Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-04-07
SLAYER OF Three CONF ESSES
I'm o u r
VALLEY

lhE HAkNlLL Progress, pub-
lished at the new town Of that name.
between Raymondville and Edinbure
reports a $4,000 pay day.
Probably there is no similar pay
day on record in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley.
IL covered a period Of two weeks
pay for some 1000 laborers VINO
have had the task Of clearing por-
tions Of the $4,000 acres being
thrown open TO colonization by Hard
ing & Gill of Raymondville.
That's fair sized amount of
money for any community to pay
out on single day. And il was all
IN hard. round silver dollars--or SO
they tell us.
BROWNSVILLE merchants ap-
preciate the value Of effective win
dow displays.
This is easily demonstrated by
the fact that. generally speaKing.
they change displays with consid-
cradle frequency, and give attention
TO season and other factors Also.
they back up their newspaper ad-
vertising with window displays.
The Importance Of these things in
retail selling is stressed TO them by
Leonard Haller. a window display
man from Munn's Of Houston. with
the Houston Chamber Of Commerce
party now in Brownsville.
Young Haller has arranged ef-
fective displays for Bollack's, The
Fashion. Eagle Pharmacy and Aims
worth 4 Colgin. He will tell you
Rbout things in the grocery that
interests the kitchen shopper for
Friday and Saturday. about warm
and cool colors for the drygoods
store display. seasonal items and
toilet articles for the drug store.
and the interest of the moment in
the mems store.
HOUSTON Chamber Of Com
merce. which was invited TO send
Mr.. Meyer. Mr.. Wademan, Mr.. Lloy.,
and Mr.. Haller here to conduct the
short course, deserves the apprecia-
tion of the merchants OF Brownsville
for its work along this line.
Last week other Houston men
visited San Benito for the same pur-
pose and had cordial and appreci.
ative audiences.
The merchants of the smaller
cities and towns and their employees
do not often have an opportunity "a
observe the methods Of the men in
the larger cities.
DOWN AT THE end of Levcs
street, where Fourteenth street
strikes the river. there is huge
pile driver Mt work.
Besides driving piIing. in prepara
tion for building n bridge. n alss
scoops dirt via great shovel. haul'
\ timbers around. picks itself up BY
the bootstraps. so to speak, and
! transports itself around.
Soon it will he out on the river
later in the middle of ii and still
later IL will be operating on the
south bank Of the stream.
Building the bridge involves tire.
mendous preliminary WORK, coIiei
dams. approaches. fills, concrete
work and many other works. Still
the builders expect that, weather
and other things being favorable
there will be bridge across the
Rio Grandc at that point within nine
or ten months
YES SIR. SWEET corn will be
moving out Of the Valley for the
New York City and other markets
in very short time.
The tassels on the little stalks
tell the story of what's coming.
But all Of II Is not going % New
York. Some of US folks right her,
at home prefer sweet earn, too.
Formerly we raised only the field
corn type for the table. Now we're
tackling sweet corn. which the de-
sirable markets prefer.
But there'll be the feed corn type
too, and IL il is not sold as roasting
cars, it can remain in the field for
feed and other purposes.