Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-10
I'm OUR
VALLEY

TWO HUNDRED or more visitors,
delegates 70 the Intra-Cosstal Canal
Association convention, will return
TO the Lower Rio Crande Valley at
some time in the future.
Valley residents who saw them en-
joying roast wild turkey, baked wild
duck, fried venison steaks, broiled
quail, az a restaurant in Matamoros,
the other night, are quite positive
Of this.
From an entertainment standpoint
as we'll as from the standpoint Of
the purpose for which the conven-
tion assembled. the meeting was a
very great success. even II the Val
ley itself says 50.
And now Brownsville is dressing
up in anticipation Of entertaining
some thousands OF visitors who will
attend the South Texas Chamber Of
Commerce convention, opening In
Brownsville Monday.
Have you cleared up the weeds in
your yard, or ncighborhood?
II not, please hurry.
THE AMERICAN Railway Express
Company announces that it will open
an uptown office in Brownsville at
a not distant date.
Decision followed a petition OF
business men, sent TO the office Of
the superintendent at San Antonio
by the Brownsville Chamber Of
Commerce.
Brownsville Is entitled to this IA
eility. It is the largest city in the
state, II Is said, that has worried
along without an uptown office of
the express company.
The entry OF a second railroad
was, Of course, the final thing that
~clinched" the uptown office.
POINT ISABEL is scheduled 70
have a branch Of the United States
Weather Bureau.
Some local citizen there will be
PANIED the official reader, and his
figures will be sent to the Browns
Filie office Of the bureau.
Point Isabel, being at tidewater
will be an important station and its
Readings will have some bearing on
The forecasts issued out Of Browns
tille.
Meteorologist Schnurbusch Of the
Brownsville office will install the
tarious equipment Of the Point Isa-
Eel station.
ARTHUR +. ALBRIGHT, director
ef the Department of Agriculture
and Markets Of the State Of New
York, New York City, wrote an ar
tcIe In the Ladies' Home Journal.
This article had to do with citrus
ruits on the markets Of New York,
I'd declared that the supply came
ON Florida, California and Porto
lea.
The article reached the attention
Z Ralph Bradford, manager Of the
;orpus Christi Chamber OF Com
merce.
So Bradford, knowing that South
Texas, and particularly that part OF
known as the Lower Rio Grande
alley, was becoming important In
40 matter Of citrus fruits, wrote to
albrecht about il. In the following
words;
SCOMES NOW one irate citizen Of
Texas, cudgel in hand, blood in eye
and entire good humor Of spirit "a
protest against your recent article
- - n~4nhav f~.vn rf fha Tadia9
Home Journal. In the said article
Buying Citrus Fruits you make the
statement that the oranges sold in
this country are grown in California
Florida and Porto Rico, omitting en-
tirely 70 mention the Lower Ric
Grande Valley Of Texas, which IL
now one az the greatest orange and
grapefruit producing areas in
America.
"sThe moving finger writes and
having writ cannot erase a single
word az it,
"0ld Omar was right now, as then
What you have writ and published
you have writ and published; this
epistle is merely addressed TO you
IN the hope that in future articles
of this nature you will take into
consideration that area fifteen or
twenty miles wide and sixty miles
long that lies south Of Corpus
Christi and that is nationally fam
Gus rs the Magic Valley. am send
ing copies of this letter "a my good
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