Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-08
I'm OUR
VALL.EY

VALLEY FOLKS who have radios
sst In their homes last night, lis
tened - Q fairly brisk, but net 90
ssId nerthsr. blowing outside and
heard their radios give messages Of
1ces slset and snow further north.
Up ss Shenandoah. Iowa, m an
nouneer couldn't help remarking
from time TO time about that "gale
blowing out there" an mentioned q
tsmperature OF one below zero.
Other stations In tks central west
offered similar reports.
Down IN ths Lower Rio Grande
Valley Of Texas q minimum tempera-
ture Of ~ degrees was experienced.
which al Of ~ win admit ID not 20
terribly cold.
And today comes q message from
cut I'm California that the orange
growers are ssnnding by their
smudgs pots. Frost Is predicted for
that srea, and blow Is coming down
20 the coast from the Rockies.
~IF STILL IN doubt suggests
Den G. whitehead Of the Rio Grands
Eun. Pharr, "ths republican national
eommittes might select Point 1sa-
bel an the place for their next ma
tional convention"
or course, it's too late, that sug-
Restion. Kansas City already has
been chosen, having plunked down
nomo hundreds Of thousands OF dol
lars for the privilege Of having the
event.
But at that. the Point Isabel sug-
restIon IL not 20 bad. Back in 1920
wasn't it, that Point Isabel re
turned a l02 10 I vote for the then
xrpubliran candidate for president
DO not the great national political
parties reward such party unanimity
--sometimes
They could arrange seats on the
bluffs at Point Isabel, or on flat
beats. But the chairman's stand and
the press box across the Laguna on
Padre Island. String loud speakers
all around the bay. And there would
be no terrible heat, such a. Kansas
City is certain TO have. The Gull
breeze would see 10 that.
BY all means. let Point Isabel come
forward with q bid for the 1882 re-
publican national convention.
POINT ISABEL. by the way, al
ready has a first class publicity
agent I'm the person of Paul Cottrell,
widely known San Bcrito newspaper
man.
Or. Cottrell. lover Of nature, Is
now making headquarters mt the
coast town. and among his first i'm
portant news items 10 one to the ef-
feet that Point Isabel now has q
really working water system.
which Ia q great stride forward
fer the town which for seventy-five
years hes been hauling water from
nrownsvillc. and receiving Il by way
of . burro dragging 4 barrel Of II
ever the streets. watched carefully
by q small boy or an old man.
= The Port Isabel company under
foek, ss one of its first tasks, the
matter Of supplying fresh water fol-
tks townsite. Pipe line was run "a
fhs Rio Grande. Settling basins
we're constructed near the townsite
pipes laid throughout the townsite
And now there's a plentiful supply
of fresh water.
Lack Of II had done much. In the
past, 20 held Point Isabel back. In
fact, u was lack Of q water supply
that was one OF the main factors in
causing the navy department 70 de-
eide 90 abandon Its radio station
n there some years ago. the station
being removed 70 Brownsville.
An ADVERTISER In the classified
rciumns Of The Brownsville Herald
Announces q new sort Of trade.
He came from some place where
he used gas and had gas cool
steve.
He doesn't happen to live near the
ras lines In the Valley, but he does
live within reach of the Valley
high power line.
So he offers q trade. Wants tc
trade scme one his gas cook stove
for en- electric cook stove.
The point is. il doesn't matter
where you live in the Lower Rio
Grande-ycu may still avail your
\ self or some II not all. Of the con-
veniences Of any modern American
city.
MATAM0RoS WILL he glad tc
learn, no doubt. that martial law has
been lifted there following the re.
porfaa approach 10 somewhere with.
in 400 or 400 miles Of that city OF
General Almada and his striker
The snews" Is obtained from the
San Anfcnio Light, which received Il
from n news agency other than The
Associated Press.
This writer recalls the visit here
Of q newspaper correspondent in the
hectic DAYS Of 1916. This correspond
ent asked the writer 20 substitute fof
him for q day.
~And whatever you send 20 your
paper. just make 10 twice rs bad for
mine"
And his news service was the same
that supplied the San Antonio Light
with it, martial law" story on Mat
nmoros.
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CORRECTION
Through an error The Herald
yesterday inadvertently stat