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AUTOMOTIVE
Used Cars And
Trucks For Sale
See J. B. PUCKETT
Delta Investment Company
\ Phone 1066.
N-102
TOi SALE: 1923 Ford coupe. 130
Call 1166.N158
PACKARD
Straight eight seven passenger
sedan. Big sacrifice for cash. Tele
phone 678-W. N222
Help Wanted
WANTED: Efficient housekeeper.
Must have good hoalth "id furnish
reference. Addresa Mrs. A. E. An
derson. city. _L~178
WANTED—First class machinist.
La More Machine Shop. Point
Isabel. Phone 344. N-234
SITUATIONS WANTED
YOUNG MARRIED man with two
years sales experience, at present
employed, desires to work for firm
that can offer advancement. Ad
dress N-209 care Herald. N-209
BAND INSTRUCTOR AT
LIBERTY
SO years' professional experience.
Best reference. Teach all band In
struments. Specialise In school
bands. Can furnish 40 or more
high school band instruments. Will
sell same reasonable. Good terms.
Write quick. Bandmaster. 319 Moss
St., Lake Charles. La. N224
IF YOU KNOW you can fill a bet
ter Job, tell the classified ad-taker
about It and Invite offers.__
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
FOR SALE—Hotel in good town;
good business, long lease, easy
terms; a real buy. Addresa Miller
Hotel, Misaion, Texas.N
POR SALE—Small cigar stand han
dling fruits, candies, and news
papers. Well located. Good money.
Want to sell quick. Address N-235
care Herald. N-235
POR BALE—An established busi
ness. small investment, big returns.
Must sell on account of health.
Address Box 393, McAllen. Texas
N-232
A DIRECTORY of wants ar.d offers
which Is revised every day will be
feund In the Classified Section.
FOR SALE
Paying income proper
ty, 1 7-10 acres. 9 fur
nished cottages, city
conveniences, 30 bear
ing citrus trees. Price
$6000 cash, some terms.
BOX 455
SAN BENITO,
TEXAS
Lost and Found
HAVE YOU READ the opportunities
•ad bargains offered to you in the
Classified Section today?
LIVE 'TOCK—POULTRY
SPECIAL on baby chick*; get our
prices G. R Sibson Co, La Ferla.
_ N3Q2
Trees — Seeds — Plants
FOR SEEDS of all kinds, see Meson
Transfer and Crain Co, 1105 Adaas.
Min
WILL TRADE a cow or cows for
good young White Leghorn hens up
to one thousand hens. Inquire at
Lilly's, two miles east of Mer
cedes. 1-2 mile south of highway.
Lilly. Mercedes. Tex._N221
Budding i i would like to bod
(our sour orange seedlings on shares,
nil furnish buds. Fleet A, Lentz.
Mercedes. Texas, phoae 9002F11.
_ M-2S8.
FOR 8ALE: Tomato plants; Lon.
• Pinks. Marglobe. June Pinks. Liv
ingston. Globe. G. R. Si boor. Co..
La Faria. *002
Tree* Seed*—-Plant*
Pink Marsh, Poster Pink, and
Thompson Pink seedless. 5-8
and 3-4 inch caliper nursery
trees. Select buds. Certified,
and many other standard va
rieties. Guaranteed
\Y. P. Hauser
Nurseries
McAllen. Texas
Phone 201-w
N201
PERSONAL
WANTED: Two young men to
share apartment with two others
now occupying it. All expenses,
rent, meals, laundry, etc., coopera
tive. Address N-219. care Herald.
N219
TRUCK LEAVING HERE
March 4th. latest for Chicago and
Intermediate points. Capacity 12
rooms. 1 or 2 famllle*. Apply Austin
Transfer and Storage Co. N245.
MISCELLANEOUS
DRESSMAKING wanted; children’*
clothes a specialty. Phone 9001F12.
1N110
DRESSMAKING and plain sewing.
Call at houss nearest Palm Blvd. on
Restca Drive in Belvedere, or inquire
at Herald office. M-255
Articlea For Sale
GOOD cane hay for sale. 115.00 to
$20.00 per ton, delivered within 6
miles of Brownsville. J. B. Kee. 1523
West Elizabeth St* Brownsville,
Texaa. Phone 1393W. M-73.
LADIES HOSE meuOed; rune, pulls,
and snags. Valley Hoee Mending Co.
745 Elizabeth. 1-194
500.000 common mud bricks for tale
J. 8. Ford. Brownsville. H-104
PIANOS repossessed like new. $1,350
Baldwin Grand. $400.00 paid; will
sacrifice; aiso used piano and play
er bargains. Carl Moeller Music
Store, opposite M. P. Depot, Wesla
co. Texas. M-216
FOR SALE: One 5x7 MeCrory, one
5x7 Viking meat cooler boxes suit
able for dairy or grocery fixtures.
M. System. La Faria. Texas. M99
LARGE BLEACHED flour sacks 2
to 5 dozen delivered Valley points,
31.20 dozen. Phone 850-J. Valley
Sack Exchange, 105 8t. Charles St.,
Brownsville. N-167
FOR SALE—Burroughs 7-column
adding machine and stand. Per
fect condition. Leaving city. Tele
phonc 1207.N-240
Bay or Exchange
FOR EXCHANGE: Small farm less
than six miles from Brownsville
near good school and concrete road.
Will exchange for vacant lots or im
proved residence property. Address,
Owner. P. O. Box 831, Brownsville,
Texas. N64.
FOR EXCHANGE — San Antonio
apartment hoase for Brownsville
property. J. S. Ford A Sons. N-147
FOR EXCHANGE: Citrus land near
airport for city home. Address N
193, care Herald. N193
WILL TRADE 240 acres at Hope.
Aikansas. for Valley land. 180 In
cultivation, half rich black land; 3
houses, large barn, fine water. A. H.
Andres, 228 West Davis. Dallas,
Texas. N-206
REAL ESTATE
SUMMIT PLACE
Brownsville’s new business and
residential sub-division. Just one
mile from Elizabeth Street, on
Fourteenth Street—the busy thor
oughfare leading to the proposed
•hip ehannel and turning basin
—through the rich fanning sec
tion of El Jardin—to the mu
nicipal airport and on to South
point. Easy terms. Investigate
TODAY. Office 14th and Haya
Sts* J. J. Dallas, Sales Manager,
phone 386. Brownsville, Texas.
M-2S5.
LAND BARGAINS—152 acrea-t38
seres—Donna diatrlct, cultivated.
Nothing better. Priced low. Wire,
write or call—C. H. Swallow. Alamo,
Taxaa. _ Y-235
FOR SALE
20 acres good irrigated land in
El Jardin Tract, well drained;
price $100.00 per acre, terms.
00 seres irrigated land in El
Jardin tract, all in cultivation
and rented; on concrete highway,
electric line; price $126.00 per
sere, cash.
40 seres all In cultivation and
rented; one mile from small
town and concrete road; price
$150.00 per acre, terms.
17 acres rear Brownsville, all
in cultivation, good house, well
and windmill; about S acre#
bearing gTove. good citrus land;
price $15,000.00.
James-Dickinson
Company
Ceraer Travelers Hotel
Phone 450 Brownsville. Texas
M-ltt
FOR SALE BY OWNER—40 acres
fine citrus land; 9 acres citrus or
chard. 8 acre* bearing. 5 years old;
on paved road; nicely located.
Clot* to either town, Weslaco or
Mercedes. Also stucco Court Apart
ments. beautifully located In Wes
laco. Texas. Clone In. Income $200
per month. Address P. O. Box 7S2.
Weslaco. Texas. N-205
REVENUE beariag property for aalo
cheap; small investment; call quick.
Box N65, Herald. SS6.
REAL ESTATE
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For Sub-Division
160 Acres
Located 4 block* from ths high
school and closer to Brownsville
than the exclusive Los Ebanos
Subdivision. Winding resaca
running through property offer*
ing natural lake front eitee for
subdivision. This property is
for sale by owners and can be
bought et a very attractive price.
Henson-Lomax A Houston and
Brownsville Development Co.
FINE 12-ACRE tract on Banker Road
half mite from Brownsville. Con
crete csnal end good drainage. $850
per acre. Carlos G. Watson, owner.
_ M-21
OWNER WILL SELL 30 acres good
resaca land, irrigated, in cultivation,
Harlingen district, only $75 an acre,
cash, balance easy. Need money.
Also 10 acres et paving, R'-i Hondo
San Benito rjad, 5 acres citrus.
H. H. Parks, San Benito, Texas,
phona 6025F11. M264
Farm* For Sale
OWNER OFTERS 10 acre* west of
Brownsville on Military paving, ripe
for subdivision; also 10 acres, two
seres planted to citrus, at Olmito.
I need money, the price ie right H. H
Parks, phone 6025FU, San Benito.
Texas. M263
HOME on bearing grove; 10 acres
of 4 year old bearing orange and
grapefruit. 4 1-2 miles from
Brownsville. 2000 feet off of hard
surface road. House, garage, and
other improvements on the bank of
a resaca. Must be sold at once.
$12,500. no more. Phone 1398-W or
call at 849 West Washington St.,
Brownsville. N188
FOR SALE BY OWNER—Sixteen
acre farm with eight room house,
five and a fraction miles from
Brownsville, near good school, about
’200 yards from concrete highway.
Reasonable price and terms. Address
P. O. Box 831, Brownsville, Texes.
_N64.
WILLACY COUNTY farm lands
for sale. Choice Victoria loam
soils, cleared. $90 per acre and up.
on easy terms. No trades. If In
terested write or call on Isadore
Moritg, Raymondville, Texas.
N182
18 ACRES 3 year old orchard, well
located, at real bargain price Come
and examine It. Updegraff. La
Feria. Texas. N199
FOR SALE: 40 acres on the main
highway between Edinburg and
Pharr. All In cultivation and Irri
gates perfectly. Choice fruit land
Price $285.00 per acre. You can't
beat It. Good six-room house, elec
tric lights and telephone service.
Water rate $1.00 per acre. Not a
foot of waste land. OWNER, Mias
C. M. Fiinn, 2055 N. 14th St.. Mc
Allen, Texas. Phone 105. N126
10 ACRES good land near Har
lingen. Italf mile west of Avondale
on road to Primera. All in culti
vation. Only $1750 for entire ten
acres with $750 cash and balance
easy terms. S. C. Graham & Co.,
Brownsville. Texas. N-214
18 ACRES
Nine acres bearing grove. Five
acre, four year old trees. 1,000
acres ripe for development con
tract. Telephone 878-W, or address
box 469. Brownsville. N222
12 1-2 ACRES near Brownsville,
near school, near railroad loading
station, near gin and on pavement.
All in cultivation and possession at
once. Only $2500.00. A dandy loca
tion for a store in connection with
farm. S. C. Graham Ac Co., Phone
179. Brownsville. Texas. N-243
BEARING GROVE quarter mile
from paving. Good soil. Phone 470.
N-237
5 ACRES good citrus fruit land well
located In El Jardln. Only $1000 00
for entire acreage. S. C. Graham Ac
Company. Phone 179, Brownsville.
Texas. N-242
10-ACRES good land only one mile
from city limits of San Benito. All
in cultivation. Only $150 per acre.
8. C. Graham Sc Company. Phone
179. Brownsville, Texas. N-242
Houses For Sale
WILL SACRIFICE my last two beau
tiful heme*. Better hurry: only
two left, b rooms and bath: texton*.
two-tone fielah: beautiful light fix
ture*; automatic water heaters. See
Mr*. Florence Stafford, owner, uayea
and 17th streets. Victoria Heights,
phone 1075-M.K-170
5-ROOM modem house, new, for
sale on easy terms. Phone 470.
N-236
TWO 8-ROOM residences in Okla
homa City, fastest growing city In
the South. Will sell or exhcange
for choice citrus land or orchard
Corner Lake Drive and Madison
P. O. Box 359. Brownsville. N196
SELL OR EXCHANGE: Up-state
modern residence: comfortable.con
venient. highly desirable location:
also, paying business with thirty
years successful history behind It:
all In small town on railroad and
K. T. highway in the heart of cen
tral Texas. Artesian water, sew
erage. natural gas, electric lights,
fine affiliated schools, and many
churches. Telephone 166 or 136
Blue, write box 423, Otis H. Olbson,
Weslaco. Texas. N244.
WHY PAY RENT — Lot. house
chicken house, rose garden and etc.
All $725. Box $34. Phone 1185 W.
N210.
Lots For Solo
THREE BEAUTIFUL tarraced lota
on Levee street corner One of the
best apartment home sight* in
Brownsville. Must be sold at one*.
$5,000.00. Owner leaving town. 848
West Washington. Phone 1398W.
N30
FOR SALE
Two lota la Edinburg: tnree lota
in San Beet to; St lots In Browns
ville; seven lots outside Browns
villa city limits: twenty per cent
raah. balance in one. twe. three end
four years; or monthly payment*
if prefernid. B. E. Binkley, Bro e
villa. B4I
_REAL ESTATE
Lota For Sale
OWNER must sell at once beauti
ful corner lota on Elizabeth street.
Best apartment house site m
Brownsville, $3500.00. Phone 1398
W. or call at 849 West Washington
street, Brownsville. N188
SACRIFICE well located Elisabeth
street lot, only $2,500. Also well
located trackage lot on Fronton
street, only $1,500. S. C. Graham 4
Co. phone 179, Brownsville, Texas.
_N-148
FOR SALE—Improved 2-3 of lots 9
and 10, block 94, Adams 111L J. B.
Hoyt, Box 251, Monterrey, N. L-,
Mexico. M-256
OWNER of beautiful Los E ban os
lot willing to sell at sacrifice price,
on account of having moved to San
Antonio. For particulars telephone
1398-W, or write P. O. Box 705.
N-238
Wanted—Real Estate
WANTED—Have client who wants
to buy bearing grove at right price.
Foster-Moothart Company in Cro
mack Bldg. N-237
WANTED—Resident of Brownsville
wants to buy 5-room modem home
with garage If priced at right fig
ure. See Foster-Moothart Company
in Cromack Bldg., on 11th street.
_ N-231
RENTALS
ROOMINO HOUSE. 14 rooms, all
furnished; $75 a month. Phone
956-J. St. Charles and 12th street.
1115. N203
FOR RENT—Store rooms In Steg
man building. Bert Cromack. M5S.
RENTALS
THERE’S SURE TO BE aomathing
interesting to you in the Classified
Section today. Read it!
FOR RENT—3-room house, 4-room
house, 5-room house, 6-room house, a
fine apartment on Palm Bird., and
a duplex in West Brownsville. South
ern Realty Co., phone 914. N29
FURNISHED HOUSE, every conven
ience; on pavement; 'ive rooms,
sleeping porch, garage. Also two
room house, sleeping pereh, garage.
Also two single sleeping rooms.
Phone 1228-W. N62
The Arcade Building
One single and. two double offices.
Light, airy, new and modem. Eight
foot ventilators, lavatory, ceiling
fans. Centrally located See Dr.
Spivey, Room 5, Phone 17. N-215
Apartments
FOR RENT—Fonr-room apartment
equipped with ras range. Fngidaire.
automatic water heater and modern
plumbing. Garage. Apply on prem
ises at Fourteanth and Garfield.
_ M-39
ROOMS aod apartments. 701 St.
Charles. Tel 1017.«7|
FURNISHED apartments and duplex.
Phone 351. Y-3.
FURNISHED APARTMENT in new
Duplex. 1114 West Elizabeth street.
Every convenience and garage. Tele
phone I01S-W.N-37
YOU DON’T HAVE to be in bus
iness to profit by classified adver
tising. _
NICE FOUR-ROOM unfurnished
apartment with garage, also 4-room
furnished apartment. D. L. Welch,
phone 470. N17
DUPLEX with 10 room*. $80 per
month. Suitable for two families;
garage, water, lights, gas and bath;
on paved street, one block from
Boulevard and two blocks from high
school. Apply Popular 8tore. N-208
FOR RENT: 3-room apartment and
bath, gas and lights. Call at 247 St.
Charles or phona 90._N123.
NEW APARTMENTS and rooms, ev
erything furnished. 1022 West^ St.
Francis, phone 957-J. N121.
FOR RENT—Apartment, upstairs;
private bath; all conveniences. 1517
Madison St. NM
NICELY FURNISHED threa-room
apartment, with gai. Garage free.
$30. Phone 948-W. N184
FOR RENT: Two furnished apart
ments, 1400 Adams, phone *74.
M173
NEBRASKA APARTMENTS — Fur
nished, every convenience, fngidaire.
•nd gas ranges. Jeffereoj. and Four
teenth Streets. Phona ll*i
IT’S SO EASY to pick np yeur tele
phone and talk to a classified ad
taker.
FOR RENT: Desirable furnished
apartment Apply **M" System
Store, West Elizabeth St. N223
COLONIAL APTS.—Choice south
east apartment will be vacant
March 5. Living room, bed room,
dining room, kitchen and ^breakfast
nook Completely furnished. Call
1173-W._ N~241
Furnished Room*
ROOMS, one block from postoffiee
one block from El Jardin hotel;
large, southern exposure; reasons
blc. Phone 1226W or 1S17. M-215
SLEEPING ROOM and apartment
1922 St Charles, phona 95S-J. ^ ^
FOR RENT—Well furnished sleep
ing room; twin beds, meals !f de
sired; also housekoepiag apartment
close in. Phone 119. —lr-44
NICELY FURNISHED ROOM. Call
at Delta Hotel, $0$ 1-2 Elizabeth Sc,
oae block from postoffiee. Phono^$0*.
ONE OR TWO ROOMS for rent
furnished or unfurnished. Call
• N1M
FOR PENT; Two bedrooms. Sae
Mrs. Gardner at San Carlos. W197
BEDROOM in private family. 904
Adams St, $3-30 per week. N-307
Houaea
MODERN 5-room house with
garare. Phone 911. _
FOR RENT—5-room furnished boose.
12th sad St Charles. Phene 722.
M-211
RENTALS
Furnished Rooms
TO RENT—5-room bouse, beautiful
ly furnished, hot and cold water, gas
electrie lights, double garage. Has to
be seen to be appreciated. Call 70S
or 107534. N26.
FOR RENT: 4-room cottage and
bath. Apply 709 Fourteenth street.
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HOLLOW TILE and stucco 6 rooms
just completed. On West Levee,
near Pita. Phone 325, after 6 p. m.
__N-24
5 ROOM MODERN house with
large sleeping porch: hot water,
garage, on pavement. 1524 West
pimbeth street. Call any morning.
HO OP per month. N-170
MODERN 6-ROOM house with gas.
garage, near high school, $35 per
month. Phone 762. N-239
legal advertisement
AN ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE levying assess
ments for part of the cost of im
proving West Thirteenth (Mes
quite) street, in the City of
Brownsville, between the east
line of St. Charles street and tha
west line of Washington street,
except intersection with Levee
street, to be paved in another
unit, fixing a charge and lien
against propeity shotting there
on and against owners thereof,
providing for the collection of
such assessments and issuance of
assignable certificates in evidence
thereof.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City of
Brownsville:
Whereas, the City of Brownsville,
Texas, has heretofore ordered that
West Thirteenth (Mesquite) street
in ssid city from the east line of
St. Charles street to the west line
of Washington street except inter
section with Levee street, to be
paved in another unit, be improved
by raising, grading, filling, install
ing concrete curbs and gutters
where such curbs and cutters i re
not already installed on proper
grade and line, and paving with one
und one-half inch Wanenite Bitu
lithie wearing surface on two and
one-haif inch bituminous concrete
base on three inch compressed
gravel sub-base, together with all
incidentals and appurtenances, and
the construction of such improve
ments and contract therefor was
awarded to and entered into with
Southwest Bitulithic comoany; and,
WHEREAS, the City Paving En
gineer of said City prepared* and
filed a roll or statement for the im
provements in said portion of street,
showing the amounts to be assessed
against the various parcels of or in
terests in parcels of abutting pro
perty and the owners thereof, and
showing other matters and things,
and the same was examined by the
| City Commission of the Ci< of
Brownsville, and approved, and time^
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
and place was fixed for hearing to
the owners of such abutting proper
ty, and to al! others in anywiee ia
terested therein, or having any lien
or claim thereon, and due and pro
per notice of the time, place and
purpose of such hearing was given,
and said hearing was had and held
at the time and place fixed there
for, to-wit, on the 6th day of
April, A. D. 1928, it 10 o'clock.
A. M., in the City Council room in
the City Hall in the City of Browns
ville, Texas, and said hearing was
continued until all desiri g t» be
heard were given full ana fair op
portunity to be heard, and the said
City Commission having fully con
sidered the evidence and all proper
matters, the said hearing was final
ly closed on the 6th day of April.
1928. and
WHEREAS, tha City Commission
from the evidence finds that the as
sessment sand charges are right and
proper and are substantially in pro
portion to the benefits to the res
pective parcels of property by meana
of the improvements in the sold por
tion of street for which such assess
ments are levied, and establish sub
stantial justice and equality and uni
formity between the repective own
ers of the respective properties or
interests therein, and between ell
parties concerned, considering the
benefits received and burdens im
posed, and further finds that in each
case the abutting property, or inter
est therein assessed, as tha case
may be. is especially benefited in
enhanced value to said property or
interest therein, as the ease may be.
by means of the improvements in
the said portion of street upon which
■aid property abutts, and for which
assessment is levied and charge
made, in e cum in excess of the
costs of the improvements is in ac
cordance with the law and charter
in force in this city and the proceed
ings heretofore had with reference
to said improvements, and ia in all
respects valid- and regular.
NOW. THEREFORE. BE IT FUR
THER ORDAINED:
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That there shall be and is hereby
levied and assessed against the par
cels of property, or inteerst in par
cels of property, as the case may be.
hereinbelcw mentioned end egainst
the real and true owners thereof,
whether such owners be correctly
named herein, the sum of money be
low mentioned and itemized, shown
opposite the description of the re
spective parcels of property, or in
terests in property, the descriptions
of such property, or interests there
in, the various amounts assessed
against the same, and the owners
thereof, so far as such owners are
known being ae follows:
CONTRACT NO. 11
Engineer’s Roll or Statement for
West Thirteenth etreet from its in
tersection with the east line of St.
Charles street to its intersection
with the west line of Washington
street, except intersections with
Levee street, known end designated
aa Unit or Distru. No. 11.
Name of Owner— Front Total
Lot Blk. Addn. Foot Assmt.
LeRoy K. Morris. « 28 W. B’ville 120 *392.17
R. R. Wells . 7 28 W. B’ville 120 892.17
Mrs. Helen H. McCain. 1 87 W. B’ville 120 392.17
N. R. Quinn .12 37 W. B’ville 120 292.17
L. C. Miller . 6 29 W. B’ville 120 892.17
Geneve E. Smith . 7 29 W. B’ville 120 392.17
Mrs. Ettie L. Williams . 1 86 W. B’ville 120 392.17
State National Bank and J. G. Fer
nandez, each 1-2 undivided in
terest . 12 88 W. B’ville 120 392.17
John Greg* . « 30 W. B’ville 120 392.17
Paul V. Springman . 7 30 W. B’ville 120 392.17
A. M. Kent . 1 35 W. B’ville 120 392.17
H. B. Moler ..12 35 W. B'ville 120 392.17
Total to be assessed . *4.706.04
City’a part . 2.217.57
Total cost improvements in this Unit . *6.923.61
Assessed rate per front foot
for improvements—*3.268104.
n. 9
That the several sums abov* men
tioned and assessed against the said
parcels of property, or interests in
property, and tha owners thereof,
and interest thereon at the .ate of 7
per cent per arncm, together with
reasonable attorney's fees end costs
of collection, if incurred, are here
by declared to be and arv made a
lien upon the respectiva parcel# of
property, or interests in parcels of
property, as tha ease may be,
against which the same are ssess
ed, and a personal liability and |
charge against tha real and true j
owners of such property, or inter-1
ests in property, whether such own-!
ers be named herein or not, 4-nd the I
liens shal be and constituta tha first j
anforcible lien and claim against j
the property, or icteres in prop
erty, on which such assessments are .
levied, and shall be first and para-1
mount lien thereon, superior to all
other liens and claims except stats,
county and municipal taxes. Tha
sums so assessed against the abut
ting property, or interests in abut
ting property, and the owners there
of shall be and become due and pay*
abla as follows, te-wit:
In six (6) equal installments, due
respectively on or befare thirty (30)
days, 1, 2. 8, 4, and 5 yaars after the
date of completion and acceptance by
the City of the improvements in said
portion of street, and shall ear in
terest at the rate of 7 per cent per
annum, payabla annually v.-lth ch
installment. Provided that any own
er shall hava tha right to piy the
entire assessment, or any install
ment therof before maturity by pay
ment of principal and accrued inter
est. and provided further that if de
fault shall be made in the nit-meat
of any installment of principal or in
terest promptly as the ram# ma
tures, the entire amount of the as
sessment upon which such default
is mad* shall, at tha opinion of the
said contractor. Southwest Bitulithie
company, or its assigns, be and be
come due and payable, and shall be
collectible, together *ith reasenable
attorney's fees, and costs of collec
tion. if incurred.
in.
The fact that such improvements
may b* omitted on that portion of
street adjacent to any premises ex
empt frets the lien of such esses#*
ments shall in nowise la validate, af
fect or impair the lien of such as
sessments open other premises. All
assessments levied are a personal lia
bility and charge against the resl
sad true owners of the premise* de
scribed. notwithstanding such own
ers may not be named or may be in
correctly named. No mistake, error,
invalidity or irregularity In the
name of any property owner or the
deecription of any property or the
amount of any assessment or in any
other matter *r thing, shall in any
wise invalidate or imoair any as
sessment* hereby levied, er any cer
tificate issued to evidence the same
as hereinafter provided, and nay
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such mistake, error, invalidity or Ir
regularity, whether in such assess
ments or in tha certificates issued in
evidence thereof, may bo corrected
at any time by the City, and the full
power to make and levy re-assess
ments and to correct mistakes, er
rors, invalidities or irregulaHties.
either in the assesments or in the
certificates issued in evidence there
of, is in accordance with tha law
and charter in force in the city,
vested in the eitv.
IV.
The City of Brownsvillo shell not
bs in any manner liable f r the pay
ment of the sums hereby assessed
and tha Southwest Bitulithie com
pany or ita assigns shall look solely
to such property and the owner*
thereof for tha payment of such as
sessments, bnt tha City of Brcwes
villa ahall exercise all of its lawful
powers to aid in the enforcement
and collection of eaid liana and
sums and personal obligations. If
default shall be made in tbe pay
ment of any asstasment, collection
thereof shall b* enforced either by
sale of the premises, by ths Tax
Collector of the city on request of
the legal holder of the certificate Is
sued in evidence of such assessment
in the same manner as nec.'ly as . os
sible and after the same ad ertise
ment aa is provided by law and the
charter of this city for tales for de
linquent ed valorem taxes, or in case
of such default upon demand of the
legal holder of such certificate, this
city will txsreis* its* charter powers
to enforce and collect this certificate
by suit in its own name for ths
benefit of said holder, or said lege)
holder may bring suit for the en
forcement of said certificate in any
court having jurisdiction.
V.
Far the purpose of evidecetng the
several sums assessed ag-inst the
respective parcels ef abutting prop
erty herein assessed, or the inter
ests in the parcels of abutting prop
erty herein assessed, and tha owners
thereof, and the time end tvrnse ef
payment end to aid in the enforce
ment thereof, assignable certificates
shall be issued end delivered to said
Bitulithie company by tbe City ef
Brownsvillo, upon the completion
and acceptance by the City f said
improvements in said portion 'f
street, which certificates shall bs
executed in the manner and *>rm
tnd with the provisions and re
citals prescribed in a certain ordi
nance dnly passed by tb city com.
mission of tbe City of Brosmsvilie
on Jnno Tth, !»27, which ordinance is
on* providing -or the issuance ef as
signable certificates ef assessment
declaring and evidencing assess
ments made against abutting prop
erty and its owners and railroads ot
street railroads and their owners for
n portion of tho cost ef street im
provements upon streets and other
highways or portions thereof in the
City of Brownsvillo, and prescribing
tha provisions of ooch certificates
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
and providing that payment* made
thereon may be mad* to th* '-ity
Tax Collector and farther prescrib
ing the duties of the City Tax Col
lector and the City Treasurer with
reference to money so paid.
VI.
That any and all sums payable
upon any assessments her ’ mad:
or any certificates evidencing the
same, may be paid to the Tax Col
lector of the City of Brownsville as
provided in and authorize I by said
ordinance of Jure 7th, 1927. describ
ed in the preceding paragraph here
of and the duties of -he City Tax
Collector ^nd the •». ity Treasurer
with reference to any and all such
payments shall ha those proscribed
in said ordinance.
Finally passed and approved this
4th day of May, A. D. 1918.
A. B. COLE. Mayor,
City of Brownsville. Texas.
Attest:
A. E. MU.NOAY, City Secy.
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Architects
BEN V. PROCTER
ENGINEERING CO.
Architects — Engineers
209 Merchants Bank. Bldf.
Phone 017
Brownsville. Texas
E. G. HOLLIDAY
Architect and Bolder
409 State Nat. Bank Bldg,
Phone 906
R. NEWELL WATERS
Architect
9-11 Security State Bank Building
Weslaco. Texas
A. A. Callaway & Co.
Architects and
Engineers
41' Merchants Bank
Building
Brow: ville, Texas
Build era—Contractors
G. E. Miller
TILE DRAINAGE
CONTRACTOR AND ENGINEER
P. 0. Address R. F. D. No. 1.
San Benito
Telephone 6005 P 12 H-59
PROCTER & DUDLEY
General Contractors
628 Washington St.
Brownsville, Texas
Phone 627
Cash Registers
NATIONAL CASH REGI8TER CO..
Segietore bought, eold and exchanged
W. E. Sanders Representative.
Phone 29 Harlingen Texas Box 905
Dray—T ransfer
Mason Transfer &
Grain Co.
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BONDED WAREHOUSE
SEEDS OF ALL KINDS
Light and Heavy Hauling.
WE MOVE ANYTHING
1105 Adams. Phona 199.
AUSTIN
TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO.
Phones 421 and 519
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, Edinburg.
Office 1259 Levee
Phone 767
Track leave* Brownsville 11:39 Dally
Flortiti
THE FLOWER SHOP
Cut flowers, pot plants,
funeral designs and
bouquets
1254 Elizabeth St.
Phone 1888
BOWYCR THI PLOkIST, flowers
1 and funeral designs. Ft. Charles
and Pita street*. Phene 771.
HOTELS—CAFES
WHITE KITCHEN
Famoas for it*
Cooking—Immaculacy
and Service
Tha popular place far
business Innehas
12th between Elisabeth *ad
Wash tag*on
Hotel Hollingsworth
American Style.
Day. Weak or Moathly Rata.
Phaaa 1067-J.
W. B. CLINT
INSURANCE
SURETY BONDS
208-9 Merchant* National
Bank
PHONE 6
Insurance
McDonald-Howard
Agency
Loans - Insurant# - Real Estate
Rooms 1 and 2. Arcade Bldg.
Phona 1 (’i»0
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Mattress Renovating
Let Us Renovate
Your Mattress
We make mattresses to order. AU
repair work guaranteed.
SOMMERS
12th and Adams
Phone 674
OFFICE EQUIPMENT
ART METAL
FILING
Equipment
Maverick-Clarke Litho Co.
SOS Merchants National Bank
Phone 617—Brownsville
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Office Equipment and Supplies
HARGROVE'S 8TAT10NXBY A
BOOK STORE
Brownsville. Texas.||
Funeral Directors
Hinkley Mortuary
Complete Funeral Service
Phones 123—800
St Charles and Eleventh
Street
Typewriters
DAVENPORT Typewriter Exchange,
(Brownsville’s Typewriter House)
Distributors, New L. C. Smith “Si
lent" 8 and Late Corona 4 type*
writers. Also sail Royal Portables
and “Factory” Rebuilt*—all makes.
We repair all makas typewriter and
adding machinaa. 1112 alismboth tt,
Phona 1106.
WOODSTOCK TYPEWRITER
SALES CO.
Typewriters—Adding Machines
Supplies—Repairs
Phona *06—Harlingen Z-lx
PROFESSIONAL
Attorneys
Davenport. West sad Ransoms
Attorneys at Law
807-808 Herchanta National Banft
Brownsville, Taxaa
H. B. GALBRAITH «
Attorney at Law
Mareftanta National Bank Bldg.
Brown evil le. Toxaa.
J. T. Canales C. 8. Kidman, da
CANALES AND EIDMAN
Attorneys at Law *
Real Eauta a Specialty
SOS Marchanta National Bask
Browne villa. Taman
H. L YATES
Attorney at Law
Stata National Bath Bldg.
Brownsville, Taxaa
RALPH A. DUNKELBERO
Attorney at Law
Commercial Collectlana n Specialty
106 8entniry, George and Taykir
Building
BrownavUle. Texas
N180
Chiropractor
M. Cook, D. C.
ceiaopRACTrr
Nerv-O-Meter Service
State National Bank Bldg.
Browne villa, Taxaa
Boom 408 Phona HI
EL V1BRA SYSTEM USED
DR. C. RANZELL
Chiropractic—Electro—Theanpy
Massage and Bath
Cromack Bldg. Brownsville.
M-S12.
REAlT~EStATE
LOS EBANOS
Brownsville's Supreme Residential
District, carefully restricted, com
pletely improved. Heme sites from
»l“uo.'W, easy terms, Jsaee-Diekln*
tea Co, Realtors, corner Travelers
Hotel BUg., Brownsville. S4.
TAILORING
BETON’S
Tailoring and Haberdashery
The Home of
Bench Mad* Clothes.
1210 Elisabeth Phone 821
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YOU SAVE many *tep« hy com
paring the different offers of room
and apartments for rent In the e!n*
elfied ads. instead of tramping nf
nnd down the streets looking <•>