Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-26
FINAL
EDITION
I'm OUR
WALslEY


guard, Up in Illinois, in the interest
OF the Southwest and especially in
,abehaif or the Lower Rio Grande
Valley.
IN the "Hit or Miss" column Of
le Chicago Daily News recently
meone took occasion 20 use some
ther hard words about the South
st, which caused Mrs. Seydler to
ne back.
Grew out or the Eastland horned
Id incident.
She did 50 gracefully and effec-
rely, and. incidently. inserted some
luable advertising matter in regard
the Valley.
The item which aroused Mrs. Seyd-
was signed BY one "Gojiam Lii
eronje," and follows.
"THE HORNED TOAD that lived
through thirty-one long. lean, hungry
: years walled up IN Texas county
seat courthouse corner stone was
beyond all doubt a genuine Texas
long-horned toad. The long-horned
toads that once roamed the plains
Of Texas from the Panhandle 70 the
Rio Frio in mighty droves are ex
tremely rare. Civilization and the
oil boomers have made them pull in
their horns. Even the Mexican
jumping beans. another Of the
anomalous phenomena of the desert
frontier, are on the jump. The pres
ent-day short-horn toads have none
Of the stamina or longevity Of the
ancient Ionghorns. Only occasionally
can one glimpse a lone longhorn in
the lonesome chaparral-lingering
alone along a lonely trail. That a
long-horned toad Of Texas should 20
thirty-one years without drink or
food il not unbelievable. It's long
time between drinks in West Texas
and food was never any too plerti-
full there, either. There are. as any
honest man from Kansas or Okla
homa knows. frogs in Southwest Tex
as that are seven years old and
don't know how to swim
MRS. SEYDLER comes back in a
succeeding issue Of the Chicago
Daily News with the following:
well. welii Gojiam Liljeeronje,
WI Sid dear, did the mean old Texas
toad bite you-all and make you dream
Of thirty years AGO in Texas? Look
at Southwest Texas now with its
wonderful truck farms OF potatoes,
carrots, beets, spinach and a hun
dred more varieties Of vegetables. As
YOU motor along the borders Of
these farms. mile upon mile on a
smooth concrete highway, sou see the
pictures OF seed catalogues come to
life, not mentioning the thousands
Of acres Of bearing grapefruit or
chards. a glorious sight 70 behold
The farmers Of this Magic Valley
of Southwest Texas had on deposit
in their banks last spring the small
amount Of S22000.000. an honest re-
mort Of the state examiners. The
government reports an annual rain
fall of twenty-eight inches. which
slI does not look like seven years
between drinks. And. best Of all.
quaint old Matamoros. Mexico. over
IN the other side Of the Rio Grande
from Brownsville. will serve the
honest gentlemen from Kansas and
oklahoma with a sumptuous banquet
of venison, quail on toast. etc. with
All the trimmings that should be
served with il. VIII all does not
look like a scarcity Of food nor a
long time between drinks-in South
west Texas. the apex of our nation
on which. in her mighty achieve
ments. America spins
LITTLE COOPERATION on the
mart OF Brownsville residents with
the American Legion post will 20 a
long way toward remedyinr the
rather confused house numbering
situation.
This is assurance that comes from
members Of the legion.
II isn't even necessary for resi-
dents to buy their numbers from
the legion.
Numbers. costing about ten cents a
IN figure. may be had at any hardware
cr five-and-ten stores.
And they may be put up by the
house owners themselves.
The legion men started out 70 do
service for the city in undertaking
he house numbering work. Many
residents bought numbers from the
#lerion men who put the numbers up.
# The numbering situation, as IL now
Axists. is confusing in the extreme.
Just q little cooperation will help
raighten the matter out.
DAILY AND WEEKLY newspapers
Missouri. Arkansas. Kansas and
rtions Of Iowa are carrying much
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