Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-09
I'm OUR
VALLEY

DIR. J. N. DoSS, McAllen physi-
clan, has been appointed the execu-
tive head Of Edinburg's new city
hospital.
This news has just come cut from
Edinburg.
DR.. Doss has a wonderful oppor-
tunity ahead of him.
The Edinburg city hospital, now
nearing completion at q cost OF
around s350.0O0. is certainly the
most beautiful hospital in Texas,
not excluding any of the hospitals
IN any Of the larger cities, and not
excluding Hermann Hospital IN
Houston.
DR.. Doss doubtless. will surround
himself with a staff Of physicians
aAnSpecialists of ability commen-
surate the size of the building
and the territory which it will se-ve.
Hidalgo county has population Of
around $4,000. Should justify the
hospital that has been built.
SEVERAL ITEMS in The Herald
recently concerning the Brownsville
League Of Nations"
The reporters thus far have failed
TO explain. So this column feels
called upon TO elucidate.
Local residents and visitors have
been curious for many months as to
the business carried on in a store
room on Elizabeth street, in the
lower half of the 1900 block.
Usually there is nothing visible
except from three to half dozen
men sitting about, on chairs.
They are usually in animated con-
versation.
They discuss all topics, world, ma
tion, state, county and city, science,
invention. No scandal is allowed.
Some of them are natives of
foreign countries, some native Ameri-
cans.
Italy is represented, so are Aus
tria, and Spain, and Mexico. A na-
tive of CZecho-Slovakia drops in
occasionally. Once in a while a ma
tive of Germany. There was a
Frenchman. He has gone home.
They range in age from so to so.
Some are retired business or pro-
fessional men.
VISUAL evidence that o. II. Stug-
ard & Sons, Alamo, are producing
some of the worlds finest aspara-
gus has reached The Herald office.
The Stugards sent Us a package
of the new asparagus and We have
turned it over to the finest cook
we know. We await results.
Jerry Stugard, in a letter to The
Herald, advising of the remembrance,
says:
I'VE harvested the first asparagus
January Is and have harvested some
ting between fifty and seventy-five
pounds a day off beds which are less
than a year old.
"We have forty acres in asparagus
and plan to have our entire ranch
in asparagus and citrus this year.
"Citrus fruits and asparagus are
two principal crops for the Valley.
One can realize good returns from
asparagus the first year, while cit
rus fruit takes from four to five
years before it begins to bring re-
turns"
Thanks to the Stugards. II is the
pioneer. the trail blazer, in every
field, who is real blessing to his
home. his state, the nation-and the
world.
D. A. TEMPLET0N, in letter to
The Herald:
"With reference to article, Protest
Change in Highway Name by ]. I.
Canales, your issue of February 5,
fully endorse all he says and hereby
second his motion that the name be
not changed from Military Telegraph
Road to Border Highway"
History is even harder to change
than habit, isn't it Mr.. Templeton?
And it's true that old road that
winds along the Rio Grande is a
big part of the Lower Rio Grande
history.
MEN who are watching growth Of
crops in the Valley are optimistic.
They will tell you that potatoes
seem 10 have taken a better stand
than in years.
Every hill seems TO be complete.
AugGrs we'll for the success Of the
crop.
Beans. TOO. are looking fine.
All of which does not hurt the
feelings Of the farmers in the least
Gives them the prospect of two
profitable crops 10 precede the on
coming cotton crop.
KWWG. the radio broadcast sta
tion in Brownsville, is becoming the
wonder station Of the country.
Northern and northeastern papers
are marveling at how the stations
message is penetrating TO their sec
tions, even when many of their own
stations are operating.
KWWG has gone even into the
wastes close to the Arctic Circle.
All OF which is, of course, benefi-
cisl to the Lower Rio Grande Val
lev from an advertising standpoint.