Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-03-10
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VALLEY

Daus on that work will be opened
oy the board Of county commission
ers on April 10 next.
And there is another project that
mas TO do with the coast. That Is
the proposed Boca Chica road, on
which something like $4,000 is to be
spent for dirt work and permanent
structures. Bids on this project will
De opened next Saturday
Each road leads to the beaches.
Each road will be popular with the
midsummer bathing beach enthusi-
asts, assuming that the work can be
completed BY that time.
Ihe Barreda and Brownsville
roInt Isabel roads are nearly always
In satisfactory shape for automobile
travel, except during and immeti-
ately after hard rains.
We arc prepared to declare as-
paragus success" says ". y. Coe.
Dr.. az Mercedes, mtnager Of the Tex.
as Producers Union.
A statement following a success
ful experiment with the vegetable.
Shipments are going ahead. Prices
are quite satisfactory, ii appears.
And farmers have became so
greatly interested in the product that
they have raised fund to send
Henry Englart 20 California 10 study
asparagus.
And celery-that also is coming
along, says Mr.. Coe.
Now if someone can locate some
fine bogs in this country. such Us
they have in New Jersey. perhaps
we can try our fortune with cram
berries.
The day is coming. news dispatches
indicate, when cabbage growers Of
tie Lower Rio Grande Valley can
save nine-tenths Of the time they
now spend in planting cabbage.
Nantes, which is in France. an
nounced a machine which sets out
cabbage seedlings at a rapid speed.
The invention is that OF Able Bacie, |
parish priest of the village OF Trieze- |
Vents. The able patented the ma
chine and then, with the aid Of the |
local blacksmith and a young enci-
neer. proceeded 10 build il and test |
u out. After some adjusting, il |
-functioned.
The method is described thus: |
Each Seeding is caught gently by a |
moving arm and placed in little |
hole. The hole is Immediately filled |
up by another attachment. The in
,ventor claims that the machine not |
'only will do the work much quicker
than the present method, but il will |
do 1t better.
Z Frank q. Bishop, he who founded |
and Developed the town of Bishop |
and the surrounding country. is CON
siding establishing a real estate
headquarters in Brownsville.
Mr. Bishop. in intimating that he
would locate here. says that the one /
thing that the Valley needs is ad- /
vertising. Who better than Mr.. \
Bishop knows the truth Of that. All /
his activities in lands have been
based on advertising.
There is no inkling 80 far as to
which community will attract the ac-
tivities of Mr.. Bishop. but il is safe
to predict that wherever Mr.. Bishop
lands there will be considerable ac-
tivity.
More than 450 prospective invest
ors in Valley lands and homesites
are visitors here this week.
These are in addition 20 the many
hundreds who are coming into the
Valley each week by train and auto
mobile, alone or with families or
friends.
Formerly these excursions were
operated bi-weekly. Now there are
excursion rates at all times, into the
Valley. One can buy a round-trip
ticket from St. Paul, or Chicago, or
Memphis, or almost any point, to
Brownsville.
Come to think Of il, in years gone
by Valley folks called these visitors
"snowdiggers, "homesuckers, etc.
Had you noticed that these words
have almost disappeared? The rea-
son is that where formerly prospect
i've investors came only from a few
northern states, they now come from
every part Of the Union. Which Is
as it should be.
There are still some who do not
know that it is proper to stand. un-
covered, when the National Anthem
is played, writes Harry l.. Stebbins
NJ WeSiarn who saws.
AT n recent concert by the Elks'
band, could not but notice the ex
treme neglect on the part Of a great
number of the audience in observing
the proper re, oenition when our Ma
tional Anthem was PLAYED.
"If we are to inculcate into our
many new citizens of foreign birth
the proper respect for the Flag and
true ideals of this great country, we
can do it in no better way than By
example when our National Anthem
is played. At the concert referred
to about one man out of ten showed
the proper respect by uneovering or
standing when the Star Spangied 4
Banner was played.
II believe that proper publicity .
will serve to draw peoples attention I
% this oversight on their part and
have the proper effect in the fu-
ture," II