The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-06-28

W00h OH prospecting Trip. IL
Thompson is much interested in
this section and expects to return
here later and buy a tract of land,
mot for speculative purposes" as
he says, but place where he can
make a home for himself when he
wishes to quit practicing medicine
and rest under his own vine and fig
tree.
Walter A. Mcneil of Santa Maria
was Sunday visitor to town.
DR.. B. o. Works visited San BENZ
to today.
NJ. L. Rockwell of the govern
ment irrigation service is in town
for few days.
Judge D. B. Chaplin arrived Sat
urday night and left Sunday morn
ing for San Antonio.
Missionaries in town over Sun
day included V NJ. Haney, engineer
of the La Lomita canal, J. NJ. Ken
nedy, J. S. Mclaughlin and C. E.
Walker.
Miss Mamie Closner and the
Misses Anita and Eta Kowalski
went to the Point SATURDAY for the
weekend,
II. p. Griffin and H. A. Attren of
San Benito stopped in town Satur-
day night on their way to Point
Isabel for a Sunday outing.
Sheriff John CIosaer of Hidalgo
joined Mrs. ClosneR, and family at
their seaside home at Point Isabel
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kinder paid a Sum-
day visit to friends in Mercedes.
Miss Nellie Conway, the fair
cabbage Queen of Mission, who
came down to attnd the Mccormick
REEFS wedding went home yesterday
morning for a few restfuii days be-
fore returning for the Fourth o.
July doings here.
c. B. McCullom, assistant secre-
tary of the new Gravity Canal Co.,
who has been at San Juan for sew
eral days, returned to town Satur-
day night. He has been summoned
as a witness in the McFielder-St. Ii
B. G M. RR. case in the district
court at Corpus Christi, and left this
for that place. Before re-
turning to Brownsville, Mr. McCul-
lOm will visit Houston and Sea-
brook. There's a reason"
w. W. Vann, engineer of the La
Feria Canal Co., was in town over
Sunday acting as cicerone to John
La Prelle Jr., the Corpus Christi
land man who has been looking over
the valley.
R. H. Kern, a prominent planter
living near Santa Maria, came to
town Saturday night to trace a car
load of machinery and fittings in
tended for the fig preserving plant
which is being erected at Santa Ma
ria
Mrs. A. Ernest and son Edward of
Harrington, who spent last week here
as guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A w
returned home Sat
urday afternoon, Mr. Ernest coming
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. McGonigle and
son left yesterday for the Point,
where they expect to spend 4 cou-
pie of weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. A. Cunningham
spent Saturday and Sunday at the
Point.
hrs. ]. w. Lamb returned the
early part of last week from Victo-
ria, Mexico, where she was called
on account of the illness
and death of her mother, Mrs. Ague-
da G. Gonzales. Mrs. Lamb has
the sincere sympathy of her many
friends in her sad be-
w. Daviess Pittman left this after
noon on his return to st. Louis, after
a short stay here seeing to matters
in connection with the townsite of
LaFeria, which he is developing in
the western part of the county. Mr..
Pittman will accompany his family
north from st. Louis and see them
established for the sum-
mer at some of the lake resorts be-
fore returning to the Valley. In
fact, he expects to spend the greater
part of the summer in the North
himself. Mr. Pittman goes north
this time with newly acquired dig
nifty, having the honor of being ap-
pointed postmastr of the newly es-
abolished postoffice of La Feria.
A. l.. Gray and Walter NJ Selig-
son of Houston, representing one of
he largest hardware houses in the
United States, spent yesterday and
oday here on business for their
house.
w. H. Crews and w. H. Wilson
If Little Rock, Ark, with a party
If fruit growers from Arkansas. !
they number thirteen and are
ooking into the fruit prospects up
he valley.