Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-31
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- AA~Aauc the DEOWuSEllte ana LOS
fresnos-Point Isabel precincts, in
order to proceed with the road pro-
gram.
Arises from probability that San
benito and Harlingen water improve
ment districts will not change to
plan lately adopted by FL Jardin,
Los Fresnosr and other districts.
For this reason, it's not likely
that any Of the remaining $4,000
600 Of the s6,OO0,O00 road bonds will
be used.
So the ss.o0o.ooo program @gOes
up in smoke" SO to speak
SAN BENITO is sitting pretty" in
sthe matter Of paved roads. Has
highways east, west, north and south.
Harlingen fairly well fixed, but
still needs to complete the highway
north to the Willacy line, and also
wants to parallel the Southern Pa
eifsc to Santa Rosa.
Brownsville wants n road up the
river, IL not to the Hidalgo county
line, at least to the precinct line.
Brownsville also wants q road to
Boca Chica, to Southpoint, to YER
million avenue, out Fourteenth
street.
Point Isabel and Los Fresnos
would like to complete the Barreda-
Point Isabel road.
All this difficulty may be ironed
out, then again it may not.
In the meantime Judge Dancy and
the other county business managers
are working to straighten out the
situation.
Up IN OSWEGO, New York, they
know about the grapefruit orchards
Of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
The Oswego Palladium-Times re
Gently published q story, sent out by
The Associated Press, telling about
the development Of the industry in
this section.
Oswego residents sent friends in
Brownsville a clipping Of the item.
Just another example of what The
Associated Press, of which The Her
aid is q member, is doing for the
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD A. ].
McColl lecture on the wonders of
the Lower Rio Grande Valley?
If not, you'd better hear him. He's
q treat.
Every Monday night McColl broad
casts over station KWNG, Browns
- e.s-~Aa. L
e talks to visitors who have
'< brought down by him as gen.
\ sSh sales manager for the Port Isa-
ri Townsite and Development COM
Many.
A microphone is placed before the
speaker in the lobby Of the hotel,
and the crowd hears Mccoli-and the
radio listeners at the same time.
Monday night some of his visitors,
from the frozen north, were given
the opportunity TO make brief talks
before the "mike." They were
charmed.
Mccoll delights TO tell one story
about the late William Jennings
Bryan, who knew the Valley.
Bryan enjoyed fishing for Span
ish mackerel at Point Isabel, accord
ing to McColl.
Enjoyed il more especially because
Bryan found in scaling the mack
erel, there were sixteen silver scales
to one gold.
THE EVERGLADES section of
Florida, back Of Miami, and even
the homestead district to the south,
senjoyed" freezing weather Saturday
night and Sunday morning.
Two-thirds to all of the tender
vegetables were destroyed. Which
means general replanting for April
harvests.
The report comes from Miami.
Citrus fruits probably not injured
% any appreciable extent, according
20 best information available.
In the meantime farmers in Cam
eron county are looking forward to
their potato harvest with even great
er interest.
No doubt potatoes in the Hastings
district were also nipped by the
Y fAost and perhaps destroyed.
$Weather permitting. the Valley
hands to benefit wonderfully from
its spring potato crop.
Perhaps thererl be a return Of the
five and six and even seven cents
a pound potatoes experienced IN the
spring of 1926.
BROWNSVILLE stands to have a
new facility in the form of a two
story fire-proof, bonded warehouse.
Will be just outside the city lin
sts. and plans call for the finest
structure Of its kind in South Texas,
outside of Houston and San An
tonic.
One of these days Brownsville will
he an important jobbing and dis
tribrting center for Mexico business
Seems there should be a healthy
anpor:unity fer an undertaking OF
This kind in this territory.
DON'T HEAR MUCH from the
baseball fans on the matter of a
tsam for Brownsville in the Valley
league this year.
brownsville should have baseball
&his summer, along with politics.
viii tend 70 soften rancor, turn
wrath and so or.
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