"" .. =~?a"' ' " " - ■■■jaa ■■ -—===^= ■■■■ =======S=g=Qg=aags==ga==aM A Good Business Investment is to Buy Good Business Property .. — ■— ' CLASSIFIED RATES and RULES Advertisement! will be accepted over the telephone from telephone subscribers, or from those having regular charge accounts. Other . classified advertising must be ac m companied by cash. LB/'No advertising accepted on an ■TP • til forbid” order. A specified if vamber of insertions must be liven. The Herald reserves the right to place all advertisements under the proper classification, and reject unclesn or objectionable copy. Obituaries, resolutions, and cards of thanks will be taken at the regular classified rate. The publishers are not respon sible for copy, omissions, typo graphical errors of any uninten tional error that may occur, far ther than to correct, in the next issue after it is brought to their attention. All advertising orders are accepted on this basis only. Telephone No. f* and dictate your advertisement to an experienced classified writer. To insure publication same day eopy should be presented not later than 10:30 a. m. Copy for Sunday issues should be in not later than 1:30 p. m. Saturdays to insure proper classification. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING RATES 20 words or less, one insertion 30c 1 Over 20 words, one insertion, per word.1 1-Ze Subsequent insertions run con secutively, per word.Ie By month, per word.25c Minimum for monthly rate, 10 words. No classified advertisement ac cepted for less than.30c LOCAL READER RATES First insertion, per lino.12c Same ad run consecutive days, Ml per line.Sc AUTOMOTIVE §l§|fi?^'' v 'i ’ w • a 'CiZ2SZj9BSm •1 •e \ j — 1927 Chevrolet Landau Sedan .*465.00 1827 Chevrolet Coach . 345.00 1926 Ford Tudor Sedan. 265.0ree, near Tits. Phone 325, after 6 p. m. _ N-24 MODERN 5-room house with gas, garage. Phone 911. M28.4 FOR RENT—5-room furnished house. 12th and St Charles. Phone 722. _M-251 REAL REAL ESTATE bargains may be found among the classified ads. _RENTALS Houses TO RENT—6-room boost, beautiful ly furnished, hot and cold water, gas electric lights, double garage. Has to be seen to be appreciated. Call 703 er 1075M. N26. FURNISHED MODERN apartments in San Benito, private bath*. Also furnished tourist cottages. Phillips Store. San Benito. N75. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed bids will be received ad dressed to the Honorable A. B. Cole, Mayor, so until 10:00 a. m. March 1, 1929. for the laving of monolithic concrete floor at the Airport. Speei ficatins are on file at the City Manager's office. A certified check to the amount of 2 per cent of the bid will be re quired. The city reserves the right to re ject any and all bids. A. E. MU NT) AT. City Secretary. 2-9 to lR-10t-3327 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed bids will be received ad dressed to the Honorable A. B. Cole, Mayor, up until 10:00 a. m., March 1, 1929, for 1200 sacks of cement de livered to the Municipal Airport. A certified check of 2 per cent of the amount will be required. The City reserves the right to reject anv and all bids. A. E. MUNPAY. City Secretary. 9 to 1R Inc. 10t-3326 NOTICE OF HEARING TO APPRO PRIATE PUBLIC WATERS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS—No. 1188. Notice is hereby given, to whom concerned, that A. E. Jones, the postoffice address of whom is Brownsville, Texas, did on the 23rd day of January, A. D. 1929, file his application in the office of the . Board of Water Engineers for the ' State of Texas, in which he applies j for a permit to appropriate of the unappropriated waters of the State of Texas, from the Rio Grande in Cameron County, Texas, sufficient water for the irrigation of not to exceed 2200 acres of land, said unap propriated water to be pumped from the Rio Grande into the two reser voirs located on land belonging to the said A. R. Jones, the pumping plant to be located at a point which bears North 58 deg. 13 min. East 12,559 ; feet from the Southwest corner of ! the San Martin Grant on the left bank of the Rio Grande, in Cameron County. Texas, and is distant in an easterly direction from Brownsville, Texas, about ten miles. You are hereby further notified that the said A. R. Jones proposes to increase the storage capacity of two reservoirs previously authorized to be constructed under application. No. 1162, in the name of A. R. Jones, from 13,000 acre-feet to 17,500 acre feet, creating an additional storage capacity of 2500 acre-feet. The said A. R. Jones proposes to pump the 1 unappropriated water from the Rio Grande, by means of three pumping plants, each with two Centrifugal pumps, operated by three, 150 horse power electric motors, having a height of lift of 12 and 14 feet, into the reservoir above mentioned, for the irrigation of not to exceed 2200 acres of land. A hearing on the application of ths said A. R. Jones, will he held by the Board of Water Engineers for the State of Texas, in the office of the B^ard at Austin, Texas, on Mon day, February 25, A. D. 1929, begin ning at ten o’clock A. M. at which time and place all parties interested may appear and be heard. Such hearing will be continued from time to time, and from place to place, if necessary until such determination has been made relative to said ap LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT plication at tho said Board of Water Engineers may deem right, equitable and proper. Given cnder and by virtue of an order of the Board of Water Engi neers for the State of Texas, at the office of the said Board, at Austin, Texas, this the 23rd day of January, 1929. [(Seal), JNO. A. MORRIS, C. S. CLARK. A H. DUNLAP, Board of Water Engineers. Attest: A. W. McDonald, Secretary. (1-26-2-9-16—It—3316.) SHERIFF'S SALE Real Estate THE STATE OF TEXAS ) COUNTY OF C AMERON ) !, By virtue of an execution and or der of sale issued out of the Honor able District Court of Bexar county, 73rd Judicial District of Texas, on the 5th day of February, 1929, by the clerk thereof, in the case of B. F. Dittmar Company vs. L. S. Tor rans et al. No. B-52, 03, snd to me as Sheriff directed and delivered. I will proceed to sell to the highest i bidder, for cash, between the hours of 10:00 a. m. and 4:00 p. m.. March 5, 1929, it being the first Tuesday in said month, at the Court House door of Cameron county, Texas, in ■ tho dity of Brownsville, the follow ing described reel estate: to-wit. Lot number three (3) in block number four (4) of the Taylor Sub division to the city of Harlingen, being a subdivision of block number thirty-nine (39) of the Harlingen Land and Water company’s subdivi sion, Cameron county, Texas, situ ated in the city of Harlingen, Cam eron county. Texas: Levied on the 7th day of Febru ary, 1929, and to be sold to satisfy a judgment dated January 24. 1929, and recorded in the minute* of said court in volume 23, pages 405-40*, in favor of B. F. Dittmar company, a corporation, against defendant, Hallie Torrans, for the sum of three thousand five hundred fifty-seven and 67-100 dollars ($3,557.57) with interest et the rate of ten per cent (10 per cent) per annum from Janu ary 24, 1929, until paid and all costs of suit, and the further costs of sale, together with a foreclosure of a deed of trust lien on the shove described reel estnt# as said lien existed on the 20th day of Bfnrch, 1928, against defendants, L. S. Tor rans, Hallie Torrans. Sam B. Willis, W. K. Henderson. C. W. Brown, E. R. Ratcliff and L. G. Braden, the said L. G. Braden Individually and as trustee for W. K. Henderson, C. W. Brown and E. R. Ratcliff. Given under mv hand this 7th day of February. 1929 W. F. BROWN. Sheriff. Cameron County, Texas. 2-9-16-23-3t-3328 - | Flashes of Life ; C?7 Tbs Associated Preaa) ;1 I CHICAGO.—A new variety of tiles is expected by tome experts to make possible the erection of build ings more than 100 stories high. Professor George A. Bole told the American Ceramic Society of ex periments with it. Compared with that in general use. it is lightsr and offers more resistence to fire and has greater durability. NEW YORK.-Alfred E. Smith is now entitled to receivo $5,100.51 an nually from the state of New York. | He hag been sent a certificate based on service of 25 year* and ten days .Automatic telegraph transmission has replaced the -s-i-o-w hand sending dav This is an ewspaper | JP means TrulktoU interesting, in city, county and state officaa. While in office he contributed to the retirement fund. LOS ANGELES.—Ruth Roland of the screen is to bs a Valentine’s day bride. She is to marry Ben Bard, motion picture producer. MIDDLETOWN. Conn. — There’s euphony in this name. In fact Miss Sonia Osius was voted to have the post euphonins of the 250 girls at tending the Wesleyan prom. She is a student at Bryn Mawr. SLEEPING SICKNESS KILLS 63 VIENNA.—Death has claimed 63 victims of sleeping sickness in Aus tria during 1928, most of them boys | and girls under 18. < SOCIAL SCIENCE MEN TO MEET AT TEXAS U. AUSTIN. Texas. Fab. Members , of the Southwestern Political and Social Science association will toC the guests of the University of Tex as department of political and social science at the next annual conven tion, to be held in Austin March 29 and SO, according to Charles A. Timm, associate professor of gov ernment at the university and sec retary of the association. Approximately 125 delegates rep resenting the leading colleges - nd universities of the southwest will attend the meeting. The program will be in charge of Dr. J. A. Fits gerald, dean of the University School of Business Administration. I Classified Business Directory Architects BEN V. PROCTER ENGINEERING CO. Architects — Engineers 208 Merchants Sank. Bldg. Phone 617 Brownsville. Texas. E. G. HOLUDAY Architect and Builder 409 State Nat. Bank Bldg. Phone 906 R. NEWELL WATERS Architect 9-12 Security State Bank Building Weslaco, Texaa A. A. Callaway & Co. Architects and Engineers 41/ Merchants Bank Bu i ML. g Brow* ville, Texas Bu il ders—Contractors G. E. Miller TILE DRAINAGE CONTRACTOR AND ENGINEER P. 0. Address R. P. D. No. 1, San Benito Telephone 6005 F 12 H-59 PROCTER & DUDLEY General Contractors 628 Washington St. Brownsville, Texas Phone 627 Cash Registers NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO.. Register* bought, sold *nd exchanged. W. E. Sander*. Representative, r'hone 29 Harlingen Tease Bos 906 Dray—1 ranxter Mason Transfer & Grain Co. BONDED WAREHOUSE SEEDS OF ALL KINDS Light end Heavy Healing. WE MOVE ANYTHING 1105 Adam*. Phone iS9. AUSTIN TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO, Phone* 421 and 619 1126 Washington St. Jones Transfer & Storage Co. Storing, moving, crating and shipping. Local and long dis tance hauling. Daily motor freight service between all Valley points. Harlingen, Brownsville, Edinborg. Office 1259 Levee Phone 787 Truck leave* Brownsville 11:16 Dally Florist* THE FLOWER SHOP Cut flowers, pot plants, funeral designs and bouquets 1254 Elizabeth SL Phone 1388 BOWYER THS FLORIST, flower* sad funeral designs. *8. Charles sad Pita streets. Phase 7T1. HOTELS—CAFES WHITE KITCHEN Feaees far Ua Cooking—I mmaculacy and Service The popular place for business lunches ISth between E1t«y»o*h sad Washing!** Hotel Hollingsworth American Style. Day, Week or Moathly Sate. ^ 08 4 * J • McDonald-Howard Agency Loses - Insurance - Real Estate Booms 1 and L Arcade Bldg. Insurance W. B. CLINT INSURANCE SURETY BONDS ' 208-9 Merchants National Bank rHONE6 — Mattress Kenovatiag Let Us Renovate | Your Mattress W* make maurestaa to order. All repair work guaranteed. 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