Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-19
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BANKERS Of the Lower Rio
1rande Valley will meet in Browns
Vile Friday night.
At Hotel Ell Jardin.
To discuss plans for the meeting
of South Texas bankers 70 be held
here in February.
There viii be several hundred
south Texas bankers in Brownsville.
from that territory lying south OF
San Antonio and Austin, and TO
foakum on the east.
In addition to which a special train
VIII bring many bankers from many
states who attend sectional bankers
meetings. There will be some two
hundred Of these.
IL will be the first large group Of
bankers ever to hold a meeting in
this section.
3 Last year the bankers met At
Laredo.
AND DRINK sauer kraut Juice for
your voice.
That's the advice given by Luella
Belius, grand opera singer, back
from Europe for an American tour.
TELL them 10 drink sauer kraut
Juice for their voices" she says. '1ts
the most wonderful thing TO relieve
dryness-just plain sauer kraut
juice"
To make this Juice into 9 res.ssh-
ing cocktail. after IL has 100 drain
ed from the can. try shaking it up
with q little fee in . cocktail shaker
IL makes a delightful drink, benefi-
cial to the general health as well
as 10 the voice.
Besides it allows an entirely law
ful method for the use Of cock
tail shaker.
The Herald r. glad 10 give free
space to the promotion of the use
Of cabbage and its by-products.
In the hope that someone may yet
find il profitable TO determine once
for ell whether Valley cabbage will
make good sauer kraut.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC announces
that it will open a downtown office
soon. For both freight and passen-
ger purposes.
Which will be something unique in
the life OF Brownsville.
The American Railway Express
company also will shorsiy open an
uptown office for the handling oi
its business.
In the meantime the Brownsville
y Chamber of Commerce is endeavor-
ing to bring about an improvement
= ssz the mail service over the Southern
Pacific.
Not pleased with the closed pouch
method. which doesn't afford the ser.
vice that is given BY the use Of 3
clerk.
Numerous small towns aiong the
Southern Pacific will benefit.
BY THE WAY, what's become OF
the plan for an automobile mail ser.
vice once each way daily between
Brownsville and Mission?
Houston and San Antonio benefit.
Ted under present system, to the
detriment Of competitive business in
the Valley.
ONLY oNE-THIRD Of the normal
number Of poll taxes paid so far
in Cameron county.
There should be al least $500
qualified voters in the county this
year.
Being a presidential year, a pol
tax receipt has unusual signifi.
canoe.
Yet only about 2,soo persons have
equipped themselves to vote thu,
far.
Today IL January 1s. Only ter
days ief5 IN which 10 lire Up and
prepare to vote.
A TELEGRAM from Congressman
John N. Garner advises that Colonels
Moore and Pettis, Of the army river:
and harbors engineers, will be al
Point Isabel about the middle OF
February, or earlier.
Will look over the harbor work al
the coast town.
As n result of which there may Be
some important developments ir
connection with the development OF
= the Valleys seaport.
ALL TEXAS will mourn the death
Of Colonel Frank p. Holland Of Dal.
las.
He developed Farm K Ranch from