The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-12-15
LOCAL ITEMS

Big assortment of Christmas and
New Years cards. The Brownsville
Drug Co 12-13-3t
Our Winter Garden Sass. On
stand in front of the Commercial
Club, is displayed a collection Of
seasonable fruits of this Rio Grande
soil that is calculated to make over
cat burdened homeseekers, only a
few days removed from snow and
ice and shiyerey weather, imagine
they are attending the SquashtOwn
Midsummer Exhibition There ex-
posed to the public gaze on this 18th
day of December, are very eatable
specimens of cabbage, peppers, peas,
string beans, carrots, radishes, spin
ach, cEions, beets, egg plant, pump
kin tomatoes, lettuce, Okra, wrink-
ly musC1ru. red and yellow turnips,
roasting cars and real sweet ia
terS
"Titania or the Butterfly CarnI-
val" Celford, Friday night by pu-
pills of Miss McDavitt. I2-15-3
Another good program at the Flee
liz meter lOUlSni. lie AlGNef
Tailor The Modification of a
/ ShOrtsighted Sportsman, and others
in colors, etc. Four new pictures
every night
Obll9" clerks to help you make
Your seiv~tiOn o Xmas pre- 5ents. Va
riety store c.. 2-t=-3t
Christmas Sale. Christmas
Sale of needlework will be held at
the Convent all day Saturday, De
cember 18th. 12-14-4t
See the little folks in The Butter
fly Carnival, Friday night. Admis-
sion fifteen and twenty-five cents.
12-I5-3t
A marriage license was issued to-
day to Thomas J. Cloney and Miss
Helen Fehner
For your Christmas sponge, fruit
layer and pound cakes, go to I'm
ion Bakery. So
Mrs. j. r. Howse will take ord
ers for home made pies and cakes for
Saturday
Anything you want in a heater.
Phone us, we'll do the rest Browns
vile Hardware Co **%
Quick and Dead.-6000 pounds of
dead fish and one live burro were
items OF interest in the otherwise
prOsaic list of express shipments this
morning. The fish go to tickle the
uIScernlng palateS of various people
VINO know, while the burrO has been
secured by the good St NICK, through
his friend Ben Kowalski, to gladden.
the heart of a certain little fellow
over at len St Mary's Florida.
While St. Nick is, of course making
the gift, the little matters of money
attendant thereon are being fixed by
H. II. Hume, the citrus fruit ex-
pert who visited Brownsville a short
time ago The bUrrO is a Christmas
gift for his young son.
Vote for Santa Claus best child
at the Eagle Drug Stor,. i2-!4-it
Mexican supper Thursday the
18th from / to p. m. Mexican
supper viii be served in the Convent
grounds. Admission free. No re
freshments viii be sold or served at
ter six o'clock Come early. **~
Whose Mule Kentucky mule
about the size of a Brownsville bur
70, probably stunted by carrying
around an overload of brands-being
decorated with about twelve such
marks-was the bone OF contention
in dispute aired in Justice of the
Peace GavitO's court this morning.
The arrival had strayed from its
proper abiding place-if it had one
and had fallen into the hands of
the customs authorities, who. failing
to find any evidence of its being in
this country in violation of any of
Uncle Sans laws. turned il over to
the sheriff Later. it is alleged. one
ROsaliO AlYarado claimed the mule
and took it home. It's appearance in
court today was the result of a com
plant by Mrs. Franklin to the ef-
feet that the mule was hers and Al
VOradO had taken it unIawfUllv
When the case came up two or three
other claimants for the honor OF
owning the little animal appeared
Oh the scene. The justice finally
gave up the job of lOosening the
Gordian knot given him to undo. by
turning the whole matter over to
Sheriff Cara, with instructions TO
hold the mule in custody until its
rightful ownership is established. the
against AIvoradO being dis
missed. If the sheriff seems unus-
ually abstracted in his manner. his
friends viii please remember the
problem with which he is wrestling.
and not attribute il to any other
cause
y sight worth seeing, the Little
Fairies. Friday night, at Celford.
Music by Prof Viano and Miss
Scanlan. No reserved seats. 12-15-3t
Go TO Hancock's Store Saturday
afternoon and buy some of
those nice home made pies and
cakes that the Home Mission Society
are selling.