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National-Vitaplcne picture, there was plenty Of conversation on the sidelines, fifty feet away. For the first time the red "Vitaphoning- Keep Outl" sign was removed from 2 talking picture set, and in it's place another red sign. Quiet oleasel Stay Behind Ropes; No Loud Talk"
 And the crowd was a large one, for the filming of these outdoor scenes, under natural sunlight, was the test of a new sound filter which will hereafter improve sound pie ture technique
 Tn addition to the stars of the picture, a taxicab driver, Gertrude Astor, Jed Prouty, Kate Price and James Finlayson took part in the scenes. The spectators, represent ing nearly every department in the studio, assembled to see the test of the new sound device, heard all of the players speak in a regular scene for Two Weeks Off, and presently heard the "play-back' from the recording room.
 William Beaudine directed Two Weeks Off" which comes to the Palace Theatre, starting at the Sunday matinee. Eddie Gribbon, Dixie Gay and Gertie Messenger, are in the cast.
 The improvement in sound re- cording that results from the use of the new filter on the nnicrophone will better the quality of the voices and sounds and restrict the pick ing up" range of the recording.
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TEACHING OF
 CHARACTER IS
 PLANNED NOW
Innovation in Public School Procedure Is to Be
 Launched

PONTIAC, Mich, Jan 18.--An innovation n public school proced- ure is to be launched here when a directorship of character edu- cation will be established.
 Plans for the new office and what it is hoped will be accom- plished have been announced by James H. Harris, Superintendent of Schools.
 Because of it's complexity there has been wide difference of opin- ion as to methods of dealing with character education" he says The growing laxity of morals, the in- ereasing disregard for law, the les sening of home and parental au- thority through conditions of mod ern life, the increase of crime, the breakdown of religious sanctions, all unite to force conscious consid- eration of this problem
 To place the plan under actual tcSU biiC DOdl u VI GuuCdIlOil ut Pontiac has engaged Kenneth L. Heaton, who is at present studying at the University of Chicago, as the first director of character edu- cation.
 The Pontiac school officials have drawn up a tentative plan, which is threefold:
 First-The director shall plan to educate and train teachers in the technique of handling personal problem cases.
 Second-It will be his task to coordinate all the. forces and &C., tiyities that at present in an incl dental and unorganized way make fer good citizenship and character development and bring them to an awareness of their place in the total scheme of things.
 Third-The director will interest hinself in case work-in the spe- cific proble moi the boy or girl who makes the initial nisstep and perhaps may be prevented from further errors if the right methods are employed.
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Continued rom Page One) cent more money into the box of flee than any other picture they can show
 As a result, the rush is on to equip theatres for the projection of American dialog films. One Amer ican electric concern is selling in- stallations at the rate of 10 day flor the American talkies require American projection equipment and that only adds to the irrita- tion of those who have been de- manding more speed in the develop ment of talking picture industry here.
 To date not a single feature length, made-in-E England talking picture has been shown here, all though numerous short subjects have reached the screen. Where fore one London critic wrathfully writes:
 we do the talking-but Holly wood makes the talkies."
 British producers, however, have not been as inactive as some of their critics assume. A tour of studios hereabout reveals talking picture plants in various stages of completion; none, it is true, as costly or elaborate as several re- gently completed in Hollywood. Six months from now Hollywood talkies will have to compete with feature length English productions. What worries the advocates of more British haste is the thought that by the time the British talkies are appearing in formidable numbers the British picture-going public will have become accustomed to hear ing American English on the screen.
 Right now they not only listen to it, but gladly pay money to hear it.
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FORTY MILE
 DISTRICT IS
 COMING BACK
Lee Steel Acquires Prop erty Will Be Worked
 by Electrical Dredges

Mining development work which embraces about IS miles of placer gruond on the Forty Mile River, taking in Franklin Creek, Chicken Greek and Mosquito Fork, will com mence as early in the spring as is practicable, according to Deputy Collector of Customs J. J. Hillard of Eagle, who arrived in Juneau with his family on the Queen Fri day morning.
 Lee Steel, a well known mining man of the Forty Mile country who took options on ground two years ago, received title to the claims last summer and began hauling supplies from Eagle with 9 cater pillar. Construction of dam and power house about 40 miles above the mouth of Chicken Greek will begin early in the spring. The power will be used to operate elec- trical dredges.
 Population Drops
 The population of the Forty Mile district, which was about 100 in 1929, has dropped to less than half a dozen this winter, Hillard said, due to the sudden prosperity of the inhabitants who sold their ground to Steel and left for parts unknown on vacations at
 Steel gave the country a touch of high life when he introduced a caterpillar tractor to transport his supplies from Eagle. to. Chicken Greek. There are about 12 miles of road extending from Eagle, but the rest Of the 50-mile traverse is unbrokcn swamp and niggerhead country. Steel hooked on to a farm wagon loaded with two and one-half tons of freight and took it through in record time. Pack horses have been used for this work heretofore.
 The airplanes from Fairbanks are giving good service in the Eagle country and much of the perishable freight for the creeks goes by air The oldtimers are using planes to get in and out of the diggings, also.
 L. B. Cowden, well known min ing man operating on Walker Fork, did well last season, MT. Hillard said. He used a steam shovel and scraper.
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make the movies so fascinating, The dialogue has been reproduced well and the musical synchroniza- . tion is charming and extremely me- lodious. Richard Thorpe, the di- rector, yielded the megaphone with talent.
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GLASSES FOR BLIND GROW

NEW YORK, Jan. 18.-There are $50 sight saving classes in the United States where children are taught under conditions calculated to preserve a waning sense of tight.
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The National Educational Asso- citation estimates that for every dol lar Arkansas spends on education, t pays s644 for motor cars.
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 TWO WEEKS OFF" IS AT PALACE TOMORROW

While Jack Mulhall, Dorothy Mackaill and others in the cast of TWO Weeks Off, spoke their lines on a city street scene of the First
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-15

piloting the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern association. believes football training helps many base ball infielders. s
 Commenting on two former col lege halfbacks, Luke Appling of Oglethorpe, and Bill Bancroft of Howard, two of the most promis- ing rockies in the Southern this year, Johnny said:
 T think football must be good for infielders. Notice the way Ap- bling and Bancroft use their hips. They may be starting one way but are able to shift their balance with an almost imperceptible sway and go get that ball.
 Tt is instinctive, but without it an infielder isn't going far imag- inc football helps develop that in- stinct The fact is, I asked both of them If they had played football when I saw that little movement" !"
 Appling. playing shortstop for Atlanta, has attracted the atten- tion of major league scouts who also are looking over Bancroft, sec ond sacker for Birmingham.
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SEATTLE, Wash.-The job of harnessing the migSy Columbia river for agriculture and industry has been begun by army engineers.
 More than 100000 horsepower of electrical energy may be pro- duced by maximum development of this largest river in the far west and it's tributaries, engineers have determined after a years survey.
 Hand in hand with the hydro electric exploitation is a reclama- ton project involving millions of acres of semi-arid farm land in the rivers basin.
 Ultimate development of the Co., lumbia also will open new water way 750 miles long from the rivers mouth to the Canadian border.
 Maj. John s. Butler, army dis trict engineer at Seattle, has di- rected study of the river which drains a territory equal to more than one fourteenth of the nations area.
 Government engineers estimate ultimate development of the river and it's tributaries will involve an investment of $50O.0eO. .0O0.
 Markets for the power and addi-
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drawn by gravity to irrigate farm lands.
 The second plan contemplates taking water from the Clark Fork river at Albany Falls, Ida, conduct ing it through a series of canals, lakes and other water courses for 135 miles and distributing it by gravity over the area to be re- claimed.
 Navigation of the Columbia and one of it's principal tributaries, the Snake, already has figured in the movement of crops from the grain belt of Washington, Idaho and Ore gon. Locks were built in the river some years ago.
 A reduction in railroad rates, however, later wiped out the river freighting, but efforts to revive it are being made.
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tional crops to be created by de- velopment of the stream have been studied, in addition to power and navigation sites, needs of irrigation and other related subjects.
 Construction of the first big pow CT project on the Columbia already has begun-a s12,O0o,OOO hydro-e,ec- tric plant at Rock Island, near Wenatchee. There provision will be made for locks to carry freight boats of the future around the dam.
 Typ plans for reclamation of semi-arid lands of the Columbia riv- CT basin, which covers 1883, ,000 acres, have been suggested
 One calls for a dam across the Columbia at the head of Grand Coulee, where glacial action once turned the Columbia from its old course into an entirely new chan nel
 By this plan the Columbia's old bed, now 600 feet above the river level at the point of diversion, would be used as a canal and stor- age basin. A power plant at this point would pump water to the Grand Coulee, whence it would be
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COBB LEADS WAIVER BY TEN POINTS LIN
 LIFETIME, HITTING

PITTSBURGH, Aug. IS. = Paul Waner, senior member of the base ball firm of Waner and Waner, owns a lifetime batting average of | .365. - ae.fY Pouring over his records, baseball writers discovered the Pirate out fielder came to bat 1,61l times and
 made 609 hits, an average of .378,
 during the three years he was with
 the San Francisco Pacific coast club ~
 Waner, whose brother, Lloyd, also
 cavorts in the outer garden for Pittsburgh, has been with the Buc- cancers four full seasons, making
 890 hits in 2,497 trips to the plate. His batting average of .358, glean-
 ed in major league baseball, is only 10 points less than Ty Cobb's rec ord and four points under Rogers Hornsby's mark, the best in the Ma tional league since 1876.
 Paul hasn't missed the 300 mark in the yearly averages since he en-
 tered the professional ranks.
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RAPID GROWTH IS ACCOUNTED
 BY BIC STORE
George Brothers Celebrate Seventh Anniversary
 of Establishment

Tn observing the seventh anni- yersary of its entry into the local business field, the firm of George Brothers rccites a record of one Of the fastest growing institutions in the Territory In seven years it has emerged from the rank Of a small grocery house. carrying sta pie lines. to an institution dealing in all Kinds of groceries and ad- juntts, and a department store handling everything needed for wear for men, women and children, and household furnishihgs.
 A year ago, in comniemorating it's sixth anniversary the firm an- nounced it's first six years growth had surpassed its expectations for the decade Yet in the year that has elapsed, it has added as much as had been built up in the first six
 Adds Department Store
 A year ago George Brothers was still confining it's activities to the grceery trade. It had what it con- sidered every possible facility for rendering efficient service to it's customers. It foresaw expansion in the future. but believed it would bc slower than in the first six years. sts
 Tn the 12-month period that has elapsed, it has eelipsed all former records, it was pointed out by
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tory was installed several weeks ago by w. P Johnson. local agent.
 This equipment gives the firm storage space for prodiice and other perishable items in quantities suf- ficient to carry through between boat arrivals from States markets. And it enables the firm to keep such commodities in the very best condition.
 Two delivery services daily have been added during the. year, in creasing the number from three to five. Fast deliveries morning and afternoon have speeded up that branch of the business for the con- venience of customers, and has eff fectively added to the number of patrons, it was said.
 Proud of Record
 "Last year we proclaimed the pride we felt in our record. As we said then, we now reiterate, the one feature that has been the source of greatest qualification is the friends we have made. Our old friends, who were with us in the beginning have stayed by us and each year has added to their number. The past year has brought us more new friends and customers than any year since we entered bus mess, and it is to both the old and new that we shall strive to offer a service that will be progressively wider and better" declared MT. George.
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Thomas L. George, senior member of the firm. It has acquired the management and operation of the Leader Department Store, taking over that business from M. George, father of the three firm members, and improving and expanding it 1T, many ways. In addition it has im- proved the service of the grocery trade, added to the lines carried and the equipment for handling them.
 Alters Store Building
 The first step taken after the finn took over the Leader was to make radical alterations on the store building, rebuilding the en- tire front, putting in modern show windows and the latest store fix lures for the display of goods. It installed a new lighting system. and built skylights to take advan- tage of all natural light possible.
 Many entirely new lines Of wo- mems and children's ready to wear and other commodities were added. The stock in the shoe department was largely augmented and a com plete line of mems furnishings was stocked. The investment in the Leader was virtually trebled.
 Only nationally advertised com are carried in stock, MT. George declared, adding, it has been the firms policy from the very beginning to stress quality and to keep prices down to the low est possible figure. We have aim ed at quick turnovers rather than wide profit margins and slow sales, he said,
 4 Speed Up Groceries
 One of the major improvements on the grocery side of the busi- ness made during the past year, was the installation of cold stor- age facilities larger than that pos sessed by any ether retail business of it's kind in Alaska. The largest equipped ice box ever put in by that company in the Terri
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] tss 2 games, but it hasn't been all roses for the San Antonio Indians.
 Joe Moore, brilliant young out fielder, whom president Homer Hammond had, hoped to sell to the big show at a. fancy price, is out of the game with clipped bone in his arm. .m
 Hee is certain to be out for sev- eral weeks and may not regain the form during the rest of the sea- son that has drawn him atten- tion from the scouts.
 Moore was injured during a noc- tlIrnal game at Shreveport, fast ball hitting him on the arm. "If we had been playing in daylight that ball wouldn't have hit me.1 said Moore. atn
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The French Government exam ined 16O types of airplanes in 1929. One trip of a tri-motored mail passenger transport over the Chi cago-San Francisco route, the na- tion's longest airway, requires l.
 400 gallons of gasoline.
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ATTENTION GROCERs

You are urged to attend the
 meeting at the DUGOUT Friday
 at 9 D. m to discuss a uniform
 plan of closing hours for grocery stores. adv
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Col. Charles Goodnight is cred ited with establishing the first ranch in the Texas Panhandle .n the late seventies.
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First woman to be elected trus- tee of the Western Theological Seminary, Chicago, is Mrs. Robert B. Gregory. cr
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INJURED TEXAS LEAGUER
 BLAMES NIGHT BASEBALL

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Aug. 15.- Night baseball may have boosted at tendance at minor league baseball
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VETERAN MANAGER THINKS FOOTBALL
 AIDS INFIEDLERS

ATLANTA, Aug. 15. - Johnny Dobbs, veteran Dixie manager who's
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LODE CLAIM NOTICES R"rt. American or Canadian at The Empire. rM
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Schilings Products o the finest quality.
 When you make purchase. know will be thoroughly sat sfed If at time your will return money immediately without question: you keep goods Be sure take advantage Special Prices offered during this Seventh Anniversary Sae {+ ~Nea aHfts fhs<
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
SHERIFF'S SALE
The State OF Texas
County of Cameron)


The State OF Texas
County of Cameron
Notice Is hereby given that By
virtue OF a certain order OF sale
issued out OF the Honorable Dis
trict Court Of Nacogdoches County
on The 18th day Of March 1880 BY
r. M. Pace, Clerk OF said court, for
the sum OF Five-thousand four
hundred sixty-six and 96-l00 dol
lars and costs Of suit, under a judy
ment. in favor Of Duke II. Herbert
in a certain cause in said court,
No. 7046 and styled Duke II. Herbert
vs.. Valley Development Inc, a
corporation. placed IN my hands
for service, 1. w. f. Brown, as
Sheriff Of Cameron county. Texas.
did on the 9Th day or April. 1880.
levy on certain Real Estate, situated
IN Cameron county, Texas. describ-
cd as follows. to-wit:
The East 20 acres OF block %, In
Survey No. Is, Wilson Tract OF
Land situated about three miles
from Harlingen in Cameron county,
Texas and levied upon as the prop
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

erty OF II. j. LoenbeTg who pur-
chased said property from Valley
Developments. Inc. assuming in
debtedneSs due Duke II. Herbert by
Valley Developments, Inc. and that
on the first Tuesday In May. 1890,
the same being the 9Th day o.
said month. II the court house door
of Cameron county. In the city OF
Brownsville. Texas. between the
hours OF 10 4. n. and 4 p. m. hy
virtue Of said levy and said order
OF sale. I will sell SAID above de-
scribed Real Estate at public VEN
due. for cash to the highest bid
der. as the property OF said II. Y.
Loenberg and Valley Developments,
Inc.
And in compliance with law. I
give this notice 10y publication, n
the English language, nee 4 week
for three consecutive weeks inn
mediately preceding said day OF
sale, in The Brownsville Herald. a
newspaper published IN Cameron
county.
Witness nv hand, this 18TH day
OF April, 1880.
W. r. BROWN.
Sheriff. Cameron County. Tex.
BY L. A. JAGOU, Deputy.
4-l2-lO-16-3t-37l4
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w. Inman. $500. S.1-2 lot II and
u. Sec. s. Hidalgo Canal co. Subd.
Lewis Stocker, ct ux TO Sallie
Ruthven. 100000. Lot II, Block A,
Weslaco.
N. p. Barton, Trustee 10 J.. <.
Settles. S519.12. 10 &C. Of Z. 20 &C.
Lot Is. Block lis, Campacuas.
j. NJ. Moddrell. ct uX to Otto
weide ct ux. So. 100000. Sl-2 of 1-2
Lot 3, Block 40. Alamo tract.
j. NJ. Moddrell ct ux to Otto
Weide. ct ux. $1,000. S. A. Of N. 10
&C. Lot 3, Blk 40, Alamo tract.
l.. w. Todd, ct al to The Citizens
State Bank of Donna. $250.00 Lot
II, Block %. Donna.
David Anzaldua ct uX 10 Edin-
burg State Bank & Trust Co. $1,000.
.l74.7 Davila League San Salvador
del Tule.
Alex w. Spence 10 L. A. Gamma
way. $4,000. Lot 5. Block 81. Meiado
Tract.
c.. w. Womack. e. ux to M. M.
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Dawson ct ux. $1,000. E. 10 &C. Of
w. Is &C. Lot 70, Por. 69-70.
George "A. Earnhardt to Alice Earl
Stuart. Sl500.00. N. 21-2 &C. Of S. )
&C. Lot 1856. Pride OTexaS Subd.
La Villa TownSite Co. 70 s. w.
Brockington. $1,000. Lot %, Block
10. La Villa T0wnsite.
Juan r. Flores to Maxine Diaz.
$1,000. Share No. 4. Porcion Al.
j. III. Chase Cd ux. ct al TO Wayne
w. Mckenzie. $1,000. Lot 8. Sec.
278. Tex Mex.
G. X. Bestot to #. ". Krska.
Sl500.O0 E1-2 or z IL. Lot "a,
Cont. 10 &C. For. 69-70.
Roy r. Losh ct al TO z. A. Givens.
500. 10000 Lot 1913. West Addn 70
Sharyland.
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dian Trust CO. TT. $1,000. Lots %
g. %. Block 4. Mission Groves.
Pharr Townsite Co. to Sue w.
Johnson. $4,000. Lots 2. 3. 4. blk
36. Pharr.
S. G. weddle, ct Tx to w. S. Yea
ger. S5,000.00. E. 5 &C. OF W. 1877 &C.
Lying E. of canal Lot Ais, West
Adm. 10 Sharyland.
Fred CasSner to Mae Ellen Gas
ser. S721-90 N. 5 &C. Lot 1915: S. 8
&C. OF E. l8.49 &C. Lot 1915 West
addition 20 Sharyland.
Daniel T. Manshaem ct ux "a
John G. Bresnahan. ct Tx. 100000
w. 10 e. Lot is. Sec. Sc. Mo. Tex,
Coy 3. Henson to Dora Roberts.
$1,000. Lot 2, block 81, Mo. Texas
Subd.
A. J. Walser to John c. Bresna-
han ct ux. $1,000. Lots !, 20. Fl, 20,
% and "a. Block 40. San Juan.
p. w. Perkins to Edward d. Nell
son. Lots 4 and 5. Re-Subd. Lots Fl,
%. % and 80. l.. T. and I. Co. Subd.
Celia A. Inman et al 70 Charles
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OFFICE EQUIPMENT
2A1teeG
Office Equipment and Supplies
HARGROVE'S STATIONERY q
BOOK STORE
Brownsville. Texas
TYPEWRITERS

DAVENPORT Typewriter Exchange
(Brownsville'S typewriter House
Distributors. New L. G. Smith 81
lent" 8 and Late Corona a type
writer's Also sell Royal Portable
and Factory" RebuiltS-all makes
we : pair al makes typewriter anc
adding machines. lll2 Elizabeth
st. Phone les.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Cameron County, Texas


Furnished by Valley Abstract Co.
Eugene @. a. Walter s. Wilcox to
A. =. Parker, North 30.4S &C. block Z
Couch Subd. $1,000.
Los Ebanos Estates. Inc. to B. v.
Proctor; Lot is, Block u, Los Eba-
nos Addn. to Brownsville. $1,000.
A. Wayne Wood g. Gleed Gaylord
TO II. M. Wood; Undivided 1-3 in
terest in 10 acres IN Block SO, Rice
ract. San Pedro de Carricitos
Grant. $1,000.
J. p. a. Lucille Peek TO Edward
4 Milligan; 10 &C in S. w. corner Of
Block 40. Wilson tract. $1,000.
o. II. Reyhl as trustee TO Annie
Hannah & F. w. Crush; Lots ! and
q. Block 80, Raleigh Court Addn. 70
"a Feria. $4,000.
q. NJ. LoZano, Jr., TO j. 3. Lozano;
Lot 8 Block 81, Harrington $2.0O0-OO-
Johnny r. & Della Mable Freibele
20 John Laursen: Lot "a. Block IS,
La Feria Townsite. $1,000.
W. L. McElwain and Ada NOEL
\ vain to c. d. Wood: 37.55 acres
in Blocks "a and rs, Harrington
Land & Water Co. Sub. "a. $1,000.
g. q. & Bernice Wood to w. l..
McElwain: s7.85 &C. in blocks "A and
us Harrington Land & Water Co.
Sub. a.. 100000.
M. A. Baird to Mrs. A. G. Starck;
Lot 7, Block ll3-A Brownsville.
$1,000.
Emmet & Mary M. Day 10 Mrs.
4. G. Starck: Lots 8 and .. Block
L13-A. Brownsville. $1,000.
John Gregg to Rv. <. 3. led
VIVA, Bishop, Lots 10. IL IL, Block
lisa. Brownsville. $1,000.