Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-13
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aN OUR VALLEY - ..... .......
ELECTION BETS that involved
tunts of one sort or another have
pSsn paid in the Valley, some
others have not, still others may
pc under way.
u Up at McAllen the other day a
gentleman who thought he foresaw
Emith's election. supported his be-
Ief with a promise 70 wheelbarrow
friend the length Of Main street
1 Smith lost.
Smith lost.
So J. Lamb Perry, clad in bath
Ing suit-part of the wager-pushed
wheelbarrow the length of Main
street, with Charlie ilodest as a
+ pRsenger.
AZ Rio Hondo one Bill Williams
offered to push a peanut with his
nose. IL Smith lost.
| The peanut was TO be pushed
mile a day for eleven days, the
distance along a paved road from
aiV HonuO 10 haEllnEeh'
No news ms yet as TO whether
j Williams has started paying off.
4 THE FIRST WAGER OF the elee-
tion season was that Of Jesse Den
knett Of Brownsville, county repubii-
csn chairman, with his brothcr-in-
,aw, Judge v. W. Taylor, former
II democratic county chairman.
The loser to wheelbarrow the win
rer down Elizabeth street, across the
International bridge. and over to a
+ Matamoros thirst emporium.
So far as known this is an cleo
ton wager that is still TO be paid.
And an expectant public is on the
cui yiye.
THE SOUTH TEXAS Chamber OF
Commerce will hold it's annual ses-
sion at Laredo, November 10, 20 and
q.
Last year the convention was held
| in Brownsville. Laredo sent large
delegation, and some splendid enter
tainment.
This year Brownsville should send
. sizeable delegation TO Laredo.
Edcouch, one Of the Valleys
youngest towns, incorporated only a
few months ago, plans TO send a
large part of it's citizenship to the
meet. Expects some 200 to make
the trip.
Some plan 20 make the trip By
automobile. weather and roads per-
hitting. Others will DO by train.
~ sFs
|. MANAGER JOHN FANNING Of
tapitol theater. Brownsville, recon-
mends Naughty Marietta to his
patrons.
This is not moving picture.
It is stage play, with some
eighty players.
Coming to his thcstsr Thursday,
matinee and night.
/ And will show at Harlingen audi
] Atorium on Friday night, also at
Edinburg on Wednesday night.
Theater owners in the Valley take
n "long shot" in bringing such large
theatrical organizations 70 Browns
vile.
II Is not often that performance
! Of this kind gets so far off the
sbeaten path"
Make arrangements to attend.
WHAT ABOUT those street signs
fcr Brownsville?
Almost impossible, for example, to
locate any particular street in thick
ly settled West Brownsville.
Street signs would be q great help.
10 the citizens, 70 merchants. e
telegraph, gas and even the city
electrical men themselves.
More than half the street num-
hers in the telephone directory are
wrong.
This is not the fault Of the tele-
phone company.
The company uses whatever ad-
dress their subscribers give them.
And more often than not sub
xtR,ers themselves do not know
tbeir streets. much less their house
numbers.
NOT ALL the more beautiful
homes OF Brownsville are being
erected in the outskirts OF the city.
Recently several have gone up in
the Oldest residential sections Of
tDrOwnsvllle. A.,
- ]. l.. Caldcroni and {. +. Bar
-ada. AZ Washington and Seventh
streets.
The Barrcda home 70 cost, COM
rlete. about $4,000.
In both eases the homes replace
xa.;dences that were landmarks IN
prounsvilIe. Homes built by some
- .he earliest residents.
IN 1926. BROWNSVILLE was
.uong a few of the Texas smaller
a.. fite 500 or more income