Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-02-17

NoUR
VALLEY

M ITH a whole host of baseball fans
w behind the movement, it begins to
look as if the Lower Rio Grande is in
for season of high-class baseball.
Nothing will make the summer here
more interesting than good baseball.
And nothing will create better home
town spirit than good baseball, even in
a section where hometown spirit al
ready is an outstanding characteristic
A league of four clubs is assured.
league of six clubs is almost assured,
and there is an excellent chance that
the league will consist of eight clubs.
The assured teams are Brownsville,
Fort Brown, San Benito and Rio Gran
de City-Fort Ringgold. Teams that are
"rar'n to go" include Harlingen and
Edinburg, and there is a prospect that
Mission and Weslaco will enter.
Teams that have not entered have
until February 25 to make up their
minds.
Colonel Sam Robertson's first ferry,
the Lucille Callahan, while trying to
make a trip through shallow waters,
got into difficulties, finally expert
enced boiler explosion, and burned.
But little thing, like the burning of
q ferry will not deter Colonel Robert
son in his plans for wonderful Ocean
Drive
Other ferries already are under con-
struction, and at least one is about
ready to move to the scene of its ac-
tivities.
The Lucille Callahan was amply in
sured, and since the contractor was
under q delivery contract, no loss will
attach to the colonel's enterprise.
More often than not a city or a sec
tion are guaged by their school, build
ings and their churches-also their
emokestackss = rS. ss--
In the case of the Rio Grande Delta,
the first named-schools--is not lack
ing. We have the finest anywhere,
population considered.
In the case of churches, which are
not so readily financed, the section is
making rapid progress.
Brownsville has several splendid
houses Of worship and other congrega-
tions are planning to build. San Benito
churches have building programs ahead.
buildings are planned at Harlingen,
where the First Methodist church is
arranging to build $4,000 edifice, to
be perhaps the finest in the Valley. At
Weslaco the Baptists are planning q
splendid building.
As to the last named-smokestacks-
this district still has some distance to
90. We are primarily an agricultural
heavily pOpuj lted, smOkestacks and
their equivalent, electric motors, will
become more numerous.
"McAllen's problem is housing peo-
pie who would live here" announces
the McAllen Monitor.
Probably also it is the problem of
every other town in this section. 1t is
a problem that must be met. Not every
person who comes here is in position 70
build home.
And If Ii is tourists that we want
we must arrange to take care of them
when they come. Not all of them want
to live in hotels. The answer to that
Is small, neat, comfortable and well
equipped apartments.
More visitors have come to the Val
ley this year than ever before.
If they come in the face of the linn
tied facilities that we have, how many
more thousands would come when we
would provide Fairgrounds, coast re
sorts, roads to the coast. hotels, apart
ment houses and the other needs of ;
resort country.
Postal receipts at Mercedes for 1927
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