Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-11-19
IN OUR
VALLEY.
HE cotton industry is saved from
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- the boil weevil
That is. if one would believe as w. P.
Ryan of Chicago believes in the inven-
Ilon OF one Morris E. Hair of Chicago,
VINO probably never saw a cotton field
Ryan sends The Herald long treat
lse on the boil weevil, sort of history
Oh the pest which is familiar to almost
every cotton grower.
10 make a three column story short.
Hair proposes to rid the cotton industry
OF the boil weevil by placing a globular
screen over the cotton boil. The screens
are two inches in diameter, weigh a
traction Of an ounce, and cost a few
cents thousand No figures are given
on the cost of applying them The
screen is designed to provide expansion.
And when cotton picking time comes,
II Is presumed the screens must be re-
moved. And won't the cotton pickers
just love that?
Two chachalacas from Brownsville
met two coons in the Breckenridge Park
zoo at San Antonio, according to the San
Antonio Light.
The chachalacas are no more.
They were the second pair to meet
such fate. And now call has been
sent to Brownsville for more chacha-
lacas, with the promise that wide snace
will be placed between the two cages
set aside for them in the zoo.
Speaking of freak happenings in
winch Brownsville has figured, the
Ierrapin derby was held recently at
Bliss, Okla 1t is an annual event, and
IN the recent race there were several
land turtles from Brownsville. No adj
vices have been received as to how the
brownsville entries Jared in the contest
friend of The Herald at San Benito
Is insistent that the record be kent
straight. San Benito contends that We
Grow II First" so here goes for the
letter:
II noticed in The Brownsville Herald
that Mercedes was given credit for the
first car Of beans shipped out Of the
Valley. San Benito shipped car at
o:2I o. the morning Of the 9th. while
Mercedes first car was shipped the
evening ofthe same day. To date San
benlto has shipped eleven cars of beans.
Mercedes, eleven, Hidalgo one, and
Donna. two. We are also shipping from
10000 to $4,000 pounds of citrus fruit
daily"
Splendid. The San Benito slogan i
flne. Should be extended over the
Valley. The Valley does grow it
first" doesn't it?
Almost every day in the business
week, except Saturday, Rotary club
meets somewhere in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley.
Iiuos vie with each other in attend
ance records. A Rotarian is permitted
20 make up his attendance provided he
uoes St -ometime before the day Of his
own club meeting.
1t pror'des a splendid eet-acouainted
pian Rotarians from one town fire.
'quentiy attend meetings in neighboring
.o"ns' making up attendance. Six San
Denlto Rotarians attended Browns
VILE club meeting Wednesday They
missed their own meeting last Thursday.
anc TODAY they attend their home club
with clean attendance record.
colonel Ben Gordon Whitehead who
edited Brownsville newspaper for
time in 1916, later established the Rio
Grande Morning Sun at McAlIen. and
later conducted the Pharr Clarion. has
again leased the Clarion plant. which
has not been in use for several wears
and will start publication of the Rio
Grande Sun, weekly newspaper.
Pharr has one newspaper, the Enter
prise.
Mercedes has two weekly newspapers
Raymondville has two weekly newspa-
pers.
weekly and a daily are published
from the same plant at San Benito
Sherman, Texas, 10000 population.
has one good daily newspaper. Alex
andria. La. a town of $4,000, has one
good daily newspaper, publishing six
days week. The Brownsville Herald
IS seven day newspaper.
Denison. Tex. 10000, has one good
daily newspaper.
More than one paper in town of less
than $4,000 population is usually an un-
necessary drain on the advertiser. And
as rule neither Raper can succeed in
1orvinU tho enpa mlin itv adaonata1,.