The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-05-15
LOCAL ITEMS
Phone i23 for Angel Food. 81
S-6-tf

The high wind of yesterday af
ternoon caused some damage tt
shade trees.
| Let me be your pill roller
Eagle Pharmacy. 5-13-tf
FOR SALE CHEAP: All o.
the furniture and Fixtures of the
Coleman Hotel, Brownsville, Tex
as.-W. o. COLEMAN, Prop Is
IF.
From passengers arriving on las
nights train we learn that gen
eral rain has fallen all along tllt
line from North Texas to Browns
/ vile.
Houston ice cream, the best
what is Try us.-Eagle Phar-
macy. 5-13-tf
The warm weather has fastened
the closing of skating rink early in
the season, but devotees of the roll
lers are looking forward to the re-
opening of the rink in the fail.
/ Beginning May 18th, (today, }
the passenger train on the St.
Louis, Brownsville and Mexico
railroad leaving Brownsville for
Houston, will leave this station at
$40 a. m, and the return train
from Houston will reach here al
11:10 p. m. SIS st.
For the last time tonight, the
Enthusiastically colored picture, The
Witches Cave" and the comic
picture Bowser House cleaning
will be shown at the Electric
Theater.
Phone Mrs. Jacob, 123, for An
gel food. 5-6-tf
The regular meeting of Hope
Chapter, o. E. S., will be held to-
night. Initiatory work acquires at
tendance of all members. Visiting
members of the order are cordially
invited to be present.
The rain last night, while not
very heavy, was particularly fine,
from the fact that it fell so slowly
as to be entirely absorbed by the
soil, and did not run off as a
heavier rain often does.
Try a glass of our delicious soda
water. Pure fruit juice flavorings
used. Eagle Pharmacy. 513-tf.
The many friends of Rev. DIR.
and Mrs. Burress rejoice to learn
that their son Jesse D. Burress,
who has been i'll for several weeks,
is now convalescing. and that
Mrs. Burress, who was also i'll, is
also very much improved.
There are plenty of fresh vege-
tables at the city market now-a-
days. Tomatoes. roasting ears, all
varieties of beans, onions, cucum-
bers, beets, new potatoes, squash,
carrots, egg plants, radishes, ETC.,
are on sale daily. 1t is to be re-
GREETED, however, that the prices
are SO high.
Splendid line of Egyptian and
Turkish cigarettes on sal at Eagle
Pharmacy. 5-13-tf.
It is to be hoped that the Wis
consin man who thinks of import
ing his ten Thousand chickens to
Brownsville to start a poultry farm
here may lose no time in doing so.
Chickens are so scarce and so high
here, it would seem as if such an
enterprise would pay.
A new item in the exports from
Japan to the United States is lum-
Der. There are extensive forests of
hardwood, both in northern and
southern Japan, and lumber from
them can be laid down in Califor-
MIA in large quantities at a lower
cost thar Oregon pine. This i'm
ported lumber is used for railroad
ties, for making furniture and also
for binding cars.
Yesterday, while descending a
telephone pole in the northern part
of the city, Tom, Tate, an employee
of the Brownsville Telephone Com
pany, slipped and fell to the ground
from a height of about twenty
feet. He received painful bruise
on the right hip. but fortunately
sustained no worse injury. He had
assembled the pole to fix some wires.
Another shipment of strawberry
ice cream made from fresh fruit
received at Eagle Pharmacy.
5-13-tf.
The railway postal clerks are re-
joicing over the fact that the post
Office appropriation bill allows 81
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