Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-14
I'm OUR
VALLEY

the extreme edge Of the Lower Rio
Grande Valley.
More than likely.
le's a good guess, as no one has re-
ported seeing him.
Probably he was hidden behind
early morning clouds that obscured
the sky.
And the country over which he
! flew is extremely sparsely settled.
Since he was sighted at Port Aran-
Eas about o'clock. he doubtless
crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico
about $3.50 o'clock, perhsps even
earlier.
BY the time this appears in the
paper, he will have been in Mexico
City for several hours.
The airline jump from Browns
vile to Mexico City is only about
300 miles.
approximately the same distance
1s from Brownsville to Dallas.
NEWSPAPER correspondents and
others in the section between Har-
lingen, San Benito, Brownsville, on
the west and the coast on the east,
were out early Wednesday morning.
They bent their ears skyward, in
the hope of hearing the whirr of
Lindy's airplane motor.
At Point Isabel they burned flares
In an effort to help the flyer to get
his bearings. il he needed such at
this stage Of the 20O0-mile air voy-
age.
But their advance preparations
were all in vain. No ore down here
has been found who heard the air
plane No one has turned up who saw
The 'Lone Eagle" Of the skies has
his own ideas about these trips, and
he wasn't greatly bothered whether
any one saw him or not.
THE LOUISvILLEE Times re-
prints the following from the Grant
County. Kentucky. News.
"W. w. Scott Of Kentucky. Kansas
snd Texas left at The News office
|. last Saturday a lemon grown in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas,
which weighed two and one-half
pounds. The lemon IL as large as
the largest grapefruit and its con-
tour is about the same as the or
dinary lemon. The juice is also
said to be similar. Mr.. Scott said
the lemons Of this variety are not
generally grown for commercial pur-
poses. but as curiosities. They sell
for 80 cents a piece.
"Mr. Scott owns q farm In the
fertile Valley Of the Lower Rio
Grande. He has just returned from
a visit there. He says they have an
all summer climate in the Valley
and vegetables grow the year round.
Water for irrigation il secured from
the Rio Grande."
THERE WILL BE new face on
the Brownsville city commission
when IL scans the returns Friday
from the Tuesday election.
That will he j. A. Cobolini.
Mr.. Cobolini is war veteran.
Active in legion affairs here.
Is the younger son of Commodore
Louis Cobolini, president Of the
Texas Bank a Trust Company, and
chairman Of the harbor committee of
the Brownsville Chamber Of Com
merce.
Mr.. Ccbolini will hold office for
the first tire.
He shouldn't feel badly about the
light vote in yesterdays election.
There being no competition. only
light vote was TO be expected.
Two years hence, IL there is COM
petition. IL may be different.
Otherwise the commission remains
the same. A. B. Cole coatinues as
mayor. A. q. Hirp. r.. r. Hinkley.
sr., and J. C. Starck as commission
ers.
THERE IS A GOOD lady in Cam
eron county who is enjoying a hearty
chuckle over this companionate mar
rage business that Judge Lindsley
has been advocating. So she hands
The Herald a story that has come 20
her attention. IL follows:
MANDY told her mistress that she
had heard so much about companion
ate marriage lately. she was desirous
Of knowing what II meant. and on
being told that II she liked a man
she could live with him until she
found someone whom che liked bet
ter. when she could leave her first
mate and live with her second choice.
and 10 on
Mandy replied:
sFo de lan's sakes. you white folks
il Eetin' mo- like US niggers every
day"
POINT ISABEL was disappointed
that Il did not get to see or hear
Gel nel Lindbergh.
The crowd that held vigil there
consisted Of II. C. Stilwell, Jr., news
paper correspondent. Mr.. MeWhorter
az the Edinburg Review. and Paul
Cottrell. representing The Browns
vile Herald and other newspapers.
Otherwise. the community does not
kesm to have lost any sleep over the
svent.