The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-24
LOCAL ITEMS

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DIR. Frank Kent, practice limited to
eye, ear, nose and throat. Office over
Eagle Pharmacy. d&wS-5-30
Assistant Reconsideration
er R. B. RentfrO has announced the
appointment of Edward S. Dough
erty to the post of assistant post
master, vice w K Mendenhall re-
signed Miss May Scanla has taken
Mr.. Dougnerty's place as delivery
clerk Mr.. Dougherty was assistant
| to former postmaster J B. Sharp,
but resigned from the service, when
Mr.. Rentfro was made postmaster
We have added to our furniture
business a strictly high grade furni-
ture repair and packing department.
Howse Furniture Co. 7-19-tf
While H. ii. Banker, manager OF
the new brick and tile plant in West
Brownsville, is away for a short time,
Dr. Fairbanks is devoting a part of
the time from his practice to attend
to the business affairs of the COM
pany. The machinery has arrived
and it is expected to have a kiln of
brick and drain tile ready for burn
| ing in the course of a week or ten
days.
Go TO Tarpon Beach tomorrow.
7-31 If.
Pay Cars Visit.-Paymaste JEFF
freys d. Powers, with his strong box,
on the car "Paisano," was here yes
terday and distributed some joy pack
ages around the st. L. B & NJ. station.
+ He departed later to dispose
| of his surplus among the workers
along the Hidalgo branch.
| Automobile tourist car for hire
with chauffeur. $500 hour, $25 per
day in country. Phone %. SLIT
Another GrandchiId.-L Kow-
olski has received word from his
son, Emile, who with his wife, has
| been stopping for some weeks with
the latter's mother, Mrs. Sanchez
Gina. at Puebla, Mexico, that the
stork has visited his household,
| leaving a little daughter.
Always take Club boat to Tarpon.
7-31-tf
Regular Night Train Again
Passenger traffic has been picking up
so much in the last few weeks that
the railroad is preparing to expand
the tri-weekly night train into an
| every night service once more. Al
| though not yet officially announced,
it is said along the track that the
change will be made on Sept. Is.
Baseball Player Hurt News has
been received that during the game
Of ball last Sunday at Laredo between
the team of that place and the Corpus
| Christi aggregation, "Rube" Merritt,
a member of the Corpus pitching staff,
and one of the best players on the
team, had the misfortune to break
his leg while running to first base.
Merritt played with the Brownies
during the first of the season, and
has many friends in this city who
will be sorry to hear of his unfOr-
tunate accident
DIR. CASTOR PUchOt of MatamOros,
has been licensed by the state board
OF neQlCdl feAdml0GTS, 10 lpTdCIlC6
medicine in the state of Texas. The
doctor expects to engage Immediately
in the practice of his profession in
Brownsville LS-21-7.
First Car of PrOspectOrs.-The car
Isabel" belonging to an immigra-
ton company, rolled in Saturday
night with a goodly crowd of prospec-
tors aboard. They had stopped off at
Raymondville for a couple of days,
coming on down to spend Sunday at
Point Isabel. They returned to Ray
mondville yesterday. In the party
were C w. Cliff, J. P Wilson, J. C.
| Morgan, J. T. Gilbert, J. S. Flynn, E.
J.>Roberts, Floyd Ellis, Geo Mehlin,
s. w Lindsay, G. A Boyd This is
the first car of prospectors to arrive
here in several months, in reality the
van guard of the fall rush of home
seekers and investors.
No mosquitoes at Tarpon Beach.
Good meals: rates by week Stiff
The Storm Signals.-A number of
pleasure seekers who were staying on
the coast came up last evening on
account of the storm signals from this
coast And no storm occurred after
all.