The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-02-09

Humpty Dumpty Circus. at the
Celford theater tonight. Come and
bring the children The Musical Pc
ripitipes tomorrow night 2-S-2
Quarterly Conference.-The Meth
odist quarterly conference for this
district was held here last evening.
I~Only Rev. A. L. Scarborough of Bee
vile, presiding elder for this dis
trict, and Rev. A. Noble James, pas
tor of the local Methodist church,
were present, and only a few matters
were attended to.
just received full line sorghum,
milo maize, kaffir corn, millet and
cotton seed. Also a full line of gar
den seed, such as beans, peas, eanta-
loupes. cucumbers, watermelons-in
fact everything to be planted in
garden McDavitt Bros, Browns
vile, Texas. 2-3-6d-w
A Good Performance.-The five
Peripitipos in refined and musical
comedy gave a performance in the
opera house in Matamoros on Sunday
night to large and enthusiastic au-
dience. This company has played in
all of the leading theaters in the re-
public of Mexico and has made a
pronounced hit wherever they have
been. They have been engaged for
series of performances in this city
by Messrs. CeIaya & Wreford, man
ayers of the Celford theater, to begin
at that popular amusement resort
tonight.
The Learners.-Thirteen members
responded to roll call at the meeting
of the Learners Saturday afternoon.
The meeting was held with Mrs. E.
K. Goodrich, and was a very interest
ing event. The study of Charlotte
Bronte, which was begun the pre-
vious week, furnished the subject for
this meeting also. An excellent paper
entitled, 1.-The romantic features of
Charlotte Bronte's work, was read
by Mrs. Goodrich. Questions rela-
tive to Miss Bronte's works and life,
and also to her contemporaries, were
asked and discussed. Much interest
was manifested by all present, and
the discussion was very profitable.
The club will meet next week with
Mrs. w. K Mendenhall
n LblHss VI DCttusy - L ne 1SpOl lSA
has been privileged to have glimpse
of the proofs of some of the cuts that
have been made specially for the adj
vertising booklet which the Lower
Rio Grande Valley Club now has al
most ready to go on the press. The
front cover design for the booklet is
to be particularly artistic and hand
some The illustrations will COM
prise &c full page half tone cuts, six
of them being colored. All are very
fine, showing various views, and 9th
er interesting features of this section.
One of the colored cuts is truly
beautiful presentment of Lower Rio
Grande Valley roses. The booklet
will have about fifty pages, the read
ing matter being all new and fresh
descriptive of this sun-kissed wonder
land in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
The first edition will number 100, 900
No individual land or canal enterprise
is to be mentioned in the entire work,
but the matter will describe the en-
tire resources of the valley in a gen
eral way. Editor Jeff McLemore of
the Gulf Coast Magazine. who has
been in entire charge of the work,
says it will probably be readw for
distribution within few weeks.
Arrangements for Masquerade
Dance.-The place of holding the
masquerade dance, which number
of the prominent gentlemen of
changed The original idea was to
give it at the opera house in Mata-
moros, but the gentlemen in charge
finally decided to secure the use of
the old rice mill in this city for the
purpose instead. Some local Column
bus has discovered that the floor in
the large ware room at the mill is
just fine for dancing, and the own
ers were solicited to permit its use