Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-19
I'M OUR
VALLEY

This COLUMN is anxious TO cor
rect an error with reference to vot-
ing places in the navigation district
organization and bond election
Saturday.
IL is informed that voters must
vote in their home precincts, in the
-ame places they vote in the demo-
ratio primaries and in the general
'ections.
he statement was made that in a
7igation district election, the vote
Id be cast at any convenient
Mt In the district. This is an
ror.
= As matter OF safety those in
charge of the election announce to
voters that they should repair TO
their usual voting places.
The location of the boxes will be
found listed elsewhere in The Her
aid today.
A REPORTER on the indianapolis,
Ind, Times, pays a very high COM
pliment to Brownsville.
Writing to The Brownsville Her
aid. he says.
Your town certainly is getting a
reputation for pep and punch here
in Indiana.
1T is the most talked off small
town right now in the United
States"
JUST TWENTY years ago il was
that the city of Houston voted its
first large bond issue for the de-
velopment of Buffalo Bayou into a
ship canal.
IL put forth a 100000 bond is
sue for the purpose and the federal
government matched the amount.
Houston, then a town OF about
10000 population, maGo great fuss
over its S2,000,000 bond issue.
Much more of a fuss, as one re-
calls it, than Brownsville, a town
Of about 10000. is making over its
$2,000,000 district for development
Of a ship canal TO the coast.
TWENTY-FOUR members Of De-
Paul Academy's thirty-member foot
ball team entrained at Chicago
Tuesday morning for Brownsville.
They are coming TO play the
Brownsville high school eleven,
which in its season stacked up 325
points without having its goal line
crossed.
Two points have been the total
registered against the Brownsville
team.
The game with DePaul will be
played on Tucker Field, Brownsville
high school, Friday afternoon.
Ii will cost the local team S3 900
20 play this game. since Defaults
railroad fare and other expenses are
guaranteed
There must be a mighty good at
tendance at this game to pull the
locals through, from financial
stsadpetnt.
4. II at al possible, attend that
game. There's nothing like home
support to bolster up the morale Of
q team.
BROWNSVILLE and the Valley
GENERALLY are certain to receive some
mighty good publicity in the Chit
sago area as a result Of this game.
At least one Chicago paper, the
Daily News, is sending a staff repre-
sentative. It will also give full
page in its rotogravure section to
action pictures on the field.
Press associations generally will
use a considerable amount of matter
On the game, and certainly all the
Chicago papers will give it good
play"
IL Brownsville defeats DePaul, II
can expect a deluge Of applications
for games with other Texas teams.
Probably they can't be played this
year-but watch out for them next
year.
MISSION raay get daily news
paper, according to reports from
there.
The Mission Times. Of which John
Fl. Shary is the owner and Ralph q.
Bray the editor, is considering
changing from a weekly to a taily
newspaper, Of standard eight-column
size.
II the plans mature. it will be the
.sixth daily newspaper in the Valley.
One at McAllen. one at Edinburg'
one at Harrington. one at San Benito
and one at Brownsville.
One and two weekly newspapers IN
e.eh Valley town Is the rule, and
the time may not be far distant
when every town Of any size in the
Valley will have its own daily news
paper.
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC Trans
portation company. subsidiary OF
the Missouri Pacific railway system.
rropo,es to anter the bus business
IN South Texas on q large scale.
The other day announcement was
made that Il had bo. ght the Black
Diamond Transportation company's
Valley lines. These lines operate
from Brownsville TO Mission, from
Harfingen to Raymondville and from
Brownsville to Point Isabel.
And another line has been ae-
ouired. It's the Blue Border bus
line, operating from McAllen through
Edinburg to Corpus Christi.
The sales are subject to approval
OF the Texas Railroad Commission.
The price TO be paid for the first
line is sl5o.00o. for the Blue Border,
$4,000.