Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-02-12
IN OUR
VALLEY

&NAPPY south winds have been blow
ing over the Rio Grande Delta the
|ast few days.
It's sign, as they say.
Means a change in the weather.
Pbably will be followed by a brisk
eze out of the northwest shortly.
md Observer Schnurbusch of the
ted States Weather Bureau tells US
somewhere up in northern Colo
k56 aad In Wyoming there's disturb
nee developing.
disturbance in that district at this
eason of the year means weather for
his section.
but who can complain?
pur weeks of wonderful weather.
been splendid. Gave the potato men
opportunity to get their seed into
= ground. Some of it is already CON-
y up.
n the meantime, in the north and
rtheast there have been serious snow
sleet storms. Over half a hundred
rsons have perished. Trains have beer
Pcked by drifts. City streets have
en deep in snow. Even courts ad-
hrned in Massachusetts.
Brigadier General Frank r. Mccoy is
ain in this corps area.
General Mccoy has, been sent to Fort
m Houston as commander of the
ird Infantry Brigade. But he's a
Falry officer.
Captain Frank r. Mccoy was station
in Brownsville, at Fort Brown, just
b years ago.
He commanded a troop of the Third
Pited States Cavalry, under Colonel
Eocksom. He proved a rare diplomat.
later he was chief of staff to Gen.
|al James Parker, then in command of
loco troops stationed on this part of
berdsr.
Since which time much water has
sfled along under the bridge for
Seral Mccoy, as it has for most ev-
officer of that day.
He became Major Mccoy, and was
ht to Mexico City as aide to the
2enlean ambassador. Early in 1918
went across. was made a colonel,
d commanded combat troops. He
Fved overseas until some time after
war, when he was made aide to
vernon General Leonard Wood and
kNed as vice-governor of the Philip
Ines. He returned to the states few
5pnths ago for a tour of duty in the
treau of insular affairs. In the mean
me he was promoted to brigadier gen.
al. Then he served on the court
Rrtial that tried Colonel Mitchell.
And now he is again near the scenes
l914-15-16.
Thomas j. Yoe is superintendent Of
townsville schools.
ALSO, he is member Of Governor
$rguson's textbook commission.
As a member of this commission, Mr.
be has performed a valuable service
b the Rio Grande Delta.
He has brought Texas geography up
N date, in some textbooks that were
1t.
These books barely referred to the
10 Grande, stating it was a navigable
ream.
(which was not true. The Rio Gran
is not navigable, and has not been
r a great many years.
Its fame, therefore, arises not in the
let that it is or was navigable, but in
e fact that it supplies water which
igates some $4,000 acres of land.
lese lands produce some 10000 car
IDS Of fruits and vegetables annually,
ID something like 100000 bales of
ton.
That's what the textbooks will say
|reafter, thanks to the vigilance Of
Yoe.
Speaking of navigation on the Rio
ande, few years ago telephone
re support pole was put into the
ound near Levee street and Elev-
th, few feet west of the excavation
b Hotel Ell Jardin.
The pole found a footing only after
was showed through badly rusted
iler of a sidewheel steamer that was
nix in the river at that point, many
my years ago. And that place is a
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