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

Theater tonight.
Successful OperatiOn-The infant
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Martin
Besteiro was operated upon for adj
enoids Tuesday by DR.. Frank Kent,
the operation being quite successful.
The little one has entirely recovered
and today is playing about the house
as usual.
Give us a chance at your next
Lumber bill Phone us No. 251. No
trouble to answer questions; every
thing to build with at the Big
White Sheds and Office, down near
St L., B. & NJ. freight depot. J. =
& J. H. Grant Lumber Co. 9-4-6
Estero Subsiding-While there
was comparatively little if any
change in the Rio Grande here last
night, yet the water in the Estero at
Ramirena has fallen at least four in
ches 1t was this estero from which
the water threatened to overflow the
flats above town With a four inch
fall there, the pressure has been
taken off the levees, and Alderman
Tucker now states that there is alb
sOlutely no danger whatever of the
water cutting through.
We have added to our furniture
business a strictly high grade furni-
ture repair and packing department.
Howse Furniture Co. 7-19-tf
Via the Inland Waterway.-The
boat Elizabeth belonging to Cobolini
prn al, LOT Te-oh nI Iax
morning at eleven O'Clock for the
landing at Ell Sauz with seven pas
sengers, arrived at the wharf at Isa-
bel this morning at seven o'clock,
making the round trip, a distance of
sixty miles in 81 hours On its re-
turn trip the Elizabeth brought five
passengers. A proposition to bring
the mail to and from Raymondville
has been made to the local postoffice
authorities by the Messrs. Cobolini,
but as yet no decision has been an
nounced in the matter
DIR. Kent, eye, ear, nose and
throat Office Combe building.
S-26-tf
Church Thriving A. Noble
James, pastor of the Methodist
Church, reports splendid congrega-
tions at all services last Sunday.
He also reports that the Sunday
school and the Epworth League are
growing.
Coolest soda water in town at Mar
tinez's drug store. 7-13-tf
The New Pictures at the Electric
Theatre tonight were carried in on
foot from Harlingen by A Dittman,
manager
The Burress Cabbage Patch-One
of the prettiest sights in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley today is the cab
baSe patch of the Burress brothers
near San BenitO, so a recently re-
turned visitor to that place reports.
The patch includes a considerable
acreage and the cabbage is in the
most promising condition.
The Launch Sea Gull will make
trips regularly with mail and pas
sengers between Isabel and the
beach east of RaymOndville, after
arrival of morning train from
Brownsville Facilities provided to
transport passengers and mail from
beach to Raymondville or5t
Cleaning AlIeys-A force of men
under the supervision of Sanitary In
spectOr Layton started this morning
to clean up the alleys. Operations
were began on the alleys between
Elizabeth and Washington Streets
Wagons to San Benito Yester-
day Afternoon two wagons loaded
with flour and other provisions be-
longing to Arthur Batz of San Be
nito left for that place. Mr. Bats
first made the trip from San Benito
here on horseback last Sunday to
see if it would be possible to make
the trip by wagons and finding that
the water would not at any point
on the road be deep enough to
swim a horse, had the wagons sent
They left San Benito Tuesday morn
ing, arriving here that night The
drivers of both wagons report that
while the roads are in bad condi-
ton in some places, the water that
wa sover them is now falling rap
idly and that at no place is the
water over a couple of feet in
deDth