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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
LAST DAY FOR
TAXES IS BUSY
City Collector Rushed In
Accepting Payments
On Property

City Tax Collector H. Sterling
Wednesday was having his busiest
day at accepting tax payments
since January 81.
Wednesday, last day of the
month, is the last day for paying
the second installment Of taxes for
1928. Those failing to call at the
city hall and pay the balance due,
Immediately will become delinquent
and penalties will accrue from Aug
ust /.
At the beginning Of the period
for the pawn ent Of the second in
stanments on February /, a total
of $50, 654.17 was due the city. OF
that amount, $33,438.09 has been
paid, according to the tax collec-
tors records, leaving S26, 6.03.s
Delinquent accounts on August
should not exceed $4,000 or $5,00O,'
Sterling said, land most OF that
probably will be wiped out in a few
days. This is in contrast to de-
linquencies totaling $4,000 on Feb
ruary /, at the end of the first in
stallment period"
The total taxes assessed for 1928
we're, in round figures, $218,800, and
approximately $4,000 Of this will
be collected, it is believed.
Penalties which accrue from Aug
ust l are 10 per cent on the total
plus interest at the rate Of six per
cent per annum dating from Feb
ruary !.
I'VE will keep the office open un-
til 9 p. m. Wednesday night for the
convenience of those who are un-
able to come to the city hall during
the day." Sterling said.
Immediately after August /, Ster-
ling said he will begin compilation
Of a delinquent record of all unpaid
taxes from 1885 to 1928, including
those becoming delinquent on Aug
uSt l. Such a record last was made
in 1928. Since that time, supple
ments for succeeding years have
been added, and these will be con-
Solidated.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
Valley Request For
Water Is Delayed

Especial to The HeraId)
AUSTIN, July 31.-For water to
be used in oil development, mid
Kansas Oil and Gas company Mon
day was authorized by the state
board of water engineers to store
200 acre-feet of the flow Of Oak
creek, a tributary of the Colorado
river. in Coke county. The applica-
ton was granted over the protests
of Lakeside Irrigation company.
The board granted Everett Love
of Laredo the right to take water
from the Rio Grande and store 1t
for irrigating GAO acres.
Six applications were postponed
until August IS, including:
Edward Roos, irrigate 240O acres
in Cameron county; A. F. Parker,
~irrigate 2400 acres in Cameron
county; FL Paso Electric company,
generate 247,O00 horsepower energy
at FL Paso. -,
Fred Fiel. w. L. Peltier, and Pei
tier Bros, three applications to ir-
rigate altogether 100 acres IN Bra
zoria county.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
SANTA ROSA
PERSONALS


Miss Mildred O'Neal Of Lake
Charles, La, is visiting her two
rncles, and relatives who have just
moved into their new home from
Lake Charles. Miss O'Neal is a
former resident OF Santa Rosa and
was graduated from the high school,
there in the class Of %.
Mrs. Walter Fontenot and daugh-
tiers. Christine and Dorothy. have
returned to their home in San An
tonic. They have visited several
weeks in Santa Rosa which was
their former home.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Amos Todd and
on, have returned from Lake
Charles, La. where they have been
visiting for the past two weeks. Mr..
Todd is resident manager Of the
Barber Feed and Tile Company. Mr..
Lew Schuckenbrock had charge Of
the business during Mr.. Todd's abb
sence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Williams
were in Harrington Sunday
Miss Mary Ball was overnight
guest of Miss Krin Crawford Of
Harrington. Monday.
jaw Carter was a Harrington visit
or Sunday.
Bobbie Stephens of Ia Feria wa
a guest in the H. A. Ferris home
Friday.
Miss Mary Ball and Jimmie
Nuchols were in Harrington Sunday
evening.
AEarl Macintosh of San Benito
Vsas in Santa Rosa Sunday evening.
John Wallace of La Feria was the
quest of his mother and father-in-
law. MI. and Mrs. w. L. Franklin,
Sunday.
Orris and Walter Sibson have
Joined their sister, Miss Beulah Sib-
son and Mrs. Orris Sibson and
daughters, Lucille and Letha in
Kerrville.
Miss Melba Berry and her father
have just returned from Kingsville
where Mrs. Berry was staying. Mrs.
Berry accompanied them home.
Billy Crews has returned to his
home in Crystal Springs, Missis-
sippi. after an extended visit with
Santa Rosa and Harrington friends.
Phyllis Richardson, Mike" Scott,
and Calvin Duncan we're visitors in
Harlingen Sunday.
Herman Williams was a business
visitor in Harlingen Monday morn
Ing.
Mr.. Kerrito, the director Of the
band Of Mercedes, was in Santa
Rosa Monday.
Don Woodruff Of Harrington was
a caller in Santa Rosa Monday eve
ming.
Mrs. Herman williams was IN
Harrington Monday afternoon.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
BOARD STUDIES
MARKET SYSTEM
Cooperative Selling To Be
First Project of
Farm Relief

WASHINGTON, July 31.-(R-
Evolvement of perhaps a half dozen
gigantic farmer-oWned cooperative
organizations to conduct orderly
mass marketing of tn principal
agricultural commodities is under
consideration by the completed
federal farm board as the founda-
ton for it's attempt to bring pros
iDerity to farming.
Once the program is brought to
fulfillment, farm leaders expect it to
make the United states the arena
for the greatest experiment IN CO.
operative marketing the world has
ever known. AS now contemplated,
it will be based On demonstrated
needs in each branch Of agriculture
affected and On consideration
of special crop conditions.
Under the guidance Of President
Hoover and the members Of the
farm board all avowed advocates
of the cooperative movement, sta
bilization operations by The govern
ment on the open market will be
avoided, if possible. Large market
ing associations, they believe, Will
be able to produce results as bene-
fetal as the government could OBJ
tain by employing the sterilization
provisions of the farm relief act.
The cooperative program, involv-
ing an enormous amount OF Work,
IS recognized as requiring consider
able time. but its development is
believed to have been greatly facll-
itated by the completion OF the
boards membership with the ap-
pointment of Sam r. McKelvie, for
mer governor of Nebraska, as the
spokesman for the wheat and coarse
grains industry. Because Of differ
ences between the cooperative and
pool groups in the grain industry,
President Hoover had much diff
Guilty in filling the place, and NC
Kelvie accepted only on condition
that he would be free to retire at
the end Of a year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
Board Says Vestris
Was Unfit For Trip

LONDON, July 31.-(P)-That the
Lamport and Hol. liner Vestris,
when she set out on her fatal voy-
age from Hoboken last November
was overloaded and unfit to en-
counter the perils of her winter trip.
was the main finding of the board
Of trades inquiry into her sinking
with a loss of liz lives rendered
today.
The inquiry court also found that
when peril did overtake the ship
her S. o. S. warning was too long
delayed, the court declaring that
it should have been sent out six
hours earlier.
The court, which had sat for a
record period of forty days hearing
evidence in the case which previ-
ously had been dealt with by two
American investigating bodies, went
infinitely into all the circuSntan-
ces of the ships tragic end.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
VALLEY TO GET
new EXCHANGE
Telephone Company Opens
Branch at Los Fresnos
Saturday, Aug. 3
Especial to The Herald

p6C 10 Inc d6TGlCJ
LOS FRESNOS, July 31.-The Of
fetal opening Of the Los Fresnos
Exchange of the Rio Grande VAL
ley Telephone, company viii take
place Saturday, August 3, accord
ing to j. @. Paxton, general man
ager of the organization, who states
that at that time one of the small
est exchanges n the world using
the m battery system will be
formally opened to the public.
The new Los Fresnos exchange
is modern in every detail and sufft-
cient equipment has been Installed
to adequately handle any future
growth Of the Los FresnoS area. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Paxton such an ex-
change represents a new idea IN
small town telephone service but 1t
is consistent with the policy OF the
Rio Grande Valley Telephone CON-
pany of providing the most effici-
ent service possible in all sections
served by the company.
According t. Mrs. E. Waller,
agent at the Los Fresnos exchange,
the formal opening will be held be-
tween the hours of 5 and 8 p. m.
During that time visitors will be
given the opportunity CT viewing
the switchboard and other units Of
| equipment in actual operation. All
residents of the Los Fresnos area
are urged to attend the opening in
order that they may become faml-
liar with the exchange and fami-
liarize themselves with the modern
equipment that has been installed
to afford them better service. Re-
| freshmentS will be served to those
attending. j. H. Tucker is manager
Of the Los Fresnos exchange and
will be present at the opening with
other officials of the telephone or
g~aniZation.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
Rail Applications
Promise Extension

FORT WORTH, July 31.-[PJ-
More than Sc, 0 900 worth of rail-
roads would be built in northwest
Texas and the Panhandle If the
Interstate Commerce Commission
granted applications presented DIT
in hearings here.
AS the third day Of sessions be-
gan today, Charles Mahaffie, Inter-
state Commerce Commissioner eX-
aminer, and Texas Railroad Com
mission members had heard 33 wit
nesSeS testify as to the advisable
ity of building 1925 miles Of new
railroad, tapping the rich east Pan
handle and giving that section a
more direct route into Fort Worth
and Dallas markets.
Cattlemen, grain raisers, grain
dealers and others have testified,
urging the I. G. c.. to permit a
construction of a 44-mile line from
Seymour to Vernon; 90 conStruc-
ton Of a 34-5 mile line from
Quanah to the Vernon-Seymour
road near Beaver creek; go build
ing of a 74-mile from from Quanah
to Shamrock via Wellington; "a
granting Of trackage rights by the
Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf
from Jacksboro to Fort Worth t.
the St. Louis-San Francisco; (5)
leasing or sale of the Gulf, Texas
and Western between Seymour and
Salesville, its ends, to the Frisco.
The Frisco seeks to buy or lease
the Gulf, Texas and Western and
construct the Seymour-Vernon line.
to which the Rock Island WouI1
connect a Shamrock : Quanah
branch near Beaver Greek. Joint
trains would be operated over the
Gulf, Texas and Western and the
new line from Beaver Greek to Sey-
mour by the Frisco and Rock
Island. That route would brine
Amarillo and other Panhandle
towns nearer to Fort Worth, Amar-
lilo 1913 miles closer than by the
Rock Island line through Ell Reno,
Okla, the present traffic lane.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
Watch Cotton Staple,
Course Speaker Urges

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July
31.-[P- Thousands of alumni of
the farm and kitchen continued to-
day to draw from specialized ex-
perts valuable information about
agriculture and its kindred
branches.
AS the third day - A. and M.
colleges Goth annual farmers short
course opened, the students" had
heard from John A. Todd, a Brit
ish cotton authority, awarning that
the decrease in the length Of staple
Of American cotton should be to
them a matter of serious concern.
He explained that. added to fluc-
tuations in prices caused by vary
ing volume of the crop, the stead
lily shortening staple created q
serious business difficulty"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
Thinks Valley Best
Spot For Tourists

Tennessee and North Carolina
cities are seeking tourist traffic but
what they have to offer in the way
Of attractions does not compare
with the Valley. in the opinion Of r.
c. Morris of the Frontier Lumber
company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris returned
Tuesday from Gallatin, Tenn,
where they spent the past several
weeks visiting relE----S.
While there they toured various
points of interest along the Atlantic
seaboard. Nowhere did they find
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
Budget For County
Is Being Prepared

County Auditor J. j. Bishop We'd
nesday was working on the budget
for the new fiscal year, which be-
gins August /.
Its not a question Of setting
the budget to suit our needs, but
one of keeping our needs within
what we're going to be allowed"
Bishop said.
The county for the past several
years has witnessed an increase in
expenditures for carrying on county
business, but only in proportion IT,
the growth of the county.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
Santa Fe VIII Take
Over Orient Thursday

WICHITA, Kans., July 31.-(P-
the close Of business today,
kthe kansas City, Mexico and Orient
railroad will cease to be an indie
nendent carrier. Tomorrow it Will
begin its existence as the Orient
division of the Santa Fe, its pur-
chaser.
The Orient has been lndepend-
emily owned and operated since It's
inception in 1902 by Arthur Still
well, pioneer railroad builder, even
5espite bankruptcy proceedings.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31

The people VINO lou4ueu Clllc
country crossed the wild and stormy
seas and faced hunger and death
and untold privation because they
were not aristocrats and did not be-
lieve in aristocracy.
We own the earth, we Americans.
We have money and brains and
courage and energy.
The world swings before US like
a great round ball Of pliable putty
and all we have to do to conquer
it is to stick our thumbs into the
putty and work our determined will
of it.
Let's keep our feet on the ground
the good solid ground-and let
those who can boast of nothing else
boast of 'aristocracy."
That word comes with not much
grace from the lips of a plain Amer
lean.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31

w. H. Holmes of Amarillo, re-
puted Texas coolest spot, will like
ly 90 where it is still colder. Alaska
newspapers say he is certain to De
appointed governor of Alaska, an
office he long has aspired to.
Odessa will have its birthday Sat-
Urday, Aug. 8. but has changed the
date Of celebrating it to Monday, ct
the insistence of merchants.
FL Paso reports two Juarez girls.
Mona Ortega and Francisco Mar
tinez, sought to get a marriage Il
cense to wed each other in Juarez
The Martinez girl said she has
worn masculine attire most of her
life. The license was refused.
"A negro is in jail at Corpus
Christi, charged with a mania for
stealing the green covers off pool
tables.
Joe Napoleon, clerk in the Ell Pasc
detective bureau, was arrested as
an army deserter.
The Mexican and Texas capitals
will be only 10 hours apart in 4
new all-sunlight schedule announc-
ed by airmail and passenger SER
vices. The fast schedule will con-
meet up with all portions of Texas
at Laredo, Austin, Waco and Dali
las.
A pearl button factory neal
Brownsville, a Sauerkraut cannery
at Robstown and an egg exporting
plant at Mercedes are among new
and different" Texas industries.
Homer Field, Bertram sheep buy
er, reported to officers he was fleec-
ed out of $500 when he went tt
Brentwood to purchase some ami
mails. He said men he talked to got
the money out of his pocket anc
then claimed it had been won in g
poker game.
r. P. Etter of Hunt county cele-
brated his 73rd birthday in a GENE.
terry. A vault was installed on tbs
Etter lot in the burial grounds.
Joe Richarz at Uvalde reporteI
finding three deer that had beer
drowned by a sudden rise in q
| stream.
]. Frank Norfleet, Hale Center
rancher and manhunter, has gone
to New York to record his remark
able adventures in tonefilm.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31

lege, tells young men to be "aristocrats in training
and conviction"
What in the name of common sense did these
two men mean?
American aristocracyl-where is it? and who
are the aristocratS?
Did they come from the First Families of vir-
GINA? How many of them had grandfathers who
bought their wives on the pier for two hundred
pounds of good Virginia tobacco?
How many of them had ancestors who came
over in the Mayflower-good. honest, Woodworking,
courageous carpenters and joinSs and blacksmiths
and farmers? Half of them couldn't write their own
names and didn't want to write them.
What was there aristocratic about a farmer with
a fail in his hands or a shoemaker with his awl in
his pocket?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
ITALY
MONTE ROSA ASCENT

MACUGNANA, Italy, July 3D.
R-The skill and hardihood OF
Pope Plus XXI as an Alpine climber
was commemorated today by this
town and all the surrounding
countryside on the fortieth ami
versary of the then Father Ratti's
triumphal ascent Of Monte Rosa.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
ARSENAL

BELGRADE Jugoslavia. July 81.
arsenal at Sarajevo was
destroyed by fire last night, damage
amounting to 100000 dinars, or
about ST, 500, 900.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31

anything 10 compare with the VAL
ley, they said. Development in that
section has been rapid, hut not
nearly SO rapid as in this part Of
the country, Morris stated.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
TEXAS TOPICS

A place that's colder-1O hours
to Mexico City-Odd industries
-Sheepmen fleeced - Spends
birthday In cemetery-Flood
browns deer-Norfleet in pic
lures.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
RAISE RATE

BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 81
(P)-The Belgian National bank
raised its discount rate today from
4 per cent to 5 per cent.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31
BEING
A ITS ADVANTAGES
But, Says Winifred Black in Commenting on Professor
McConaughy's Advice to His Students, It Is
Hardly a Becoming American Pose
Bv WINIFRED BLACK

What on earth is getting into the college professors, anyhow?
Professor Rogers told the students of a great American college the
other day that they must be "snobs" if they wanted to get on.
And now President McConaughy, of another good big American COL
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31

cracy. and lust exactly what kind of a joke is it anyhow?
A giant may be a husky fellow with a pair Of broad shoulders and
good strong back and a kind and honest heart, but when he begins to
a a dwarf-what is the matter with him?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31

w. H. Holmes Of Amarillo, re-
puted Texas coolest spot, will like
ly 90 where it is still colder. Alaska
newspapers say he is certain to pe
appointed governor of Alaska, an
office he long has aspired to.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31

Odessa will have its birthday Sat-
urday, Aug. 3. but has changed the
date of celebrating it to Monday, at
the inSistence of merchants.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-25
DOING AWAY WITH GUIDES

Every American is familiar with the ordinary
town where there spos Of historic interest which
draws tourists
You get off of the train pull your up to the
curb and straightway your assaed by the cries
of the guides. Sometimes they almost assault you in
their eagerness to be the first to pilot about Big
sightseeing busses rumble by constantly with leather
lunged gentlemen bawling through megaphones the
stories and traditions this or that noted place.
The procedure nearly always, is dismaying; yet
in the luckless tourist has He
must get in the bus hire guide of his if he is
to the things his legitimate curiosity mpels him to
But his enjoyment of them is reduced by half by
the incessant chatter of the guides
and the people who happen to live in the town cannot
help feeling the loss of dignity that the whole business
involves
All of these things being so, it is pleasure to
cord the way Fredericksburg in Virginia. has solved
the problem.
Fredericksburg, boyhood home of Washington, is
full of historic spots 1t gets many tourists to
visit these places And the city fathers have printed
a great number of little maps. On these maps the
points of interest numbered, described and identi
fled. Each tourist is given and told to go and be
his own guide.
There are professional guides and sight
seeing buses The tourist the sights in far great
er comfort and the town spared the racket and dis
traction Of the ordinary sightseers haven.
1t is excellent plan. Let's hope it can be
copied widely
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-25
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD Z. GARIS
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY AND
SALLIE'S SLIDE

ooh, dear.'' sighed Sister
Sallie, the little chipmunt girl. L
wish had something to do"
"Why don't You playa asked
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy. For Sis
ter Sallie, though she didn't live in
it, was skipping and hopping around
Uncle Wiggily S hollow stump
bungalow that morning.
u don't know what to play,
sadly chattered Sister Sallie, who
was a sort of squirrel, and a sec
ond cousin to Johnnie and Billie
Pushytail. Cant you play with
me Nurse Jane?'
"'Oh, dear me, Nonsense, Of
course 1 can't said the muskrat
lazy housekeeper. Il must work.
Play is only for children when they
don't have to go to school. >
- | almost wish there was school, -
said Sallie. Then ia have some
thing to do. Where's Uncle Wig
gilv2"
''He has gone adventuring, -
spoke Nurse Jane. Now skip
along, Sister Sallie, and please
don t bother me any more. l have
my work to do. There is no long
vacation for me-. -
Sister Sallie almost wished there
was no long vacation Tor her, now
that she couldn't have any fun. For
though it was quite jolly, at first,
not to have to GO to class and recite
lessons, now, after several weeks
of staying home, Sal!ie began to
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-25

ter salHe bumped right into him
ker splash
.sWen, Welt" cried the rabbit
gentleman jumping up quickly as as
he felt the bump. WHAT 5 an
this
con. excuse ne, if you please,
said Sailie. picking herself up from
where she had rolled beneath Il
clump of grass. Il wanted to have
some fun, and Nurse Jane told me
TO do this
".Hid Nurse Jane tell you to
bump into mc?' chueklcd Uncle
Wiggiiy.
s.No. No, thank You answered
Sallic. II did tha: all by myself.
was trying to slide down hill, hut !
couldn T slide ON the grass 50
rolled. Excuse me, please.
Uncle Wiggily said he would and
thcn, all Of sudden, Sallic saw u
long board at one side of the hill.
Running to it she cried:
ooh, maybe l can slide down
this. It's like Il hill and 1t 5
| smoother than the grass. >
So, Uncle Wiggiiy watched, sal
lie sat down on the high, top part
of the board, and, giving herself a
little push, she began to slide to
/ the bottom.
But, dear me! There were splint-
crs in the board, which was quite
/: rough and the splinters stuck in
poor Sallie's legs and she was al
most ready to cry when she had
slid to the bottom.
: .'Oh. this is too bad, said
Uncle Wiggily. "Such rough
board -
Cant you make it smooth, like
the hamboo slides in the play
! ground, so l can slide down. ask
ed Salie.
Uncle Wiggily looked at the
board. 1t was very rough and full