Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-03
I'm OUR
VALLEY

aalis TO zo mere; years lowest.
A column or so away il comments:
icy winds gave Houston real
touch of winter as she got started
on the new year. No harm done,
this reminding US of the cold which
prevails in most other parts of the
country during so many weeks of
the winter.
THAT term winter" the writer
goes on to say, "has sinister
sound about it, but it means little
here in the semi-tropical gulf coast.
A breeze out Of the north. such as
we have today merely gives US q
chance to understand what it is all
about"
If THAT Is ALL TRUE in Hous-
ton, how much more 50 is it down
Ore in the Valley, 375 miles nearer
e.se equator than in Houston?
The recent "cool spell" brought a
minimum Of 80 to Brownsville, or
eleven degrees above the Houston
minimum.
tween having freezing weather and
not having it.
Down here in the Valley, in fact.
the recent weather was what one
might call "snappy.' Put punch and
pep into the folks, without creating
much discomfort.
It's the wet" norther that ehills
in the Valley, not the sort that has
recently been experienced.
W. FRANK BROWN is the first
"out and out" farmer TO serve Cam
eron county rs high sheriff.
At least in the past quarter OF a
century.
Going back some sixteen years.
there was Sheriff Carl Ryan, Of
ranch and ranger experience.
Then there was ". T. Nann, who
had been in politics virtually all his
life.
Then Col. Sam Robertson, engi-
neer and builder.
Then L. G. Nichols. irrigation ex-
ecutive.
Then Mrs. ". T. Vann, widow OF
Sheriff Vann, housewife and wom-
an sheriff who made good at her
sob.
And now Frank Brown, farmer.
INCIDENTALLY, Frank Brown
stepped out into new fields for ma
terial for his staff.
He looked around and decided that
Frank c. Gay, for many years in the
federal border service. was the man
he wanted for chief deupty sheriff.
Offered Frank Gay of the Border
Patrol the Job. And "Pancho," as
he is known TO his associates, ae-
eepted.
Frank GAYS previous experience
ha. carried him over every trail In
Cameron county. He knows the bor-
der underworld" IL it can be term
ed. such, as well as the next one
And Sheriff Brown. with many
wears OF farm experience in the
wth and south ends Of the coun-
try, Is equally familiar with the ter
ritory.
Results may be expected from that
sort OF a combination.
THE NEW YORK HERALD-TRlB-
JrNF. in a recent issue, carried an
announcement, about two inches IN
length, Of willacy county's decision
20 vote on n bond issue Of S7,50o.00O
70 place about 10000 acres Of "dry
land" under irrigation.
With the aid of stored flood wa
ters of the Rio Grande.
That is no small undertaking for
a populous county. Ana undertaken
bv willacy county, county OF
1000 population, it is tremendously
ambitious program.
Probably the issue is the largest
sver undertaken by n Texas county,
and unauestionably IL is the largest
ever conceived by purely agrieul-
tural county anywhere in the United
Sta.es-a nation that has habit OF
"thinking big
when and If Willacy county does
+his thing. il should be broadcast 70
~. four corners Of the country oy
the press. And the press VIII 40 T.
HARRY sLAyITCHEK is the own
20 three Harry's Cigar stores =
prownsville, retail houses, ana ~
=. conducts a wholesale business
throughout the Valley
annG1TC0
usrald n brief news article annouhc-
- the removal Of one OF his re-
which recalls the early days ot
.yarrv,. Cigar Store" That was
...t about 1915 when he rented a
sr,.ll space in the lobby OF the
sLrehants' National Bank building
xnfd cigars and candies, and con-
Surted a newspaper and magazine
agency.
Then came the war. Harry closed
49,, his store. Stored his fixtures.
Went away TO war.
The war over he came back. lie
reOpened in the same location
Started all over gain.
~HARRY'S" must have prospered.
ror after A few years, in 1923. he
onened Harry's No. . at 1928 Eliza
beth street.
Then the annex-row the main
huiIdinr-of the Travellers Hotel
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