Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-09-20
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I'm OUR
VALLEY

EDCoUcH, HIDALGo county, q
year young, smallest town with the
largest chamber Of commerce, will
observe its first birthday on Thurs
day, September p.
Edcouch proposes 10 let the re-
mainder Of the Valley know that it
IL a live and going town, if only a
year old, that it has many business
houses, . bank, filling stations-and
live chamber Of commerce with a
membership that weeks ago num-
bered more than one hundred and
sixty.
So Edcouch businessmen and cit
ixens will stage q Valley tour on
Thursday. Leaving their town st 8
o'clock, they will visit Mission and
all towns all the way down TO
Brownsville, arriving here at $3.50 In
the evening.
Edcouch has taken q leaf from
"The Book of Weslaco," and be-
lieves in letting the world know
that 1t is here and a going concern.
THE FIRST "norther" of the sea-
son has made its appearance in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
After having travelled very far, IL
has no teeth" 1t is merely a mild
fall breeze that somehow feels diff
ferent from the breeze that comes
from the Gulf Of Mexico.
But il is a sample of the days TO
come. Summer officially ends to-
morrow, September 21. The fall sea-
son begins, according TO the cal
endar.
But the Lower Rio Grande Valley
will continue to enjoy pleasant.
warm weather for many, many days.
tion seems to enjoy its meetings on
the border.
A couple Of years ago this ssso-
citation, composed of men and wom-
en- who have been in the newspaper
business for twenty years or more.
and formed principally for social
ends, met in Brownsville.
Now they are planning TO hold
their 1927 meeting in McAllen, hav-
ing met last yea- at Beaumont.
p. z. (Monty) Montgomery, editor
OF Monty's Monthly, extended this
years invitation. and ii was eagerly
accepted.
They will be in the Valley on No
vember "a, during the Mid-Winter
Fair at Harlingen.
At the last meeting there were
some forty delegates in attendance.
THE LOWER Rio Grande Valley
claims to hold within its borders the
largest mixed vegetable farms in the
United States.
These farms range in size from
500 to 500 acres each.
And they grow almost everything
In the winter vegetable field.
There's cabbage, of course. Lettuce
spinach, radishes, eggs plant, cauli-
flower, dandelion greens, rhubarb.
beets. carrots and a score Of other
items.
Recent rains have been beneficial
to the early fall crops In the Val
ley.
Plants are now we'll above the
surface Of the ground, and the sun
shine Of day and the cool breezes Of
the night are adding their bit 70
the growth.
The Valley Is now about to enter
one Of its seasons" And the move
ment is not 70 be very long delayed.
JACKSON COUNTY votes bonds
for q highway TO cross the county.
Will close the last gap in the
"Hug-the-coast" route from Hous-
ton to Brownsville. with the excep-
tion of one county. That county IS
Kennedy.
Kennedy county is sparsely settled.
Consists mostly Of q few ranches,
and il is forty miles from its north
70 its south line.
Kennedy is bounded on the north
BY Kleberg county, by Willacy coun-
~ on the south.
Some day that road will be built.
giving the Valley a highway straight
into Houston, without breaks, and
affording tourists two ways in and
out Of the Valley.
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