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

Were he so endowed. re would sit
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
OF Pharr, may his soul rest in peace.
got mad at the boy who was helping
him around his poolroom and told
him to beat it 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
! think Of him"
or he would tell OF mine host
Linesetter of the Pharr Hotel. how
ne would greet the stranger guest
IN the morning with a harsh look
and the inquiry, "How's your d..
health this morning7"
Then he again might be tempted
to relate OF the time that Bill Ster-
ling. the present adjutant general
OF Texas vas nearly fined for con-
tempt OF court by Charles Hanson.
then a ]. p, for relating in court
that The was standing at the foun-
tain having a good time drinking
soda water"
And about the dear old lady on
a land drive near Mercedes who was
taken through the Palm Gardens
district and who vociferated on her
return-"Pa'm Gardens. we druv
all day and never see a single pam
Then OF course there's the one
about a prominent land man, now
a resident of Brownsville. and what
he was told by q farmer lear san
Benito 10 whom he had sold q farm.
Land man approached his form
er customer for a chat at the home
place.
Concrete mixer could be seen down
the road, getting ready to pave right
past the customers door.
We'll, M. ,.-...,' SAID the US
toner. "the last lie you told me
when I bought this land Is about 70
come true
or how Bill Ingram a. Pharr
bought up all the old broken down
six shooters and sold them % mem
bcrs Or the New York national
guard with a positive guarantee
that each and every n had been
taken from a bold fierce bandit by
Bill himself.
And how Judge Hoyt az Mercedes.
chided for having left a piece Of
news out OF the Mercedes Tribune,
remarked that his accuses did not
know the true functions Of a news
paper.
Papers are to suppress news.
not 10 publish IT." said the judge
IF I wasn't running the Tribune
some fool would come along and
publish the truth about ~ people,
and then where would you be2"
NY. myl It's a good thing We rea-
lie Il limitations. or We would fill
M 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
and municipal airports.
Those were the days when the
bows rode into town on horseback,
a Ia moving picture show stuff.
: Those we're also the days when a
Z farmer would order water from the
irrigation company today and be
lucky II he got Il within three weeks.
When Il did come, after al that
wait. II was a miracle II the ditch
rider appeared anytime except dur
inc the sweet hours between 2 and
4 a. III.
Those we're also the days when the
Valley had train per day each
way.
You left here at 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 TO be ser growing,
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 It was all alb l.
None OF Us would have had the
nerve TO voice the predictions We
all really held for the Valley.
We hoped, and the hoping wa
mighty hard at times, and some Of
the time the hope was about 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 as those
or us who fingered have found In
the Valley.