Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-08-09
IN OUR
VALLEY
August l8 is Voting Day.
Three Thousand Votes
Must Be Cast To Car
ry Issue of $1,50O,OOO
For Flood Protection

M Allen reports bank deposits have
gone beyond the million mark.
Weslaco reports bank deposits near
ing the million mark.
Brownsville is keeping up with the
general movement, and is rapidly head
ing for the s6,00O,OOO line.
All other Valley banks are showing
proportionate increases as a result of
the movement of the cotton crop.
Prosperity is rife in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley of Texas.
And let us hope that the vegetable
crop that is just ahead will prove as
successful as has the cotton crop.
That was a magnificent thing that
W. T. Burnett. o. S. w. Ross and other
officers of the Valley Chamber of Com
merce did when they stepped down to
permit the election Of new officers
should the directors decide to carry
on the organization.
1t is easy to understand that their
action was based on the belief that per
haps it would be wise, under all cir
cumstance, to give the directors oppor-
tunity to choose other officers should
they wish to do so.
There was plenty of advance an
nouncement Of the event, however, when
these men we're elected they were
chosen over their own protests and i'm
mediacly offered their designations to
take effect at any time that the di
rectors chose.
Whether it will be BEST as Mayor A.
j. Ross suggested, to organize individ-
ual county chambers of commerce, or
: continue as a Valley organization is
something the directors areIyet to con
slider.
There is plenty of opportunity for
effective work by a Valley wide organ
izstien. But no organization under the
sun can exist without cooperation and
finance.
The Valley Chamber of Commerce
has been trying to do this for months
The end was inevitable under the
circumstances.
Brownsville has been invited to send
entries for terrapin derby at the 10l
Ranch, Ponca City, Oklahoma.
1t is to be regular derby, with
purses entrance fees and all the other
rigamarole Of derby.
Every terrapin must have a. name.
The Chamber Of Commerce has re-
ferred the invitation to The Brownsville
Herald, with the request that The
Herald announce it to the world, so
that any one having terrapins to race
may enter them. 1t can be done
through c. NJ. Sarchet, secretary of the
Terrapin Derby Association. Ponca City,
Oklahoma.
The Herald has entrance blanks at
its office.
And, as an after thought. perhaps W.
A. Snake King has some speedy terra
pins he would like to enter
One week from Tuesday will be cleo
tion day.
Cameron county voters will deter
mine whether they want the county
safe from Hidalgo county flood waters.
One million, five hundred thousand
lollars is the amount of the issue.
Every voter is needed to carry the
roposition.
Two-thirds of the voters of Cameron
county must register their 1aVoraoie
attitude on the issue.
This is not the time to take mar
row view of the situation. The thing
to do is to vote for the proposition
After that. If you have any ideas about
how the money sould be expended IN
controlling floods, you will have plenty
of opportunity to voice them
Competent and honest engineers are
on the job. That assures fair play
for every section of land in the county
Every town in the Valley should or
oanize to 90 to Rio Grande City on
Aug, t % to participate in the cele-
bration attendant upon the opening up
of tn border city to rail connection 20
the outer world.
brownsville, as the leading wholesale
and jobbing center of South Texas,
should be particularly well represented
on the trip.
August 22 will be big day IN the
life of Rio Grande City
There will be big time, ana NO
Crande wants to become part anu
marcel of the remainder OF the 'alies'
as she has every right to be.
She would have been long ago ou'
for one fact-lack of rail transpor'a
tion. %; ca,do
That era in the history OF Klo uranue
City is about to pass.
Let's help her celebrate the ne" ere. @
The celebration will continue LOT
.hrss days. August 22, %, and "a ana
ar,,st "a will be the big day.
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