Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-04

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VALLEY

i THE VALLEY rapidly is becom-
ing a section famous for establish
ing records.
Shipping records fall almost
daily. Early crop records are estab-
hshed and broken one after an
B other.
And now a record of a new sort
+ Is about to be established.
Vitaphone equipment for the
Capitol theater arrived last Sunday.
i Opening of the new entertainment
b IN Brownsville is being advertised
for Saturday afternoon.
Giving workmen about five days
to install and adjust the highly
complicated mechanism.
Three weeks to a month have
been required in the past to put
''talkies" into a theater.
A perfected model of this new
wonder has helped to speed the
work, but experts in charge are
being forced to exert every energy
in order to complete their task in
the allotted six days.
T. B. Noble, Jr., general manager
of Dent Theaters. Inc. remaining
on the Job to see that things move
on schedule. is highly interested
in giving Brownsville this new en-
tertainment in record time.
AND HERE Is something for
retail merchants in the Valley to
think about, quoting the San Be
rlito Light:
THE San Benito postoffice wrote
145 domestic and five international
money orders Monday. Of the
total about ninety money orders
went to mail order houses
"An AVERAGE of thirty packages
o day arrive from mail order houses
each representing purchase which
might have been made in San
Benito."
THE IZAAK WALTON League
of America, with its program of
conservation of the out doors,
will find much to do in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley.
This feet has appeared evident
TO citizGE of the section and con-
sequentNu C. A. Wheatley, state
president, has found it compara-
lively easy to organize local
branches in ten towns in the past
two weeks.
This week he is here from his
San Antonio home to organize
Brownsville, San Benito and to
complete organization in Mercedes.
The Brownsville organization meet
ing is scheduled for p. m. at the
chamber of commerce building
tonight. $50
People who enjoy the beauty of
lake, stream, forest and sea and
the wild life of all four have been
invited to attend and take a part
in the organization.
Mr.. Wheatley is doing this work
without reward other than the
7 pleasure of accomplishing some
thing for the good of his fellow
men and for coming generations.
He receives no salary and defrays
L his own travelling expenses.
( Always lover of the open, he
has found it possible to retire from
active business life, and now he
is devoting his energies to this
splendid work.
He will speak on the accomplish
ments of his organization tonight
and reveal some of the things the
league is doing and hopes to do in
the future.
PREVALENCE of mad dogs" in
Brownsville and the Valley seems
at last to have stirred local citizens
to a pitch where they will demand
determination of worthless currS.
{ At a meeting of the directors OF
( the chamber of commerce this
week it was stated that although
police officials had killed hundreds
of dogs in the past year, 'the num-
Der Of CANNES has not diminished
and there still are thousands OF
worthless dogs within the city
limits"
A committee was appointed COM
posed Of Jose Celaya, j. S. Ford
and H. L. Yates to confer with
authorities with view to abating
the menace.
Aid of the health department to
be solicited.
Enforcement of a law requiring
payment of a tax on all dogs to be
urged.
Opening of a pound, presumably
with a dog catcher employed to
round up stray dogs. proposed.
Game Warden Coffee points out
that cats are a real menace and
suggests that the feline tribe also
receive attention. Too many stray
cats on the streets, he says
II County Health Unit officials have
indicated willingness to assist ir
immunizing dogs which their own
\ ers desire to save.
! All forces have adopted 8 slo-
4 gan:
rid the city of worthless dogs
and protect the children"
CHAMPION JERSEY BULL
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