Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-20
IN OUR
VALLEY

down and open a book, relat-
Ing the various oddities OF news that
have happened in the Valley during
his II years Of sojourn here.
He would relate how Bill Irvine
o. Pharr. may his soul rest In peace,
got mad at the boy who was helping
him around his poolroom and told
him to beat 1t up the Gamma road
and never come back. carambal"
and then turned around to remark,
Thank God I learned enough OF
the language TO tell that bird what
I think OF him"
Or he would tell Of mine host
Linesetter OF the Pharr Hotel. how
ne would greet the stranger guest
ir the morning with q harsh look
and the inquiry. Flows your d..
health this morning?"
Then he again might be tempted
20 relate OF the time that Bill Ster-
ling. the present adjutant general
OF Texas was nearly fined for ON
tempt Of court by Charles Hanson.
then a j. P, for relating in court
that me was standing at the foun-
tain having a good time drinking
soda water"
And about the dear old lady on
q land drive near Mercedes who was
taken through the Palm Gardens
district and who Moderated on her
return-"pa'm Gardens. We druv
all day and nev see a single pam"
Then OF course there's the n
about a prominent land man, now
a resident OF Brownsville. and what
ne was told BY a farmer near San
Benito to whom he had sold a farm.
Land man approached his form
er customer for a chat at the home
place.
Concrete mixer could be seer down
the road. getting ready to pave right
past the customers door.
wei, MI. ......." said the Gus
toner. the last lie you told me
when I bought this land is about TO
come true
or how Bill Ingram az Pharr
bought up all the old broken down
six shooters and sold them 70 mem
bers or the New York national
guard with a positive guarantee
that zach and every one had been
taken from a bold fierce bandit BY
Bill himself.
And how Judge Hoyt at Mercedes,
chided for having left a piece Of
news out Of the Mercedes Tribune
remarked that his accuser did not
know the true functions OF a news
paper.
Papers are to suppress news.
not to publish IT, said the judge.
IF I wasn't running the Tribune
some fool would come along and
publish the truth about y people,
and then where would you be?'
MY, my: It's a good thing we real
lie our limitations. or we would FIJI
up this edition OF the Herald With
nonsense ike that.
BELIEVE 1T OR not. but there
were some good times back in the
good old days before paved roads
ard municipal airports.
Those we're the days when the
bows rode into town on horseback,
d Ia moving picture show stuff
These were also the days when a
Warmer would order water from the
irrigation company today and be
lucky II he got It within three weeks.
When II did come. after al that
wait. Il was a miracle II the ditch
rider appeared anytime except dur
inr the sweet hours between 2 and
4 O. m.
Those were also the days when the
Valley had one train per day each
way.
You left here az 4 IN the after
noon and arrived in Houston or San
Antonio the next morning, maybe.
Those were also the days when
sugar cane was 10 be se~ gro-1ng.
heralded as the industry which was
to make this country agricultural
".
II was a great life.
Everybody knew everybody else,
everybody liked everybody else.
To be sure. most OF US did not
know what 1t was all alb :.
None Of us would have had the
nerve to voice the predictions We
all really held for the Valley.
we hoped. and the hoping was
mighty hard at times, and some Of
the time the hope was abo-. al we
had.
Some OF us fingered. unable 20
cast of the spell OF the Valley.
Others left, and here's hoping
they found as much happiness in
other sections OF the world ms those
OF us who fingered have found In
the Valley.