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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-26
TWIN CITIES MAY
HAVE SECOND BANQUET


HARLINGEN, March 26.-Possi-
bility of another Harlingen-San Be-
nito good will banquet before April
4 was indicated today in expressions
from several residents of the two
cities asking for another banquet.
The first banquet Of this series
held in San Benito, and the
second will be held here.
The two chamber Of commerce
secretaries expressed a willingness
to arrange for the banquet at any
time that it is desired. However, the
second banquet is expected to be
held when residents of the two cities
are prepared to advance some defin-
tie plans Of cooperation TO be
worked out.
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farmers not to dig immature pota-
toes and to dispose of their best
grades in a more orderly manner.
Many of the No. rs marketed last
week would have been No. is II
permitted to stay in the ground 10
days or two weeks, dealers said.
1t is understood that practically
all dealers in the Valley will &C
cept the price fixed by the aSsocia-
ton advisory board.
The bean market also was dis
cussed, and dealers expressed the
opinion that the price would hold
around SO per hapmer to the grow
ers' throughout the week. The quail
ity of Valley beans is the best in
recent years, and they are bringing
from S1.o0 to S1.25 per hamper,
premium over the Florida beans in
the northern and eastern markets.
The bean movement will be heavy
this week, shippers said. but in
view of the high quality Of the
product they expressed confidence
in their ability to hold around the
S. price.
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Suits filed in the district courts:
34I2-Pedro Jiminez VS.. Bankers
Health 81 Accident Co. OF America,
Inc, debt.
84l3-Cameron county water i'm
provement district No. 3 VS.. I. l..
Denison, taxes.
18TH DISTRICT COURT
Hon. A. w. Cunningham, Judge
No orders.
I03R DDISTRICT COURT
Hon. A. NJ. Kent, Judge
7754-R. P. Bledsoe ct al VS.. T. A.
Henderson, settled and dismissed.
7714-W. L. Parker VS.. B. II.
Rankin ct al, judgment for plain
tiff.
COUNTY COURT
Hon. John Kleiber, Judge
No orders.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Charles Marshall Watson and
Matte Lou Timberlake.
Pablo Hernandez and Gala
Hodges.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Cameron County
Furnished by Valley Abstract Co.
Lola B. Shippee ct vir. to Otto
Zaugg ct ux, lots | and 2, block 4,
Clara Pierce Adm, Harlingen, ST.
300.
Elliott Cage, Edward S. Boyles to
r. L. Lester lot II, Rice & Tay-
lor Sub. of block SO, Lon G. Hill
Sub, 5000.
r. L. and Aggie Skinner to j.
F. and E. M. Bray, block 8. Swan
Nelson Sub, Share II. Esp. Santo
Grant. cont. 40 &C, $1,000.
w. H. and Winnie Tanning to
r. L. Skinner, block s, Swan Mel
son Sub, Share II, Esp. Santo
Grant. $40.
A. F. Parker to Mrs. Grace C..
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Cameron Courts

Bliss east 10 &C. farm tract 129,
Coast Land Farm Sub. 2, Buena
Vista, $40.
G. S. and Ola Raysor to Thomas
M. Sanders II &C. south of N. Is &C.,
Ell Jardin Sub, Share II, Esp. Santo
Grant, $40.
Delta Irrig. Farms Co, to Fred
A. Ebbers ct ux. North ID lot II,
block 3. plat 4. Citrus Gardens Sub,
Share 43 of Share 10, Esp. Santo
Grant, $40.
Robert S. Larimer to Ruby B. and
Harold j. Voorhees, West 1854 &C.
Blk. %. Fresnos Land & Irrig. Co.
Share %, Esp. Santo Grant, $40.
S. L. Cork to Albert Cork farm
lots 5 and 6. and parts of lots II
and II. Block 1877, San Benito l..
& w. Co., sub. cont. 40 &C., S1.00.
E. v. & Naomi Hickey to Ellen
B. Bowman 2, &C. out of block 81,
D S Sub, $40.
Ellen B. and E. A. Bowman to
<. v. Hickey z &C. out of Blk. 81,
DIS Sub, $1.00.
CISCO Morris to Ira T. Baize. lot
80, block z. West Harrington, 500.
Port Isabel Irrig. Co. to w. F.
and Leanore w. Lavery, Blk. 81,
cont. 7.44 &C. Bayside Gardens Sub,
Box ranch. Santa Isabel Ct, S7,812.
j. j. and Anne McGinnis to l..
A. Boory. lot 8. blk. 81. Hargil, $40.
@. o. Newman to Antoninette Sc
bastian, $50 &C. off ". end of Sec.
26. z. Benadito, $40.
Martin Benbow to G. G. McFar-
land, 5 &C. of lot Is, Blk 100, Cam
pacuas. $40.
Hattie M. Vincent ct vir. to Mar
ian Davis, $40. Part of lots IL blk.
"a, McAllen.
c. S. Etansbury to Progresso Dew.
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Co, N. 10 &C. of lot "a, Llano Grande
Sub, SO.
L. r. Bell to George Il. Tucker,
lot II, Bill Woods Sub. B., $40.
c. L. Piper ct ux to Car Bressett,
lots 5 and 6, blk. go Alamo Town
site. $40.
S. r. Hansen to Joseph T. Tuck
er, S. 5 IL &C. Of lot 81. Bel s.oJ4S
Co. Sub &C" $40.
P~rogresso Dew. Co. to Samuel
Schwartz, lot is, blk. II, Progresso,
$500.
Lon c. Hill ST.. to Maud L. Fahan,
lot 8, blk. IL, San Carlos townSite,
$40.
E. M. Goodwin to L. e. Leach. lot
81, blk. 4, cont. $50 &C. of Goodwin
Tr. Sub. No. /, SO.
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Flashes Of Life
(B7 The Associated Prsss)
(By the Associated Press

(By the Associated Press
LONDON.-A woman prime min
lister is foreseen by General Sir Ian
Hamilton. who commanded the
British forces in the Mediterranean
during the war. THE Amazons are
going to fling themselves straight
into politics." he said at a banquet.
and it will be women's politics
from now on. and no peace at all
until we get a lady prime minister
DEMMIN, Germany-Frau Alfred
Zoellner at the age of % Is the
mother of 18 children. all under
nine years. She gave birth to a
boy in 1920. a girl in 1922 and to
four successive sets of bankruptcies
In 1928, 1925, 1927 and 1929. Ten
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boys and eight girls, all sturdy,
make up the Zoellner family.

boys and eight girls. all sturdy,
make up the Zoellner family.
SAN JUAN, P. R.-Paulino,
bounding Basque, has a lot of
money. Guaranteed $4,000 for
fighting Francisco Cruz, he de-
manded and got it in one-dollar
bills before the bout.
NEW YORK-Worn out by the
exertion of shattering three UNI
brellas over the Washers heads,
Reena Blettel. beauty prize winner,
called a policeman when a fourth
~accosted her. She told the judge
she was too tired to hit him.
PARIS.-Pre-war love songs are
coming back. The girls r tired
Of jazz and syncopation." says the
man who Yields the baton at the
Cafe d'Harcourt, which sets the pace
for the Latin quarter. They want
love songs and waltz music"
ANGORIA, Turkey.-The Turks
are palnning to take to cigars, SO
that the accidental ward politician
and man about town may have
nothing on his Anatolian brother.
The Turkish tobacco monopoly is to
engage a foreign expert who will
teach the nation how to make cigars
and how to smoke them.
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RIO N C. OF C.

SAN BENITO, March 26. -
chamber of commerce is to be or
ganized at Rio Hondo Tuesday
night, according to j. z. Bell, man
ager of the local chamber. who has
been asked to help in the organiza-
ton work.
Mr.. Bell will attend the meeting
at Rio HOndO.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
Various Legends Tell
of the Origin of Music

Music, most authorities agree,
mad q vocal origin. Some believe
man attempted to initiate the
sounds of birds, others say his mel
ody developed from hunting calls
or other vocal signals employed in
primitive life. A Chinese legend
goes so far as to declare that q
miraculous bird provided the mu-
slcal scale, while the Japanese say
music was devised by the gods to
lure the sun-goddess from cave
where she had retired. The Arabian
legend has it that Modhar, a camel
driver, fell from his seat and hurt
mis- arm In pain he called out
ia, JOdah." His fine voice stirred
up the camels so that they moved
more quickly. So (who could not
guess the result from that time
all camei-drivers sang.
1t is interesting to note that the
Greek word from which Emusic" is
derived was used by that people to
embrace all the arts over which
the Nine Muses. were held to pre-
side. Hence, "Music" in those days
included all those branches Of edu-
cation concerned with the develop
ment Of the mind as opposed to the
body. What moderns specifically
call music, they referred to as "har-
mOny."
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
Some Warlike Females
Who Fought Own Battles

Many married men suspect the
truth of the legends of the Amazons,
a race Of warlike women who once
overran Europe, ventured as far
as India and Africa and founded
colonies in Asia Minor. Fairly au-
thentic history records that in 1910
an explorer, francesca de Orellana,
making his way from Peru to the
Atlantic through the Brazils, was
told of tribe of warrior women
who lived apart from the men. He
proceeded on his journey and ap-
preached the neighborhood at the
junction of the MADEIRA and Mara
non rivers, and suddenly found
himself opposed by group Of
warlike women who were gath
cred on the banks and were lead
ing the men in what might have
been a battle, had the explorer
given them an excuse for it.
Being convinced that he had
fallen on the renowned Amazons,
Orellana crOss-examined some of
the natives, who confirmed his be-
lief. The women appeared to be
very tall, robust, fair of COM
plexiOn, with long hair twisted
over their heads and skins of wild
beasts wound around their loins.
They carried bows and arrows with
which they succeeded in killing
many of the explorers party.
1t is said to have been for these
fair but ferOcious enemies that
Orellana named the river Amazon.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
last River Now Heated
by Big Power Plants

Back in ITO the East river at
New York city froze sufficiently to
ALLOW an army to cross over the Ice
lin safety. But nowadays the
|stream obstinately refuses to freeze,
teven when the temperature reaches
Its lowest extreme.
: One reason for the warmness Of
New York's adjacent waters may
be the action of the nine power
plants along its shores. For every
ton Of coal consumed In making
steam for the turbines, about 400
tons of water-which is drawn
from the river-are needed to con-
dense the steam back into water
latter 1t has served its useful pur-
pose. The water Is heated about
% degrees before 1t returns to Its
original habitat and at least 4OO,-
600 tons of water pass in and out
of the power plants every hour. 1t
has been computed that this has
the effect Of raising the temper
,ture of the whole river at least
10 degrees, In spite Of the strong
tidal current which changes its
waters twice daily by influx from
Long island sound and New York
harbOr.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
Morning Glory Blossom
Saved for Counts Eyes

A legend tells of the introduce
ton of the morning glory into ia
pan, says the New York Times. A
Japanese prince heard of a vine
that blossomed only in the early
morning, and notified the foreign
nobleman who owned it he was
coming to see it. When he arrived
the vines no longer were trailing
over the walls. The entire garden
had been uprooted and there was
no sign of the flower.
Being angered, he started to
leave. Having been invited to tea,
however, his sense of politeness
compelled him to turn back. On
entering the tearoom he saw a
single morning glory blossom in a
vase in raised alcove. Inquiring
Of the nObleman why the garden
had been ruined, the prince re-
ceived the reply, II ruined the gar
den In order that you might really
see the blossom. If it were in plen-
ty, you could not really have OBJ
served 1t so we'll as you did this
single last flower saved for your
eyes alone"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
Coleridge's Expensive Innocence

Material things bothered Cole
ridge little more than they do most
other poets and it is said that as
result of his aerial abstraction he
came to attend Jesus college, Cam
bridge, as innocence personified.
One of his biographers relates how
the young man was accosted by a
polite interior decorator requesting
to be permitted to fix up the new
pupils rooms. "How would you
like them furnfshed?" the trades
man asked in his most solicitous
manner. "Just as you please, sir"
replied Coleridge,: thinking the man
was employed by the college. The
decorator took the young man at
his large word and did a thorough
ly good job of it. Coleridge moved
in and was well pleased with his
quarters. A few days later he re-
ceived a bill, the amount of it max
ing him gasp, but Seeing where the
error was he did not complain.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
Thought Stars New Each Day

Metrodorus of Chios (not to be
confused with the four other Gre
clan philosophers of the same
name) was a complete skeptic. He
accepted the Democritian theory
of atoms and void and also be-
lieved in a plurality of worlds, but
he had very ingenious theory Of
his own by which he stanchly
stood. He declared the stars were
formed from day to day by the
moisture in the air under the heat
of the sun. His radical skepticism
also is seen In one of his writings
quoted by Cicero: eve know moth
ing, no, not even whether we know
or not!" His theory about the
stars drew a lot Of contemptuous
criticism but he came back at his
critics with, Everything is to each
person only what it appears to him
to be-"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
Easy for Woman to
Find Parking Space

I It was a busy corner and there
was parking space for just one
car. A gentleman espied the space,
counted it his own and proceeded
to ease his car into it. To do this
he had, it seems, to back, turn,
wheel, run forward, shift gears, and
attack on the right and left TANKS.
While he was going through this
very elaborate maneuvering, a
woman driver arrived and cleanly
usurped the parking space by the
absurdly simple method of driving
her automobile straight into 1t
without fourishes or trouble.
A moment or so passed and then
the gentleman realized for all his
strategy the position was lost.
"Say. sister -" he began, and
he was still talking as the woman
snapped the door of the car and
got lost in the crowd afoot.-Bal-
tfmore Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
First Sailboats

. The paintings and sculptures in
the early record of Egypt show reg
ularly formed boats constructed of
sawed planks of timber propelled
by numerous rowers and also by
sails. These vessels were long gal
legs with one mast and a large
square sail which was sometimes
of linen and sometimes Of papyrus.
The oldest authentic record as to
these sailing vessels Is the Illus
tration Of one of them used as a
decoration of an Egyptian amphora
Tin the British museum), judged to
have been made about 5000 B. G.
It is noted, however, that these
boats could sail only with the
wind. The science of sailing
against the wind was unknown for
thousands of years. They sailed
only when the wind was favorable.
The oarsmen worked when the
winds were unfavorable.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
Objected to Knitting
in London Co. Council

Knitting needles may not click
an accompaniment to the debates
In the London county council.
This unwritten law was laid
down with emphasis by an irate
masculine objector when Dame
Beatrice Lyall, member for East
! Fulham, produced a pair during an
all-night session and proceeded to
click off interminable hours of de-
bate with as many inches of warm
wooden sock.
No woman has yet had the hardi-
hood to produce knitting needles
in the house of commons, but in
the past men M. P.'s have done so.
The most famous knitter in par
namentary annals was one of the
Wason brothers, who were well
known to a former generation at
: Westminster. They were such big
men that they were prominent fig
ures wherever they appeared, and
the spectacle of one Of them, man
six feet tall and proportionately
hefty, plying his knitting needles
throughout debates in the house
must have been incongruOus. His
fellow M. P.'s apparently thought
nothing of it, however, for there
are no chronicled objections In
parliamentary archives.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
Black Ants Valuable
to Worry Coco Louise

"Without Black Ants No Coco
reads a sign posted at the entrance
of a great plantation in central
Java.
1t does not 60 unheeded, for the
natives hand in some four million
nests of these little creatures every
year, and receive payment in re-
turn. These black ants live only
upon trees infested by the white
coco louise.
Neither the louise nor the ants
injure the trees. The real enemy
Is q certain beetle whose name Is
Helopeltis, which also attacks the
tea plant. 1t has been found that
when the black ants are present
the Helopeltis fails to injure the
trees. Apparently this sap-sucking
pest is disturbed by the activity
of the ants, for the latter do not
attack the beetle.
This is why the black ants are
protected. Food is provided for
them by picking the white coco lice
from the shells of the fruit, where
they congregate, and placing them
on the coco trees to attract the
ants and disturb the beetles.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
Butterfat Production is
Gradually Reaching Peak
Market Naturally Declines-Egg
Demand Consumes Production
Poultry Steady

Eastern butter markets the past
week have been lower. Conditions
throughout the Central West are
generally showing an improvement.
From a production standpoint,
milk and butter volume is gradu-
ally increasing, as is to be expected
at this season. With larger sup
ply of butter available, there has
been an inclination on the part OF
receivers to keep stocks cleaned up
closely. Market declines are sea-
sonal and timely. At the present
time, the situation seems to be
about steady.
Chicago market today on 80
Score Standards is 41h cents.
Ninety-two Score Extras are 43
cents. These quotations represent
decline in Chicago of one cent,
New York one and one-half cents.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16

The lighter volume of eggs now
being marketed clearly indicates
that the peak production season
has passed. Eastern egg markets
have strengthened Quality of
eggs is generally good, but in some
sections it is showing the effects of
warmer weather. With the adj
vancing season it is important
that producers give close attention
to the gathering and care of eggs,
while on the farm and also to mar
ket at regular intervals.
Chicago market today on Firsts
is half cent higher, being quoted at
29h to 80 cents. New York is I'M
changed at 3O1a to 81 Il cents.
The weekly report of cold stor-
age holdings in the twenty-six larg-
est cities of the country, as issued
by the United States Department of
Agriculture, shows total volume
of eggs in storage as of May 4
this year 2,836,458 cases. The same
day last year there was in storage
in the same twenty-six cities 81
ooS,ZOO cases. Ou April ~, 1919,
there was in storage at the same
points 2, 339,847 cases compared
with 2,782,441 a year ago.
The volume of live poultry shows
little variation. Total receipts in
New York for last week were prac-
tically the same as the previous
week and slightly lighter than the
same week year ago. There con-
tinues to be good demand for
fowl and market quotations have
not changed materially.
More old ROSTERS are coming to
market and it is expected that the
volume will be materially heavier
with the actual culling of these
birds from the laying focks by the
producer.
Chicago live fowl market fol-
lows: leghorn fowl 80 cents, light
weight colored breeds 33, heavy
colored 20, old and young roosters
20 II, broilers, leghorns 80, colored
breeds 1 n to 11a pounds SO, heav-
Ter weights 1 ga to 2 pounds As
cents.-Produce Review, Swift &
Co., Chicago.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
An Odd Letter Box

A quaint letter box is to be
found on one of the front doors of
Connaught place, London. 1t is in
the form of a mans head, through
the vertically elongated mouth Of
which the letters are put. The
mouth is so very widely opened
that it almost makes ones jaws
ache in laughing sympathy.
The bell Gan old-fashioned wire
pulling one) is still more quaint.
Again a mans face is the model,
and, in order to ring the bell, you
must catch hold of his protruding
tongue. and pull it well out!
In Standardization they have
been making use of William Shake
speare as a door knocker for very
many years, though not with such
liberty as this existing in London.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
An Arithmetic of 1649

In the Garcia library of the Uni
versity of Texas is the Oldest
arithmetic in America. Upon touch
ing its vellum covers and buck skin
thongs your memory may. go back
to that proud but unwelcomed day
when your own schooling arrived
at the portal page of "FractiOns."
With awe one discovers that pupils
of 1649 had to wade through seven
chapters of mathematical quick
sands. The pioneers evidently de-
sired to obtain strength of mind in
their children for it was a stern
age. Another chapter was devoted
to the formation of military COM
panies in squares, hexagonal units
and other strange geometrical
forms. Otherwise the book shows
pupils struggled with the same
problems that perplex modern
youngsters.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
Thumb Index to Mentality

The thumb is said to be an ex-
cellent indicator of character.
Those who are in full possession
of all their faculties make good use
Of their thumbs. Wherever there
is tendency to insanity this gen.
orally useful and active member
falls out of work. A physician in
charge of lunatic asylum states
positively that if you see a person
whose thumb remains inactive
standing at right angles and TAX
ing no part in the act Of writing,
salutation, or manual exercise gen.
erally-you may be sure that he
has a diseased mind. He may talk
fntelligently and appear sane in
every respect, but undoubtedly a
tinge Of madness is lurking within
his brain
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
Figures Are Valuable
Only When Accurate

Statistics are like knives; they
can be used for good or evil, OBJ
serves DR.. Thurman B. Rice in
Hygeia. The commonest sentence
heard in debates usually begins:
statistics prove that" But Doc
tor Rice warns that statistics
prove nothing except when they
have been accurately collected,
compiled. interpreted and applied.
In the hands Of some devOtee of
a faddish project a given set of
figures may prove or disprove any
thing. When one hears a speaker
quote figures from memory or with
out giving the source of his in
formation it is time to go home,
says Doctor Rice. 1t is easy to for
get whether a certain death rate
was IA per thousand or IA per hun
dred thousand.
The unscientific man uses figures
to prove what he started out to
prove, while the scientist uses them
to lead him to the truth.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
Color of Planets

Venus, Jupiter and Mars are of
different colors. Venus is a silvery
white, Jupiter is yellowish and
Mars is red. The hue Of planets
represents their true colors, while
the color of stars is caused by the
temperatures of their surfaces. OBJ
served through a telescope, Venus
is seen to be covered with brilliant
white clouds, while the clouds of
Jupiter are saffron. Mars is not
obscured by clouds, however, and
through a telescope its surface can
be observed. This shows wide ex-
panses of what has been described
as red desert possibly q red sand
or rock.