Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-12-20
IN OUR
VALLEY

OOkS ike tnat proposal tndt the
- Valley be called Delta is gaining
favor throughout this favored section.
The Brownsville Kiwanis Club the
other day adopted resolutions urging
the change and recommended that or
ranizatioas like the Rotary clubs,
chambers Of commerce and other civic
clubs adopt similar resolutions. also
that the newspapers Of this section
take up "Delta."
Right on top of that comes a letter
from will G. Fields who is with the
Missouri Pacific demonstration car of
Dalta products on its $500 mile trip
over the Missouri Pacifis system. who
Gays:
Il thought that your agitation on
calling the Valley Delta was little
sbulF Of your own, but on this trip, so
far in our own state, people think this
fruit il gathered from FL Paso to-
Brownsville and Corpus Christi to San
Antonio, with Laredo about the center
of the Valley.
81 really have more trouble explain
ing just where this exhibit was grown
than amy one thing"
Mr.. Fields reports a large attendance
at. every long stop, and at the brief
stops people "just fall over each other
gctting through the car. he says.
So"
Charles Burton Of Brownsville was
introduced. to gentleman in the haze
hotel at Houston.
"Where arc you FROM" Mr.. Burton
asked.
'sThe Lower Rio Grande Valley" was
the reply.
'.That sof Well. I'm from the Valley.
In which town do you live?"
A" In Laredo"
Mr.. Burton admitted that he tried to
convince the Laredo gentleman that the
latter did not live in the real Rio Gran
DE valley. But the Laredo gentleman
insisted that he did.
They left the matter undecided.
. s$%
A. ID. Dickinson. Jr.. land developer
of. Brownsville. met Galveston lady
who was a member Of land party near
San Antonio
She said she, too, had visited the Rio
Grande Valley. described it as bcauti
full. wonderful country.
"Where were you?" Mr.. Dickinson
asked
ouired some time TO convince her that
grapefruit was not produced in the III
Paso country, but in the 900 miles dis
tant Brownsville country.
r. ,R. Stephens Of the r. X. Stephens
Realty Company, Mission, writes as fol
lows:
Il am a regular subscriber and All
interested reader OF the best daily pa
per that circulates in the Delta Of the
Rio Grandc You will note from my
letterheads that have adopted the
Delta, instead of Valley. and expect to
continue using Delta. regardless"
Think veil all have to come to it III
sheer self-protection, Mr.. stephens.
And thanks for "them kind woids. "
= %'s
"The temperature in the Rio Grande
Valley dropped to q degrees above zero
yesterday morning. This freeze will be
Of benefit in the Valley since it ~HI
kill the pink boil worm"
No. this is not from The Browns
willie Herald, the San Bcnito Light, r
the McAllen Press--it is an excerpt
from an item in the Ell Paso Post
A forty-page special edition that tells
in comprehensive manner the story D.
McAllen and the McAllen community
was issued Friday by the McAllen Mon-
itor.
The edition is made up into five sec
tions. It is profusely illustrated with
photographs of McAllen scenes. includ-
ing its public buildings and the more
important privately owned structures.
The edition is entirely homcprint
and a credit to the city Of McAllen as
we'll as to the publishers. The Monitor
Is owned by the Lower Rio Grande
Valley Water Users Association. and
Thomas j. Howorth is editor and man
ager of the paper.
Il is said of nationally prominent
retail cEar store concern that when
il sees an opportunity to open new
store in 4 town, it sends an investlga-
tor there to pick a prominent corner
and count the number of people pass
inr that corner in given time.
Tn at McAilen the other day someone
conceived the idea that it would be IN
teresting to count the number OF auto
mobiles passing the postoffice corner
betEeen I a. M. and midnight, on Sat
urday. A guessing contest was arrang-
ed and several thousand made, four
persons guessing z777. The correc'
numbcr It was announced. was 777o.
The McAllen fire department con-
Quoted the contest and count, with 'acF