Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1924 Page: 3 of 12
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1924
MERCEDES TRIBUNE
PAGE THREE
Cameron County Flood
Control Committee Now
Is Completely Organized
The Cameron County Flood Control
Committee is now completely orga-
lized. At a recent meeting the pub-
icity committee, which will have
charge of the work of securing full
cooperation of the. entire county in
iromiting the passage of the pro-
posed tax remission bill for Cameron
bounty, was named with the follow-
ng as committee leaders in their
respective districts:
La Feria, Clias. Petty; Santa Rosa,
John Ball; Wilson Tract, C. A. Tari-
ng; Harlingen, J. C. Myrick; Santa
Maria, F. S. Champion; San Benito,
3cott Brown; Los Indios, H. H-
Buck; Rio Hondo, N. B. Maynard;
Los Fresnos, Clyde Tandy; Browns-
ville, H. B. Galbraith; Media Luna,H.
H. Banker; El Jardin, L. Greer; Pt.
Isabel, Chas. Champion.
The other committee which had
seen appointed at a previous meeting
is: Executive, R. B. Rentfro, Browns-
ville; A. F. Parker, La Feria; Frank
Robertson, San Benito.
Legal, Samuel Spears, San Benito;
J. T. Canales, Brownsville; A. B.
3ole, Brownsville
Finance, B. H. Dunlap, La Feria;
3. A. Thompson, Harlingen; S. C.
Tucker, Brownsville.
Cotton Glowers Hope
' tor Hot, Bry Weather
Recent Rains Will Not Prove Injur-
ious Provided Cotton Gets Plen-
ty of Sunshine for Three
Weeks
Fishing is Better
Fishing has been good at all points
from Corpus Christi to the mou,th of
the Rio Grande except on the Arroyo
Colorado during the past week, ac-
cording to many reports.
Trout and redfish are biting again
at Point Isabel and small catches
have been made at Boca Chica. Red-
fish Bay has yielded several nice
catches. Several men have returned
from' Corpus Christi reporting good
catches of pike, trout and croakers.
Garage Chatter
Air Pump—“You look hollow chest-
ed and thin. What seems to be the
trouble?”
Inner Tube (wearily) — “Income
Tax.”
Cooperate
At the meeting of the directors of
, „ _ I Three weeks more of hot sunshine
the Valiev Chamber of Commerce, I
. ,, . ‘ _ lover the Valley is what cotton grow-
held at Mercedes Friday, flood con-
, | ers are hoping fof. The rams of last
trol was discussed to some length,
week were beneficial according to
growers’ reports from all parts of the
and a detailed explanation of the
plans was made by Chas. P. Williams
of the U. S. Reclamation Depart-
ment. Following the address of Mr.
Williams the- following resolution was
Get the Tonic
of the Out-of-Doors
Valley and the cotton condition is ex-
cellent in all sections.
The hot, dry period before, the
submitted by the secretary and passed rains gave .growers an opportunity to
unanimously: j dear the cotton of weeds and grass
Whereas, control of the flood w&t- j und |to yoison the boil weevils which
ers of the Rio Grande is essential to j were starting to work. Most of the
the development of the Lower Rio j fieMs were free from weeds and
Grande Valley of Texas; and, | grass before the rain and the hot
Whereas, there is at present a well j weather following the rain has pro-
defined movement to unify the coun- j moted gr0wth of bolls and reduction
ties of Hidalgo, Cameron and Willa- j Qf weeviis.
cy in a comprehensive plan of flood
control to be financed by the remis-
sion of state taxes; therefore.
Be YL-. Resolved, that the Lower
Rio Grande Valley, lire., go on record
Reports from the upper coast coun-
try indicate considerable loss due to
unusually heavy rains flooding the
j fields and killing a considerable acre-
i age of cotton. But three inches of
as endorsing this movement wh^h rainfall was the maximum south of
will result in the protection of Raymonciville, according to unofficial
thousands of the Valley’s most fer-
tile acres as well as protecting in-
numerable homes and farms in- Hidal-
go, Cameron and Willacy counties,
and that the Lower Rio Grande Val-
ley, Inc., hereby pledges all possible
aid and assistance to the commission-
ers’ court of Hidalgo County, the ad-
T.W.’s .
Condemned by Opponent
Stamford? Texas, July 2.—Empha-
sizing law enforcement in an address
here today, Lynch Davidson, candi-
date for governor declared that the
was for the enforcement of all law,
including the prohibition laws, and
against any scheme of any kind or
character seeking to restore the
liquor traffic on the state or nation.
The candidate discussed the par-
don record of his opponent whom he
termed “T. W., the wrong Davidson,”
saying “Inasmuch as the wrong
Davidson has been spending half of
his political addresses explaining why
he granted, so many pardons during
his terms as acting governor, I fin-
ally decided to investigate, recalling
the old adage, “the guilty flee when
none pursueth,” and to say I was
amazed at the record I found is but
putting it mildly.”
The speaker said he sought ,to ‘ dis-
tinguish himself, Lynch Davidson,
from this other Davidson who is
granting these pardons.” He then
read from what he said were ver-
batim copies of T. W. Davidson’s
pardon reports, including, as the
speaker explained, “three bootleggers
in one day and a gambling conviction
which Governor Neff four times re-
fused to grant because it was with-
out justification and a case of rob-
berv which mv opponent said was a
joke conviction.”
“Talk about jokes,” continued
Lynch Davidson. “When a candidate
for office goes over this state preach-
ing his unaccomplished efforts at law
enforcement and then has such a par-
don record as this to defend three
bootleggers in one day—it is about
the biggest joke I ever heard of.
Thus the sympathy which the wrong
Davidson appears to have for boot-
leggers probably had some reflec-
tion in the anti-prohibition—Ku Klux
Klan convention at Waco when the
wets condemned the suggestion that
stalwart prohibition leaders like Mrs.
Claude De Watts and Harper Kirby
be sent as delegates to the New York
convention and in their place sub-
stituted the wrong Davidson’s politi-
cal bedfellow and Nonpartisian
League supporter, W. W. Fitzwater.”
He concluded by declaring he was
for prohibition all up and down the
lines from precinct to nation, and
that “pardoning bootleggers at the
rate of three a day is just the same
as not enforcing the prohibition laws
of Texas. Likewise as the wrong
Davidson is reported to have ser-
iously pledged himself not to enforce
the open port statute. This is an-
other way of evading law enforce-
ment in Texas.
reports and no damage was done by
excess rainfall.
A period of daily showers would
give the bell weevil a big advantage
and growers are stocking up with
poison to meet the need. Poisoning
is going on everywhere now but the
weevil appears to be under good con-
visory committee appointed by such j trol in practically every section,
commissioners’ court, the Cameron1 what damage is being done by the
County Flood Control Committee, and weevil appears to be scattering,
the Associated water improvement j Greatest damage is reported from
districts of the Valley as well as the ; fields where stalks stood all winter
United States and State reclamation j and were not plowed under until
departments, in carrying out the planting time this spring.
Also much of the late-planted cot-
ton, which did not develop enough
for boll weevil attention until the
Giancle V alley, Inc., endorses the dry period set in seems to have es-
caped the boll weevil better than
much of the early plantings which
ha da good and rank growth early.
“We have poison and a good start.
All we need is three weeks of dry
hot weather,” is the general report
from growers.
plans for flood control; and be it fur-
ther
Resolved, that the Lower Rio
movement inaugmrataed in Cameron
County to secure the remission of
state taxes from the next legislature
for the purpose of financing the con-
struction of such flood protection
work in Cameron and Willacy coun-
ties, an durges the citizens of such
counties to use all honorable means
to impress upon the legislature the
necessity for granting such tax re-
mission to finance the Cameron and
Willacy county sections of the uni-
fied plan for Valley-wide flood con-
trol.
Opinions expressed by Cameron
county leaders are to the effect that
the Cameron County Flood Control
committee is the strongest, most in-
fluential committee ever organized in
the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and
that under the leadership of this
committee plans to secure remission
of state taxes for Cameron County
and to unify the flood control con-
struction in ' the three Valley coun-
ties will be carried to a successful
consummation.
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A meeting of ,the Lower Rio
irande Valley Realty Association, or-
ganized last week at a meeting at
lercedes, will be held at Weslaco
ursday afternoon, July 10 at 2 o’;
k. H. N. White, former president
San Antonio Realty Board, and
in South Texas realty
been secured to deliver
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When you INSIST upon Mercedes Ice Cream 'and Mercedes Butter,
you are helping build up an industry that is carrying the name of Mer-
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money spent for Mercedes Ice Cream and Mercedes Butter, stays in
Mercedes, going into improvements, payrolls, taxes and other expendi-
tures which heip to build up the city.
We are proud of Mercedes butter. We are proud of
the fact that our butter output has increased over 300%
in the last 8 months, and that we are shipping this butter
all over the state of Texas. Just think of it. THE 17 PIG-
GLY WIGGLY GROCERY STORES IN SAN ANTONIO
sell Mercedes butter exclusively, as a sweet credm butter.
In far off Marfa and Fort Stockton, way out in the Big
Bend country, Mercedes butter is sold by the leading stores.
*
Mercedes Ice Cream is the purest and the best made.
It could not be made under cleaner and more sanitary con-
ditions, with more attention paid to producing the best
product possible. Mercedes Ice Cream is made of cream
produced by Mercedes farmers, eveiy drop of which is
pasteurized before made into the best ice cream you can
buy.
TO FARMERS — Improvements which will be completed within a
very short time will enable us to materially increase our capacity foi
handling cream. We believe it will prove to our mutual advantage to
confer regarding the possibility of handling your cream supply.
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Holland, W. D. & Buell, Ralph L. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1924, newspaper, July 3, 1924; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1002680/m1/3/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.