Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-10-19
IN OUR
VALLEY


HE Brownsville Golf and Country
Club, which is being organized for
incorporation with a capital stock of
S7b.OO0, divided into 300 shares of $3.50
each, proposes not only to enlarge and
improve the golf links, but to prepare
amusements for those not so greatly
interested in golf
To be INCLUDED in these improve
men's that are planned is a swimming
pool. It is proposed to be concrete
affair, constructed to permit of swim
ming for the youngsters as well as the
grown, and the plans provide that it
shall be modern in every way.
The shares of the club promise to be
IN demand as the city and section de-
Selop. At present the directors are
planning to issue only 200 shares of
dhe stock, one share to entitle the
holder to membership, reserving the
100 additional shares for expansion.
Country clubs are considered as civic
assets everywhere, and in the Browns
vile country they are particularly nee
essary If this section is to attract and
entertain the tourist.
President E. J. Tucker and his di-
rectors have wonderful program in
view for the club. And the member
ship is in hearty accord with it.
The Valley has another newspaper-
The Raymondville Record, Of which M.
l.. Dale is the publisher. This is Num-
Der 20 in the list of alVley dailies and
weeklies.
The Record is the second newspaper
Tor Raymondville, the other paper be-
ing the W;llacy County News of which
lsadore Moritz is the publisher.
The Records first issue is liberally
patronised with advertising, is we'll ar
ranged and quite an attractive newspa-
per in every way.
Cold, rain and snow, is the news con-
yeyed by the telegraph wire in The
Herald office today.
It's all in the west and middlewest.
In the meantime the sun is shining in
the Lower Rio Grande Valley for the
moment, with the hope that it VIII
continue. The Valley has had more
than its share of rain, and farmers are
now anxious to get the seed into the
ground for their late fall products.
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Willacy county is being congratulate
ed over the Valley for its action Satur-
day IN approving a bond issue of $780,
900 for the construction of hard sur
faced north and south road across the
county.
The road is link in the proposed
new highway in and out of the Valley,
with assurances from Kennedy county
that it will build north and south
connecting road. which will touch
highway in Kleberg county. and so on
into Corpus Christi and Houston.
jackson county, further up the coast,
Is another missing link"
County Judge Oscar c. Dancy Of
Cameron county, President S. C. Tuck
er of the Brownsville Chamber Of Com
merce, George Toolan of Harlingen.
and other Cameron county men have
assured Willacy county that Cameron
county is in full accord with the Will
lacy county road improvement, and
can be depended upon to complete the
highway between the end of the pres
ent road four miles north of Harlingen
and the Willacy county line.
The new construction means more
tourists for the Valley, and greater
opportunity for the tourists to see
more of the Valley.
Corpus Christi has taken another i'm
portant step in the organization of its
port facilities. This was in the or
ganization of a traffic bureau with L.
M. Shepardson of Orange at it's head.
Corpus Christi was recently visited by
the steamer Rotarian, with a cargo
from Houston. The ship is the same
which recently endeavored to secure
facilities at Point Isabel, without sue
cess, although the owners declared the
vessel could come into the port.
House numbering in West Browns
vile, which is, generally speaking, that
section of the city west and north of
the belt line track, is becoming more
and more necessary, with the greatly
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