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BROWNSVILLE D
VOL. XVII. NO. 160.
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS TUESDAY JANUARY 5 1909.
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
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REVOLUTION DISC CULTIVATOR
The Sim-
plicity of the
various ad-
justments is
onrivaled.
Discs may
fee raised or
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IRRIGATED LAND
FOR SALE
The facts that wo have advertised about Stitcs & Nickerson clearing
16000.00 from forty-three acres of onions last winter has been told so
oftern that we will now give you the results of the farming operations of
. S. Taylor of Mission in raising snap beans.
air. Taylor is an. ex-ranger and his experience in farming dates back
oaly to th time of his purchase of five acres of land at La Lornita one
year ago.
In September 1908 he planted ono and one-half acres to beans and
shortly after planting them went to the new town of Ghapin where he
was employe' 'by Mr. John Closner for several months.
During his absence his beans matured and he instructed a neighbor to
have them marketed.
When he returned to Mission a day or two ago he was very agree-
aWy surprised to learn that his one and one-half acres of beans had pro-
duced 178 Ja bushels and had sold at an average price of $2.25 per bushel
act to him aggregating $301.02.
When it is realized tliat iQs crop was planted grown and marketed
daring tho the three months of October November and December and re-
alized at the rate of $201.00 per acre or $130.00 per tnonth lor the time
they were being grown some idea of the possibilities . "s'lalgo Comity
cb bo better understood.
Brownsville Texas December 18th 1008.
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Is Growing
An Irish lad came crapin'
To where his love lay slapin';
Awake: said be and fly with me
They're needin' us in Chapin.
Men have been shot for making poetry not as bad as this.
If you don't realize that the very best
place to locate is in a new County Seat
town surrounded by a new and growing
country come in and get a sample of our
conversation. If you like it we will give
you the full charge. It's Free.
SOME LOTS FOR SALS
E. F. ROWSON . CO.
Brownsville Texas
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O Largest and Most Complete Stock in South Texas
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MAGNIFICENT SPECIAL PRIZES
OFFERED FOR THE BEST DISPLAYS OF PRODUCTS AT THE
MID-WINTER FAIR AT BROWNSVILLE.
Magnificent prizes will be offered at the mid-winter convention for
the best displays of Valley products by a number of the enterprising town
builders of the Valley who have offered town" lots in their several towns
which will make one of the most magnificent list of prizes ever contended
for in a fair. The list should surely stimulate tho planters of tho entire
Aralley to make the'very best-showing they possibly can for this exhibit.
Following is the list:
Tarpon Beach - 1 town lot.
Laguna Vista - 1 town lot.
San Benito - - 1 town lot.
Mission - 1 town lot.
' " -Clmpin - 1 town lot.
FOR CONVENTION
AT BROWNSVILLE
PKOGILAM INCLUDES PAPERS ON
VARIOUS SUBJECTS.
Will Be of Great Interest to Horticul-
turists Nurserymen and Nut Grow-
ers Papers Limited to 20 Minutes
Followed by 20 Minute Discussion.
The (following program for the
joint mid-winter meeting of the State
Horticultural Nurserymen's and Nut
Growers' Associations to be held
here Jan. 13 and 14 has been pub-
lished "by Prof. E. J. Kyle of Col
lege Station Texas secretary of the
State Horticultural Society:
Nurserymen.
Wednesday morning Jan. 13f 9
a. m.
"Growing and Handling Oranges
in Texas" R. W. Holbert Arcadia
Texas; W. E Hud.son Edna Texas.
"Are Budded Roses Superior to
Own Roots and How Best to Work
Them." W. A. Yates Brenham Tex-
as; Ben Hudnell Tyler Texas.
"System in Nursery Practice
Throughout." H. E. Hall Sherman
Texas; J. R. Mayhew Waxahachie
Texas.
"Should Guaranteeing to Grow be
Practiced?" E. W. Know San An-
tonio Texas; J. W. Tackett Weath-
erford Texas.
"The Nurserymen's Responsibility
in the Development of Horticulture."
B. L. Adams Bonham Texas; John
F. Sneed Tyler Texas.
"The Best Method Successful of
Grafting and Budding Pecans." E.
W. Kirkpatrick McKinney Texas;
Fernando Miller Lampasas Texas.
"Landscape Architecture for
the Southwest." H. C. Styles Ray-
mond ville Texas; John S. Kerr Sher-
man Texas.
"The Inspection Law and Work
of Texas." Sam H.. Dixon Sherman
Texas.
Appointment of Committees.
Horticultural Society
2 p. m.
"Planting the Eucalyptus in Tex-
as." J. H. Arbenz Santa Texas.
"Some Important Plant Diseases
in Texas." Dr. O. M. Ball College
Station Texas.
"What the South Texas Garden is
uoing for Texas Horticulture."
Prof. E. C. Green Brownsville Texas.
"Commercial Fig Growing in Tex-
as." R. H. Bushway Algoa Texas.
"Date Palm Culture." William
Gomme Brownsville Texas.
"Commercial Banana Growing in
Texas." H. G. Stillwell San Benito.
Texas.
Evening at eight o'clock Address
of Welcome Dr. P. J. Combe may-
or of Brownsville and Alba Heywood
president Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Comimercial Club.
Responses W. B. Munson Denison
president Horticultural Society; F. T.
Ramsey Austin president State Nut
Growers' Association and J. A. Bak-
er Fort Worth president State
Nurserymen's Association.
"How the Agricultural Department
Can Aid the Horticulture of the
State." Judge Ed. R. Kone Austin
State Commissioner of Agriculture.
"Our Friends the Birds" (Illus-
trated) Mervin Bathurst Davis of
Waco Secretary Texas Audubon So-
ciety. Nut Growers.
Thursday January 14 9 a. m.
Austin Texas.
"New Pecans." F. T. Ramsey
Austin Texas.
"Commercial Pecans." E. W.
Knox San Antonio Texas.
"Budded Pecans." E. E. Risien
Rescue Texas.
"Commercial Planting." C. Faulk-
ner Waco Texas.
At 2 p. m. the visitors will be taken
for an excursion to points of interest
around Brownsville.
Evening 8 o'clock "The Relation
of the Railroad to the Horticultural.'"
William Doherty passenger traffic
manager St. Louis. Brownsville and
Mexicon Railroad.
Discussions must be typewritten
and are to be limited to twenty miii-
utes. Each subject will be followed by
discussion of twenty minutes.
The Brownsville railroad has of-
fered a rate or one fare for the
Ha 11am
NO SCHOOL FOR
800 CHILDREN
DEPLORABLE LACK OP TEACH-
ERS IN CAMERON COUNTY.
Owing to Failure to Pass at Regular
Examination Many Applicants Re-
ceived No Certificates 13 Schools
Without Teachers.
In his recent address before the
teachers' institute in this city Sup-
erintendent of Public Instruction E.
H. Goodrich among other things
strongly advocated a change in the
present law governing the
examination of applicants for teach-
ers of public schools. The argument
made by Mr. Goodrich was that coun-
ty superintendents should be al-
lowed to order examinations for ap-
plicants for teachers at any time that
teachers may b? . needed and issue
second and third grade certificates
which should entitle holders to be
appointed as teachers until they can
secure certificates through a regular
examination.
State Superintendent R. B. Cousins
in his most recent report also makes
a similar suggestion only he specifies
that these certificates issued in this
manner be good only until the next
succeeding state examination and
that they only be issued where appli-
cant has not had the opportunity to
take the preceding regular examina-
tion. There are now in Cameron county
thirty-seven school communities
with forty-seven organized schools
including the independent districts
of Brownsville and Raymondville
with a (total scholastic cenfeus of
6775. Out of the forty-seven organ-
ized schools there yet remain six
communities with a total school pop-
lation of about 445 children that
have been unable to obtain teachers.
There arc also about seven communi
ties with a total of about 350 pupils
that have not been organized on ac-
count of the scarcity of teachers
making in all something like 13
schools in ' this county with
children of school age aggregating
about 800 that are unable to open
for lack of teachers or about 13 per
cent of the school children of Cam-
eron county who are forced to re-
main out of school for at least this
year all because the law does not
provide for another examination
until next May. No matter how
many efficient teachers might be
available they cannot be employed
unless they have been examinted by
the county board of examiners and
there are only three months in the
year in which this can be done Sep-
tember December and May.
Not alone in Cameron county is
there such a dearth of teachers but
from all sections of the state come
reports of the same conditions exist-
ing elsewhere. The laws governing
public schools of Texas do not rec-
ognize certificates of any class what-
soever from other states. A few
days since there called in The Her-
ald office a young man from South
Carolina holding both a diploma
from the Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College of that state and also a
state teacher's certificate trom the
same state and' yet although there
are so many schools in this county
without teachers it will be impossi-
ble for this young man to qualify
for one of them until he has been ex-
amined by the county board even
though the school be one of the
third grade.
President Eliot of Harvard Uni-
versity who recently retired after a
life-time as an educator would not
be eligible to teach a public school in
round trip; all other roads a fare
and a fifth.
Prof. E. C. Green is superintendent
of the exhibit. All shipments of ex-
hibits should be sent to him.
This joint"" program has just been
given out by E. J. Kyle secretary of
the State Horticultural Society Col-
lege Station Texas.
Get Acquainted Meeting.
En route to Brownsville Tuesday
January 12.
First session at 9 a. m. after leav-
ing Houston. Second session at 3
p. m. after leaving Placedo. Third
session at 6 p. m. after leaving Robs-
town. The- itinerary to Brownsville in-
cluding hours of starting from each
point will be published tomorrow.
CcUpnization
Lands
1
Main Canal 27 miles long
250 feet wide and 20 feet
deep. 13000 acre feet of
storage. 4 sections separat-
ed by locks and dams. Wat-
er stands 4 feet higher in
each section than in the one
next below. 50 .miles of lat-
erals or branch canals now
completed and in operation.
Take our free automobile
trip to the headgates and see
for. yourself.
SAN BENITO
0h Main Line of Gulf Coast Railway 19 Miles North of Brownsville
The Delta of the Rio Grande is the Most Favored Region on
the Continent for Farming Trucking and Fruit Growing
San Benito is the Most Favored Spot
fin the Rio Grande Delta Because We HaveJ
Water in Abundance
Which is the One Thing Needful
At San Benito You Will Find
The Only Gravity Canal in the Brownsville Country
The Only Canal in the Valley that has Navigation
We are Now irrigating thousands of acres Without Pumps
Get off the train at SAN BENITO or call at our Brownsville office opposite Milter
Hotel. Write or ask for ticket giving you FIEE AUTOMOBILE RlDE from Browns-
ville to San Benito via our Headgates. Write for Booklet
San Benito Land & Water Co
SAN BENITO TEXAS.
ALBA HEYWOOD. President SAM A. ROBERTSON. Secretary and Engineer- '
Cane and other products
handled on barges (20 by GO
feet) through our series of
locks and dams.
Two Splendii driven wells
Pure Sweet
HP
toy
Received a laege Assortment of Toys and
Holiday Goods to be Sold Very Cheap
Corner Elizabeth and
Twelveth Streets
Texas even though it be the smallest
in the state unless he had been ex-
amined by the county board of ex-
aminers. Other states among which
are Illinois Ohio Indiana Kentucky
and Georgia recognize state certifi-
cates from other states but not so
with Texas. The state school law
originally provided for holding ex-
aminations in May July August
September and December. Under the
new law however county examina-
tions are not held in the months of
July and August there being pro-
vided two summer Normal examina-
tions at this season which serve to
accommodate the teachers (Sec. 89
report of state superintendent). Be-
fore the months of July and August
were devoted to the normals teach-
ers who failed in the first examina-
tions would have two more oppor-
tunities to try again before the open-
ing of the fall term of school. If the
suggestion of Superintendent Good-
rich were acted upon by the next
Legislature and provision made
these special examinations under
the conditions as set forth by him
it would go a great way to-
wards relieving the scarcity of teach-
ers. ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS.
The following additional subscrip-
tions have been' secured towards the
fund for entertaining the midwinter
convention i and fair on Jan. 13 and
14:
Lon C. Hill 7: 525.00
J. P. Stephenson 5.00
S. H. Bell 5.00
Jno. Bartlett 5.00
James B. Wells 10.00
Brownsville Herald 10.00
C. C. Considine 5.00
W. D. Collins Cafe.Co 10.00
H. H. Weller 5.00
H. H. Banker 5.00
Harry K. Loew 5.00
The South Tex. Land Co 5.00
Brownsville Grain Co 5.00
Hallan Colonization Co 10.00
Wise & Newman . 5.00
Willman's Pharmacy" 5.00
Brownsville Hdw. Co 10.00
San Carlos Hotel 5.00
Mason Transfer Co. 5.00
Dr. P. C." Sizelan 5.00
Aug. Celaya 5.00
Hancack-Lamb Furniture Co. . . 5.00
The Variety oiore 5.00
J. S. and MsH. Cross. ....... 10.00
sso.od
Company Sales Managers.
Water in any quantity de-
sired flows naturally from
the bottom of the Rio Grande
into our main canal and
from there into the laterals
and out upon the fields. It
does this when the xiver is
low as well as whea the river
is high. To fill the canal we
simply lift one or more of
the eight gates in tho big
concrete wall.
The town of San Benito it
growing rapidly. Splendid
hotel. Running water in ev-
ery room.
just'brought in at San Benito.
water at 180 feet
H. GRUNEWALD
BABY BOY LOST
BUT SOON FOUND
Yesterday afternoon about three
o'clock a lady who was shopping in
the store of Aaron Turk suddenly dis-
covered that her little three-year-old
son who had accompanied her to the
store was missing. The mother at
once became very much alarmed and
rushed out upon the streets in haste
to look for her little one. The po-
lice were at once notified by Mr.
Turk and they began an organized
search for the missing child. Several
persons who were in the vicinity also
joined in the search for the little
wanderer Mr. Turk sending his
clerks to assist. In about thirty min-
utes after tho disappearance of the
child had been noted he was found
on the street near the jail several
blocks from Mr. Turk's store by
Chief of Police Connor.
Mr. Connor at once took the little
toddler back to Mr. Turk's place
but on reaching there found that the
mother had gone out on the streets
to search for her boy. Mr. Turk
kindly took charge of the little run-
away and when the mother returned .
she found him contentedly sitting in
a chair. It was quite a touching
scene as the "mother with a cry of
joy caught her little boy to her
breast and covered him with kisses;
The lady's name was not learned
she being a stranger here.
Preparations are being made for
the Fith Sunday meeting which will
be held at Brownsville by the mem-
bers of the Blanco Baptist Associa-
tion with the First Baptist Church
of this city Jan. 29 30 and 31. The
program for the occasion is now in
the hands of the printer to be dis-
tributed among the members of the
association as soon as ready. Rev.
Dr. Burress pastpr of the Browns-
ville church is in . charge of the ar-
rangements and is taking active steps
to make preparations for the occa-
sion which will bp jane Of unusual
Interest for this city.
Judge and Mrs. Pat Haley and
family left this morning for Harlin-
gen where thoy expect to reside in
the future. Mr. Haley's household
goods will be shipped" to Harlingen
today. Their many Brownsville
friends regret exceedingly to lose
them.
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Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O. Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 160, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 5, 1909, newspaper, January 5, 1909; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth147891/m1/1/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .