Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1924 Page: 5 of 12
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Have bought the Calhoun Mule Farm
at Pharr.
20 to 60 Head of Mules
on Hand at All Times
We are here 365 days of a year, to make adjust’
ment if stock is not as represented.
Come and buy of a home man, who pays taxes and
votes in Hidalgo County.
Small Profits and Satisfied Customers” Is our motto.
Roby & Gurinsky
C. L. Roby, Manager
PHARR, - Texas
PAGE FIVE
MERCEDES TRIBUNE
miles. In Ozona,
made good ■use
camp, with bath.
of the free auto
, water, electric
School Days!
We Are Ready with a Most Complete
Stock of Supplies
Our line of BOB WHITE 5c Tablets, Note Books,
Spelling Tablets, Composition Books, Theme and
Examination Tablets.
JEWEL Fillers and HONOR Loose Leaf Binders
will be leaders in our schools this year.
Pens, Pencils, Inks, in fact everything for the
school room.
Do not buy until you have examined our stock
White Wing
Season Opened
Monday,
September 1st
FREE-Monday, Sept. 8th
7 Gal. Gas with each A\ in. Tire
5 Gal. Gas with each 4 in. Tire
3 Gal. Gas with each 3 or 3Jr in. Tire
1 Gal. Gas with each Tube
When it’s Tires—S e e
T A 7HAT man doesn’t thrill with the success
VV Of his shooting ? Get your equipment
out. See that your outfit is in first-class shape
for the season. Choose the needed supplies now
from ISporting Headquarters. Ammunition,
guns, hunting coats—everything in the sport-
ing line.
Trades Day
Winchester Ranger Smokeless 12 Guage
Shells
Monday Only,
This shell is specially constructed for
small bird shooting.
STOP AND
“GAS”
WITH US
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General Au
See Me Before You List Your Sale
BORDERLAND
HARDWARE CO
Residence: One Mile South of PtfAKR
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Build Today!
Tomorrow May Be Late
OMPLETED plans lose
allow us to bid
Spencer-Sauer
LUMBER CO.
Successors to McMurry Lumber Co
^TIRE SHOP
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CLASSIFIED
STRICTLY CASH IN ADVANCE
ItEAL ESTATE FOR SALE
Lots For Sale.—If you contemplate
building a bouse see Claribel Schenck
opposite High School, for choice lots.
Frontage 50, 75 and 100 ft. 28-4tp
Vi ANTED TO BIT
Bring <us your chickens and eggs.
We pay the highest market price.
Manhattan Cafe, Mercedes, Texas.
47-tf
For Sale.—Ten. acres, three bun-,
dred citrus trees, grapes, citrus seed-,
lings, two hundred orchard heaters,!
good house, garage, etc. This will
stand investigation. Address Owner,
Box 425, Pharr, Texas. 30-2tp
For Sale.—Six-room modern house
commodious living or sleeping porch.
Very attractive Located in best res
idential district. For terms apply ,tc
J. G- T. Colley, Hidalgo County Bank.
FOR SALE—MISCELLANEOUS
For Sale..—10 head of good Jersey
milk cows, 9 milking, 1 Springer. See
H. L. Snedeker, Mercedes Hotel.
30-ltp
For Sale—White Leghorn hens,
Barron strain. Also Leghorn cock-
rels, Ferris strain Mrs. L. W.
Heagy, Santa Maria. 30-2tp
Extra fine cane hay in bales—well
matured, perfect in color and Quality,
plenty of seed. Inquire at Brown’s
Store, Mercedes. Phone 135. 28-tf
FOR RENT
House For Rent on Texas Avenue.
Apply to Anderson and Bennett.
30-2tp
For Rent.—Two southeast front
rooms, furnished for light house-
keeping, all conveniences and nice,
shady gallery. Mrs A. Franke, 701
Palm Heights. 30-ltp
For Rent.—Furnished room, south-
east exposure, bath adjoining. Apply
to Mrs. W. W. ‘Wilson, Palm Heights,
third house north of 10th street,
west side of street. 30-ltp
Furnished Room For Rent.—With
private oath. Mrs. W. L. Irons,
across from Pleasantdale Hotel.
30-ltp
MISCELLANEOUS WANTS
Floors resurfaced quickly and eco-
nomically. Old and new floors. See
Judson L. Davis, floor surfacing con-
tractor, with Stotler Undertaking Co.,
Mercedes, Texas, Box 342. 28-4tp
FOR SALE OR TRADE Wanted. — Light house-keeping
For Sale or Trade for small car,- j rooms or room and hoard in private
a agis-1-1 sft ra. xxs&r*-
FROM GULF TO PACIFIC
camp like this,” tents, cottages, camp
ground, community kitchen, dining
room, laundry hall, bath, stores,
garage, gas, oil, all commodities to
lights and plenty of room to have a gae travelers . feel “homelike.”
comfortable rest. The next morning, After a thorough restoration, we
we hurried through the West Texas took a sight-seeing ride through the
cattle ranges, via Fort Stockton, ov- cjty and spent another day and night
er fair roads. A rain in the evening with friends. The last day in Texas,
softened our path, hindering ourj paso del Norte, the pass qf the
speed, so we arrived at Kent very | North — population 77,560, altitude
late and had to put up our tent the \ 3^9 feet—one of the largest cities
first time. The next morning we got' on 0Ur southern frontier is the door
up just as tired as we went to rest. 1 jnto Mexico. Though in a compara-
Well, everything mhst be learned. To tively thinly settled region, this is a
sleep in a soft bed is quite different
from sleeping in a tent with a few
pieces of bedding. Oh, we learned to
sleep in the camp tent by and by, so
it was sometimes a job to get us on
foot again.
The third day early we rushed to
El Paso, through the irrigated up-
per Rio Grande Valley, with green
fields of alfalfa, cotton, cantaloupes,
pear and peach trees. Bat to be
true, in spite of a splendid gravity
irrigation system, that turned this
desert land into an oasis, this upper
valley is far below any conroarison
with the lower valley.
For 40 miles below El Paso we had
a fine cement highway, but some
tire trouble played between, just an
untimely hold-up. We took along
some souvenirs from Mercedes, 3
tacks, heads worn off, the points of
them working inward. Oh, these
little leaks, until we found out where
the trouble came from! How glad
we were when we entered the new
auto camp in El Paso, a tourist camp !
that claims, “In all the world, no^lERCEDES,
Ed. Note.—Miss Edith Herzig, a for-
mer resident of the Mercedes Com-
munity left here recently for Califor-
nia, making the trip with her par-
ents by automobile With this .ssue
Miss Herzig starts the story of her
trip from the Gull of Mexico to the
Pacific Ocean.
This morning I awoke from a
night of peaceful rest just as the sun
peeped over the Mountains and burst
into splendor over the quiet and
peaceful valley of the American riv-
er. Here our sight-seeing trip came
to a “stop.” How thankful I am for
all the wonders of our transcontinen-
tal journey to the Pacific Coas.; from
the Gulf of Mexico, that holds out to
the tourist a most fascinating trip—
the reaching of the famed region ly-
ing beyond the great mountain rang-
es of the Rockies and the Sierra
Nevadas.
On a bright morning, July 20, we
left the Southern Metropolis of
Texas, San Antonio, after a visit to
the historic “Alamo” and a camp in
Breckenridge Park. The Old Spanish
Trail was taken up the scenic Fred-
ericksburg valley. We “low land peo-
ple,” found that country really in- j
teresting with all the hills, moun-,
tains, creeks, valleys, big rocks and
whatever a mountainous scenery of-
fers to people who come from, the ab-
solute level part of the most south-
ern end of Uncle Sam’s big farm.
Our first stop was Fredericksburg
where we met some friends and had
a few pleasant moments. Then we
proceeded on the same good gravel
road to Castell, Llano County, to
stay there with good old friends un-
til Monday, the 21st.
Accompanied with many good wish-
es from our many friends there, the
Monday morning found us ready for
another move. We made good time
on good gravel roads, passed Mason,
Menard, through the green irrigat-
ed San Sabas valley with those beau-
By EDITH HERZIG
tiful big pecan trees. In Western
San Saba and Crockett County, the
roads were very bad, rocky, heavy,
slow going. Yes, that part of the
Old Spanish Trail is still an “Old
Spanish Trail,” no road implements
have ever been used there, the pro-
verbial 1 Rocky Road to Dublin,’
can’t be worse. In Sonora we met
the new road from Kerrville, but
still slow going—20 gates on 30
most important business center,
since it is almost 500 miles in any
direction to a city of like size. El
Paso bandies a large proportion of
our Mexican trade and is an im<
prtant port of entry for cattle im-
ported to the United States from
Mexico. For several years Fort
Bliss at El Paso has been one of our
largest garrison posts.
(To he continued.)
Typewriter Supplies at Tribune office
H.T. STOTLER
Funeral Director
™d Embalmer
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PHONE NO. 67
TEXAS
That New Top— |
You Need It--
Your Car Demands It--
Your Family Wants It—
We Have It!
And Will Put It On In
a Hurry, the Way It Should
Be Put On.
Why Hesitate?
D. W. Walker
Harness and Shoes
Repaired
Autos Re-Topped
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What Is the CAUSE
of Most Repairs?
80% of all motor car repairs on
moving parts come from one cause
A recent widespread investigation showed
that most repairs—on the average 80%—
are due to one cause—
Lack of
Proper Lubrication
The safe way is to have your car Alemited
every 500 miles by experts. Then you know
the job is done and done right. Turn your
car over to us and forget repair bills. No
muss, no fuss, no bother. Just drive in and
we’ll do the rest.
“Every 500 Miles”
We are
equipped
with the
Alemite
One-Ton
Pressure
Speed Cun
Duncan-Brooks Motor to.
MERCEDES, TEXAS
The Alemite Lubricating Station
^ money for you if you
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do not put them into ef-
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ever planned brought re-
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ideas into effect.
The same applies to
your building. Build now,
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for you have all advan-
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tages to favor your oper-
ations.
But before you build
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Holland, W. D. & Buell, Ralph L. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1924, newspaper, September 4, 1924; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1003031/m1/5/?q=%22~1%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.