Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-12-21

~ ton has been grow ~ the e~a-lies
onions to reach the United STATES mark
cts for a number of years and has ship
red the frs car for the past five years
The first car il 1913 was sl nye
March 8, the ca lest, date n tire h'stne-
Of the country. There are about co0t
rrcs devoted to this crop in he coun-
t. this year.
The Raymoniville section claims the
distinction of being the pioneer dairy
irg section of the Valley. The citizens
cf this town claim to have shipped
m4le butter fat during the years Of
1916 l7-1S than the balance Of the Val
Icy and that many farmers in :be 81
l:eni-c, IIarlingen, sWeslaco district nov
engaged in that indust y obtained their
.slginal stock from Raymondville. ~
4 bonded WAREHOUSE, built in 1917,
has. since that date marketed the GARY
products Of the section, IN addition tc
full $4,000 courthouse erected in 1922
which IS the pride Of every c.tizeatof'
tie county.
Rayn.cndyille County Sea:
The county seat is the metropolis of
the county and has a population Of be-
tween 500 and 1000. 1t is growing rapid
ly and many business and public build
lngs are either under construction or
to be started in the near future. The
Valley Electric and Ice Co., which has
recently bought the local power plant
and is building a high tension line to
the town from San Benito, will soon
start erecting an $4,000 office and ice
ctnraUa hnildinr A hn.1I1,r ,-L;aI r.
to house the Joe Bremen grocery store
and which will cost approximately $1,000
when completed, in under construction,
the walls being up. The Johnson block,
erected with tile and stucco finish at q
cost of approximately $4,000 is Just
being completed. The Reasonover build
ing, housing a store and picture show,
has been complete only a short time ana
was erected at a cost of about 10000.
Work has just started on a Methodist
church building which will cost ap-
proximately $22,500 when completed,
and will be the finest edifice for that
purpose in the county, it is claimed.
Rev. L. A. Boone is pastor of this con
gregation. The town also has a Bap-
tist church of which Rev. A. l.. Lamb is
pastor.
Work is to start soon on a filling sta
ton which will cost about 5000.
Flowers Thrive
A show place of Raymondville is the
yard at the s.. L. Gill home, Of which
Mrs. Gill is Justly proud and which
proves that q: greet varic5y Of, plants
thrive in the Raymonbville section The
yard is large and is Handicapped. Around
the outer edge is a square Of 6f'date
palms, several Of them bearing. At the
corners of this squase are large clean
der trees. A smaller square inside Of
the palms is planted in citrus Of sever
al varieties and in the center Oh q
round terrace is an extra large date
palm. Large round flowers complete the
picture. In addition to this plants and
flowers in great variety grown ana
bloom in every conceiveable place about
The house. A few Of the flowers and
plant in addition to these already nam
ei are hibiscus. poinsetta, petunias,
phlox, c~alendulas, chrysanthemums.
ferns Of more than a dozen varieties,
queens wreath, esperanza, a large trop-
lcal shrub with pretty yellow flowers;
native shrubs of many varieties, sweet
alyssum and many others. The rose bed
contains many varieties and some beau
ties on blooming. Citrus fruit in the
yard includes oranges, lemons, grape
fruit, tongerines, lines and ponderosa
lemons. A number of the ferns are grow
ing in the yard and receive no protec-
ton from the weather.
A new high school building, completed
just in time for the present term to
open, cost $4,000 and proaides suffi-
cient room for the pupils attending this
year, but if the same increase is made
next year as was made this year it will
be too crowded and another building
viii become necessary, according to W.
II. Tumlinson, superintendent of the
system. The old high school building is
being used for Mexican children. This
building is valued at about $4,000. The
enrolment this year is 3S9 and last
year it was 233, an~increase of 154 or al
most 50 percent. This increase is not
altogether an Indication of growth, Mr..
Tumlinson explained as q few Of the
new pupils were taken in by enlarging
the district. Tass d. Waterston is prin-
cipal Of the high school. Application is
being made this year for seven and a
nall additional credits OF afflllatiOn
with the University Of Texas, which
with the eight and a half cred..s rhe
school now is carrying, will make the
IS necessary to complete utilization,
Supt. Tumilson said. 4
To Beautify School Grounds
Plans are being made to beautify the
| grounds about the new high school
building. The front lawn will be lans-
capped and flowers planted, a large yeard
in the rear will provide four basket ball
fields, 2 tennis courts, one volley bail
! court, ore indoor baseball field and suf-
ficient space will be left for playground
apparatus such as swings and giant
strides.
The Willacy County News, the only
newspaper in the county is a booster for
the section and is doing some splendid
work in that line. News stories of pro-
gress underway all over the county are
a regular weekly feature. Isadore Mors
itz, veteran Valley newspaperman is at
! the head of this enterprise.
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