Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-04-04

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VALLEY

ThEfttl WILL BE hot time IN
some of the towns Of the Valley to-
morrow.
Several Of them will hold mu-
nicipal elections, naming mayors
and city councilmen.
At Mission there will be a diff /
ferent sort OF hot time. The Mis-
sion Grapefruiters, members Of the !
Texas Valley League. will open the
baseball season at Legion Park, |
Mission.
Pitted against Mission will be the |
Laredo Oilers.
Mission wants the opening game
attendance record. And is sending
out an s. o. s. to all the Valley
towns.
BROWNSVILLE held a rather
interesting school board election on
Saturday.
Rather difficult to imagine a
school board election in Brownsville
generating enough interest to bring
out more than a thousand voters.
Shows a healthy interest in the
welfare Of the schools. The out
come was, Of course. an endorse
meHt Of the policies Of the board rs
1t has existed.
IN ADDITION TO which there
was an election Saturday on five
amendments TO the city charter.
That election was held at the city
hall. Something like 800 voters
registered their wishes there.
Here again was an unexpected
demonstration of interest in pub
lie affairs. charter amendment
rarely brings up a great deal of in
terest. unless unusual issues are in
volved. Mostly the amendments
proposed were formalities.
The only amendment questioned
in the least was that Of the five
mills for board Of city development
charities, hospitals. library. otc.
II is explained that the city Al
yfeady has been using funds for
those purposes, although il has
never been certain that the appro-
priations were legal. The amend
ment will make them legal.
III. G.. STILWELL Sr.. we'll known
horticulturist living iust outside Of
Brownsville. who knows every leaf
of every shrub or tree on his place,
has been conserving a very fine
plum on one of his trees.
IL is about the size of the Jap
"A. a..
of us. IL is on peach stock. The
remarkable thing about the par
ticular trees which has this ripe
plum on il is that il also has bios
sons and green plums OF various
size. from very small to half grown.
II named il the Nash plum said
Mr.. Stilwell.
"Nhy?" he was asked
~'Well. for no particular reason.
unless it was that | had n Nash car
at the time. thought the Nash was a
good ear. the plum good plum. so
named il Nash"
BY the way. Mr.. Stilwell has
about I2O of these plum trees. Orig
inally they were all peach trees. Mr.
Stilwell didn't like the peaches the
trees bore. so he cut them all back.
and grated plum buds on them.
So now they arc plum treess
AL PARKER WRITES TO The Her
aid correcting the figures as 70 his
donation to the fund Of $4,000 be-
ing raised by Harlingen 10 bring
General G.. ". Goethals there 10
- sa H. fv,
tcrest of the intra-coastal canal
Mr.. Parker was among several in
dividuais pledging $500. the others
being John Shary aud II. A. Stu@rt
Blu, in his case there was a typo
graphical error. He WIS credited
as giving $50 instead of $500
An error in typesetting and proof
reading, Mr.. Parker. Sorry.
THE HERALD isn't inclined to
do much boasting about its news
service. but il cannot miss the op-
portuni.y 70 call attention 20 the
fact that il was the only Sunday
morning newspaper ir the Valley or
elsewhere that carried complete ac-
counts Of the results Of the inter
scholastic meets an EEmcron and
Hidalgo counties.
The Herald news service in the
Valley is thoroughly organized. and
Is carried NJ considerable expense
But that j. the cnly way In which
this or any ether newspaper can
met its obligation TO carry the
news.
Newspaper readers Of the VALLEY
have come to recognize the de-
epndability Of The Herald in this
respect. which accounts for its ever
mnnntin~ list Of regular readers.
The Herald guarantees more paid
circulation than all the other daily
rewspapcrs in the Lower Rio Crandc
Valley combined It's advertising
rates are. tsercfore. much lower N