Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-28
I'm OUR
VALLEY

LIONS CLUB Of Brownsville has
ihaugursted season cf friendship
and brotherly love.
starts out to have every Lions
club IN the Valley come to Browns
VILE TO meet the local club.
And In exchange the Brownsville
Aeinb will meet with every other
Lions club in the Valley.
There are nine Lions clubs in
this section.
Which means that ii will require
q least eighteen weeks to complete
the round.
Perhaps other luncheon clubs in
the Valley, Of which there are many,
can find in this suggestion a de-
STABILITY for enlargement Of the
movement
Acquaintanceship will do much 20
break down barriers that hurt the
Valley.
PROSPECTS for another modern
hotel in the Valley.
Mercedes Hotel. a famous Valley
Institution, recently changed hands.
New owners plan to Improve tho
property by erection Of a modern
hostelry.
Location right in the heart of
Mercedes business district.
But there may be one regret. The
sew building may mean the loss TO
Mercedes OF one of the prettlest
scenes in the Valley. that riot Of
trees, shrubbery and flowers in
front Of the present building.
THE OPERATORS ar the Texas
Asparagus association are confined
to the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
For the reason, perhaps, that no.
where else in Texas ~ this rather
popular vegetable grown.
Tae association elected officers at
its annual meeting at La Feria the
other night.
Named II. o. Englert of Mercedes
president; Il. T. Watson az la Feris,
vice president; II. q. Stugard of
Alamo, secretary.
The association has for its pur-
oppose the fostering of this rather in
teresting industry.
See the patch near the Stugard
office building on the highway near
Alamo.
ONE OF THE most interesting
window displays ever seen in this
section is the soap exhibition IN the
Z. Manautou store. Brownsville, At
Twelfth and Washington streets.
Thousands OF bars Of soap used 70
reproduce the national capitol AZ
Washington.
The display occupies an entire
window in the lobby Of the store
on the Washington street side, and
Is attracting a great deal Of atten-
tion.
VALLEY WINTER FAIR
opened Tuesday beneath gray. lower
ing skies.
Not inducivc to crowds, that wea-
sher. But Wednesday opened with
= heavy fog that pressEed bright
tunshiny day.
And that's what developed along
toward midmorning.
There's = day for every one At
the Mid-Winter Fair.
Be sure TO get yours.
THE TENAS Editorial Association,
composed Of "cld timers IN the
newspaper business. open their an
rual meeting rs the guests of San
Benito Thursday.
Its membership requirement. prin-
ripally, that the member must have
\ been continuously in the publishing
business for quarter q = cen
itury.
This will &c their third session IN
.he valley. In 1926 they foregather-
Cd IN Brownsville. In 1927 az Nc
Allen. This time at San Benito.
Thursday they will be Thanksgiy-
irg day dinner guests of Frank Y.
Luddcn, district manager for the
central Power and Light company.
During their stay they will be the
~uests OF others for various events,
concluding Saturday at | o'clock al
III Iardin clubhouse for venison
dinner rs the guests Of Lee r.
lanes and A. u. Dickinson, Jr.. of
.he Lone Star immigration company.
FIVE C0NGRESSMEN expect q
visit Brownsville Wednesday after
noon after having heard, at McAllcn.
how Texas elections are conducted.
After Brownsville they expect to
visit San Antonio, TO look into the
conduct Of the McCloskey-W -Wurzbach
race.
However. the visit to Brownsville
has nothing 10 do with elections and
election contests.
The visitors are coming here Ito
zee the town." and 70 take a stroll
over to Mexico.
rt isn't often that n northern or
,ortheastern congressman has an
.nportunity to bask under Valley
sunshine
they get that today.
THE SOUTH TEXAS Chamber Of
Commerce. instructed g to DO at
~. Laredo convention, in interesting
itxelf in an effort 10 develop South
raxas Teachers college kingsyille,
lrto the South Texas Neurological
Institute
speaker az the convention de-
rlared that every year there y