Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-12
ESQ BANKERS
EXPECTED AT
VALLEY MEET
Arrangements Nearing
Completion For En-
t~ertainment of $50
Visitors Next Week

Preparations for the entertainment
of approximately $50 bankers from
Texas and other states who will visit
the Valley during the coming week
are practically completed, according
to John 7. Lomax of San Benito,
chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee.
Mr.. Lomax announced the various
committee chairmen, who will COM
plete arrangements for the entertain
ment, and he is completing a list Of
cars for tours, and making other
plans.
The bankers, including the "flying
squadron" composed of bankers from
city banks in parts of Texas outside
this district, and from other states,
will arrive in the Valley Friday morn
ing. They will go to Brownsville
first, will hold the regular annual
convention Of the Thirteenth District,
Texas Bankers association there dur
ing the day.
To Have Feeds
In the afternoon they will be taken
on a drive around the Brownsville
section, and in the evening q banquet
will be held in Matamoros, Mr.. Lomax
announced.
Saturday morning automobiles will
assemble in Brownsville from all
parts of the Valley, and a tout of the
section will be started. Arrange
ments for the automobiles are being
completed now, and most of them
will be supplied by Valley bankers.
Mr.. Lomax said.
The party will go through San Be-
nito. Harrington, La Feria and Mer-
cedes, and will stop at Progreso at
moor where a barbecue lunch will be
served. John C.. Jones, vice presi-
dent of the First National Bank OF
Mercedes, has been appointed by Mr..
Lomax as head of the committee to
arrange this barbecue, and he is to
select his assistants.
To Visit Reynosa
Judge ID. W. Glasscock of Mer-
cedes is scheduled to make a talk at
the lunch on the development of the
Valley.
From there the caravan Of automo-
biles will 20 on up the Valley, in
speeding citrus orchards, and the
packing plant at Sharyland. They
will also stop at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. John Shary. They will then
be taken across the river for a ban
quet Saturday night at Reynosa,
which is the closing event of the pro-
gram. The party will leave the VAL
ley Saturday night in the special
train in which they are to make the
trip to this section.
A. Nix, vice president Of the State
Bank & Trust Co. of McAllen has
been named by Mr.. Lomax as head
OF a committee TO arrange for the
banquet in Reynosa. He is to select
his assistants.
Mr.. Lomax also announced the ap-
pointment of r. +. Horn at McAllen
as head of a golf committee to ar
range for players desiring 20 play
on the links of the Fepeguaje club
there. w. d. Gardner is head of
the golf committee at Edinburg.
Walter Mcneil is head of the golf
committee at Mercedes and Weslaco.
to arrange for play on the Llano
Grande course. Appointment of a
golf committee at Brownsville is in
the hands of W. r. Sellers. vice presi-
dent of the First National Bank
there and chairman OF the district
bankers association.
Expect $50 Bankers
There will be about 80 or 70 bank
ers from outside the district, in what
is known as the Flying Squadron"
MI. Lomax said. This group is visit
ing all the district conventions in
the state. and is composed Of bankers
from the city banks of Texas, and
points outside the state.
He estimated that there would be
at least 100 bankers from the district,
which extends as far north as Austin,
to the coast at Corpus Christi and
west to Del Rio. This is in addition
to the rs or 100 Valley bankers who
will be in the party, which will make
approximately ESQ bankers in the
group that will attend the conven-
tion in Brownsville, and tour the Val
ley.
Election OF officers will conclude
the meeting at Brownsville, which is
TO consist mainly of business discus
sions, with no program of speakers
announced yet.
Entertainment features at the bar
becues and banquets are being ar
ranged, and there will be few
epeecnes at these features