Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-08
I'm OUR
VALLEY

to know about the proposed tariff
bill.
Other papers told about the
sugar tariff and similar tariffs
affecting the nation as a whole.
The Herald told its readers that
the bill proposed a three cents a
pound tariff on tomatoes, on beans.
on peppers, cucumbers and egg
plant: one and three-fourths cents
\ pound on onions. fifty cents a
hundred on potatoes. one and one
half cents pound on grapefruit:
one cent on oranges, two cents on
lines and lemons.
Commented one man:
"If that list goes through as Is.
well have to station men with
sticks at entrances to the Valley,
to keep out rush Of new set
tiers"
OF course. the measure will have
20 run the gauntlet OF both houses.
But Representative John N. Gar
ner knows what will please the VAL
ley people in this respect. and he
may be depended on 20 do his
durndest" for them.
rs MARY GOLD .DEAD?"
Goodness. we don't know. Four
teen telephone calls about II We'd
nesday morning. and here's let
ter from Helen Gum. Geraldine
Cooper and Martha Riddiford OF
San Benito:
I'VE have heard a lot Of COM
plants about Mary Colds death.
Please find some way to have her
come alive"
Dear readers. YOU may depend
upon this columns cooperation in
this really serious matter.
Mary Gold Is too sweet 10 per-
- her passing Sidney Smith II
$b. bombarded with protests
about the heartless way with which
he Is handling this thing.
We are for bringing Mary Gold
back to her public. Sending a wire
about II today.
SOMEONE has ordered that a
cate be constructed across the
American side Of the international
bridge.
Presumably the gate will be
rlosed only during the hours the
bridge is closed: that Is. from mid
night to 6 a. m.
Even so, it's too bad. Unless the
gate Is not visible during the day
light hours.
Somehow a gate seems to convey
that someone is being shut out
from somewhere.
For many years traffic has
flowed easily between Matamoros
and Brownsville. just as Il does
between any two cities anywhere
that are separated by a stream.
There have been no gates in all
those years.
Now we are to have one.
BROWNSVILLE is TO have two
new school buildings: or rather.
one new building and one rebuilt
structure.
The old grammar school. aban-
doned year ago. will be cut to
one story and rebuilt.
A new school building will serve
a new community. in Alta Vista. on
Harrison street. between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth. East.
Which will give the system nine
buildings within the city limits.
Twelve years ago there were two
buildings. the high school and the
recently abandoned grammar
school
SHARLES THERKILDSEN was
Tn Brownsville this week.
Charles Therkildsen formerly
kved in Brownsville. some thirteen
years ago
Newer fields beckoned him. He
went to McAllen. then a small
community and growing.
His business was-and is-that Of
laying concrete sidewalks.
He prospered. He became widely
known as Concrete Charlie"
Then. four years ago. misfortune
befell him. He lost his elesirht
But he is still Concrete Char
lie He still purSues the business
OF taking contracts FOR laying side
walks.
Sightless. he continues TO make
measurements. prepare estimates
and bid for work just as always.
BELIEVE 1T OR NOT. Browns
vile DID have a telephone ex-
change back in the eighties.
At a time when telephone ex-
3Ranges we're quite novelty in any
Sali city in the United States.
The fact was revealed through a
statement in The Herald regarding
the first international telephone
conversation. between Matamoros
and Brownsville. back in 1888.
There was only the one line 10
Matamoros. to the customers here.
But in Brownsville there were
something like go subscribers to the
service.
But not enough to justify con-
tinuance of the service So. for
some reason old timers do not re-
call. the telephone system here was
dismantled Poles and wires we're
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