Brownsville herald. [volume], July 15, 1929, Page FIVE, Image 5

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Know Your
VALLEY
INVEST, BUILD AND GROW
WITH THE VALLEY
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-—■ - BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN YOU CAN DEPEND ON FOR COOPERATION -...—
Southern Mutual Life Association
(A Local Mutual Aid)
Ground Floor Farmers State Bank Building i
San Benito, Texas
5001 Ways to Use Tile
Ask
Wm. Cameron & Company, Inc.
Phone 490 Harlingen
Jones Transfer & Storage Co., Inc.
Distributing, Storing, Moving, Crating and Shipping
Daily Motor Freight Service Between All Valley Points
Harlingen Brownsville Edinburg
Plinna Clean Pure Ice
mone Brownsville Ice Company
CQQ • St. Charles and Belt Line R. R.
"oO Plants at McAllen and Harlingen jj
Coffee Roasted Fresh Daily
DELTA COFFEE CO.
WHOLESALE ONLY
Phone 234 . Harlingen
Brownsville Sheet Metal Works
Metal Work and Roofing All Kinds
Iron and Tin Work, Tanks, Cisterns, Roofing
ALL WORK FULLY GUARANTEED
Phone 289 , Brownsville
Guarantee Electric Co., Inc.
.Phone 1050 — Brownsvillfe
Electrical Layouts, Fixtures and Wiring
I M. Garcia Gomez & Champion
Wholesale Groceries
W Tel. 83 Brownsville 11th and Madison
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PRIVATE DINING ROOM
101 Seats in the Place
VALLEY WAFFLE SHOPPE
“BEST PLACE TO EAT”
Peter Govatos. Prop. — San Benito
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Garcia-Gomez & Co.
Southern Pacific Tracks — Brownsville
Telephone 616
Wholesale Grocers
We cover the entire Lower Rio Grande Valley
like a blanket
FREE DELIVERY
To Any Part of the Valley
-DESEL-BOETTCHER CO.-1
Wholesale Fruits, Produce
Grocers Sundries and Fountain SuppHes
Phone 797 Long Distance No. 1
Brownsville, Texas
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DENNETT MOTOR SALES CO.
Phone [phone] Levee Street Brownsville
GUARANTEED REPAIR WORK
DAY and NIGHT STORAGE
• Accessories, Tires and Tubes, Gasoline, Oils
Valley Box and Crate Factory
Crates — Baskets — Hampers
San Benito Donna
Works Growing With Valley
OLD RAILROAD
WILL BE SOLD
Debts Cause Auction of
Line That Lincoln
Represented
CHICAGO, July 15.—(Jt)—Burden
ed with millions in mortgages and in
terest long over due, the historic
Chicago and Alton railroad must
go on the auction block.
The federal court has ordered the
sale at Wilmington, Will county, 111.,
as the only way of meeting the ob
ligations.
The Alton’s history, during; sev
eral years of its early life, is su
perimposed upon that of Abraham
Lincoln. Lincoln appeared as at
torney for the St. Louis, Alton and
Chicago and the Alton Sangamon,
predecessors, and opposed them in
suits against the Illinois Central.
Mr. Lincoln began his trip to im
mortality in Washington on the
Alton, and the same road carried
his body back to Springfield.
The C. and A. was the first to try
out Pullman cars, the inventor,
George Pullman, carrying on his
experiments with sleeping cars on
the Alton from 1857 to 1863.
The road began with the Alton
and Sangamon, incorporated in
1847. It developed a brisk business
and during the late '90 s caught the
acquisitive eye of E. H. Harriman.
He bought it in 1899 and immedi
ately loaded it with a $45,000,000
mortgage. The following year he
added a second mortgage of $22,000,
000. Harriman sold the road after
one year’s ownership.
The Harriman manipulations se
riously burdened the railway, and
in 1912 it was necessary to add a
third mortgage of $1S,000,000. The
holders of the $22,000,000 lien asked
the foreclosure action, interest on
that mortgage having passed since
1922. The holders of the third mort
gage contested the action, their in
terest not having been paid since
1912. The road, with its 1,053 miles
of trackage in Missouri and Illi
nois, is valued at $125,000,000.
Potash ‘Writing’
In Field Proves
Fertilizer Value
HOWARD CITY. Mich.. July 15.
—(£>)—Using a small fertilizer drill
for a pen and muriate of potash for
ink. B. O. Ha german, Grand Rapids,
and I. J. Matthews, Chicago, did
some fancy writing a year ago here
in the sands of the Pennsylvania
railroad’s demonstration farm.
The letters stand out stronger to
day than they did a year ago when
the two specialists, one an agricul
tural agent and the other a fertil
izer expert, penned the words:
“Potash Pays!”
The message was written in an
alfalfa field as part of a demon
stration shewing that legume crop
on light' soils needs commercial
fertilizers having a high content of
potash.
Where the letters were written
with the fertilizer drill, the alfalfa
has made a longer and heavier
growth, the foliage has a darker
shade of green, the stand of plants
is thicker, and each plant has stool
ed vigorously. Before'the first cut
ting was taken, each letter was
plainly visible.
The demonstration was arranged
as one of the educational features
of the second annual sand land
farmers’ field day at the farm on
August 8. This and other projects
on the place show that alfalfa
thrives best on sand soils in which
there is a strong solution of mu'
riate of potash.
In the penmanship act the spe
cialists applied the potash at the
rate of 250 pounds an acre. In oth
er tests the applications varied
from 100 to 400 pounds or the pot
ash was used in combination with
nitrogen and super-phosphate.
COPPER MINE REVIVED
AFTER 25-YEAR REST
SYLVA, N. C., July 15.—{IP)—Dor
mant for more than 25 years, the
Cullowhee copper mine near here
is about to become active again.
Men and machinery already have
moved to the mine to resume op
eration. Negotiations for resump
tion of work have been in progress
for weeks.
It is expected that for the pres
ent, at least, ore will be shipped
to the Tennessee Copper company's
smelter at Ducktown, Tenn. The
North Carolina Flux company will
operate the mine, which yields not
only copper and iron, but at many
points produces enough gold and
silver to pay for the mining opera
tion.
COALS TO NEWCASTLE
WASHINGTON, July 15.—m—
Shipments of macaroni and spa
getti from .the United States to
Italy reached a grand total of $23
during April. The department of
commerce lists the volume for the
month at 100 pounds.
Air Express Begun
Today Connects To
Ft. Worth In 1 Day
It is now possible for a Browns
ville debutant to wire one of the
exclusive stores in Dallas or Port
Worth for a new dress and to get
it the next day in time to wear in
the afternoon.
This service is made available by
the air express inaugurated Mon
day by the Southern Air Transport,
Inc., of which the Texas Air Trans
port is a part. The local agent is
Sid E.own. whose office is located
at the Brownsville municipal air
port. A plane leaving Fort Worth
at 8 a. m. arrives in Brownsville at
3 p. m. each day over the line.
This new service means that air
express will be flown 5,862 miles
every day, as Southern Air Trans
port, Inc., through its various sub
sidiaries, now flies 3,128 miles with
the mail daily and 2,734 miles with
passengers, making it the third
largest air transportat tn company
in the United States, explained
Robert J. Smith, general traffic
manager.
“Air express will be inaugurated
because of the insistent and con
sistent demand for it throughout
the south,” Mr. Smith said. “We
have had such widespread and in
sistent calls for it for some time
that we feel we can not afford to
delay starring it any longer.”
In addition to carrying the ex
press by air, the company offers
pick-up and delivery service at ter
minal and junction points through
out the south, Mr. Smith said. These
points include Atlanta, Birming
ham, Ala.; New Orleans. La.; Hous
ton, Waco, San Antonio. Browns
ville, Dallas, Fort Worth and El
Paso.
“Besides giving full pick-up and
delivery service at each of these
points,” Mr. Smith said, ‘‘we shall
be glad to accept packages for de
livery to all other points on our
lines at the sender’s risk, provided
his agent will be at the field of
destination to receive them.”
The tariff will be based on a zon
ing system similar to that employ
ed by the parcel post service, Mr.
Smith said. The rate will be 8
cents per pound per hundred miles
with a minimum charge of 25 cents.
In addition, there will be a pick-up
and delivery charge of 50 cents ad
ditional on each package, regard
less of its weight or the distance
carried. A complete tariff is avail
able at every division point on the
Southern Air Transport, Inc., lines
and at the general offices in Fort
Worth, the general traffic manager
said.
‘‘A man living In Dallas or Fort
Worth can get a package off at
10:30 or 11 o’clock in the morning
and before 1 o’clock it will be deliv
ered at Abilene. By 1:10 it could
reach Sweetwater, Big Spring by
1:50, Midland by 2:50 o'clock and El
Paso by 4:30 o’clock.
“A package can leave Atlanta this
morning and get to Fort Worth by
6 o’clock tonight, whereas the train
time for the same trip is 36 hours.
Similarly, whereas it would take al?
day for a Dackage to go from Dallas
cr Fort Worth to San Antonio or
Houston by train, it can now leave
either of these points in the morn
ing and be delivered to the house or
nlace of business of the recipient in
San Antonio, Houston or Galveston
by noon.”
Navy Is Seeking
Picture of Noted
Chief, John Rudd
WASHINGTON, July 15.——
Wanted: By the United States navy
a picture of Capt. John Rudd, U. S.
N., one time commander of “Old
Ironsides,” a native of Rhode
Island, resident of Fredericksburg,
Va.
Captain Rudd is the only com
mander of the Washington navy
yard whose photograph is not in
the naval archives. He died at
Philadelphia in 1867, and the navy
has been unable to find any de
scendants or relatives who could
furnish either portrait or personal
history of the captain.
He distinguished himself during
the Mexican war as commander of
the U. S. S. Union and U. S. S.
Dale and received for this service
a letter of commendation by the
commander-in-chief of the United
States naval forces on the Pacific
ocean.
It was in 1852 that he was given
command of the' famous frigate
Constitution, which was then a
part of the Mediterranean squad
ron. In 1858 and 1859 he com
manded the Washington navy yard,
and it was that command which
drew attention to the absence of
his picture in the long row of those
who have commanded the base
since its establishment.
At his death he held the rank of
commodore on the retired list.
SOUTHWEST STATES
USE MOST COMBINES
KANSAS CITY. July 15.—<P)—
Four out of five combines used by
American grain farmers do then
work in southwestern states.
More than 40,000 harvester
threshers are listed in Kansas,
Oklahoma and Texas, a survey
shows, out of an approximate to
tal of 50,000. Kansas leads with
more than 22,000.
In the number of tractors west
of the Mississippi, however, this
southwestern trio falls below mid
western states, where farm units
are smaller. It is estimated that
Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas have
about 100,000 of nearly a million
tractors in the country.
TURKEY PROFITS PAY
WIDOW’S MORTGAGE
LUTHER, Mich., July 15.—(JP)—
Mrs. Sophia Milner, widow, has paid
off the $4,000 mortgage on her farm
in six years by raising turkeys.
Mrs. Milner said the outlook was
not very promising when her hus
band died in 1923. The mortgage
looked burdensome, but soon after
she began to expand her turkey op
erations, prospects for meeting the
sum were brightened.
She shipped 400 turkeys to De
troit last fall and expects to market
500 holiday birds next season.
Gulls Aid Farmers
In Fighting Mice
Off Western Lands
SALT LAKE CITY. July 15.—<JF)
—Sea gulls, whose historic attack
on grasshoppers that were destroy
ing the crops of the Mormon pio
neers is commemorated in a mon
ument in the Temple sauare here,
again have come to the aid of the
farmers of this region.
This time, field mice in the vi
cinity of the American Falls reser
voir on the Snake river in southern
Idaho are the prey of the great
white birds.
A. E. McClymounds, superinten
dent of the agricultural experiment
station at Aberdeen. Idaho, has dis
covered that the gulls, which have
taken up their homes in increasing
numbers on the artificial lake there,
are developing an appetite for the
field pests.
The birds, which nest in Immense
flocks on the islands of Great Salt
lake, may be 6een each spring far
inland, closely following farmers
and foraging newly plowed fields
for bugs and worms.
LARGE DOUBLE EGGS
LAID BY YOUNG HEN
CONWAY, N. H.. July 15.—(/f*)—A
hen that has almost developed a
habit of laying mammoth eggs with
“double-barrelled” characteristics is
owned by Perley McLellan erf this
town.
The year-old Plymouth Rock has
laid 14 eggs of which each contains
the usual contents and, in addition,
another egg of average size in an
average shell.
Some of the eggs were so large as
to resembled the product of some
far larger bird, measuring nine
inches in circumference one way
and seven and one-half inches the
other. Their weights were about
six ounces apiece. Three of these
huge eggs weigh as much as nine
common eggs. The hen laid one
of these freaks every second day
and then apparently returned to
normal production.
POOLS PLAN MOVES
IN SECURITY FIELD
NEW YORK, July 15.—(JP)—Sev
eral new pools have been organ
ized recently in Wall street and
the general expectation is that the
public will be back in the market
on a large scale within a few
weeks.
Leading brokerage houses have
opened scores of new branch of
fices throughout the country and
several in Europe.
With more than 2,000 securities
traded on the floor of the New
York stock exchange alone, the old
membership of 1,100, of which not
much more than half was repre
sented at any one time, proved un
equal to the task. It was voted
early this year to increase the
seats by 25 per cent. Most of the
additional 275 seats have been sold.
BROWNSVILE
CO. HIRES 12
Uses Three Carloads Of
Roofing Material Dur
ing Past Month
Twenty years in business here
and now at its peak—that’s the
record of the Brownsville Sheet
Metal Works, Eighth and Harrison,
under the management of Harry
Richardson.
When Richardson came here
from Bowling Green, Ky., there was
little sheet metal work being done
in the Valley. This section had
just begun to expand. Many ol
the cities that now dot the
“world's longest main street” did
not exist. Richardson, however, be
lieved in the future of the Valley
and bought an interest in the bus
iness with O. P. Hacker.
Expert
The newcomer from Bowling
Green was an expert sheet metal
worker, having served his appren
tice and early years of craftman
ship in Kentucky. He had been
practically reared in a tin shop
and at the age of 12 began draw
ing his weekly wage as a crafts
man.
Richardson figuratively and lit
erally rolled up his sleeves and
plunged into work here, supervis
ing all work as he toiled beside
his workmen. After holding the role
of owner-supervisor-workman for
five years, the business has grown
to such an extent that he found
it necessary to devote all of his
time to superintending the jobs.
Big Pay Roll
Since that time the business has
grown steadily and now employs
12 men and has a pay roll of from
$400 to $425 a week. During the
past month the concern has used
more than three carloads of roof
ing materials.
All types of sheet metal and
roofing work is done by the com
pany. They build cisterns, pipes
for irrigation work, water gates
cornices, gutters, ventilators, etc.
One of the most recent buildings
done by the concern was the Kress
building. They now hold contracts
on the two new ward school build
ings going up.
“We try to give them what they
■want and when they want it ’
Richardson says. "We try to give
a real service and feel that our suc
cess so far would indicate that we
are giving that service,” he says.
New Airlines To
South America Is
Booming Imports
TAMPA, Fla,, July 15.—(JP)—The
Panama hat cf Ecuador, finest of
its kind, probably will become the
official headgear of your public
spirited citizen here, if a swelling
stream of commercial opinion has
its usual results.
Tampa business men are toying
with the idea of a boom in Ecuador
hats, as a sort of brotherly induce
ment to be extended to Ecuador's
export market.
The precipitate of this commer
cial chemistry will be the establish
ment of the regular flying sched
ules of the New York, Rio and
Bueonos Aires company, and Ameri
can International Airways, Inc.,
companies which will rival the Pan
American Airways, Inc., in linking
North, South and Central America,
using Tampa as southern United
States airport.
Ecuador already have nibbled at
the Tampa allure of a semi-tropical
market for their hats, and Tampa
merchants have been quick to agree
that the strengthened communica
tion lines ought to be mutually ben
eficial to trade.
Ecuador, it has been learned, has
a population of 2.000.000. imported
goods valued at $4,662,000 from the
United States in 1926, and exported
$6,757,000 worth of goods to the
United States. Coffee, ivory, nuts,
cocoa butter, hardwoods and petrol
eums are its principal exports, while
it depends upon the United States
and Europe for textiles, foodstuffs,
machinery and many of the com
modities.
STOCK MARKET ADVICE
IS FACTOR IN PRICES
NEW YORK. July 15.—(^—In
vestment publications, brokerage
house letters and services designed
to inform the public as to bargains
often have an influence on prices
that can be measured accurately.
In one recent instance a publica
tion contained an analysis of real
estate stocks. The writer placed
one concern of relatively small size
at the top of his list. Within a few
days this company had added the
names of more than 500 stockhold
ers to its books, and the price of the
securities had moved forward vigor
ously.
Ventilators and Skylights a Specialty
General Sheet Metal Contractors
Turner Sheet Metal Works
Phone [phone]th St.
Brownsville
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COUNTRY HOME WORK A SPECIALTY
QUINN AND DERRICK
PLUMBERS
Heating:, Septic Tanks, Sewering:, Estimates, Jobbing:
847 Elizabeth Street Phone 913
Brownsville, Texas
RADIATORS
Repaired
General Welding
O: P. HACKER
Phone 239
Cor. 13th & Washington
Brownsville
I Furniture Remodeling
And
Refinishing
J. R. FROST
Brownsville
900 Adams Street
Holm's Studio
Portrait and Commer
cial Photography
Phone 337 — Brownsville
Special Notice to the Public
New Nerv-O-Meter and
El Vibra System Used
M. K. COOK, D. C.
Chiropractor
COOK and WILLIAMS
1715 Grant St. — Tel. 1228-J
AVERY FARM IMPLEMENTS
Specially adapted to Southern Farming
Wholesale and Retail
Investigate Our Liberal Credit Terms
PHILLIPS HARDWARE
San Benito
RIO GRANDE NATIONAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Old Line STOCK COMPANY Legal Reserve
Harlingen, Texas
[L. A. RAGAN
TRANSFER AND STORAGE
Bonded Warehouse
Crating — Shipping — House Moving
All Kinds of Heavy Hauling
Office Phone 178 Weslaco Res. Phone 160 Black
Gasoline and Motor Oils
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Velvorene Motor Oil Co.
Phone 568 Brownsville 2nd & Fronton Streets
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CLARK ELECTRIC SHOP
SPEEDOMETER SERVICE
STARTERS BATTERIES
GENERATORS RADIOS
MAGNETOS
Phone 432 Brownsville, Texas 836 Elizabeth
Dependable Prompt
BROWNSVILLE TITLE COMPANY
Phone 353 — Brownsville
Complete abstracts of title to lands in Cameron
County, Texas
Manufacturers of All Kinds
Chicken, Stock and Dairy Feeds
SAN BENITO FEED CO.
El Jardin Garage — Brownsville
FIREPROOF STORAGE
Washing — Greasing — Auto Service by Skilled
Attendants
Satisfaction guaranteed with all transactions
j Floyd E. Bullard
Sheet Metal Works
“No Job To Small—
None Too Large”
Phone 325 — Edinburg
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I Monuments
Our work permanently ex
pressci your devotion.
Brownsville Marble & Granite
Work*
941 Levee Street
We Specialize in Staple Wholesale Groceries
E. DE LA GARZA
Phone 984 , ;.:4 Brownsville , , - 634 Fronton St.
American Maid Bread
ALWAYS FRESH
Ask Your Grocer
Made by
GATEWAY BAKERY
Brownsville
Canners “S. S.” Brand
Vegetables and Grapefruit
SCHMIDT CANNING CO,
San Benito
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