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1 He above Roadster has 1 00 inch wheel base, 32x3 1 -2 tires, Standard Universal Rimc. cone clutch, 30 horsepower long stroke motor, four cylinder, Ssplitdorr Dual System Ignition, selective type transmission, three speeds forward and reverse, full floating rear axle. Price F. O. B. Racine, Wis., $950 without top. Equipment includes, tire irons, complete set of tools, horn, gen erator, five lamps and Universal speedometer sprocket. , Choice of three colors; Grav Body with black trimmings, Red Boay with black trimmings and Dark Blue. You get beauty or finish and design in all Mitchell cars, also power flexibility, reliability and Mitchell service, which means constant attention to your needs You get the fruits of 77 years of making vehicles and studying organization, owners of Mitchell cars now, or 77 years from now, will profit by it and by the high standard of quality which the Mitchell name guarantees. Mitchell cars arc built for the man who can’t alford to make a mistake. The Mitchell 00 H P o (JJQ nCf] cylinders 7 passengers The Mitchell 48 H P 0 1 Iff] cylinders 5 passengers I,/ul) ^ The Mitchell 35 H P 4 cylinder 5 passengers l'he Mitchell 30 H P 4 cylinder 4 passengers The Mitchell 30 H P 4 cylinders 2 passenger fin Kunabout without top - - UU i Above prices F. O. B. Racine, Wis. \ ► Arrange tor demonstration or write, BATZ AUTO CO. Brownsville, - Texas. One-half Block North of Passenger Station. TROUSERSl the Patent Hip Grip. COMPLETE LINE OP SUMMER CLOTHING A. Spcro. I Eh.-.nbeth St* Near 12th ■■ i¥tre$tont) Non-Skid Tires # Supreme by test of hardest service, are the one positive security against skidding on any kind of road, a: all seasons ) xs jJUH: SALE Interesting Special Bar gains to be found in our REDUCTION SALE jsUMMER GOODS |Shocs and Ladies Dresses at Prices that can’t be beat. M. SAHUALLA Washington Street, Upposite Herald Building. CITY TAX INQUISITORS SUMMONS TAGPAYERS The city board of equalisation has finished going over the list of ren dered tax values and lu* city secre tary is busy sending out notifica tions to those whose property has been undervalued. There are be tween sixty and seventy-five of these letters. The board is now working on the unrendered tax list. L f ■■ 1 1 L 1 ■*■■■■! I ■ I ■ ■ .. I I Constipation Will Vanish Balky Livers and Upset Stomachs Quickly Put in Prime Condi tion With Hot Springs Liver Buttons. “The secret of success in this life is :o keep your bowels open and your mouth shut,’’ said a great professor. Readers of the Herald who suffer from constipation, sluggish liver, up set stomach, headache, dizziness, t nervousness or malaria should go to any good druggist in Brownsville or vicinity this very day and get a 2a cent box of HOT SPRINGS LIVER BUTTONS. They are surely the real blissful, gentle, sure remedy for con - atipetlon. For free sample write Hot Springs'Chemical Co., Hot Springs, Ark. The Brownsville Drug Com pany special agents in Brownsville. Little Things Worth Knowing. __ A machine has been invented in • France for stringing beads. The military profession the world over has the greatest percentage of suicides. Ixtuislaua produced more than half of the rice grown in the Uni! H States last year. Sweet |K>tatoes are exposed to the attacks of a dozen serious insects, says an exchange. One of the largest sapphire lodes ■in the world has been discovered .^outh Australia. A man in Fast India has invented [an electric pen that carl>onizes the [sheet of ’a>per over whirh it parses. Nova Scotia is becoming an im portant source (»f supply of tungs ten, the demand for which is inoreas " v ' | i 1 la ******* * * * * * * * 'W. P. Molette was a passenger on the morning .'.rain yesterday for San * Benito. I>r. Major Schofield returned home yesterday morning, after a business visit ap the Hidalgo Branch. Miss Alice Box of Olmito was a visitor in the city yes;erdav, arriv ing on the morning motor car. Colonel D. P. (Jay and son. Frank, of Olmito were visitors in the city yesterday. J. J. Young and son, Angus, left yesterday afternoon for a short business visit to Dallas. J. J. Holmes of Corpus Christi re turned home yesterday afternoon, after a short visit here. Miguel A. Garcia was in San Bo nito on business yesterday after noon. _____ A. E. Ralph of Dallas, who has | been here for several day3, left yes terday. Deputy Sheriff Jose Longoria was a passenger on the afternoon train for RaymaondviUc yesterday. E. D. Lilly, a travelling man from New Orleans, who has been here on business, left yesterday afternoon for home. P. Arlington, a land man from San Antonio, who has been here on business, left for home yesterday afternoon. I. H. Morrison of the law firm of Spears and Morrison of San Benito, arrived in the city on the motor car yesterday morning. Mrs. C. E. Moore of Harlingen, • 1* who has spent several days in the city, returned home yesterday morn ing. Mrs. Kate Bailey and son. Wesley, of Harlingen, who have been here on business, returned home yester day afternoon. iMr. and MrB. W. S. Cummins of Tamtpico, Mexico, who have been here \siting their son, D. H. Cum mins of the Sentinel, left yesterday afternoon for Dallas. Deputy Sheriff P. D. Haley leC yesterday afternoon for San Antonio, to visit his mother who will leave in a few days for her home in Mexico City. E. R Rowson and his two sons have returned from Jennings, La., and will -make their home at Brownsville for the present. They are still making .headquarters with Mr. and Mrs. Mendenhall. ing more rapidly than .the produc tion. A German engineer has invented an electrically operated apparatus by whi<!h he claims to measure time to the ten-millionth part of a second. Salt iproduction is about the oldest industry in the w'orld. In Italy, the cradle of the salt industry. It has been manufactured commercially for ! 2,500 years. A New Jersey woman has been a cook in a family for forty-two years. She has never asked for a vacation, has never found fault with anything has always cooked on a coal range and is happy and contented. , At Dresden there is in the cour/c of construction wi»a.* is said to(>be the largest radiator in the wo/rid. This radiator is intended for (the motor of an airship of 300-hJorse power and is made entirely of /alum inum. / New' York has two universities seven colleges for men, two/college for women and one college! for mj,i and women, in all twelve \ ins*:tu tions of higher educa'ion th4.se hav ing 1,306 instructors and a ifegistra tion of U.372. » t - - — ‘‘Mammy. It sez heah <jbat George Washington’s been daid/ for 112 years." , "Doan- you beliebe w hat's in d< paper, chile* Why, I saw dat niggat only las' week on de st| ee ." Singleton— Whats Me matter, olr man? You look as if fn d be«*n mak ing a night of it wi f the ooyfc. Newpofv— You've . ruck it . The twins kept me nf m'jl 3 o’elocl this morning. - a.. Auto parti rgo4na o the Poin • -an insure *rvice* of the Marihs J. by phonin the Brownsville Fisl Co. 13L 4m I NOMINATION [ ^SPECIALS, ; ; The followimg candidates are nomin Iated to be elected to the office, of your Business: jj A good desk, Roll top or flat and a go d chair. A vertical filing cabinet. ’ A typewriter desk, Ribbon, Carbon and Paper. A loose leaf ledger, with binder and transfer or if you prefer Doan of the National line in best bind ing and paper. A letter tray and waste basket. | Inks, pens, pencils and paperclips, Embossed stationery ' Special attention given to all out of town orders. ■ ' 4 VALLEY BOOK STORE ! ► Phone 381. __■ ^ ^ . J . J j__ / e k /For Sale by W. H. CLAY J RIO GRANDE RAILWAY GO / SUMMER SCHEDULE. / Between Brownsville and Point Isabel Effective Saturday, May 11, 1912. Days other than Saturday, Sunday and Monday Brownsville Point Isabel Lv 8:30 a. m. Ar 10:00 a. m. Ar 6:00 p. m. Lv 4:30 a. m. Saturday Lv 11:00 a. ra. Ar 12.30 p. m. Ar 6:00 p. m. Lv 4:30 p. m. Lv 7:00 p. m. Ar 8:30 p. m. Sunday Ar 8:30 a. m. Lv 7:00 a. m. Lv 11:00 a. m. Ar 12:30 p. m. Ar 9:30 p. m. Lv 8:00 p. m. . Monday Ar 8:30 a. m. Lv 7:00 a. m. • Lv 11:00 a. m. Ar 12;.30 p m. Ar 6.00 p m. Lv 4:30 p. m. ■* Lots of Sales at Mission. Despite the heavy rains. Mission advices sav t.hat the land companies . have been able to take many touri/ts i arriving by last week’s excursion over the lands in that vicinity in automobiles. The fanner? who are 'there recommended the land btghiy i and the farmers #ho came in Iwmght lots of it.». . / 1 ... —1— - -r— • ■ — - - -J »-JU —i— . . , -■ ...umwagij i ... FRONTIER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Gcocral Contractors 309 Merchants' National Bank Building. / Phone 50. --Ll ■ll11.1 .1 'll HP—— ■■.. 11 ■ Br AMS, CMANNtt.S, :t=i X^«7rDN WORKS STEEL a CAST COLUMNS, I HOUSTON, Tt\AS. TRUSSES. GIRDERS, EtJ. B-_____IZT-" PROMPT SHIPMENTS. T. Crixell, Sole Dealer, Brownsville Fire Insurance Joyce R. Wood Phone 100 Combe Building, Over Howse Furniture Company -gLLLJL-- 1. g * .f ■ ■"■..--WIJ .. UP——H—a* : THERE IS LAND. LAND AND LAND j p If you pay LAND prices you do not want Land. 1 > ! have none to sell, nor expect to have, but know where J ;; you should buy if you would secure value received j; < > Because as a Civil Engineer I know the whole Valley < J p as you know your door yard. {I EB GORE • VJVyiXi-, Merchants* N«t*t Bat k »Mg. Reference Merchants’ National B*.nk Ij