Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-08
I'm OUR
VALLEY

A NEW central fire station fol
Brownsville X announced by th'
city commission.
Will be located at Adams and
Tenth streets. on city property and
within two blocks Of the center OF
the business district.
Will be built to accommodate the
big, new hook and ladder truck and
other central station equipment.
Will house the central station
crews, provide them with certain
recreational facilities.
Will also take care of the fire
alarm system when it is installed
which may not be long away.
With the two new suburban sta
tions in operation. Brownsville's
fire fighting situation should be
well taken care Of for some years
to come.
IN ADDITION to which the city
has some other things in mind.
Not the least of these is a new
and really light-giving white way
system for the business district.
Brownsviile's business district. as
much as one may dislike to admit it.
is extremely dark Of nights. Not
even on Saturday nights when all
stores are lighted Is it as bright
rs il should be.
The present system long ago was
voted inadequate.
In addition to which the city
should offer inducements for semi
public lighting.
Such as electric store signs, more
and better lights for display win
dows.
Which type of lighting is worth
almost as much to the public as it
KS to the individual installing it.
Brownsville's electric signs have
Increased in number. but there is a
big field for more # them.
Light up the town. II needs 1t.
ONE Of the outstanding features
of McAllen and Harlingen is their
business district lighting.
Go into either Of these cities in
the CNGulu&s anu .OA tHA ~
looking almost as bright as day.
Each town discovered the value Of
.eTelI lighted business districts long
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Realized thew attract crowds into
re business district. Means more
hndow shopping. More night win
r " shopping means more daylight
Iying.
It's splendid advertising, these
well lighted windows. The more
light, the more customers.
A REPORT from Raymondville's
famous watermelon patch states that
coyotes are raiding and damaging
the luscious melons.
The report did not explain whether
the COYOTES were of the two or the
four legged variety.
SEVEN SPLENDID gentlemen OF
Cameron county want TO be the
county's sheriff.
That's what might be termed a
"grand rush."
And indicates what may happen to
n good office when the incumbent
decides not to be a candidate.
The incumbent happens to he .
woman, Mrs. W. T. Vann. widow OF
the late Sheriff ". T. Vann.
She was appointed TO complete
the term following the death of her
husband.
Cameron county democrats to the
number of some seven thousand
will doubtless vote in the coming
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They will 20 into the polls, scratch
their heads over the list of sheriff
possibilities. and make a selection.
Seven thousand votes, equally d.
vided, will afford each candidate a
thousand votes.
Meaning to say. a majority IN the
first primary il going to DC q VIZ
tual im~possibility.
r. r. HORN Of McAllen j. a
banker.
That's his primary occupation
But he mas another.
He also is a citrus orchard owner
and operator. Has a ten-acre grove
adjacent to McAllen.
The orchard was set out in 1913.
Five acres of grapefruit four OF
range and one Of lemons.
IN 1925 and 1926 he spent $3,llS3i
IN the orchard, as follows: Tools
and equipment repairs. Sl5S-22; Ia
bor. ~si57s.s7; spraying, s53S.45; oil
for smudre pots. s1i7-i5; irrigation
ssxcs and charges. s537.64; hauling
fruit. s445.66: supplies. s4S.s5.
The gross sales for the two years
we're %Sil.9Of.17, giving the owner
n net profit Of $s7s5.ss
Vet there are some who insist that
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