Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-17
I'm OUR
VALLEY

A PROFITABLE cotton season
seems, at this writing, to be in store
for the lower Rio Grande Valley.
A good cotton season has the ef-
feet Of attracting temporary business
enterprises to the Valley towns.
They come in by the scores some
times. They are no: permanent. Have
no intention of being.
Sometimes these enterprises take
the form of sale OF bankrupt stocks
moved in from outside the Valley.
No town is free Of them, it has
been the experience Of retail mer-
chants.
Brownsville has had them. So have
San Benito, Harlingen Mercedes and
other towns.
II is possible for city officials 10
take certain steps to discourage such
enterprises.
They come in for few weeks and
frequently have the effect Of SER
iously harming established mer-
chants, who remain in "fair weather
as we'll as in ''bad times"
The taxpaying merchants should be
b protected as far as the law permits.
HAVE YOU THOUGHT about what
wonderful weather this is for the
cotton crop!
A hot sun, the sort Of temperature
that dries up the wet spots, and
causes plants to take on the right
sort Of growth.
He's a destructive little fellow,
this flea.
Punctures the squares just as they
are developing. deposits larvae.
II means a cottol boil destroyed
every time.
Thing to do. say cotton growers
with that experience, is to use a
sulphur dust. Spread as you do the
calcium arsenate.
One grower says he mixes a half
barrel Of sulphur to a barrel OF
calcium.
Anyhow. that cottor flea is worth
looking after. This cotton crop is
one on which much depends here in
the Valley. Let's conserve Il.
THIRTY THOUSAND cans OF to-
natoes being canned daily by a can
ming plant az McAller.
Several other plants are canning
greater or less numbers.
Indicating that surplus products OF
the Valley are not being permitted to
go to waste.
There is always certain to be some
oyerproduction in some lines.
v The tin can is waiting for that
overproduction. II offers profit,
although possibly not so much as
the fresh product.
THE HERALD has been endeavor-
ing TO raise a fund TO be presented
to the family of the late Horace
johnson. Harlingen deputy sheriff,
IS slight token Of appreciation OF
that valiant officers public service.
The fund is now over $500.
1t should be $4,000.
Up at Kansas City a policeman
was killed in q oattle with bank
robbers.
A fund Of $4,000 was raised for the
benefit Of his family.
And VIII Rogers will give an en-
tertainment. the proceeds to 60 to
the family.
The Valley has no VIII Rogers TO
take an interest in a thing Of this
kind.
But IL has q very fine citizenship
who certainly are more sppreciative
than they have shown themselves TO
be.
How about a contribution
Send The Herald 9 dollar, two
dollars, five dollars. Any amount
that you can afford.
A thousand dollars might help this
small family of widow and one
child over some difficult roads until
they adjust themselves to their new
status in life.
LISTS ARE CLOSED. The demo-
cratic candidates are out In the field.
They were slow In coming out.
But now they are out. And the bat
4 tie for ballots is receiving impetus.
Two major office holders in the
county will go into the primaries
unchallenged. They are the tax
assessor and county clerk.
Now for the fun.
SIX COMMITTEES Of three men
each went out into the business dis
trict of Brownsville the other day.
They sought a fund with which to
finance a real July Fourth celebra-
ton.
They figured they would need
about $4,000 with which to do the
Job up brown.
They got something like $4,000.
Won't spend all Of that. though. viii
keep some Of II Cor a July Fourth
celebration next year.
Anyhow, there will be a celebra.
tion, with bands, speeches, fireworks
boat races and other things-for
none Of which the public will be
expected 70 pay admission.
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