The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-12-28
LATE LodElLs AND PERSONALS.

LATE LoCsLS AND PERSONALS.
Judge and Mrs. Noah Allen left
'riday morning for Mercedes to spend
the holidays thre with friends. The
judge returned last evening, Mrs
Allen remaining for few days long
er.
Moving Day.-Today the Howse
Furniture Company which has been
located in tie San Roman building
is moving into the buildig formerly
occupied by the Maltby Hardware
Company. Z
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Sprague and
little daughter, ana also Wilfred Ken
edy of La Coma, Sayton, Texas, and
Charles kennedy of Raymondville. who
spent the holidays in the city with the
latter's mother, Mrs. A v. Kennedy,
returned home this morning.
Frank Rabb returned last night
from Corpus Christi, where he went
to spend the holidays with Mrs. Rabb.
who is now at Spohns Sanitarium I'M
dergoing treatment. Mr.. Rabb re-
ports Mrs Rabb as doing nicely and
very much improved.
S. j. Schnorenburg. H. NJ. Miller
of st. Paul. Mimi, DR.. J. F. McCrea
of Minneapolis, Mimi, and O. E.
Walker left this morning for Harlin-
gen, where they EXPECT tc spend sew
eral days on a hunting trip, the
guests of DR.. Pierre Wilson of that
place.
E. n. Green of McAllen spent sun
day in town. Mr.. Green is the erect
ing engineer who has installed sew
Ieral pumping plants at various points
in the Valley He has just lately IN
iished erecting the machinery for the
second lift of the Hidalgo canal near
McAllen.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. c. Cowgirl of Mon
tezuma. Ind, who for the past week
have been in the city looking over
the Valley country, left this morning
for Mexico where they expect to
spend several weeks before returning
home While here Mr.. Cowgirl pur-
chased quite a large tract of land
near San Benito.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. C. Hallmark have
as their guests for the holidays, at
their home near Brownsville. Mr..
Hallmark's mother, Mrs. N. E. Glow
err Of fsampasas. Texas, and his son,
W. B. Hallmark and family. also Of
Lampasas. Mrs. Glover expects to
spend the winter with her son, his
other guests being here only for the
holidays.
Truck Farm soId.-The Carter
farm on Horse Shoe Lake has just
been sold to w. S. Evans of Branch
port. n Y, for the sum of $4,000.
The farm contains sixty acres. with
bout fourteen acres in cabbage. max
ing the price about $50 per acre.
The price also includes all of the
farming implements, the dairy, etc
Air and Mrs. Evans have been making
their home in the city for several
weeks past and expect TO move to
Horse Shoe Lake about the first of
the year. The sale of the place was
made through the South Texas Land
Company.
Would Be Burglar. Saturday
night an unsuccessful attempt was
made by some unknown person to
enter the grocery store of Wise &
Newman, located on Eleventh street.
The attempt was made about ten-thir-
ty O'Clock, by breaking a pane of
glass out of the window Louis R.
Cowan, who was standing on the cor
ner by the Merchants National bank,
heard the crash and the falling of
the glass and at once started to in
vestigate 1t is thought that the burg
lar seeing Mr. Cowan, became
frightened and ran down the alley.
The same night another unsuccesss-
full attempt was made to enter the
Combe building in a similar manner.
A panel Of glass was broken from
the door, but it is supposed that the
wOuld-be. burglars were frightened
away before they could gain en-
trance. as there was nothing missing
from the room. There is no clew as
to the identity of the depredators.