Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-13
IN OUR
VALLEY Y

r HERE is crying need in Browns
i willie for more rent houses, more
adequate apartment buildings and
other housing accommodations.
This fact has been demonstrated
time and again during the past sew
crai months. Why the holding back?
A Brownsville business man a few
DAYS ago inserted an advertisement
in The Herald. announcing that he
had for rent four miles out Of the
city small residence.
He received more than 25 applica-
tjons for the place.
OF course the place was rented. But
there are still some q families or
individuals who either want to locate
here or desire to change for reasons
of their own.
Two gentlemen, one with his wife
and daughter, recently arrived IN
Brownsville from the north. They
wanted a residence for eight or ten
months, perhaps longer. Would have
taken an apartment had one been
available, but there was none.
MY gracious, what are you folks
down here going TO do the coming
fall and winter when they come IN
hundreds, possibly thousands" said
one &c them. "We haven't been abic
To :ind q place. and we know there
are oiiers similarly situated"
In the meantime, few neat rent
houses are being erected. Most OF
them. If not all, were rented during
construction. That means something.
More often than not they are rented
before they are erected.
A real need in Brownsville at the
present time is at least one twostory
brick or tile apartment house. IL
should be divided into two buildings,
each building with four apartment
eight all together.
1t should have ample garage facili-
ties. There should be four or five
rooms to each apartment, and the
building must be steam heated. A
modern steam heating system costs
little.
The apartments will rent at from
$50 to s75 a month. derending upon
the accomm odations and rooms pro
vidcd. IL furnished, they will bring
more.
A grade of baseball much higher
than might be expected of semi
pro league is being doled out by the
teams in the Lower Rio Srande Val
ley league this season.
There were two thrilling games yes
terday, each worth the money and
time spent in watching the contest.
The Valley league teams arc not
profit-making organizations All they
want il support sufficient 20 keep
them financed through the season.
and surplus with which % develop
the teams and maintain first-class
baseball parks.
League baseball will be promi-
nent part Of the amusement facilities
of the Lower Rio Grandc Valley. The
towns that start out with teams Will
be the towns which will be best able
10 support strong organizations.
Nothing was lacking in the crowd
that attended Sundays game IN
Brownsville. The other towns are do
ing rs well or better. All the teams
arc showing so much pep that inter
est is certain to be maintained at a
pretty good pitch if they keep it up.
And they viii.
Du.ortf.. TLa H.~aIl IL, rnn-
ment on r. W. Archer of Lyford, men
toned that he il n descendant Of
Isaac Morris. brother Of Robert Nor
ris, one Of the si=ncrs Of the Ancri-
can Declaration Of independence.
The result of the notice has been
To bring 10 Mr.. Archer n letter from
Miss Nettie Bass Sherman, Tex. who
says that on her grandmother's side
she Is a descendant Of Robert Nor
ris, her great grandmother having
been Miss Morris. who married Will
liam Harper of Buckingham County.
Virginia
The Archer antecedents came down
from Pennsylvania into Virginia. and
then went over into Eastern Ohio,
more than hundred years OF the
same farm.
Many arc the tricks Of the up-the-
state buyers OF Valley products.
A few days ago Brownsville mer-
chant was asked by n San Antonio
merchant to quote on n carload OF po-
tatocs.
The San Antonian came back with:
II am offered potatoes at such and
such price. your city"
The Brownsville merchant wired
back:
"We're not bootlegging potatoes"
The San Antonio merchant replied:
Rush me a carload of potatoes.