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

~ buElly cHEdktu ~
arranging for the annual Mid-Win-
ter Fair.
scheduled for November 27 TO and
including December /.
Which is the reason for the parade
q Harlingen fair boosters along
the Valleys Main Street Monday.
starting at Harlingen. going to
can Benito, Brownsville and Mats-
mo1s, thence back up Main street
through all towns 10 Mission.
And at Mission they tax. in the
aidalgc County Fair. which is
having its final hours tonight.
The Valley Mid-Winter Fair Is
now in its ninth year.
And growing annually.
y Had its inception in Brownsville
back In 1910. Conducted here for
iour years when population in the
Valley sparse.
And taken up at Harlingen in 1919.
BRIDGE GAMES over radio begin
: ming Tuesday night. over station
KWWG.
By experts like Dr.. Milton Work
and Wilbur C. Whitehead.
The hands-north. east. south ard
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
It is played over the radio.
And on Wednesday read the sum
mary of the game. Paste the clip
ping in your scrapbook.
II you like bridge, you'll enjoy
this opportunity to follow experts.
THE HERALD cooking school
opens today.
In the Brownsville high school
cafeteria.
II is the first event Of it's kind
ever sponsored in Brownsville.
II is not merely "demonstra-
tion." 1t Is educational. Extreme
" valuable information for any
housewife.
Mrs. Myra Oliver Dougan, the lee
tufer, 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. Ard she en-
ioys il Just as much as her audien-
ees.
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
o'clock.
Attendance prizes every day, and
on the last day a very fine kitchen
gas stove for someone.
MAJOR MILO p. FOX, United
States district engineer, will hold n
hearing in the federal courtroom,
Broxnsyille, on November q.
n Is in connection with Browns
ville's plans for development Of
sirteen foot channel across Laguna
w.dre 10 Brownsville, connecting at
Brsros Santiago pass with the gov
.rrment's 1s-foot channel across the
= ,ba. -,
The federal government and local
,r.erests have spent something ike
.hres quarters of n million dollars
an Brazos Santiago in the last seven
az eight years.
Rack wears ago other scores oil
,,ouSands of dollars were expended
Brazos Santiago has long been a
government project.
Received much tonnage during
a.. wears prior to 1904. when the
,.ilroad was extended TO Browns
vile. t.
So freight receiving center for
-. section in extreme south
Tsr,s and northeastern Mexico
COMMISSIONERS co U IT will
80 about plans for tho canal on
Tbursday, November 10.
!. will consider tho application OF
nrownsvillc interests to form
,~wviratitn district.
GAnd. IL approved, will set date
~ election authorizing the distr&t'
lee 70 pass on proposed S2,ooo'ooo
- issue. part of which will be
ssvoted TO government aid at BRACES
Santiago. ooo - -
-.;nt az islands forming the pass
"a certain ground at Point Isabel.
Ana five days later the commits
-. court will hear San Benito's
-. for A navigation district to car
= out certain terminal and other
~, for the Point Isabel harbor.
urNRY ALSMEYER, county farm
.,orstration agent. Is carrying out
ms experiences in grapefruit or
Several plots, among them one
..st Of Brownsville. \.
p,ought in a specimen Of fruit
..ar the experimental PLOT.
The fruit weighed two and half
As But 1t wasn't so much the
p,.a that attracted attention, IS its
,a si.e freedom of scale or other
diseOlorings.
n was perfectly clean.
The orchard was carefully dusted
..;.r the summer. II was care
oIr attended in other ways. Was
not fertilized. a..