Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-11-09
IN OUR
VALLEY
oNNA first gained fame when It
became known some wears aro ,s

she smallest town in the world with
notary club, at that time of course.
Ahen Donna set on foot a plan for
.he organization and establishment
ehere OF great international indus
.riai exposition The work on this pro-
torily.
Being an aggressive, forward looking
community, Donna has now taken the
initiative in efforts to bring about a
resumption of activities in connection
with the Point Isabel harbor, with the
possible organization of a navigation
district.
Whether any plan to organize a nav
lgation district would meet with popu-
lar approval at this time, when the har-
Dor and Rio Grande railroad situations
are badly mixed up, is question.
Recent advices from Washington in
dicate that developments in connection
with resuming work on the harbor may
be expected in short time. The engi-
; neers have reached certain conclusions
as to a method for opening the channel
over the bar.
s. c. Tucker, president of the
Brownsville Chamber of Commerce. and
&. l.. Jessup, chairman of its ha-bor
committee, will attend the Donna meet
ing.
The Donna meeting will no doubt
clarity some harbor matters.
The Parent Teachers Association of
Brownsville, upon the suggestion of
Mrs. ID, p. Gay, Jr.. will undertake the
task of numbering houses in Browns
vile that are not yet numbered, partIc-
ularly in the district north and west Of
the belt line railroad.
Support of the city government has
been assured, the city attorney having
been instructed to draw up proper or
dinance.
Home-owners should lend their coop
Grafton by buying numbers when they
are called upon by representatives of
the association.
Proper house numbers are a benefit
in many ways. They enable merchants
to find homes for delivery purposes.
They help the telegraph messengers In
their task. In case Of fire, they afford
: the quickest information for direction
of the fire department This is perhaps
the most valuable Service of house
numbers.
And perhaps at no distant date CITY
mail delivery will be extended to that
section of the city, but it will not be
done unless houses are numbered
The Brownsville Herald has in its
office leased wire of The Associated
Press, bringing the news of the world
to this City simultaneously with the
papers OF the big cities.
And the wire also carries out of
Brownsville the news of this city and
section. Brownsville is the news con-
centration center for wide territory.
The Brownsville Herald carries to other
papers over this wire more news, day
in and day out, than Beaumont, Shreve-
port, Fort Worth (cattle markets ex-
cepted). Abilene. Wichita Falls and
even San Antonio.
This telegraph wire, which The Her
aid maintains at great expense, affords
more publicity for Brownsville and the
Valley than any other existing facility.
The influence of The Herald is real
ly far-flung.
Mrs. Virginia Gimble, proprietor of
ladies' ready-to-wear and millinery
establishment in Brownsville Saturday
mailed hat to a customer in Decatur,
Ill.
The hat was ordered from an adver-
tisement. of the Gimble shop that ap-
peared in The Herald.
And that despite the fact that near
Decatur is the great Marshall Field es-
tablishment, Sears-Roebuck & Com
pany, Montgomery, Ward & Co., and
goodness only knows how MANY more.
But the hat was ordered from
Brownsville.
Houston newspapers tell Of nine
straight days of rain. Hundreds Of tel
ephones out of commission. Dirt and
gravel streets impossible for automo-
biles.
Brownsville can sympathze with
Houston. And also it is clear that
Brownsville is not the only town that
in recent weeks has been discommod
ed by unusual rainfall.
TIGER GETS LOOSE