Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 365, Ed. 1, Friday, November 12, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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TEUS BUOWNSVlIiLE iADL.r HERALD
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 12 1909.
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THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD
By BrownsvUle Herald Publishing Co. !
M. J. Slattery ... Manager
Mrs. Jesse O. Wheeler - - Editor
Official Couiuy and city Journal.
Consolidated in 1893 with the Daily
Cosmopolitan which was published
in Erownsville for sixteen years.
Entered at the Postofflce Brownsville
Texas as second-class matter.
TEliMS OP SUBSCRIPTION.
Daily Published every evening
except Sunday by mail postpaid
to any point in the United States
Mexico or Cuba or delivered by
rarrier to any part of Brownsville
TAxas. or Matamoros. Mexico.
One copy one year $6.00
One copy six months. 3.00
Weekly Published Saturday by
mail postpaid to any point in the
United States or Mexico.
One copy one year $1.50
One copy six months 75
One copy three months. . .50
Subscriptions invariably due and
payable in advance.
Advertising rates on application.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12 1909.
The decidedly poor showing of the
Postal department with a deficit of
50000000. argues badly for Uncle
fcij.m as owner of public utilities. If
;.- railroads telegraph or express
f -'npanies should conduct their bus-
iness in such manner as Uncle Sam
r.as the postal department they
w uld all be in the hands of receivers
n ;ess time than it takes to tell it.
THINGS LIVELY
AROUND MISSION
Bl III)IX(J AXI TRUCK INTER-
ESTS ARE KI.OLRIS1I1NG.
Snap Beans and Toinatoc Coini: to
liaise Acreage Planted in Cab-
bage and Onions.
"Mission is cetrainly going to the
front" said Albert A. Sammons the
genial and popular farmer and con-
tractor from the hustling little town
o! Mission to a Herald representa-
tive yesterday. Mr:-Sammons stated
that there are now under course of
1 construction in the town of Mission
at least fifteen business and dwel-
ling houses. He also stated that
viork has been begun on the con-
traction of the new two story brick
building which will be occupied by
he First State Bank of Mission. The
i)St of this building Mr. Sammons
...id. will be about 13500.
Speaking of the truck crop Mr.
.-..iirmons said that prospects in that
"t 'ion were never brighter than
f .;ej are at present. Express ship-
ments of snap beans are daily going
ut of Mission the price received
teing $1.25 net. Much difficulty
Las been experienced by the farmers
m obtaining the necessary baskets in
v-hich to ship their beans but Mr.
Sammons has managed to relieve
that situation: somewhat by purchas-
ing some of these baskets in Browns
ville. He reports that there are
about 250 acres planted in snap
"beans in the neighborhood of Mis-
sion and that there is also between
00 .and 600 acres of cabbage with
I rospects of a fine crop and about
400 hundred acres in onions.
Mr. Sammons also reports that Ed
Nicholson a prominent truck farner
cf that country is now shipping 10
Ij 15 crates of fine tomatoes daily
for which he is receiving in the oj.ei:
market $1.40 per crate.
SAN BENITO SOCIETY.
Ladies CJive Delightful Raiiee-
Church Supper a Success.
"'i The Herald.
San Benito Nov. 11. San Benito
ouciety has been having one contin-
ual round of pleasure lately. Last
Friday night the ladies in a kind
of response to the dances that they
t ave attended at the invitation of
t'.ie young -Caballeros" here gave a
cance to the aforesaid gentlemen.
It must be said that the inten- j
l.ons of the youths here as far asj
eiving a good dance to tne ladies
v.-nt were always the besr but in
comparison to the dance that these
I. '.dies pave in return their glory
ftould Jade away into the back--ound.
It was given at the brick
f lilding of Mr. Dunway which had
i ist been completed and which had
magnificent floor and everything
v as simply "en grand tenue." The
musicians were placed in an elevat-
ed place where the music would
isach advantageously even- part of
iie house. Around the walls were
i overed seats sofa pillows etc. and
in one corner two daintily dressed
oung ladies served punch and ices.
V.'e have no doubt that "El sueno de
amor despues el bailo" infested the
hearts of many or the "pobres ca-
balleros." A supper for the benefit of the
Baptist church was given last night
and was well attended. The ladies
who have the matter of getting
funds for the church have worked
heroically to accomplish their pur-
pose and have succeeded well. The
same can be said of all the ladies
here of the different denominations
as all of them have been working
very hard to obtain money for the
progress of the churches.
Messrs. Henry Griffin Scott
Brown and Gaw who have been out
in the "jungles" on the San Antonio
Brownsville railroad survey are
back at San Benito. They do not
know the length of their stay but
will be here for a tew aays uu-uu.
A dance will be given tonight in
honor of these gentlemen by the la.
dies and will undoubtedly be a very
enjoyable affair.
M - - . . .
in uif cofiuari "bfttp frrnr. ulw"-
STAR SHRWFRS !f
are scheduled
.RIC DISPLAY IS PREDICT-
ED FOR TONIGHT.
Not Expected to Come Up to Former .
Celestial Fireworks. As Earth '
Crosses Metoric Bodies Path at
Sparsely Studded Point.
Washington D. C Nov. 12. Pre-
pare for the fireworks. According to
the prediction of the astronomers
the stars will begin falling tonight
all over the country.
The display will continue on to-
morrow and Sunday nights. As-
tronomers state that the coming me-
teoric display vi. hardly be up to
standard. As a matter of fact the
earth cuts their orbit at perhaps
its most sparsely studded spot. This
shower has a period roughly corres-
ponding to the generations of human
life roughly computed as three to
the century" The last great display
was due in lt.89 but it was a dis-
appointment when compared with
former manifestations of this period-
ic maximum.
This year the earth crosses the 1
orbit of this belt of minuscule mem-j
uers OI uie soiar ssy&iem ;n n pumi
ten years away from the maximum
density about a third of the circuit
of that orbit. The prospects there
fore are that the display will not
approach anything like the brilliance
that from time to time has been ob-
served. On the other hand the ex-
hibition chiefly in the early morn-
i n rr linnrc nf nnflnv slinillfl fnr PV-
"' -J
ceed the count of the wandering i
stars which blaze for a moment al-
most every night silent flights of
co'd incandescence.
The penultimate display was a
great show in the skies. It was
spread over three years the peak of
its magnificence in 18CG a heavy
fall in 18C7 and what might be cal-
led a smart shower even in 1SGS.
But the 1S33 rain of the heavens
was most astounidng. The Eastern
seaboard was most advantageously
situated for observation on the night
of November 12-13. The stars fell
as fast and thick as flakes of snow
on a winter day. Prof. Olmstead
reckoned that 210000 gleaming
trains were visible in the course of
nine hours. To the ignorant it pre-
saged the crack of doom the begin-
ning of the rolling up of the heavens
like a scroll.
The pea size element is generally
accepted as the measure of the com.
ponents on the periodic shower mete-
ors. Only slightly larger is the esti-
mate made by Dr. Johnstone Stoney
in his address to the British Associa-
tion upon the Leonids of 1SC6.
"The meteors themselves" he said
"ore probably little pebbles the larg-
er about an ounce or perhaps two
ounces in weight and spaced in the
densest part of that swarm at in-
tervals of one or two miles asunder
every day The thickness of the
stream is about 1 0000 miles whicii
..owever is a mere nothing com-
pared with its enormous length. The
width is such that the earth when it
passes obliquely through the stream
is exposeu to the downpour of mete-
ors for about five hours."
At intervals along its n '
comet runs the risk of several col-
lisions both on its outward voyage
into space and upon its return to be
a spectacle in our heavens. It is
merely a matter of mathematics of
orbital revolution of two bodies obey-
ing in different order the same cen-
tral impulse.
To the slow and inevitable change
is added the suddenness of collusion
a brief accomplishment of what
would otherwise be more'slowlydone.
Leverrier found the solar history o
the Leonid rain to begin in the cap !
ture of a comet accomplished by th- I
enormous influence of remote Uran j
us in the year 126 of our era. At '
that or at some later period the par-
ent comet was in collision with some
one of the greater planets.
Us substance was rent to pieces
and the meteor gem was set upon its
orbit. In 1S33 and in 186G the
earth tore through the nuclus of the
fragments. Some few it burned and
destroyed by the friction engendered
in its atmosphere; only a few for the
estimate of 240000 is less than the
counting of the veriest pinch of sand.
CllKAT KOOTKAIjI. KVKXT
AT VAIiK TOMOKIMHV.
West Point Tragedy Will Xot Affect
Knthiisiitsm or Attendance l!ig
Croud Predicted.
New Haven. Conn. Nov. 12. It is
evident that the recent tragedy at
Vfst Point will have no effecr on
the attendance or enthusiasm at the
Yale.Princeton game here tomorrow.
With good football weather it is en-
tirely likely that one of the biggest
crowds in New Haven's history will
be on hand to root for the Elis and
the Tigers. The anticipated attend-
ance is 3000. The Yale men pre-
serve an air of supreme confidence
and entertain the theory that the
Princeton Tiger will be humbled
much more effectively than the Tam-
many Tiger in the recent election in
New York.
An attempt has been made to se-
cure the attendance of President
Taft at tomorrow's game. The
president is in Connecticut today at-
tending the inauguration of Presi-
dent Shanklin at Wesleyan University
-.'hen the Preisdent was at Yale he
manifested little interest in football
rowing being at that time the clas-
sier sport. His son Robert who is
now a Yale senior is not a football
fan ana rarely appears at the games
as a spectator. He is more interest-
ed in acquiring an education and
maintaining a place in Yale society
than in sport and is president in
several "kale societies.
ine Japanese government has ap-
pointed an aeronautical commission
which will visit the principal Euro-
pean countries to report the progress
of aerial navigation especially in
Germany.
Accounts of Women
and Children
Women's accounts are kept confidential
and held subject to their own order. We
have special stationery and accommoda-
tions for our lady customers . . . . ..
Parents may open savings accounts for
their children .....
Call or send for one of our booklets "The
Building of a Fortune." . .
rownsville
Bank
C. B. KONE
NEW
HOTEL RIVERSIDE
New buildings new furnishings first class
in every detail
Two blocks north ol depot one block west of posteffice
CERTAINLY THE MOST DESIKAIJLE LOCATION IN
THE CITY ESPECIAL ATTENTION TO TRAN-
SIENTS 30 ROOMS ALL SOUTH-AND SOUTHEAST
EXPOSURE.
$2.00 Per Day
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS
MERCEDES BANK
REORGANIZED
IJISOWXSVILLK HAXKKKS PUIS.
CHASH IXTKKEST.
K. A. McGary V. W. liiistingei- and
V. H. Lastinger Officers of the
llrmviiM-ille I'.unk Jfc Trust Co.
ISccome Directors of Institution.
Possibly one of the largest finan-
cial deals consummated in the Low.
er Rio Grande Valley was concluded
yesterday when E. A. McGary W.
W. Lastinger and W. H. Lastinger
all of this city purchased the inter-
est of the late J. M. Johnson Sr.
also of J. M. Johnson in the Hidalgo
County Bank at Mercedes which is
the controlling interest of the insti-
tution. While the price paid for the
Johnson stock has not been given
out it is understood that a handsome
permium was pa'd for it
Mr McGary spent yesterday in
.Mercedes superintending the work
of transferring the affairs of the
bank to the new management. The
names of Mr. McGary and W. H. Las-
tinger will be added to the board
of directors at a meeting o' thn'
body which will be held soon. A
new president will also be elected at
this meeting none having yet been
elected to succeed the late Col.
Johnson who held that office. In
'all probabilities several prominent
citizens of Mercedes will also he ad-
ued to the board of directors.
The Hidalgo County Dank was
the first bank established in the
valley outside of Brownsville having
been organized a little over two years
ago by Col. J. M. Johnson formerly
of St. Louis. Since its organization
the bank has been doing a flourish-
ing business.
Mr. McGary and W. W. Lastinger
are well known in banking and bus-
iness circles in this section of the
country they being the principal
stockholders of the Brownsville Bank
& Trust Company of this city of
which ...r. Lastinger is president and
Mr. McGary cashier. W. H. Lastin-
ger who formerly resided at Waco
Texas is the father of W. W. Las-
tinger. He has been residing in this
city for -the past two months.
COMM1TTKK DIIAFTS
P.Y-LAWS FOR CLUB
.Meeting Called for Monday Xight to ;
Keccive Keport ami Select a j
Xaiue.
The by-laws committee of the
Brownsville club organized short
while ago met yesterday afternoon
as announced at the office o Judge j ary he goes to the Pacific coast to
A. W. Cunningham" chairman of the fill the canceled Rosenthal engage-
committee and drafted a set of by. men.
Trust Co
BEN CARY
K4TTMANN&KNEEIANDTENTG0
MAXrl CTCRERS Ol
TENT
Awnings Tarpaulins
Wagon Covers Etc.
Flags Made to Order
Depot for Mildew Preventative
1212 Franklin Avenue
Phone Preston 83 1 Houston Texas
FOR SALE
A drug store on Elizabeth street
Brownsville at cost. Doing good bus-
iness. Good reasons for selling. Ad-
dress or apply
Box 123 Brownsville Texas
laws for the club. These by-laws
were today turned over to the pres-
ident of the club C. H. More and
will be presented at the next meet-
ing for adoption. A name was not
selected for the organization as they
thought it best to lave the selection
of a suitable name to the entire
membership.
Since this movement was started
about a couple of weeks ago 138
members have bedn secured for the
organization. The soliciting commit-
tee is still busily engaged in adding
new members daily and it is hoped
that the list may be run up to 200
within a short- while.
Today President More issued a
call for a meeting at the Federal
court room on next Monday night to
open promptly at eight o'clock. It is
very important that all of the mem-
bers that possibly can should attend
this meeting as not only will it
adopt by-laws and select a name for
the organization hut will also se-
lect a secretary. It behooves all of
i the members to assist in selecting
j one thoroughly qualified to hold the
position.
Klcven Year Old Pinnist.
"-... --i. "- i o Ti '
j riola the internationally famous boy '
pianist who is now only eleven will .
make his American debut at Car-!
negie Hall this afternoon. In Febru-
Safety The Money
for First National for
Your Bank of Your
Money Brownsville Safety
When you have a
surplus of money-
deposit it with us.
We allow interest
on savings ac-
counts and time
deposits. A check-
ing account no
matter how small
is a convenience
once tried always
used. Start a bank"
account. It helps
you to save.
Capital
$100000.00
Surplus
and
Undivided
Profits
$70000.00
DO IT
A Word to
Let ns do your cooking. You know cooking is onr husincs.
We can save you time lahor and money.
AVe make a most delicious Fruit Cake.
Only the hest material is used.
We are prompt in attending to our customers' orders.
CLa'S SANITARY BAKERY
8 I. O Box 170.
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Take a ride through
West
B E
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You'll
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Ill . i iiiii mm inn in hi mi i iiiiimi minium Till I
MERCHANTS NA
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS
Capital and Surplus $150000.00
Laundering Dainty Garments
Such as Shirt Waists Skirts Lingerie etc is a part of our work which is done in an ex-
cellent manner. . We should also do all ol your flat work. Our prices for thus are
very low and we do it better than you can do it at home.
Telephone No. 1
WARREN & CROSS
Civil and Hydraulic
Engineering Architects
Maps Plans and Estimates
Irrigation Engineering one of our Specialties
Rooms 4 and 6 Puente Building Brownsville Texas
Brownsville Lumber
Lumber Shingles Sash Doors etc.
Give us a trial before you buy.
We can please you.
Office Phone 226
Office and Yard
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While the Sun of
Prosperity is shin-
ing is the time to
save for the rainy
days.
We can help you
save; our savings
department does
the business; $1.00
will start an ac-
count. We fur-
nish a "bank book
and a home sav
ings bank free.
NOW!
the Ladies
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Phone 97
like it
- General Manager.
The Model Laundry
& Manufacturing Co.
West Brownsville
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Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O. Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 365, Ed. 1, Friday, November 12, 1909, newspaper, November 12, 1909; Brownsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth148154/m1/2/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .