Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-05
I'm OUR
VAL.lEY

Friday.
Saturday they will see what the
rest Of the Valley has to offer.
This association is not to be con-
fused with the Texas Press associa-
tion. the Texas Editorial association
and perhaps some others.
II is an organization Of some
twenty newspaper publishers, in
cluding principally the larger city
dsiies
They meet annually 20 discuss
their own peculiar problems.
And their business sessions are
over in an hour or so.
TIE VISITING PUBLISHERS will
be glad to know, perhaps, that
printers ink is very large COM
modify in the Valley.
Mostly Trey come from counties
with one or two daily newspapers,
and maybe a single weekly.
Here in the Valley there is hard
~ town without its quota of one
or two weekly newspapers. or daily
newspapers.
In Hidalgo county there are six |
teen weekly and semi-weekly news
papers. and two daily newspapers.
In Cameron county, where the
towns are fewer, there are three
daily newspapers, one weekly and
one semi-weekly.
fu-n n
weekly newspapers. and one IN starr
county.
A total Of tventy-four for the
Valley, not TO mention one farm
magazine, a semi-monthly, and two
or three monthly publications.
THIRTY-FIvE YEARS AGO, when
The Herald was first published. It
was the only newspaper in a terri
tory as large as some of the medium /
sized states.
Il was a daily newspaper when H
VI there weren't five hundred English |
speaking persons within 80 miles Of
Brownsville.
And it was IS years old before
the next newspaper was started in
tho Valley. That was the old Mer-
cedes Enterprise, later the Tribune
established in 1907 BY lsidore Nor
itz, now publisher Of the Willacy
County News.
LADY EDWARD SP K y G T K
CHURCHILL will visit the Lower
50 SAYS a news dispatch from
Houston.
She is to be the guest Of the
Legion Auxiliary at the convention
AZ San Antonio.
After which she will visit Kings
willie and then on down 20 Browns
Vile and the Mexican border
Brownsville isn't accustomed To
entertaining titled foreigners.
But will do its best 20 interest
Lady Churchill.
INCIDENTALLY. there is r. he
another distinguished visitor 70 the
city.
None other than Eduardo Hay,
sub-secretary Of communications and
public works in the cabinet of Presi-
dent Gales.
He IL coming from San Antonio.
Will be here Saturday.
Eduardo Hay is one Of the orig
inal revolutionists of Mexico.
He was a follower Of Francisco
Madero.
He suffered the loss of Ar eve IN
battle early in the revolution.
In the same fight IN which the late
General Samuel Garcia Cuellar, well
known in Brownsville and loyal to
Porfirio Diaz. lost his left arm.
"It il not serious-this loss II an !
arm" said Cuellar.
1T Is when one loses his head
that loss is real"
Cuellar was soldier and gen
tlemsn.
Hay.
LOS FRESNOs. ten miles north OF
Brownsville. one Of the newly estab-
lished towns of the Valley, is to
have a bank.
The state department issues
Sarter to the Los Fresnos state
Rank. Capital stock s25.0O0- with
raid IN surplus Of $4,000.
A. n. Tandy. Brownsville eommun-
jty farmer. is to be president Of the
institution.
One Of the pioneer farmers Of
the Valley.
One who. with two sons who have
developed into business men as well
az farmers. has shown the road TO
those who have come on later
which gives the Valley its thirty
second bank.
Twenty-Five years ago there was
one. in Brownsville.
Up on the Military highway, ma
,binery and men are pushing toward '
eroUnsville with a stretch OF cen {
crete road.
About to complete job q siK
,,iles 10 a connection with a ribbon
of concrete starting at the west end
.f Elizabeth street and halted at the !;
v;,souri Pacific crossing . quarter
of a mile away. '
After his connection the crews
u-;II start westward sgsin, 70 carry Y
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