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

A NEW central fire station for
Brownsville Is announced by the
city commission.
Will be located 1t 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, Brownsvilles
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 new
and really light giving white way
system for the business district.
Brownsyille's business district, as
much as one may dislike TO admit II,
is extremely dark Of nights. Not
even on Saturday nights when all
stores are lighted Is it as bright
as it 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 il
is to the individual installing it.
Brownsville's electric signs have
increased in number. but there is a
big field for more IF them.
Light I'D the town. II needs il.
ONE Of the outstanding features
of McAllen and Harlingen is their
business district lighting.
Go into either Of these cities in
the evening. and you'll find them
looking almost as bright as day.
Each town discovered the value Of
we'll lighted business districts long
ago.
Realized thew attract crowds into
the business district. Means more
window shopping. More night win
dow shopping means more daylight
buying.
It's splendid advertising, these
well lighted windows. The more
light, the more customers.
A REPORT from Raymondville's
famous watermelon patch states tnat
coyotes are raiding and damaging
the luscious melons.
The report did not explain whether
the COYOTES were of the two or tne
four legged variety.
SEVEN SPLENDID gentlemen Of
Cameron county want to be the
county's sheriff.
Tnat's what might be termed a
"grand rush"
And indicates what may happen 70
a good office when the incumbent
decides not 10 be a candidate
The incumbent happens to be
woman, Mrs. w. T. vann. widow OF
the late Sheriff W. T. Vann.
She was appointed to complete
the term following the death Of her
husband.
Cameron county democrats to the
run,her Of some seven thousand
will doubtless vote in the coming
primary.
Thev will 60 into the polls. scratch
their heads over the list Of sheriff
possibilities. and make selection.
Seven thousand votes. equally d.
vided. will afford each candidate
thousand votes
Meaning to say. majority IN the
first primary us going TO be vir-
tual impossibility.
p I. HORN Of McAllen Is
banker.
That's his primary occupatioh' H.
But he has another.
II. also is a citrus orchard owner
and operator. Has a ten-acre grove
adjacent TO McAllen.
The orchard was set out IN 1919.
Five acres OF grapefruit. four OF
oranses and one of lemons.
n 1925 and 1926 he spent S3,ll5-S4
=, the orchard, as follows; Tools
.rd equipment repairs, sl53.22; la
hor si57s.37; spraying. s53S.45; oil
for smudge pots, s1i715; irrigation
.axes and charges. sS37.64: hauling
fruit. s445.66; supplies. s4s-s5.
The gross sales for the two yeas
we're sIi.90i.17. giving the owner
net profit Of ss7s5.s3.
Yet there arc some who insist that
the citrus fruit industry is not I'M
rort 70 the Lower Rio Grande Valleys
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