The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-02-19
LOCAL ETEMa

Twenty-Five Mexlcans laborers
left this morning in charge of S.
n. Hardy. They will be employed
at the other end of the Gulf Coast
Line on section work.
The American, Rio Grande Land
& Irrigation company is clearing
5000 acres Of land at Lonsboro, Hi
dalgo county, Texas. and can give
steady employment to 500 men.
Apply to S. P. Silver. 2-2-1 m.
THE HERALD learns that John
G. Kennedy, president of the Cor
pus Christi Horticultural society,
has called a meeting of that or
ganization for Saturday, March J..
Go to Clay's Bakery, corner 9th
and Levee streets for your bread,
pies, cakes and rolls, also Fleisch-
man & Co.'S celebrated compressed
yeast. l am here to serve my Gus
toners and in regard to my goods
And business methods, I always en-
deavor to sell nothing but goods of
finest quality and to offer the trade
only the best the market affords.
Poor goods are dear at any price.
Call on me and give me an order
and you will be my customer. l
want your trade.
The funeral of JOS. Bennett, late
janitor of the public school build
ing, which took place Saturday af-
ternoon, was attended by the teach
ers, trustees and many school chill
dren, besides a large concourse of
people who had known and regard
ed the many merits possessed by
the deceased. Rev. r. H. Wood
ward, rector of the Church of the
Advent, conducted the services at
the church. Deceased was a valued
member of several lodges of the
city, and these were all represented
in the large funeral cortege, to pay
the last earthly tribute of respect
to a deceased member.
The beautiful aluminium sou
venirs of the Brownsville public
school, mention of which was made
recently in THE HERALD, were or
dered by Prof. Barbour, the enter
prising superintendent, for the pur-
pose of assisting in raising funds to
purchase books for the school IL
brary. The souvenirs are in two
forms, one being a tiny tray, and
the other a perpetual calendar.
Both bear an excellent likeness of
our handsome public school build
ing, with an equally good likeness
of the superintendent i'll the upper
right hand corner. They make I'M
usually pretty and appropriate
souvenirs, and for an inexpensive
gift nothing more appropriate could
be asked. They are on sale at the
drug stores and other places. A
word about the cause for which
Prof. Barbour is working will not
be amiss here: The public school
library is in a sad state of
decadence. Only about hundred
volumes remain, and these are
more or less dilapidated, besides
comprising comparatively few
works that are really aPpro-
pirate for juvenile reading. The
object of the library is tc cultivate
taste for good literature in the
public school children, and it is
truly worthy end-one which
every intelligent citizen should be
willing to aid. 1t is doubtless true
that the great majority of these lit
tie ones have very few books in
their homes, and many probably
have none at all, so that unless this
opportunity to acquire a taste for
reading be granted them the pleas
ure to be obtained from books and
the elevating influence resulting
from their peruSal will be forever
shut out of the lives of most of our
public school children. Therefore
everyone taking an interest IN
home progress should aid Prof.