BROWNSVILLE THE TOWN AND THE FARMER. filled this tiny horseshoe chapel. Mill HERALS First came the strains of the noblest of hymn tunes, the one sung to “O Brownsville Herald Co. The Little Indiana community de- Publishing and mands a short road to Brownsville. God, our help in ages past.” FRONTIER LUMBER CO. then a flew setting of "Lead, Kindly Jesse The demand should be granted. Mrs. O. Wheeler * Editor Brownsville merchants should see Light.” Martin J. Slattery * * Manager that this is done. Good roads lead- Then came Sullivan's hymn, now MICHELINl ing from the farm to the town un- surely immortal, "Nearer, my God, to it. Offilcal Organ of are one Thee.” Many could not sing DeVOE PAINT Cameron County doubtedly of the best tow*) Detachable , 1 Those sweet girl sim- builders, as well as one of the best voices, fresh, Quick Consolidated ple, reverant, gave one all encour- In 1893 with the Daily country developers. to could not Let us xthe commis- agement sing, yet many Cosmopolitan, which was publish- urge county Their minds went Clincher ed tn sioners to build the good roads. The respond. away, Brownsville for 16 years. local Merchants' Association might perhaps to mid-Atlantic, to breath- heart broken to si- b Terms oi tubscription very appropriately undertake this less, “goodbyes,” lence and deathly suspense, broken ®ally Published matter. A strong resolution, urging every morning music and filterings light and the construction of good county only by THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK except Sunday, by mall to postpaid distant the / [< roads As- through companionways any point In adopted by the Merchants’ the United States, Mex. music of sociation. to be presented to the and half open ports—the Ico or Cuba, or delivered carrier of : by this simple, childlike tune, “Nearer. Brownsville, Texas to county commissioners would have f’ any part of the city, West ■> *. to Thee.” ■ its effect. And one good result My God, # Brownsville, Texu, or Matamoros, was and The street outside the chapel United States f: Mexico. would be to bring the farmer Depository — j * with A mile and * ^ 4, the merchant closer together, to thronged people. hill the lies their mutual beneft. Let the town a half up the cemetery Entered not a at the Poatofflce at Browns- help the farmers and the farmers away from the chapel, but spot Capital $100,000.00 was vacant. Where ville, Texaa, as Second Class Mall will help the town. on the roadside Matter. the railway crosses the road people SURPLUS ANO UNDIVIDED PROFITS $1l5,000.0flt | and had climbed the steep banks I ggg- « ■ »■ All right, let Judge Parker go on cohered them. The wall of the rail- j and FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1912. be president of the Baltimore way bridge was fringed with heads. convention. They say he is conser- There were men, women and chil- Fits Detachable Rim but there are worse at The trains Any Quick WE INVITE YOU WEAKENING? vative, sins, dren from miles around. Easily time, than conser- ears had folk convention^ and tramway poured No Tools To *Bend your soiled and wrinkle vatism. The progressive idea of run- into Colne. Most of them wore Required The republican convention ad- clothing here to be Cleaned in ning a convention, as exhibit- were in journed until this morning at eleven lately black, but many working Pressed. You will find the result o’clock ed 10 us manes us long for a brief clothes, from the mills— to give the credential com- straight IN STOCK BY satisfactory beyond your expert* * f period of good, old-fashioned, easy women in their drab shawls, mittee time to report. Which nat- weavers | lions. Our system is t EVERSON MOTOR CAR CO. superior going conservatism. Let us be as men in their blue and brown Over- urally sets us to guessing. A very many and we are careful of ever progressive as may be after the nom- faces black. Texas plausible guess is that the commit- alls, miners with Brownsville, garment entrusted to our rare. Go d inations are made, but in the mean- The funeral cortege was half a tee is weakening? that the spectacu- T called for and delivered, and charge while let’s have a few moments of mile Aldermen, councillors, lar bluff of the Roosevelt men yes- lojig. are very reasonable. restful As Colonel Sellars bri- terday morning is bearing the kind peace. ambulance men, police, boys' on$e remarked, a man does not want others had a There THE MODEL LAUNDRY. of fruit it was inteded to produce. gades and place. Pheue No. 1 to j ip and tear around all the time. were seven bands, and there might When the Colonel’s friends set up have been fifty-seven, for almost ■their “To-your-tents-O-IsraeF spiel, -—- band of Lancashire and York- the progressives believed that the every Texas democrats and re- people, shire asked to be allowed to come. committee had already made up its have a to feel in- publican^, right the hill and past the spot mind as to the permanent roll of Away up at the treatment accorded If connect your dignant where the Wallace memor- you the convention. Hence the exodus of Hartley to that Texas Chair- delegation by ial stone is to be placed the proces- the Roosevelt delegates from the man Root. It the Texas appears sion made its way, and every committee room. The slowMy delay surely as all man, accustomed necessarily, workman’s hat was lifted FARM means some concessions to the Col- reverently Texas men to spaces and are, large as it child was still. onel's following. passed; every wide horizons could not compress The solemn burial service, read What else it means no man < an himself and his sentiments into the in a manly voice, just reached those say except the men who are prepar- of a little cramped space measley standing some little distance from ing today’s program. It mean may convention hall. For that With all markets Chicago the grave. Then the playing of the adjacent by West a dark horse' it mean some may throw him reason they threatened to swelled through the valley other compromise; it probably does \bands out. And so him, in- instating they to the singing of “Nearer, my God. to not mean the of the conven- turning will remem- TELEPHONE sulted Texas; and Texas Thee.” tion over to the Roosevelt faction. November. ber it next was sounded. % Then “The last post” A dozen boy scouts blew^ it, and they a blew The notes went roll- Southwestern exchange) NEW SOLAR THEORIES. us is it finely. (Through B with most of rownsville The trouble ing through the valley and came that we do not stoj» to ,think. Wnen LIKE IT Brownsville welcomes all reput- floating back lingeringly, as if loath YOU’LL we heard of the proposed coinage of You will comers .especially those who to cease.London Mail. Enjoy able one-half cent pieces, we merely Street car line under construction to Country Club. come in the interest of religion, smiled and passed on. We never health or science. We .shall be glad thought how disastrous that half TKL SILVER CORD. PROSPERITY * v sc£ from Kansas * * > v INVESTIGATE. Ub ffetBlf'hftrn cent proposition would be to the is hire to take observa- In China whe na mandarin who coming churches and missionary societies. tions of the sun to prove that its Or some official high. Let us do all we can to stop it be- MGR. OR WRITE from the earth is the dragon grim and old. ASK THE NEAREST SOUTHWESTERN distance greatly fore it begins. Displeased J. B. Gen. < exaggerated. And so was doomed to die, Scott, Mgr, Still, The Herald may perhaps be A little gold and lacquer box allowed to suggest that Brownsville Just a few more damp, moist sum- Was sent the luckless lord. Brownsville, Texas shall is not the beat place in Texas to mers like the present and we And in it lay the sign of death, THE SOUTHWESTERN the sun is number bread-fruit, pineapples, ana- A slender silver cord. \ prove that only thirty- hurricanes **##**#*#*#*46** hundred miles At Dallas, condas and tropical #*##*#*#*#**#** * five away. COMPANY * TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE \ Waco, and some points in the pan- among our Valley products. They But times have changed across the there are when the will help out the freight-tonnage. sea j ¥j handle, days (DALLAS. TEXAS.) proof of that proposition does not Since Freedom’s breezy air at all on scientific measure- Blew in at China’s open door, depend Lillian Russell is determined to 1 The Pharr Hotel i but is self-evident. And loft its sweetness there, • ments, be a record breaker. Her fifth hus- * At Brownsville, however, the gulf And fleeing to his darksome cave * band puts her in the lead. * breezes blow sweetly and refreshing- Before the naked sword, # ! .. i. m .. ■- ly all summer long, so that many of Behold! the dragon in his turn on to the Receives the silken cord. i us are disposed to hold BURIAL OF A BAND HERO. NATIONAL BANK * cTVline Host-Mr. Linesetter MERCHANTS 4 old, conservative, traditional ninety New York Times * million mile theory. We may, of Walace Hartley, the leader of the BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS Titanic's which ‘'Near- course be mis'aken, but there is band, played COMMISSIONER OF MOSQUITOES. % THE BEST OF SERVICE ! to er, my to Thee,” as the ship nothing in our past experiences Clod, A public office heretofore un- and $209,000.00 * i was home to Colne Surplus, * suggest It. sank, brought known to civil government text Capital 1 Lancashire. Here on the side of the books, and one created distinctly buried the beautiful valley they with a view to administration as a ASPECT OF THE BENEFICIENT body, which was found days after : public trust, is that of mosquito TEXAS ! 16 PHARR, NEW JERSEY. iu the sea. The floating burying commissioner, a New Jersey insti- i was of the death he died. worthy tution. Its duties are those of a i has done a good many HOTEL New Jersey It was as a hero that he was borne SAN CARLOS game and fish commisioner re- a-*##*#####*##** * + :F*4-**4;-f*16###;f + + some of them things for the country, shoulder high, with bands of music, versed. The incumbent naturally is B. C3t M. and some of them bad. She One Block from St. L., Depot good through streets massed thick with not expected to propagate and pro- charter for furnished the original It was as a hero that he was people. ( tect, but to destroy. Oil. but of late, however, Standard lowered in:o the last earthly place Mosquito extermination by cities, PER DAY make amends RATES $2.00 she seems disposed to over him with trumpets sounding with such help as a state bureau She shortcomings. - - - BRICK-BRICK for many past ‘‘The last post,” and the hillside Texas backed by a $25,000 annual appro- ; Brownsville, 1 who will make a fine When contemplating to buiH your Residence, Bo tineas or fiani has a governor across the river answered. priation cpuld give, has been attend- United Stales—if Building, specify our brick. president of Die Of the homecoming itself few saw kkiklkikkUkklikikikkUkK ed by only partial relief in New TliUklikkUkkUkiklUikUlJU locate* secure the democratic Our plant la up to date. Daily capacity twenty thousand, he can ortly much. In the deark, early morning B^or the first time Jersey. anywhere of Brownsville on the main line of the Saint Iconic at Baltimore. three miles north nomination hours a closed vehicle grimly suited the statewide in union, effort i« pro- Brownsville A Mexico railroad. Our facilities for loading from oui has created the office of And she to the night toiled slowly up the a new vided for under law. Mos- spurs insures prompt shipments. Not a private of mosquitos. hillside of northeast Lan- commissioner twisting quito commissioners must be ap- Samples of brick will bs sent prepaid upon request. warden, you understand, mosquito cashire after making the long jour- pointed in every county. A gener- Telephone 100, Brownsrllle, Texai whose Grain commissioner, Mason but a mosquito ney road from Liverpool. Watch- ous cP. CO. by anti-mosquito tax is made man- OFFICE, ALAMO LUMBER to the mosquito out business is put ful policemen saw it and shone their datory, like the tax for health and Feed of All Kinds The old state Rice Bran, cy^olasscs of commission. good lanterns upon it. But a word with boards. Gulf Coast Brick and Tile Company herself for a liberal ap- also “blows the driver and they sood at atten- The rest of the country learns the 1215 L£VEE STREET BROWNSVILLE.TEX AS the office ef- MANUFACTURERS OF BRICK to make tion and touched their helmets. ameliorative methods propriation suited to its E- E. J0HN10N. _ Kauger fective. The vehicle put down its burden various troubles from the states in _ _A

1,1 * .. 1 at a little? chapel low down in the which specific troubles appear in —- ■ hillside township of Colne. Here as most virulent form. to make a New Jersey Cone Johnson is going ********************************** u Wallace had in is both boy Hartley sung teaches us that the mosquito every- at Baltimore. Texas speocf Here his his Glad the choir. father, where must be put in the same class Sixteen and sorry for Baltimore. glad and sisters had the InchesDeep mother, worshipped. with brown-tail moth in New to hear somt* of because It is going Machine will sixteen to Here they came together to take England, the boll weevil in the cot- The Spalding Deep Tilling plow eighteen brand of Texas eloquence 5 ii finest The Miller Hotel the their last look at him. ton states, the San Jose scale insect inches the subsoil and mixing it with the soil * « on earth: sorry deep, bringing up top —which is the finest The church was filled with peo- in the slated for a orchard states, and must be and it the whole farm like a garden. Think of the Cone 1ms been pulverizing diking * because Old school fellows of Wallace dealt « sad mis- ple. with in general legislation.— Rio Grande soil speech—a sad, possibilities of any soil and especially Valley plowed The Largest and Most Modern Hotel seconding Hartley's relatives, friends filled St. I„ouis Post Dispatch. will learrt roots an ideal seed bed. * as the convention sixteen inches deep, the take. every seat. Overhead alongside the giving plant He ought to have in it is too late. PLOW IS TO THE South-West Texas 1 after and helping its music were The Minister — THE SPALDING DEEP TILLING INVALUABLE * It is mighty orgcyi (reprovingly) # the first inning. had musicians—violinists, 'cellists and did catch those conventions to Johnny, you today? SUGAR CANE GROWER. to get political The Most Hotel in U. S. hard the res! of the Colne orchestra, com- Johnny—Ye’es, sir. That's what * Southerly these days. Write for exactly right A priced and literature. * do rades with whom he had once play- they get for chasin’ worms on Sun- m * ed, the ablest violinist of them all. day.—London Opinion. Paved Street m # +■ of mosquitoes tor it is said. Near them was the choir A commissioner / F. T. a bad idea. of men and mill Philips Pass not be girls, girls, A charter Street Car Tracks the Door. Brownsville would many has been filed with the sufler- of and each dressed in exists only by them, comely secretary of state by the C. L. Smith Saies for South Texas. ah The mosquito J Agent where he— beg and black. Their sweet voices Oil Brownsville, Texas. vj of the town iwhtye company of Beaumont; capital * auce I found. the organ and the orchestra stock $100,000. * * » « * • • * pardon, an| j San EJfenito, Texas « « * * * * * mm m * » * * * * * « * * * * * *,*,

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