The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-10-13

DF. henC, eye, ear, nose ana
throat. Office Combe building.
8-26-tf
Stiff Bowling Since the Browns
vile Sporting Goods Company have
offered the free use of their alleys
as well as pool and billiard tables
for one week TO the one bowling
the highest average score during the
week, the bowling experts have been
getting busy for the past few days
and doing some stiff bowling. At
present Sam Bell and Geo. McGOni-
gle are the favorites, at odds of five
to one However, if Willie Whitman
could only keep the third ball on the
alley he might make it interest
ing for the leaders.
Child Injured Eleanor Jean, the
17-months-Old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Hy. B. Verhelle, was painfully
hurt about the mouth and face yes
terday by falling out of a swinging
chair backwards. The little girl in
company with two or three other
children was playing in the swing
when in some manner it tipped over,
throwing the little girl on her face,
and painfully bruising her about the
mouth and nose.
COme.-A mass meeting of citizens
of the Valley called by Mayor F. J.
COmbe and the Lower Rio Grande
Valley Commercial Club Will be held
at the Federal court room this even
ing. The purpose of this meeting is
to decide upon plans for the proper
representation of Brownsville and
the Valley at the Waterways Conven-
ton to be held at Corpus Christi
next week. The citizens of Browns
vile are urged to attend the meeting
tonight.
Marriage licenses were today is
sued to the following parties: &C
taviano Cuellar and Juana ROdri-
gueZ; Luciano Mendoza and Moves
Rodriguez.
Credit is an asset to any business.
A checking account with the First
National Bank Will help you establish
such credit. 1t
Electric Observation-Disclosures changed
daily Tonight "Penn-Harvard Foot
ball Match, and 'Messina Earth
quake.
Fine Sugar Cane.-Three splendid
stalks OF sugar cane were brought in
this morning by c. Cara, Jr., from
his plantation above town and placed
on exhibition at the Brownsville
Bank and Trust Co The largest
measures sixteen feet from but to
tip of leaf, contains thirty mature
Joints and has an average diameter
of two inches. Mr. Cara has forty
five acres of cane which he says will
yield him at least thirty tons to the
acre. He intends to sell 1000 tons
and plant the remainder. Yesterday
he closed a contract with S L John
son of the Texas Sugarland Co, at
Flor de Mayo above town for 800
tons to be used as seed for 100 acres
this fall Negotiations are under
way for the sale of the remaining
500 tons.
A Dollar Dinner.-NOtices have
been sent out to the members of the
Lower Rio Grande Valley CONNER
cial Club by B. G. Stegman. chair
man VI IHC CHCei idiIIiieHt COuILulILee
calling attention to the dollar dinner
that will be held at the Miller Hotel
next Saturday evening at nine
o'clock. AS stated before, the object
OF these gatherings of which this is
the first, is simply to bring the mem
bers together every sixty days for an
Interchange of ideas and a heart to
heart talk about conditions in the
Valley in general. Members are
urged to bring friends who are not
members of the club, and to send
their dollars to Secretary Magill at
once The dinner viii be united to
leo plates.