Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-12-31
fireman AT MERCEDES KILLED
I'm OUR
VALLEY
NINETEEN rwENTY-sIx is pass

NINETEEN TwENTY-SIX is pass
ing out
Nineteen, Twenty-seven will be
appropriately welcomed tonight.
The old year has been kind to the
Lower Rio Grande Valley. II mas
certainly been one of the most sue
ccssful years in the Valleys his
tory. in every lire Of fsendeavor.
The country has developed as
never before. Transportation ia
cilities have undergone remarkable
improvement. The various utilities
have been enlarged and bettered IN
every way, making the towns and
rural sections better places in which
to live. Business in every line has
been on the jump.
There is every reason 20 believe
that this program Of development
will continue into 1927. And il Is
within the power Of all of US to
help make. it great year.
y.iS s.,Afa,,
MERCEDES rs MnnrningSthe loss
Of a good citis4E
And it is doing all in its power to
save the life Of another.
Clem Streckfus. volunteer fire
man. was rushing TO help man his
fire equipment TO fight blaze that
was destroying property.
Chief r. X. Talbert was bent on
the same mission.
meet at a corner. There death await
ed. Streckful was killed. Talbert was
seriously hurt.
The sympathy of the entire Val
ley goes out to the families OF these
good citizens. and 10 Mercedes in
~ tEaGjssadiHg Of the year
STATE PRESS of The Dallas
News, has bcen invited to attend
the Southern Pacific cGlebration al
Edinburg. and hero is how he re
ceives TIE Ia.itation:
"sHerewith ! extend you very
cordial invitation to participate with
Fdinburg and the Lower Rio Grands
Valley in its celebration OF the first
train on the great Southern Pacific
lines. which will reach here Jan. III
1927 This cordiality comes from
the secretary Of the Edinburg Boost
er Club. who is none other thar
Leslie Neal. It's a strange thing
about Edinburg - strange in that
State Press has been up Nand dowr
the Magical Valley two or thret
times. yet by some chance has neve'
set eyes on the county scat Of Hi
.dalYo County, He has wanted K
90 to Edinburg. almost begged, i'm
plored his conductors and escorts =
not constabuiary-to take him tC
Edinburg. but thew wouldn't and
didn't. Now the =. H. Railroad ,:
about to run trains into the cit,
which s. +. has never seen. One ;
r. has been spending its easy-go'
millions TO lay iron tracks into
Edinburg while the other and better
s. r. has never made a shoe tracl
in that town. Worse still. there ]:
but slim chance that the better :
=. will be at Edinhurg on Jan. IL un-
less the worse s. r. hauls him there
d. h. What that prospect Is may b'
compared TO the ease with which
camel passes through the nose Of
needle. There is no doubt that
good time will be had by all at the
celebration. Brownsville and Har
lingcn and maybe McAllen may
. speak bit prstronizingly to and o.
!. Edinburg, but the latter is in
mood to show thera in a year oi
two just what a county seat In tn,
citrus belt can do when II get.
strung out in pursuit Of great oh
jective-"
J A PRESS DISPATCH from Eng
land announces that Rudyard Kip
ling has gone to France to dodg'
the cold.
Mr.. Kipling cannot dodge the colo
in FRANCE. mt least not altogether
II that is his only purpose in leav
ing England at this time, he shoui,
come to the United States, and par
! ticularly this part Of IT,. His mis-
sion would then be quite successful