Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-02-08
COURTS ASKED TO BAN BREAD MER GER
IN OUR
VALLEY
HE entire country from Brownsvill

HE entire country from Brownsville
- to Mission is looking fine"
Such is the verdict of Sunday motor
lists who took advantage of the spring
like weather yesterday to visit up and
down the country.
Of course the country is looking fine
And it is fine.
Six weeks ago the weather was not
so good.
1t served to dampen spirits a bit.
But there has been no cause to COM
plain of the weather of the past three
weeks. 1t has been the sort of weather
we like to brag about
There come years when the weather
man does things to US that we do not
like.
But. in spite of that stretch of un-
comfortable weather, Rio Grande Delta
growers are shipping cabbage, carrots
and beets. Prices are satisfactory, es-
peCially as to beets and cabbage.
In addition to which growers in the
potato district are experiencing the very
sort of weather they want for potato
planting.
They are nearing the end of the
planting season. Near a quarter of
million dollars worth of seed potatoes
have been put into the ground. Last
year 1900 carloads of potatoes were
shipped from this district. This year
the figure promises to be larger.
And the next big planting will be cot
Ann ~, r -
Grande country toward the end of Feb
ruary. The crop will start harvesting
about the first of July.
It's almost a continuous round, this
thing of producing crops in the Rio
Grande Delta.
G. C. Jones, superintendent of schools
at San Benito, did the usual thing when
he acquired half interest in The Har-
1ingen Star.
Usual in that man may leave the
newspaper business once, but it usually
draws him back in one fashion or an
other.
Before taking command Of the San
Benito schools Mr.. Jones published a
newspaper at San Marcos.
He will continue as head of the San
Benito schools, while w. J. Baldwin,
owner of the other half interest in The
Star, will continue to guide The Star,
with o. H. Roberts as editor.
Mr.. Jones acquired the half interest
of r. M. Gilmore, who came to Harlin-
gen some months ago from Center,
Texas. Mr.. Gilmore is a brother of
Clarence Gilmore, chairman of the
Texas Railroad Commission.
There has been still another change
in newspaper circles in the Delta. Isl
dore Moritz, publisher of the Willacy
Gently News at Raymondville, has
bought the plant and newspaper of the
Raymondville Record, recently estab-
lished by M. l.. Dale.
Few towns are large enough in these
days of high costs to adequately sup
port two newspapers.
One newspaper, adequately supported,
can give a town good newspaper SER
vice, all things being equal.
Competition is, of course, good for
any community. But somehow the rule
doesn't always work out when applied
to newspapers, telephone service and a
few other similar types of enterprises.
An apartment house is being erected
at Mission which will afford accommo-
dations for ten families, according to
the Mission Times.
The building will be one story high,
with frontage of 78 feet and depth
of 96 feet The apartment entrances
will surround court.
Two apartments will have two bed
rooms each, with living room, bath and
kitchenette.
Eight apartments will have single
bedroom each, with living room and
bath and kitchenette.
That's one way to help solve the res