Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-01-04
IN OUR
VALLEY
. LII HONOR to Haflitgen.


Harlingcn hasn't been satisfied with
that Official fig,,e recently. SO a
movement was launched to take a cen
sus. 1t reveals that Harrington has
reached and gone bcyound 5000.
CISCO Morris, city tax collector and as
scs5or, who was in charge Of the census,
believes that final figures will show
$780,
Now Harlingcn is going to sci about
to revise its charter 10 meet the needs
Of municipality that has grown out
of the small town class, and is now
rated small city, with plenty OF am
bition to be a big one.
CISCO Morris was the right selection
to have charge OF the census. Hes
Harlingen pioneer. lie came there ~
1904, month after the first tram com
pletcd its trip between Houston and
Brownsville. The only American resi-
dents. .of Harlingen at the time were
the Lockhart family.
There's no one in Harlingen proudcr
of the cty's growth than its city as
SCISSOR and tax collector.
Consratula, ions, Harrington.
The old "fing the bell system oi
telephone operation in the Valley IS
gradually giving away to the newer
flashlight system The latest city 10
have this more modern me hod IS San
Benito, where the local telephone com
pany has just completed the installation
OF TIC flashlight system, and 1T is now
in use. 1t is proving very popular WITH
telephone users there.
Within the next ten years, no DOUBT
even this flashlight system Will nave
given way to the even more modern
telephone, the automatic. In this sys-
tem there is dial, and - central
to hester. You select your numbers OF
the dial, and get the connection. 1t
has proved very successful III Dallas
y to cite one instance in Texas, ana IN 4
great many northern cities.
The ,rapidity with which hospitalsaare
.springipg hp over the Valley IS an
other. inaicatien of the srowth Of this
section.
First there was the very modest but
useful Providence hospital of Bsowns-
yilIc. onc-story frame building which
drt .ycoman service TO the aiilng III
Browhsvillc for several years. Then
came the modern Mercy Hospital. Mcr-
eclcs has its General Hospital, now con-
Quoted under the auspices OF the Eiks'
A handsome hospital building Is under
construction at Harlingen, by the bap'
list church. And now McAllen is pre-
pairing to open its municipal hospital
the first Of its kind in the Valley MISS
Lorenc Nyiund of Kansas City has been
selected its superintendent, and the IN
stitution is to be opened shortly, fin
ishng touches now being put on tfe
building.
Far two weeks we have been using
this space to- tell of the nice things
publishers and others over the state
elsewhere have been saying about
our special Valley Industrial and Md
Winter Edition of December y. we
thought we had used them all yestcr-
day, when along came this ~nice one
from, Editor Ed Williams OF the ives
laco News (and it was in blackface type
in his Editor Ed Says Column:
Il .Dmriur the Chris mas rush VIC did
no, have time to say Good Work TO
The Brownsville Iicral1 for their spe-
cia! edition, issued shortly before
Christmas. They've had plenty OF com
plilncnts, but we'll call it 'humdinger
and let il go ut that
Thanks.
And from way up in frozen Mime
sofa comes copy of tie Jordan inde-
ucudent, which says OF the special edi-
ticn:
"a copy of the Brownsville leN.l
HERALD cemcth to hand. !; IS dated
Dee. 2l and contains 50 pages, iuli oi
splendid historical and boosting G's
tcrial for the Lower Rio Grande Naiiey'
which it cxtois AS a paradise ana
ulacc where things are gong ahea''
with irresistible momentum. Inc BOOST
or edition Of the Brownsville Herald IS
surely a noteworthy one. The pub
lication lays claim to being the ohiy
seyen day paper south OF Houston
we find as its business and advertising
manager, Chas A. Rcil, our former gooa
nc ..bbor Of the Waconia Patriot, which
hc published for II years before gong
so:slh.