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M.P.SPUROP
TO COMMISSION
McAllen City Heads Must
Decide Request for Track
Over Highway
(Special to The Herald)
M*ALLEN, Aug. 12.—Whether or
hot the Missouri Pacific lines will
be allowed to construct a spur track
across the intcr-county highway n
West McAllen in order to serve
three proposed packing plants which
are negotiating for the spur, is now
a matter for the city commission
to settle, according to resul.. of t
meeting held Friday night at the
McAllen Chamber of Commerce
building. Members of the cham
ber of comment, city commission
city zoning commission and bus!
ness men directly or Indirectly in
volved In ramifications rf the plan
to ’mild the spur were present.
John T. Lomax, Sa; Benito bank
er, has requested permission to al
low the Missouri Pacific to construct
a spur across the main traffic ar
tery of the western portion of the
city in order ta serve a proposed
packing plant which he contem
plates building on his property, a ,
portion of the oil Carroll college
holdings.
A number of McAllen interest*
have developed various angles in
connection with the request to built'
the spur, and the whole matter ha*
caused community-wide interest
and discussiqp.
Proponents of the spur track In
sists that if the trackage Is not
placed, industrial development in
West McAllen will be curtailed and
Industries seeking an opening here
will look elsewhere for more fa
vorable locations. Opponents of the
proposition maintain that the city
may in the future desire the pro
posed site of the plants as park
sites or use the lots as a school
campus. A portion of the founda
tion of one of the Carroll college
buildings still stands, and could
probably be used as the foundation
for a large school building.
At the Friday night meeting
members of the board of develop
ment of the chamber of ccmmerct
refused to commit themselves or tc
make any recommendation to the
city commission, but stated that
they were without power to act In
the matter, thereby placing the en
tire plan In the hands of the com
mission.
San Antonio Man to
Build Penney Store
(SpeciV tc The Herald)
M ALLEN, Aug. 12.—Construction
work on the new $41,000 J. C. Pen
ney company's building here is tc
begin during the first few days of
this week, according to a statement
made Saturday by C. A. Dlshman
San Antonio contractor who vas
low bidder on the structure and whr
has been instructed to proceed with
construction work.
The building, w ch Is to be twe
stories in height, will be located
at the corner of South Broadway
and Austin avenue, cne block from
the heart of the downtown district
The structure will front 150 feet or
Austin avenue ~nd 50 feet on South
Broadway.
It is expected that the local store
will be enabled to move 1;.^> ’ts
new quarters about October IQ,
TUESDAY CALENDAR
Rebekah lodge meets I. O. O. F.
hall, 1p.m.
Business and Professional Wo
man's club meets at the chamber
of commerce, 7:30 p. m.
Just-Sew members will be
guests of Mrs. Ben C. Clark for a
picnic on her lawn In the eve
ning.
Evening circle of the Ladies’ Aid
society of the First Christian
church will meet Tuesday at S
p. m. with Miss M. M. Bourne, 135
Tenth street.
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Friday Bridge
With Mrs. Geocge
Mrs. Jimmie George entertained
the Friday Bridge club at their
regular meeting the past week. The
affair was quite informal, and only
club members .ttended. Garden
flowers were used for decorations.
Mrs. Burnell Goodrich held high
score for the afternoon, and re
ceived a trophy. Mrs. Goodrich is
to have the club this week.
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Comings, Goings
of Local People
Mrs. H. L. Stukely, and daughter.
Dorothy, have gone to Des Moines,
their former home, where they will
spend the remainder of the sum
mer. From Des Moines, Dcrothy
will go on to Washington. \ C., to
enter National Park seminary this
fall, while Mrs. Ttokley will return
I to Brownsville. They made the trip
, by motor, leaving last week.
Mrs. A. M. McKay and two sons
Morris and Plchard, who have been
visiting Mrs. McKay's parents, Mr
and Mrs. L. K. Morris, expect tc
leave Wednesday for their home in
La Porte. From there they expect
to go on to Kentucky to attend a
reunion of the McKay family.
L. K. Morris Is to leave Monday
night for the Pacific coast on e
business and pleasure trip. He will
visit relatives in California, later
going to the Portland and Seattle
on business. He expects to be away
about six weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Robertson of
San Benito, spent the week-end
with Miss Marjorie Reil and Mrs
M. L. Walker.
Captain and Mrs T. A. Breen are
home from San Antonio, where they
have been for the past month
Captain and Mrs. V. Z. Brown arf
back at Fort Brown after a visit
to San Antonio.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Massey are
spending their leave in Brownsville
before going to their new station.
Captain and Mrs. Clifford A
Eastwood arrived at Fort Brown the
latter part of the week.
Pupils Return Home
From Summer School
(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES. Aug. 12.—A number
, or Mercedes boys and girls returned
home at the week end from Edin
burg where they attended summer
j school, which closed Saturday.
Amelia Champion is the only
Mercedes student who graduated at
this term.
The local pupils taking high
school work were Amelia Cham
pion. Billie Barton. Marin Garcia.
Rafaela Garcia, Sylvan Golden,
Robert Greenlee. Elvira Hinojosa.
Rafaela Hinojosa and Pauline
I Thigpen.
Those enrolled for college work
were Lee Morrison and Leroy Me- (
l Clennan.
DISPUTED TARIFF
RATES CONSIDERED
WASHINGTON. Aug. 12—(in
putting off some of the most dif
ficult items to the last, the senate
' finance committee republicans to
day faced the necessity of deciding
this week what t do with the high
ly controversial sugar, hide, leather
and shoe rates written into the
t house tariff bill.
NEW ADJUTANT TAKES
FORT BROWN DUTIES
Capt. Clifford A. Eastwood took
over the duties of adjutant at Fort
Brown Monday morning, succeed
j ing Capt. Vernon M. Shell who has
held the past for a number of years
Captain Shell has been trans
ferred to command of headquarters
troqp.
Captain Eastwood came here from
Fort Riley. Kan.
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Golden bubbles of flavor
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Serve for breakfast with
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Rice Krispies are deli
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ways. Children are wild
about them. At your gro
cer’s. Oven-fresh. Made by
Kellogg in Battle Creek.
RICE KRISPIES
Transportation
AND THE PART IT PLAYS IN
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ANALYSIS of our so-called “Machine Age" civ
ilization would require volumes, but it can be
summarized in a few words. The average
citizen today enjoys, as a matter of course, ordinary
daily necessities that were beyond the reach or even
the dreams of Egyptian Pharaohs, the Greeks in their
“palmiest” days, or Roman senators in the hey-day
of their ascendency.
These things are made possible as a result of mass
production by the uce of machinery—power driven—
and our system of communication and distribution
which is. of itself, more marvelous than any develop
ment of our prerent-day. complex scheme of things.
And that distribution has been made possible by and
absolutely is dependent upon our railroads.
In any final analysis we come back to first principles.
Without the railroads our frontiers could not have
been extended, vart reaches of our country could not
have been developed—our rural populations, at great
distances from the centcis of industrial production,
could not have enjoyed the benefits of this mass
production, and our great industrial population centers
could not hsve been supplied with even the raw ma
terials of manufacture, to sav nothing of food from our
farms and the baric commodities for clothing and
shelter.
More than th-'t. if specific examples are sought we
reed onlv to look at the spectacle of California products
competing with Texas and Florida in New York, and
Florida products successfully competing with those
of other sections in the middle west and north, while
• those of Texas compete successfully at the very door
steps nf both California and Florida. All this is possible
wholly and solely because of our railroad transportation.
All of this progress and amazing development—our
"Machine Age" civilization — is based primarily on
widespread general prosperity and the prosperity of
each region, community and group is vitally dependent
on rzilrotd transportaticn. General prosperity is de
pendent on purchasing power and that, in turn, again,
is dependent on adequate and dependable transportation
by rail.
The railroads are willingly and gladly carrying their
full share cf the burden ard cheerfully contributing a
full measure of their quota to the whole situation.
They expect to continue to do this. And to this end—
I solicit your co-operation and support.
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TRAIN STRIKES
TRUCK; 13DEAD
Members of Two Families
Returning from Holiday
Killed at Crossing
DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 12.—VPh
Joyously returning from s holiday
in the city, 13 persons, members of
two rural families, were killed by a
fast passenger train at a grade
crossing near here last night. A
fourteenth was in a serious condi
tion in a local hospital today.
A gravel truck bearing them home
from Dallas was struck by the Sun
shine Special. Texas and Pacific
train, and smashed.
The dead:
MRS. IVA BADGETT. 45.
ERA AND VERA BADGETT,
twins 22.
TEXAS BADGETT, 16.
EMMA BADGETT, 19.
BIRDIE BADGETT. 9.
JESSIE BADGETT, 7.
MARY JOE BADGETT, 3.
E. F. M HENRY, 53.
MRS. ANNIE M’HENRY. 43.
BEULAH M HENRY. 14.
EMMA M’HENRY. 10»
BILLIE M HENRY. 4.
A coroner’s Inquest at Mesquite
was set for todar.
For hours after the catastrophe,
which took more lives than any
other of its kind in Texas history
the tom bodies lay in a heap on
the floor of an undertaker's estab
lishment at Forney, Tex., while of
f'cials sought relatives of the vic
tims in efforts at identification—a
difficult task because the McHenry
family was almost annihilated, and
relatives of the Badgets could not
be found for some time. None of
the townsmen could name the indi
vidual members of the families.
Sherwood Badgett. head of the
family, a thin, stooped farmer,
walked in long after the accident,
twisting his battered hat. but he
gave no aid in making up the death I
list. He spoke a few low words to an
attendant without glancing at the
white covered mound in the rear.
Father Da ed
He seemed hardly able physically
and mentally to answ-er questions
and replied in the negative wher
he was asked if he had seen the
tragedy. Justice of the Peace Mc
Culiov.gh, and others, was informed
that the dazed man from the front
yard of his home had seen the 13
go suddenly to death.
What caused the machine to
jump into the path of the locomo
tive was not ascertained imme
diately.
Claude Chapman of Mesquite,
said to have been art eye witness,
declared the truck was halted as if
to await a train and then dash
ed on.
G. W. Garrett, a farmer living
nearby, said he saw the train but
could not tell who was driving or
the reason lor the collision.
The crossing itself was rather
highland on a side road just off
the Mesquite-Fomey highway.
Charles McHenry and his two sla
ters, all married, are the survivors
of that family. The sisters are Mrs.
Vioia Welsh of Seminole, Okia., and
Mrs. Lillie May Clebhom of Allan.
Ark.
Besides Sherwood Badgett, five
sons, the youngest 13, survive in the
Badgett family.
GIRL, 7, SUFFERS
FROM BROKEN LEG
DALLAS. Tex., Aug. 12.—(JPh
Knowing that her mother, father,
brother and two sisters were killed
in the train-truck collision rear
Forney yesterday, Mary Lee Mc
Henry, 7. lay in St. Paul sanitarium
here today, a leg broken and h*r
body covered with bruises.
She was conscious today but had
not said anything about the acci
dent.
23 Mercedes Scouts
Go to Second Camp
(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES. Aug. 12.—Twenty
three Mercedes Boy Scouts have
signed up for the second session of i
Camp Perry summer home of Val
iev boy scouts, three miles south of
Rio Hondo.
Hoyt and Ferguons Hager were
the only two Mercedes boys to en
roll for both sessions.
The Mercedes boys who have
signed un arc troop No. 2. sponsored
by the local American Legion, arc
Roger Terry. Price Fittz, John Roy
Barry. Roger Seatton, Randolph
Bennett. Roger Conant. Emil Foss
ler. Glenn Commons. Wendell Old- I
die. Dick Phelan, John Ort Meyers
and Hovt and Ferguson Hager.
Troop No. 3, sponsored by the local
Rotary club. Robert Crockett. Mal
vln Peters and Mvron Potts. Troop
No. 4, sponsored by the local Kl
wp.nls club. Albert Seymour, Billie
Troll lnger. Edgar Yates, Sylvan
Golden, Marvin Brown. Alden
Smith. Or in Johnson and Aaron
Hessel.
Huge Jewelry Theft
Excites Rich Colony
BEVERLY, Mass . Aug. 12.—f/P>—
Something akin to a panic has beer
caused among wealthy members of
the North Shore colony by Satur
day’s $250,000 Jewelry robbery at the
exclusive West Beach estate of Sid
ney E. Hitchinso .. Philadelphia
broker, clubman and son-in-law of
E. Stotesbun- Morgan partner.
Local officers have been rein
forced by private detectives from
New York to guard the vast wealth
in scores of exclusive homes.
THOUSANDS OF WOMEN
HAVE BEEN BENEFITED
Indigestion, poor appetite. low vital*
hr. constipation and other common
ailments due to physical neglect hav«
been conquered by thousands of women
with the aid of
St. Joseph's
G.F.R
QheSWomana Qonic i
TEN-INCH SNAKE
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IS PULLED FROM
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CALF’S THROAT
ORAND SALINE. Aug. U. —
Jonah is the name given to the
dead snake which L. Davis, local
veterinarian, is preserving in alco
hol. He calls it Jonah, through the
whale in this instance, reputed
ly was a six-months old calf and
the unwelcome and unusual pas
senger was a snake instead of a
man.
Dr. Davis was called to the El
lvn E. Swain home near here to
examine a calf which seemed to
be choking. Fearing that the calf
had swallowed something that
had lodged in its throat, the vet
erinarian said he inserted a pair
of forceps and extracted a snake
about ten inches in length.
The snake was dead. Dr. Davis
said he believed the calf, while
grazing, had swallowed a snake
egg which hatched.
boarbUets
TO FIX RATE
School Tax Certain to Be Set
at 35 Cents, Pension
at Seven
AUSTIN. Aug. 12.—0T*)—The au
tomatic tax board meets today to
fix the tax rate. The advalorem
levy will be set at from 27 to 30
cents, It was reported. The consti
tutional limit i3 35 cents. Tire pres
ent rate is 22 cents. It is virtual
ly certain the school tax will ^
fixed at 35 cents and the confeder
ate pension levy at seven cents'
present figures and constitutiona:
limit.
Owing to the deep cut Governor
Moody made in the appropriation
bills, extracting $3,016,401 from the
total to brinr them to $44.778,534
bellow the aggreate amount voted
for the bienniun ending August T*
—it was believed the rate could bi
fixed at 22 cents and certainly no: !
over 25 cents, but the governor sale
with a bulk of the expenditures vot- ;
ed for the first year of the blennurr
he did not believe the rate could
be made lower than 27 cents and 1
it would likely be as high as 3C
cents.
The tax beard is composed of the
governor, treasurer and comptroller
McAllen Home Is
Destroyed by Fire
fSepcial to The Herald)
McALLEN. Aug. 12.—Fire of un
known origin totally destroyed the
six-room frame residence belonging
to J. L. Burdette just outside the
city limits near Palm Heights at
3:30 a m. Sunday.
It is understood that members
of the Burdette family had left
a few hours before on a week-end
vacation.
So swiftly did the blaze make
headway that firemen, hampered by
a lack of water, were unable to save
any of the contents of the house
The loss is estimated at $7,000 to
$8,000 It is not known whether the
loss is covered by insurance.
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DANCY RETURNS
FROM MEETING
Reports Progress in Hug-the
Coast Highway Education
al Campaign Work
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Judge o. C. Dancy returned Sat
urday from a meeting of Hug-the
Coast highway representatives held
Friday at Port Lavaca, where plans
were adopted for financing the pro
posed work of selling the highway
to the people nf Brownsville to
Houston section.
According to Judge Dancy, prog
ress was noted in the advance edu
cational highway work, and another
meeting was decided to be held at
Palacios September 13.
The association passed a resolu
tion praising the work of the state
highway commission. It also adopt
ed a plan providing that each coun
ty along the proposed highway route
be assessed at $150 to provide foi
the preliminary steps In advertising
the highway to the world. One ol
the first steps will be the manufac
ture of 20,000 stickers to be used on
outgoing mail from cities along the
highway route. T hese stickers read:
"Brownsville to Orange.”
Judge O. C. Dancy stated that
some of the immediate problems of
the coastal sections will be settled
at the September meeting in Pa
lacios.
ORGAN REPAIR EXPERT
WILL MAKE HOME HERE
Albert Rieth. organ repair expeit,
who has been in the Valley for the
past several weeks doing work here,
has returned to Pennsylvania,
where be will sell his holdings and
return to Brownsville to make his
home.
Before leaving. Rieth said he had
repaired every organ in Brownsville
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