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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-08
DE MOLAY BOYS WILL
GIVE PLAY AT GRAND
THEATRE JANUARY Is

The members of Paul Revere chap
ter, Order of De Molay, are working
nard on their play, The Rejuvenation
of Aunt Mary" which is to be given
at the Grand theatre January Is. This
play has been a great stage success in
the east and is rich in comedy and
human interest.
Miss Grace Parsons is directing the
play and the cast was chosen from
DeMolay boys and Rainbow girls.
Tickets are now on sale apd can be
purchased from any De Molay boy.
Reservations can be made at the Owl
drug store, beginning Monday.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-08

D!apatch Telepnones-sl and 81
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-08

and Douglas citizens
are urged by the Borderland Climate
club to purchase copies at the news
stands and mail them to their friends
in colder, lower, wetter climes.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-08
MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED

William C. Terry to we'd Ella
Fulcher, both of Lowell.
Everett B. Biatt to wed Thelma
r. seeley both of Douglas.
Harold Webster, of Bisbee, to wed
Beulah Bigelow, of Warren.
Charles A. Nicks to wed Beulah
Dockery, both of Fort Huachuca.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-08

University of Illinois experts have
figured that farmers would have
saved millions of bushels more OF
their small grain this year had theru
been more threshers available. In q
dry season the big rigs, We're Well
enough, but this year few rigs got
all done, and the farmer with HIS
own rig or where an outfit was
owned by three or four neighbors
more than paid for 1.-The outfit by
getting all the crop.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-08
III at Home

iii at Home
John r. Bouldin is confined to his
home, 1347 Thirteenth, with a slight
attack of influenza.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13
Mission to Increase
Vegetable Shipments

~ MISSION. Tcxms.-Missinn will
break all records this year i'm truck
shipments, is the prediction or grow
err. who state that the winter vcge-
table acreage will snow u material
increase over former years.
The Rio Grnrde Valley Vegetable
Growers Association. which has Sc
cured N large membership here, will
handle 3 large part cs the produc-
ticn from this section.
Mission has never been rated
among the large vegetable shipping
points Of the Valley the production
in this section being largely citrus
fruit and cotton, but present indi-
cations are that the movement or
vegetables this year will place Mis-
sion among the major shipping
points.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13

Mississippi basin area, the greatest
industrial and agricultural section Of
the world. Ports on the system which
will be accessible through the canal
will include Point Isabel and al other
Gulf ports and New Orleans, with st.
Louis, Kansas City. Chicago. Omaha,
Pittsburg, Minneapolis and 81. Paul.
and other ports or proposed ports on
the Mississippi waterway system.
Waterways Extending
Transportation experts are Of the
opinion that inland waterway trans
portation is destined to play an i'm
p%ortsnt part in the industrial and
commercial history Of the nation, and
especially the Southwest. They agree
that waterways will not replace rail-
ways, but they see In the waterways
an adjunct 20 railway service which
will help to release the rail systems
from the staggering demands now be-
ing made upon them.
That the Lower Rio Grande Valley
will eventually have the intracoastal
canal added to its transportation fa-
ciliies Is the opinion or those who are
taking an active part IN promoting
the project. They point out that IL
will give the Valley connections with
its principal distributing centers;
that IL will reduce freight rates 10
the minimum, and will prove a very
important factor in the development
Of the agricultural and industrial in
~tercsts Of the entire lower Gulf coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13
Strawberries Are
I Be Given Trial

Two acres of Strawberries have
been planted on the ri. w. Starck
farm IN the lower river section be-
low Brownsville. and Mr.. Starck an
nnuncCs that exhaustive tests will
Do made 20 determine the adaptable
ity OF the lower Valley sol fol-
strawberry culture. The two acres
selected COR planting are near the
river and until recently were cover
ed with a thick mat Of wild dew
berry bushes which produced nrnli-
ficallv each spring. The kl0ndike
variety was planted. RE plants be-
ing secured from Kansas.
Several hundred strawberry nlants
IRE also being SEE ont by Nr. Starck
on the higher lard away frCm tre
river in order 10 ascertain which soil
is best adapted ny culture 0f that
fruit.
Several hundred tame blackberry
plants have also been ordered by
Mr. Starck and will Ne set out this
Writer. He believes these plants
will fruit heavily in the Lower Rio
GrarLa Valley, and will 60 onto the
market from "a month 70 six weeks
earlier than the California berries.
Wild d~cwbcrrics. which PROV IN
great pr0tusinn on the river lands
from the San Benit0 pump almost 10
the mouth Of the stream. riper about
Easter. IL the lands are flooded or
irrigated in the late fall the bushes
produce nrcliticnlly. and Nr. Starck
is Convinced that strawberries and
tame b~lackherries will produce as
ahundantly when properly cultivated
and irrigated.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13

by r. j.. R~osenkoetter, he found that
a fertilizer using y per cent phos-
phoric acid. nc nitrogen. 4 per cent
potash gave the best yields These
results will vary some on the indivi-
dual farm as it depends chiefly on
methods used to maintain soil fer
tiIity.
In another test plot. trying to de-
termine from which states we obtain
the best seed. work has been carried
on for three years, and each year the
amount Of seed potatoes obtained has
been increased. The spring seed DO
tGt0es furnished by the commission
firms, growers. and experiment sta
tions, came from ten different states.
and the increased amount III seed DO
tat0es has increased the ~interes.
amoung the farmers. The Irish DO
tato test plot results are not only
creating state, but nationwide inter
est. rs shown BY the letters received
from northern and western states.
Boys Club Work
In six schools or this county All
club work among the boys has start
cd There are 1873 boys enrolled.
while last year there were only lNi.
several new schools have requested
that the work be started immediate
ly- Each boy must carry a project.
which consists NJ either poultry
flocks at home. hogs, corn, or cotton.
Boys who have farm fIocks are
learning ~ feed properly, Gull. and
the proper management of farm
flocks. During the period from Feb
ruary first 10 April 18th. 75 club
members flocks produced $4,000 eggs.
while last year during the anne per
iod $4,000 eggs were produced. $500
chicks were Matched. which w double
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13
Elsa Bank Has
Modern Building

ELSA, Texas.--One of the finest
bank structures In the Lower Rio
Grande Valley was completed here
early i'm November hy the Canal
Banking Company. which opened for
business November l.. The bank
building, which was designed by
Newell Waters. W~eSIacc architect.
cost approximately $4,000. IL IN
Spanish design. and ~modernlv
equipped I'm Mill departments.
The new bank has "A capital stock
Of SOS, 1000. and the officers are: III.
B. Seay. president; Thomas +. Rives.
active vice-presidents Porter L- Da-
wv. cashier: WV. H. Moore, assistant
cashier. In addition 20 the above or
ficcrs the board OF directors cor
sists of Harry H. Seay. president cf
the American Rio Grande Land and
Irrigation Co. of Mercedes, John a.
Phelan. active head ~ the Elsa town
site company and ~. C- Jones. secre-
t~ary-treasurer or the American rom
many.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13

carrying On ~ location surveys on
several stretches or the canal route.
including the section from Galveston
10 Corpus Christi. This was done
under a provision or congress which
authorizes the war department 10 ac-
ccpt money for making surveys al
ready authorized. the funds % be re-
paid from tho first available appro-
priations.
Expediting the making Of surveys
will enable the government to begin
work on the construction OF the canal
within a very short time after the ap-
preparations have been made. and III
is estimated that these advances will
expedite the completion Of the pro-
jcct 70 least p year.
The exact route of the canal from
Galveston to Corpus Christi has not
been determined. Lieutenant Col.
J. n. Schlcy. district engineer ut Gal
ton 10 the landlocked route which
would offer q much safer channel
in rough weather than u channel
which followed the open bays for
part Of the way. The l~andlocked
route would be slightly more expen-
sive, but this fact Is offset By the
reduced maintenance costs promised
by the landiocked system.
"A nine-foot depth for the channel
has been proposed by the engineers,
and the bottom width will be 100 feet.
assuring ample depth and width for
the traffic that will take advantage
Of the lower water rates. Over a
canal Of this depth and width cargoes
can re moved at q fraction Of the
railway transportation, proponents OF
the canal assert. and these cargoes
will 70 from the Valley TO the main
distributing centers Of the Missis-
basin. Large incoming ship
OF heavy freight are also ex-
70 take advantage Of the low
transportation rates the canal will
The most important connections of
the canal will be with the inland
waterway system Of the Mississippi
and its tributaries. a system
Is being developed rapidly. and
will eventually be thousands OF
in length. connecting the entire
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13

the record OK last year. Corn and
cotton club members have increased
their yields above the average fcr
the county by selection OF seed and
proper cultivation. The field crop
exhibit made at the Valley Mid-Win,
tor Fair last fall vas the largest ex-
hihit W the kind i've made there
and this year the exhibit viii be
larger than ever
The work OF the Cameron county
agricultural agent ranked among u
first ten in Boys Club work. Boys
work i'm poultry Is outstanding in the
state, and several OF the fairs this
year have adopted the method OF
Judging used for club work &C the
Valley Mid-Kinter Fair
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13
YEAR FOR
COUNTY AGENT.
Tests, Boys
Club Work Princi-
pal Activities
By HENRY L. ALsMEYER

Cameron County Agricultural Agent
Cameron county Is one Of the
greatest agricultural counties TIN Tex
Is, and produces more early Irish
potatoes and tomatoes than any other
county. The extension work, as done
hy the county agent " an Important
factor in assisting the farmers and
teaching the boys better farm me-
thods.
During the year 1927 there has
been an average Of two specialists a
month, who have assisted In holding
demonstrations and meetings. Over
$50 people have been benefited BY
the demonstrations given IN citrus
work, poultry. potatoes. dairying.-et
During the year $50 meetings have
been held and 800 farm calls made
throughout the county, $50 office
calls have been made, and 400 letters
written.
The following demonstrations are
being carried on in this county. six
citrus orchards tclean citrus Fruit;
seven potst0e plots; rs fertilizer
demonstrations; six poultry flocks.
III addition ~ these demonstrations
there are 122 al Club Boys who are
conducting i35 definite demonstra-
tiors In corn, cotton, poultry and
hogs. During the last two years n
special car ~ Cameron county folks
have attended the short course az
IA. r. II. College under the auspices
III the extension service.
Plant Cover Crops
This year "A legume planting pro-
gram vas put into effect TO have the
farmers pl0w under leEumes to i'm
prove the soil Files in the county
agents office show a record OF 1000
acres Of legumes planted for soil i'm
provensnt and the results will be
increased acre yields next year.
Citrus presents many problems,
chief amonE which Is the production
Of clean fruit. There are six demon
stration groves in this county; II. ii.
webb. Harrington; ri. wv. Stewart,
Primera: J.. z. Clark, La Feria; I. 3.
Corns, Stuart Place; George French,
III Jardiu: VIM. Novotny. san Benit0.
The grove owner are keeping re-
cords Of cost Of spraying aud busting
for the control Of scale and rust
mites 20 that All may know the &C.
tuel cost Of insect control and the
lfc1itS derived InefeIfcn-
Potato Test Plots
Irish potatoes are one 90 the big
gest money crops Of Cameron county.
and Is presenting new problems 10
the growers, of which scab control
IS the most important. Two test
plots, using sulphur, were u this
spring ON the farms az n. C. Richley,
Los Fresnos. and W. TT. Caldwell, III
Jardin. These test plots were under
the direction of DR.. ". u. Tauben-
haus, al the Texas Experiment Sta
ton, who assisted the county agent
in the first type Of control work ever
done in this state. Results varied -
to control. but before the planting Of
the next potato crop. this report will
be in the growers hands. Test plots
using four different formulas ar
fertilizers were used and test run
on the following farms: r. Bates. Rio
Hondos TT. "A. Johnson, ri. j. Roser-
koetter. Los Fresnos; and Nj. Sauber.
Fl Jsrdin. The results as obtained
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13
Plan TO Build
COAST CANAL
TOTHEV VALLEY
aggressive Campaign
Launched to Extend
Project to Mouth of
the Rio Grande

= coastal waterway for the trans
poftAtion OF Valley products Is con-
templated By the Rio Grande Valley
thtracoastal Canal Association. which
hes launched an aggressive campaign
under the leadership Of John III.
snary Of Mission TO secure an ex-
tension Of the ~intracoaAtal canal from
torpus Christi 20 Point Isabel, where
the valley harhor is now under con-
struction.
Authorization for the extension of
the mtrac0astal canal from Galveston
70 Corpus Christi was accorded By
congress. end the last rivers and
harbors bill contained an appropria-
ton Tor this extension, together with
authorization for the construction Of
the canal from Morgan City, La, e.
rev Orleans and the survey Of the
proposed canal route from Corpus
Christi % Point Isabel and up the
Arroyo Colorado 20 Harrington.
Considerable activity has been
manifested along the entire route
IRON New Orleans TO Corpus Christi
IN recent months. Galveston county
n September voted bonds not % ex-
coed $4,000 for the acquisition Of
lands along the Bolivar peninsula
needed for canal right OF way. and at
ltaflingsa an irrigation district was
formed and bonds amounting 70
S5on,O00 voted to finance dredging OF
the Arroyo Colorado.
Valley Retains Goethals
The Rio Grandc Valley I~ntracoast-
al Canal Association has retained
General G.. w. Gocthals Of Panama
Canal fame. "a conduct an economic
and industrial survey or the entire
Valley for the purpose Of demon
htrating 70 the federal engineers the
commercial justification for the
waterway. G. II. Van Law, Harlingen
engineer, has been connected with
General Goethals In this work, and
the report has been practically com
pleted, but will not be available until
passed upon BY the army engineers in
charge Of harbor construction.
A preliminary examination az the
route from Corpus Christi 70 the VAL
ley through the Laguna Nadre-
hes been completed BY j.. ". Donnan.
federal superintendent in charge of
war department engineering acti-
vities in this district. and surveys
are expected to be completed in the
near future.
Should the canal be extended TO
Point Isabel, as officials % tho as
fociation are confident il will be, the
original purpose Of the Intracoastal
Canal Association will have been
carried out IN it's entirety. Moro than
twenty years sgo. when the Interstate
Inland Waterways League, now merg-
"a In the Entracoastal Canal Associa-
ton, was organized at Victoria. it adj
opted as is slogan "From the Mis-
underway prove the feasibility Of the
plan.
Advance Money for Surveys
The In~tracoastal Canal Association
OF Louisiana and Texas has advanced
.meney TO the weT department. for the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13
Alamo Section VIII
Have Heavy Paintings

ALAMO. Texas. - Almost every
available acre in the Alamo territory
will be under cultivation this year,
and present indications are that the
cotton acreage will be materially ir-
creased. The crop is expected 70
break all records for this section.
Hundreds Of acres or the Alamo
tract has been set 70 citrus orchards
he past year. and heavy paintings
are now underway. The truck se-
re1ge is about the same as last year
with indications that shipments frrm
this pcint will be considerably hcav-
Ter.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13
cLIMHs w A AT ~

LOND0N.-Prof. James Blake,
AGED ~. has returned from climbing
the highest mountain peaks in Eng
land.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13

LYONS, Frarce.-Pierre Nalette.
who came here from Paris 30 years
ago, was found after death to be a
woman.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13

STOCKHOLM.-Eriir ~sS=anson, who
flogged his wife 70 death with 4 rope.
twas sent 20 prison for life.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13

PAGLESAM, EnR.-Joseph Guy. n
farmer, was gored through the heart
Nv N bull.
Evening star., 1927-04-17

They is DR.. Latin, replied the
agent, "and he has taken the place for
three months certain, and the right to
renew for a further period. The store,
as you may guess, was already let
when they applied, and Latin is mere.
ly the subtenant. The real occupiers
are not moving to Duke street until
the beginning of next year, so they
were quite glad to rent it to these
crazy people. BY the way, I'm not so
sure that they are as crazy as we
think; they've got a most amazing dis
play in the window-probably you saw
the crowd on the sidewalk?"
II saw the crowd" said Bill, "and
guessed the reason. A lady is work
ing in the store window
The house agent nodded.
'Thev say she is very well known
actress" he said Il went down and
had a peep at her, and whether she
can act or whether she's merely a
musical comedy artist she is most de-
cidedly a beauty"
Bill Holbrook grunted. Betty Ca.
rew's beauty did not interest him as
much as the novelty of her position
and the peculiarly unsatisfactory ma.
ture of his own--in so far as he rep
resented Pips.
A few minutes later Bill stood on
the outskirts of the crowd and looked
into the shop front. In the center of
the room" at a small and very ordi-
nary looking writing table sat Betty
Carew and it was not necessary for
him to make personal inquiries to see
that she was intensely distressed un-
der the stares of a London crowd. Her
face was averted from the street, but
the heightened color of her cheeks.
the nervousness of every gesture, told
it's own tale
Evening star., 1927-04-17

quickly. About me-oh, no, not about
me?"
Bill fished out dozen envelopes
from his pocket and tore open one.
ut doesn't mention your name" he
said. unfolding the contents. Listen:
The Red-haired Girl-Passersby
in Duke street are afforded an un-
usual spectacle. A window Of one of
the stores in the thoroughfare has
been fitted up like study, and at
table-dask sits an extraordinarily
pretty girl with hair of a most amaz-
ing red On the desk at which she
sits IS a green jade vase containing
one red rose. The lady is apparently
advertising the desk at which she
writes, but the effect is a. singularly
striking one
And what good that is. except to
bring a crowd, l don't know Not a
word about the desk | think that
doctor is" he tapped his forehead
Must this go in?" she asked with
sinking heart, as she realized the
new crowds which that notice would
bring.
II hope So" said Bill, but the
must is a matter for number of
city editors of diverse temperamentali
ties. Excuse me talking like a bur-
glar."
She thought that this was some
catch phrase. but he wont on:
Met regular burglar professor
the other day-he talked like Rogets
Thesaurus of English Words and
Phrases S.
She hoped that this hateful young
man, at any rate. would go on talking
Every second was a seconds respite
from the dreadful ordeal of the win.
dow.
Half of 'em won't take the par be-
Evening star., 1927-04-17

To Betty every moment of that day
had been an agony; the clock scarcely
seemed to move. She felt as if she
could die of shame. and once she half
rose, determining to run away, any
where, rather than submit for another
moment to the humiliation which had
been put upon her. Her one fear was
that Give Lowbridge should see her.
and she found her only land dismaD
amusement in the thought of what he
would do when he made the discovery.
Miss Carew!"
She looked around. The sham door
of the study was ajar, and she saw
the concerned face of William Hol-
brook. 1t needed but this last trial to
turn her misery to madness.
Lay off, won't you?" he begged.
II want to talk to you
please so away" Her voice vi
brated with anger, How dare you
come and gloat over your wrethed
work.
Bill glared at her in amazement.
woman, you're mad" he said. Me
or ], as the case may be? Come
OUT
His voice was authoritative, his ges-
ture almost imperious. Without know
ing exactly why she OneNed MN, am
could have sobbed in her relief to be
out of the range of the eyes
Now what's this stuff about this
being my idea?" he demanded.
DIR. Latin said so.
DIR Latin is lying crow" said
Bill calmly. He's prevaricatiny
ghoul. He called us in to run to stunt
and then did it himself. The only
thing we've got to do is to send out a
par to the papers-he even wrote
that"
What is the paragraph" she asked
Evening star., 1927-04-17

The story thus far:
Red-haired Betty Carew. a beautiful young
actress Is commanded by her grim old guard
ian DIR Latin TO sit in a show window.
dressed in green. at a desk on which there
will be q iade vase with one red rose. He
command. When she protests he threatens
20 let tho world know that she is the dauEh-
tor Of a man who was hanged for the muT.
Ser uf his wife. One dark and stormy night.
while motoring with Betty across a desolate
nloae nr. i,affin's car had been STONED by
tWa cowled men. DR.. Latin, had left the
car Win one of them He had never eN-
platred 10 Betty what happened during his
absence from the car. Later Betty had seen
on lafius desk beautiful gold buckle stud
ded with diamonds. which she believes he
received that night ON the moor. II Nou
ever speak 10 a living soul about that:
saws Issffin "yuu will speak no more = Betty
nohleman. who wants TO marry her. that she
is being shsdowcd by a Young American.
Rf Holhr00k publicity agent. Holbrouk
and his relative and employer. Pawter. are
curious about the show window dtsulaN Or
BETTY which Lafin has employed them 70
arrange Harvey Hale. an old sea CAPTAIN
]ust out OF prison and broke. meets 2 nNsr
terious stranger, who offers him 100000 II
he VIII helm pun off a big lob, lie Is
given small star. green. inscribed IN % %goi9.
is sold To get acquainted with the ROADS
across the moor and to JOIN society calieu
the Proud Sons of Ragousa. Nnlte Watch-
ing a parade of the Proud Sons HQlhrook ls
approached by Toby Marsh. eccentric ana
talkatiye burglar. who lmparts the aston
fishing information that Betty Carew is the
Golden Voice of the Absolute OF the twenty
rnird degree Of that society. Holhrook re-
meats his remarks to his landlord. BuNott
police inspector with Temafkabie memory.