Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-09-04
: ANDERSON DEFENSE BEGUN
I'm OUR
VALLEY
VALLEY GRAPEFRUIT is better

VALLEY GRAPEFRUIT Is better
advertised than many people think.
There are, Of course, many per-
sons living outside Of Texas who
don't know about il. Just as in
many parts of the country folks do
not know that Birmingham, Ala,
great steel and iron center; that IN
Texas, known to many as a plains
state, there is the highest mountain !
in the country east Of the Rockies.
Other things might be mentioned
but these two suffice for the pres
ent.
Writing TO The Herald, II. 7.
Hogue, publisher Of The Eaton
Colo. Herald, says:
"Have just read your editorial on
Valley Grapefruit I wonder IL you
know how we'll Valley grapefruit Is
being advertised by purchasers?
"This spring purchased twenty
acres in the Alamo tract, north OF
Alama and east of Edinburg. Nat
urally, I am very enthusiastic over
the prospects down there. Numerous
times have started in to tell peo-
pie about the grapefruit down there
and they took the words out OF ny
mouth and said they have bought
some in Denver and told me how
good It is"
Mr.. Hogue adds that a dozen or
more people from this section have
bought land in the Valley, and that
all will be a decided asset, as they
understand irrigation methods.
THE MOST GENERAL Labor Day
closing of business ever witnessed
in the Valley, will take place Mon
day.
In virtually every town the mer-
chants and business houses gen
orally nre Announcing that they will
be closed all day Monday.
Means much in the way OF hol-
day.
Point Isabel is beckoning large
proportion OF the holidayers. The
announcement of the opening of the
Gulfside casino. the first elaborate
batbhouse undertaking on this
coast, has excited much interest.
Others will go TO the coast for
fishing, unusual catches recently re-
ported exciting the interest of those
who enjoy the sport.
Talked with the weather man late
Saturday. Said the showers Of Sat
urday were due 20 a change In the
wind. The breeze. he said, is sched-
uled TO return 70 the south Saturday
ni~ht. which will mean a clearing un.
And Saturdays showers settled the
dust Of the dirt roads.
IA. c.. EDITOR OF column in
The Harlingen Star, comments as
follows on the Identification cam
paign in Fl Jardin:
"El Jardin community, Brownsville.
has set out TO show the Valley what
a united effort directed toward civic
Identification, will do. When four
hundred interested people Of one
community will get together on a
plan, such a plan is destined 20 20
that way. FL Jardin's idea might
we'll be emulated by every single
community in the Valley. Possbili-
ties for Identification and orna-
mentation in the Valley are IN
limited and pity tits they're being 20
generally overlooked"
Can't forget the comment OF a
visitor In the Valley last winter.
Everything seems TO grow here;
grows so wonderfully. so luxuriant-
iv. that I am surprised tina, you
comparatively few beautiful lawns
and gardens"
There's something there for the
vaIley-ite 10 think about.
But the Valley Is waking up 70 4,
as il shown by the FL Jardia cam
paiEn.
HTDALGo COUNTY will vote Tues
dav on a bond issue Of s6.o00.000 for
additional hard-surfaced and gray
eled highways.
The attitude Of some Of the news
papers Of the county reflects dl-
vided sentiment on the proposition.
The Mission papers, both the
Times and the Enterprise, are sup
porting the issue. Others supporting
II are the Edinburg Review, the
pharr Rio Grande Sun, Weslaco
News, the San Juan Sentinel.
Against the issue are the McAllen
Monitor. McAllen Press. the Her-
eedes Tribune and the Delta Irriga-
tion News-the latter with headquar-
tess at Harlingen, but printed At
MeAllen.
The remaining newspapers OF the
Sountv apparently have not taken
mart in the prediction campaign.
Members Of the commissioners
<ourt point out that the county sd-
rninistration had nothing 70 do with
che calling OF the election. except
shat IL was called on presentation
Of petitions signed by citizens.
TWO YEARS AGO tomorrow
Brownsville experienced rainfall
AZ about eleven inches almost over
night
streets were flooded, in some
rlUees Il was impossible for an au-
toz.obiIe 70 60 through, though the
street was paved.
THAT was the greatest downpour
l, twenty years or more. Opening q
.ehools was delayed on account of
the rain.
THAT condition probably will not
hold again. Immense drains are be-
s.~ constructed in the district that
was so hard hit. They win carry the
f,cca waters off quickly.