Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-12
I'm OUR
VALl.EY

hAkLlNGEN is busily engaged IN
arranging for the annual Mid-win-
ter Fair.
Scheduled for November 81 10 and
including December /.
Which is the reason for the parade
eI Harlingen fair boosters along
sne Valleys Main Street Monday.
Starting at Harlingen, going TO
can Benito, Brownsville and Mats-
moros, thence back up Main street
through all towns to Mission.
And at Mission they take in the
nidalgo County Fair, which is
having its final hours tonight.
The Valley Mid-winter Fair Is
now In its ninth year.
I'D growing annually.
Had its inception in Brownsville
back in 1910. Conducted here for
four years when population In the
Valley sparse.
And taken up at Harlingen in 1919.
BRIDGE GAMES over radio begin
a ming Tuesday night. over station
~ EwwG.
BY experts like DIR. Milton Work
and Wilbur c. Whitehead.
The hands-north, cast. south and
west, are announced in The Herald
this afternoon.
so make up your game for Tues
day night. starting at $3.50. Tune
in on kwWG. And play the game as
i is played over the radio.
And on Wednesday read the sum
mary OF the game. Paste the clip
ping in your scrspbook.
II you like bridge, you'll enjoy
this opportunity to follow experts.
THE HERALD cooking school
opens today.
In the Brownsville high school
cafeteria.
Il is the first event OF its Kind
ever sponsored in Brownsville.
II is not merely "demorstra-
tion." IL is educational. Extreme
ly valuable information for any
housewife.
Mrs. Myra Oliver Dougsn, the lee
turer, has spent years in developing
her experiments and lectures.
She has appeared in hundreds OF
cities over the United States.
Il is her life work. And she en-
joys il just as much as her audien-
ces.
Don't miss them. Every day this
week. IN afternoons to meet the
hours Of leisure for most home
makers. At $3.50 o'clock, until 1880
sclock.
Attendance prizes every day, and
on the last day a very fine kitchen
gas stove for someone.
MAJOR MILO +. FOX. United
States district engineer, will hold a
hearing in the federal courtroom,
Brownsville, on November Il.
II i in connection with Browns
v;lle'S plans for development oI
sixteen foot channel across Laguna
M.dre TO Brownsville, connecting at
Ryazos Santiago pass with the gov
ernment's ls-foot channel across the
bar. ,.i
The federal government and local
,r,srests have spent something IKE
three quarters of million dollars
!. Rrazos Santiago in the last seven
or eight years. !
Rack years ago other scores oil
. .,.,,.rdx of dollars were expended
Brazos Santiago has long been
rovernment project.
Received much tonnage dufing
.hs years prior to 1904, when the
r.;lroad was extended TO Browns
willie.
large section IN extreme sou'"
Tsxgs and northeastern Mexico
COMMISSIONERS CO U RT viii
,,,r about plans for the canal on
thursday. November Is.
n will consider tho application OF
RAusville interests to form =
r.viration district.
And. IL approved, viii set a date
~, election authorizing the distrS.'
.,so 70 pass on proposed s2'Ooo'oOo
hond issue. part Of which VIII oe
s.voted TO government aid at brazos
Santiago. .~ooo -
lA.;rt Of islands forming tho pass,
W. certain ground at Point Isabel.
srd five days later the commits
.-r.rx court will hear San Benito
s,.s for a navigation district to car
!. opt certain terminal and other
.ovts for the Point Isabel harbor.
HENRY ALSMEYER. county farm
,..onstration agent. is carrying ont
,ome experiences in grapefruit or
,hsrds.
Several plots. among them one
s.st of Brownsville.
Brought in n specimen Of fruit
.or the experimental plot.
THE fruit weighed two and half
,ss But IL wasn't so much the
- that attracted attention. as its
.~.,eme freedom OF scale or other
discolorings-
Il was perfectly clean.
The orchard was carefully busted
,.-;,g the summer. IL was care
s,,Ilv attended in other ways. Was
not fertilized.
AIxmeyer plans TO announce the
.csults Of his experiments later.
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