, may your Christmas be truly happy and abounding in joyousness. To our farmer riends who found profitable farming through Tractors and Internationl Trucks we send greetings and many thanks for the nice business. IMPLEMENT CO..

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