The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-08
LOCAL ITEMS

A marriage license was issued to-
day by the county clerk to Adolfo
Soles and Leandra Ruiz.
Four shares of Laguna Vista stock
for sale-sS0O each. Lock Box 22S,
Brownsville. Texas. 5-6-14
Highest price paid for second hand
furniture, bicycles, stoves, ice boxes,
tools, etc. Morris Furniture Co.. OPP
posite city hail. 4-12-tf d&w
Take your furniture, bicycles and
and gasoline stoves to be repaired to
Morris Furniture Co., opposite city
hall. 4-12- d&w
Gratifying Results.-The "sale"
given by the Home Mission Society
at Hancock and Lambs on last Sat
urday will swell the soeiety's fund
about $500. The members appre-
ciate the kindness of the proprietors
of the store and the patronage of
their friends. The society meets
with Mrs. T. P. Barbour next Tuesday
afternoon to sew
Monterey COming.-A telegram
was received today by Manager Cum
minis of the Brownsville baseball
team from the manager of the Mon
terey team saying that the Monterey
team will be here to play two games,
May 18th and 10th The Monterey
team has been materially strength
ened since it visited here last year
and two good games are promised
to the ball fans.
HOmeseekers Arriving.-Four cars
of tourists and homeseekers are
left Houston on last Thursday night
attached to the regular st. L., B. &
NJ. passenger train. Two of these
cars stopped at Bay City, where they
will spend several days, after which
they will come to Brownsville. One
of the other cars, the "Hidalgo,"
the private car of A. NJ. Davidson,
who is extensively interested in land
at Raymondville, stopped at the lat
ter place yesterday. and came on to
Brownsville last night The other
was a regular tourist car which left
Chicago on the 4th with fifteen tour
lists.
Lion and Bull Fight.-The great
est event of the season in the AIata-
moros bull ring will be fight be-
tween a genuine African lion and a
fierce bull which will take place next
Sunday, May 16. The impressario
who will have charge of this great
sporting event has two African lions
and one of them is to fight a bull in
the Monterey arena tomorrow. There
will also be three regular bull fights
on the same date in which two of
Mexico's most famous bull fighters
will participate. Soler. the torero
who leaps over the bull, with al
vaulting pole will be one of the
troop. Ezequiel Rodriguez ("More-
no'o one of the favorites of the Mex
lean bull ring will be the matador.
New Law FiTm-A new advertiser
in The Herald is the law firm of
Gregory, Bats & Brooks & Sam1
Spears, which has opened an Office in
Brownsville. The first three mem
bers of the firm are T. w. Gregory,
X. l.. Bats and v L. Brooks of the
well known law firm of Gregory.
Bats & Brooks of Austin. Mr..
Spears, who will be the resident
member of the firm at Brownsville.
formerly resided at Llano, being
member of the firm of Mclean &
Spears, for years a leading firm of
Llano. Mr.. Spears arrived here
Thusday and has established his Of
fee for the present in the Browne
building with the Brownsville Irri-
CATION Co. He expect sto make this
ms home and will be joined later by
MIS-. spears and children. Mr.. Bats
OF the hrm is already well known
at brownsville. He is a prominent
member OF the San Benito Land and
Water Company and has often Wis
tied mere In connection with that en-
tefprlse- He is also well known in
law circles both here and elsewhere. I
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