Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-29
FINAL
EDIT ION
I'm OUR
VALLEY

DO CITIES of the Valley, along
the highway between Brownsville
and Mission, want additional inter
city mail service?
Do they want TO correct the exist
ing situation-that which gives a
quicker mail service between the Val
ley and Houston and San Antonio
than between Valley cities?
Opportunity is before US.
Samuel vi. Gaines, superintendent
Of the railway mail service, will dis
crss the Valley mails with Valley
business men.
At federal building in Brownsville
at o'clock tonight.
Every interested person is invited
Service hours will be discussed and
other matters having % do with mail
service in the Valley.
Mr.. Gaines should have every bit
Of information before him at to-
a nights meeting.
a, COLoNER THOMAS II. BALL OF
douston, who fathered virtually all
Texas legislation having to do with
the formation of navigation districts
will work out the legal phases of the
Brazos Santiago navigation district
Colonel Ball is "going along" with
the Valley, az he puts il AZ the
Harlingen meeting Monday after
noon.
He Is not particular about the fee
tor is he interested in the size OF
Z or when il will come.
He admits two years short of the
> libical three score and ten; and. like
>~iezekiah, after that he has need for
fifteen years more In which to do
urther work.
And i expect 20 celebrate with
GU at the completion Of Brazos
tantiago harbor," declares Colonel
ths.all.
Th
~ DAVE KIRGAN, Weslaco's mayor,
vas never set himself up as an
rator.
, At the same time Dave kirgan has
fhsiroven himself to be one.
pFi He went up to the realtors meet
.nT at San Antonio the other day.
M He entered tbs Home Town speak
sanng contest
mar And walked away with first honors.
- Is a fine silver loving cup. prop
srly engraved, 10 show fer his effort.
~ Incidentally, Weslaeo is the first
small town to get that particular
sort of honor.
Dave KirEan knows his Valley
Also he knows his Weslacv.
HURT BATSELL OF the BatseIl-
Wells sporting goods firm in
&C Brownsville, wants to know how
many tarpon are caught in a season
hlong the adjacent coast.
F0k So he is offering one dollar for
> cry bona fide report Of tarpon
:ught. Wants names. addresses
Jo tnesses, etc.
pre- Batsell believes as many as CSC
=, tarpon are caught each season, per-
haps more. and he Is willing to spend
q dollar for each to set the facts.
Batsell thinks that the adjacent
coast offers more to the sportsman
:, than any other place. And is anx-
! ious 10 prove IL.
: THE HIGHWAY between San Be
! nito and the Hidalgo county line is
, usually congested.
Trucks, cars, motorcycles, trucks
and trucks and ears.
Trucks travel somewhat slowly.
Ard faster moving passenger cars
back of them find the going slow
because traffic moving ia the oppo-
site direction makes passing diff
cult and sometimes impossible.
Either that road should be doubled
in width, or there should be parallel
roads.
A road from Brownsville up the
river 10 the Hidalgo line near Santa
Maria. meeting a Hidalgo road there
would help solve the situation.
road leading from San Benito 70
the river and thence to LaFeria or
10 Mercedes will also help.
Other proposed parallel roads will
also be Of great assistance in reduc-
: ing the strain on the main highway.
THE EDINBURG REVIEW is ccle-
brating the opening Of the new tele-
phone exchange in the Hidalgo coun-
/ty capital.
IA Gives Edinburg a modern telephone
I&svsten, placing il on a par in that
= .esneet with the exchanges in
rownsville. San Benito, Harlingen,
.hev crcedes, McAllen and other towns.
81. And, in addition, the Rio Grande
company, owners of the
Esinburg system, gave Edinburg a
b handsome telephone exchange build
\ inE.
2 THE MeALLEN MONITOR has
inst come out with handsome
sdi.ion-"City Beautification Num-
ber."
NcAllen. already one Of the pret-
frortinucd on page ten.)