Willacy County News (Raymondville, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 3, 1925 Page: 3 of 8
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THE WILLACY COUNTY NEWS, RAYMONDVILLE, TEXAS
Willacy County News
Published every Thursday at
Raymondville, (County Seat) Wil-
lacy County, Texas.
ISADORE MORITZ, Publisher
Entered as second-class matter
January 27, 1922, at the postoffice
at Raymondville, Texas, under
the act of March 3, 1879.
Any erroneous reflection upon
the character or standing of any
person or business concern will be
readily and willingly corrected
upon its being brought to the at-
tention of the publishers.
Advertising Rates
Display advertising, per single
column inch per week Thirty-Five
cents. By the month, 3d cents.
Local readers ten cents per line.
Black face locals twenty cents
per line.
CLEAN THE FIELDS
September and October are good
months in the year for the farmer
who wants to make a success of
his business to get his fields clean
of cotton stalks, corn stalks and
other growth that is non-produc-
tive.
Many farmers in Willacy coun-
ty are already busy in their
fields getting their land in shape
for early fall plowing, but there
are still many others who have
not started to do this work.lt is to
them that this little advice is di-
rected.
We have watched farming ope-
rations in the Lower Rio Grande
for more than eighteen years and
have noticed that the man who
cleared his land of dried stalks
and weeds and plowed it early in
the fall is usually the man who
has made a success of farming in
this section.
Particularly is this true in Wil-
lacy county where our top soil is
underlaid with a clay subsoil that
lends itself admirably to holding
the needed moisture. Our rainy
months are as a rule in the fall of
the year. If the land is plowed
when they come this moisture can
be retained until spring.
Follow the advice as laid down
by one of this county’s most suc-
cessful onion growers, W. T.
Holder, who advises plowing the
land several months prior to plant
ing time and keeping a good
mulch following each and every
rain. If this process is good for
onion planting then why not give
it a trial in cotton and other field
crops?
At any rate the farmer who
really cares about farming will
make his place look a thousand
per cent better by having cotton
stalks and other non-productive
vegetation removed. It will make
a decided different appearance to
the visitor and will encourage
more settlers to this section.
Clean your fields and do your
bit to help Willacy County move
forward while at the same time
you are putting gold dollars in
your own pockets.
WORK FOR STOCK LAW.
and in commenting
improvement J eff
You farmers who have been
making complaints about live
stock being permitted to run at
large, and claiming that this
stock has been the cause of seve-
ral thousand dollars loss in the
county, have now an opportunity
to remedy this evil.
On the fourteenth of this month
a stock law election will be held
in every voting precinct in the
county to determine the will of
the voters.
If you are as anxious to have
this law passed, as you doubtless
seem to by your many complaints,
you and your neighbors will get
out and do some missionary work
among the voters of your section.
It is not the great majority of
the voters are indifferent to the
passage of this election but the
fact that many of these voters
are prone to stay away from the
polls on election day in the belief
that there is little or no objection
to the issue. It is this laxity upon
the part of Willacy county voters
that must be overcome to insure
the success of the coming stock
law election.
It is this same laxity that those
of you who are in favor of the
passage of this election should
overcome and encourage your
neighbor and their friends to go
to the polls on Monday, Septem-
ber the 14th and vote for the
issue.
upon this
McLemore,
editor of the Hebbronville News
says:
Hebbronville will soon have one
paved street and the people living
on that street will no doubt be the
envy of their less favored neigh-
bors.—Hebbronville News.
Well, Bro. Jeff, they just can’t
help but being jealous of their
more fortunate citizens. Ray-
mondville will feel the same why
about it after the voters have
Crack State Teams
To Come to Valley
And Play All Stars
The San Antonio and Houston
Texas League baseball teams ; and
other crack professional and semi-
professional baseball teams will be
brought to the Valley for a seriejs of
games if the plans now being hatched
by Manager Art Goolsby of the San-
Benito Saints materialize. Mr. Gools-
by plans to form an all star ti
from the ranks of the Harlingen,
INSURANCE MEN
TO ENJOY FINE
PROGRAM HERE
Party of 800 Expected to Tour Valley
Sept. 16, During Convention in
San Antonio.
with the visitors.
The Valley League at the present
is composed of the three teams
named. A split season is being/played
the Saints winning the first half and
looking like the probable winners of
the second. The all star series will
be played at the close of the season.
signified theii willingness f°jBenito and Brownsville teams of
adopt the State 1 avmg Law on)yai]ey League and with it do b
September the 15th.
Its just human nature to want
something better than the other
fellow and the man or property
owner who happens to be off of
the improved street will soon see
that such improvements are
brought his way also.
That’s wliat’s going to make
Raymondville and in fact all pro-
gressive cities. We can not hope
to emerge from our swaddling
clothes until we begin to put on
city airs and we can’t put on city
airs without the right sort of
dress—That dress is nothing
short of good paved streets. Let’s
have ’em. That means the adop-
tion of the State Paving Law on
September 15th.
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THEY CAN’T HELP IT.
Speaking about improved streets
the little city of Hebbronville,
over in Jim Hogg county, has
paved its principal thoroughfare
An unusually diversified program
of entertainment will be available to
the 800 people, insurance commis-
sioners and their families, who will
spend September 16 in the Valley,
coming here on a special train from
San Antonio, where the fifty-sixth
national convention will be in session.
In addition to the usual attractions
offered the visitor by the Valley,
there will be the elaborate programs
in Mexico on that day in connection
with the celebration of Independence
Day.
These features will include a bull
fight with two of the best known ma-
tadors in Mexico killing four Malpaso
bulls; a parade of the queen of Mata-
moros and her court, and public
speaking on the plaza in Matamoros,
to be followed by a band concert.
The program for the entertainment
of the insurance commissioners has
been worked out by S. Lamar Gill
Raymondville, chairman of the com-
mittee. John H. Shary of Sharyland
and R. T. Stuart. J. E. Jarnett of San
Antonio has handled all necessary ar-
rangements in that city for the trip.
The special train leaving San An-
tonio at 9:30 p. m. on the night of
September 15 over the San Antonio
Uvalde & Gulf line, will arrive at
Raymondville at 6 o’clock on the
morning of the sixteenth and coffee
will be served.
Leaving Raymondville the train will
arrive at Sharyland in time for an 8
o’clock breakfast, for which arrange-
ments have been completed by Mr.
Shary. Here automobiles in sufficient
number to accommodate the entire
party will be waiting and when
breakfast is over a sight seeing trip
which will traverse the Valley from
Mission to Brownsville will begin.
Some of the most beautiful citrus
orchards of the Valley, loaded with
the young fruit, will be visited. The
huge river pumping plants will be
shown and the systems of canals and
laterals which carry the water to the
land will be explained. Hundreds of
acres of fall vegetables will be just
coming up, and this should prove an
interesting sight to the visitors.
The caravan is to reach Stuart
Place before 1 p.m., and there a bar-
becue dinner will be served under the
supervision of Mr. Stuart.
The party will leave Stuart Place
and drive to Brownsville, where they
will cross the river into Mexico in
time for the bull fight to be staged
at 4:30 that afternoon. Following the
bull fight dinner, will be served in
Matamoros at 7:30 and then the vis-
itors wfi be at liberty to spend their
time in Mexico or in Brownsville un-
til the special train leaves the depot
at 10 o’clock the night of the six-
teenth.
San Antonio will be reached at 8 a.
m. on the morning of Sept. 17, in
time for the business sessions of the
convention in that city.
“Insurance commissioners and rep-
resentatives of practically all the
large insurance companies represent-
ing in one body probably the largest
amount of potential investment
wealth possible, will be here,” Mr.
Gill said.
“It is a splendid opportunity for us
to show the resources of the Valley
and to bring the possibilities for fu-
ture development before a body of
men who undoubtedly will be inter-
ested in what we have to show them.”
To Resume Pullman
Service from Valley
A possibility that Pullman service
from Matamoros to Monterrey and
Tampico over the National of Mexico
may be resumed in the near future is
indicated by unofficial advices reach-
ing Brownsville, according to the
Herald of that city. The equipment
formerly used is being assembled and
put in shape, it is reported, and
changes in the schedule are also being
prepared.
Separate passenger and freight
trains will be run under the new ar-
rangement, it is predicted, and the
present mixed trains abandoned. The
passenger train will be enabled to
make the run into Monterrey in sev-
eral hours less time than is now
required.
HARLINGEN BACKS FAIR
ASSN. FOR GREATER FAIR
About thirty business and profes-
sional men of Harlingen met inform-
ally Monday evening at the VanNoy
for the purpose of discussing this
year’s Valley Fair program. B. M.
Holland acted as Chairman of the
meeting and following the dinner
served, stated the time had arrived
when some plan of action for this
year’s Fair should be outlined. A
general round table discussion was
indulged in,.the opinion being unan-
imous that this year’s Fair be made
the biggest and best yet held. With
the Valley’s main roads now paved a
record cotton crop harvested and a
greater interest in the Valley than
ever, there is every reason to expect,
it was thought, that attendance re-
cords this year would break all pre-
vious figures. The Directors of the
Fair Association have been at work
for sometime on this year’s program,
and the meeting of local business
men Tuesday evening was merely to
become acquainted with such plans
and be in readiness to assist in every
way possible.—Harlingen Star.
CAMERON COUNTY WILL
START SUIT TO RECOVER
ON OLD SCHOOL LANDS
The proposition of Judge T. H. Mill-
er of George West to represent Cam-
eron County in possible action to re-
cover for that county 6,632 acres of
land in Live Oak county, said to be
valued at about $600,000, was ac-
cepted by the commissioners’ court.
Judge Miller’s proposition calls for
a fee of about one-third of what is se-
cured for Cameron county, it was
said.
The land in question, given Camer-
on county in 1862 for school land,
was sold in 1884 to George West of
San Antonio. The court later compro-
mised with Mr. West on the amount
due on the land, and passed title. It
is this title that is questioned on the
power of the court to abrogate the
original sales contract.
Contract with Judge Miller and the
commissioners’ court is being drawn
up and will be signed as soon as com-
pleted.
RESURVEY OF POINT
ISABEL UNDER WAY
BY MAJOR SCHLEY
The approximate estimate of the
cotton ginned in the Valley to date is
63,000 bales.
Brownsville, Texas.—A complete
resurvey of the port project at Point
Isabel will be made by Major J. L.
Schley, district army engineer, with
headquarters at Galveston, now at
Point Isabel starting to work.
It is proposed to dredge through
the bar, and he will take recommen-
dations to the chief of army engine-
ers, General Harry Taylor, as to the
best method of dredging the channel.
Money for this work was appro-
priated some time ago.
Major Schley and his assistants
are looking over the. situation with
Captain Wallace Reed of the United
States coast guard station at Point
Isabel, and are making sounding of
the bar.
Major Schley would make no
statement as to his opinion concern-
ing the best method of dredging the
outer channel, but said that he would
make recommendations forlowing the
resurvey, and that action probably
would be taken on these recommend-
ations.
Thanks to the public for their Wonderful response.
We opened our store three weeks ago, but unfortun-
ately the biggest part of our Merchandise had been
delayed in transit and we were unable to offer it to the
buying public—Today we are crowded with Merchan-
dise, recei ving New Goods every day from our New
York Office. We have made special preparations to
continue this sale 8 days longer, offering greater
Values. Space only permits us to mention only a few
of the many bargains, so come and see for yourself the
big Values we have in view for you.
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DRESS CREPES
of Silk and Cotton Mixture. Large
selection in figures and solid colors.
Quality that sells everywhere £\Qc
for $1.29—Special.............................. Jw
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LADIES’ STEPINS
Made of shadow Stripe Lingette in all
sizes and colors, Regular $1.00 HCic
Value—Special, pr............................... IU
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LADIES’ SHOES
Regular $5.00 Value
Special....................................
$2.88
LADIES VOIL DRESSES
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BOYS’ SHIRTS and BLOUSES
Made of genuine English broadcloth,
French flannel and Madras—in all
colors and sizes. Worth up to
$2.25—Special ........................-
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BOYS’ SHOES
Boys’ all leather guaranteed shoes,
just the thing for school—In all sizes
Regular $4.50 Values
Special ................:................................
$1.09
The backbone of the country town
weekly paper’s support is the patron-
age of its rural readers. Because the
farmer takes his local paper, pays for
it and is read by every member of
the family, it becomes an indispen-
sable instrument of publicity for the
advertiser who would enjoy the
trade of this territory. But strange
to say the average rural reader has
not yet come to a full realization of
the value of advertising as applied to
his own business. Every farm con-
tains something, surplus produce, an
extra farm animal, a few valuable
hens or cockrels, or perhaps a dis-
carded implement or vehicle, which a
few cents spent for advertising in his
local paper would enable him to dis-
pose of at a profit. Try this on your
local editor. Help him to establish a
want ad column that will become at
The Fair Dry Goods Store
Johnson Block RAYMONDVILLE, TEXAS
one and the same time a means for
disposing of your surplus and an aid
in locating the things you need. Thus
will you enable him to render his
paper more useful to the community
and help yourself and your neighbors
to prosper.—Exchange.
Wouldn’t it be fine if flies liked to
stay from home as much as husbands
do?
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Moritz, Isasdore. Willacy County News (Raymondville, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 3, 1925, newspaper, September 3, 1925; Raymondville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth875023/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed May 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reber Memorial Library.