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

rect an error with reference to vot-
1 ing places in the navigation district
\ organization and bond election
Saturday.
n, 10 is informed that voters must
j vote IN their home precincts. in the
N same places they vote In the demo-
cratic primaries and in the general
elections.
The statement was made that in a
navigation district election, the vote
could bs cast ~ any convenient
poirt in the district. This j. an
N error.
- matter Of safety those in
charge Of the election announce 60
voters that they should repair TO
their usual voting places.
The location Of the boxes will he
found listed elsewhere in The Her
aid today.
a REPORTER on the indianapolis,
Ind, Times, pays very high COM
pliment TO Brownsville.
Writing to The Brownsville Her
aid. he says.
"Your town certainly is getting a
A reputation for pep and punch here
in Indiana.
ut is the most talked off small
town right now in the United
States
IN JUST TWENTY ears ago u was
that the city OF Houston voted its
first largo bond issue for the de-
velopment of Buffalo Bayou into
ship canal.
It put forth 100000 bond Is
sue for the purpose and the federal
government matched the amount.
4 Houston. then town OF about
E9 $4,000 population. mad a great fuss
over its $2,0O0,0O0 bond issue.
Much more of a fuss. as one re-
\ calls it, than Brownsville, a town
\ of about 10000. is making over its
n s2,0o0,OO0 district for development
Of ship canal to the coast.
TWENTY-FoUR members of De-
Paul Acsdemy's thirty-member foot
hall team entrained at Chicago
TUESDAY morning for Brownsville
They are coming to play the
Hrswr sviIle high school eleven,
which in its season stacked up 52s
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 tire local team $4,000
10 play this game. since Defaults
railrcad fare and other expenses are
guaranteed.
. There must be a mighty good at
tendance at this game TO pull the
locals through, from a financial
standpoint.
IL at all possible. atterd that
game. There's nothing like home
support to bolster up the morale ot
a team.
BROWNSVILLE and the Valley
generally are certain to receive some
mighty good publicity in the Chit
\ cago area as result Of this game.
3 At least one Chicago paper, the
ID Daily News, is sending a staff repre-
sentative 1t will also give full
page in its rotogravure section 70
action pictures on the field.
Press associations generally Will
use n considerable amount Of matter
on the game. and certainly all the
Chicago papers will give i good
play
u II Brownsville defe. rs DePaul, II
S can expect a deluge of applications
for games with other Texas teams.
|A Probably they can't be played this
I. ! year-but watch out for them next
/ n wear.
I mission may get n daily news
\ aper. according to reports from
- ,erc.
The Mission Times. Of which John
II. Shary is the owner ard Ralph q.
Rray the editor. is considering
changing from a weekly 70 ally
newspaper. of standard eight-column
Ia size.
III III the piaus NATURE II VIII bt 'NN
. sixth daily newspaper IN the Valley.
III One at McAllen. ono At >Edinburg'
y4 one at Harlingcn. one AZ San Benito
M and one At Brownsville.
liz One ard two weekly newspapers N
! each VALLEY town s the rule. and
the tine may not be far distant
N when every town Of any sire in the
Valley will hsve its own daily news
rsrsr.
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC Trars-
rortation company. a subsidiary II
the Missouri Pacific railway system.
frroposes "a .nter the bus business
ktin South Texas on large scale.
The other day announcement was
\ rnade that IL had bo eht the Black
! Diamond transportation ccmpsnys
Wvalley lires. These lines operate
IRON Brownsville 20 Mission. from
fssrlingen 70 Rsymondvilie and from
3k5rownsvills 70 Point Isabel.
And another line has been &C.
Its the Blue Border bus
operating from McAllen through
rdinburg 70 Corpus Christi.
The sales are subject TO approval
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