Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, March 26, 1920 Page: 4 of 8
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MERCEDES TRIBUNE
MERCEDES TRIBUNE
BY TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO.
F. RECTOR Jr.—Vg’r and Editor
Subscription 2.00 per (Year in Advance.
Entered as second class iflki matter at
the post office at Mercedes ^'exas, Janu-
ary 23, 1914 under the act of March S,
1879.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The Tribune is authorized to an-
nounce the following candidates for
the respective offices subject \to the
action of the Democratic primaries
July 24th:
For District CleTk:
C. L. F0RTSON
For County Judge:
GEO. P. BROWN
For County Attorney:
J. C. EPPERSON
For Sheriff:
A. Y. BAKER
For County Assessor:
R. L. (BOB.) JEFFREYS
For County Clerk:
R. J. KERWIN
For County Treasurer:
GEO. F. LINESETTER
For County Tax Collector:
S. M. HARGROVE
For County Superintendent Schools:
J. S. BUNN
For County Commiss ioner, Pre-
cinct 1:
W. D. CHADDICK
For City Marshal:
H. W. PERKINS
VALLEY SOLDIERS LEARNING
HOW TO RAISE CITRUS FRUIT
Special Agricultural Courses to be
Given at Model Farms at CampS
Along Border
FARMERS OF RIO
GRANDE TALLEY UNITE
(Continued from page 1)
MISSION GIRL WINS
IN SPELLING MATCH
Six High Schools in County Repre-
sented at Contest Held Here
Last Friday
You’re in the army now, you’re not
behind the plow,” is a bugle call
parody that will have to be revised
for you may be both if you are sol-
diering in the aVlley, says the
Brownsville Herald, telling of the
model farm being conducted at Fort
Brown, and which is attended by a
score of the troops stationed there.
The farm is being devoted to a
practical study in raising citrus and
other semi-tropic fruits and truck
and is being conducted by H. C.
stiles, horticulturist, who has been
retained by the war department to
install such courses all along the
lower border. The course will he as
complete as possible. A graduate
of the school will be thoroughly
equipped for irrigation farming eith-
er for himself, if he is able, upon his
discharge from the army, to procure
a farm, or as a superintendent of
eitbe ran irrigated farm or a citrus
orchard.
While specializing on agriculture
that is peculiarly applicable to this
semi-tropic country, the course will
be so arranged that the lessons the
men learn in agriclulture can be ap-
plied to other sections where other
kinds of crops are raised, according
to Mr. Stiles.
The agricultural course will be
conducted not only on the farm, but
in the lecture room. Mr. Stiles is
arranging for lectures from men who
have made brilliant successes both
at truck and citrus fruit raising.
“We want to graduate che students
in this course with as complete a
knowledge of the subject as it is in
our power to give them,” Mr. Stiles
said Saturday. “The theory of utiliz-
ing the men at arms for productive
purposes is a new one and a good
one. It robs critics of the army of
their principal weapon of economic
attack, the statement that an army
The Hidalgo County spelling match
was held in Mercedes Friday night,
March 19. The six high schools in
the county were each represented.
Edinburg sent Cecil Edwards and
Elvira Schunior; McAllen, James
Langford and Mourie Norhmeyer;
Mission, Viola Landry and Florence
O’Donohoe; Pharr-San Juan, Mary
Doris Cox and Dency Plant; Donna,
Howard Onstot, Louise Imle, Dar-
win Caldwell, Bernice Best; Merce-
des, Mary Bradford and Opha Gos-
som.
Rev. Gribble of Mercedesjp6Tmc-
the words in the s§nidr" spelling
match and Miss Walker from Pharr-
San Juan seh$eV4m the junior match.
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Supt. E. W/f Foster of Edinburg and
Miss Gopfiman of Donna were among
"/e^twords in the senior spelling
the visiting teachers.
The winners of the matches are
as follows:
Seniors: Mary Doris Cox of
Pharr-San Juaan; Bernice Best of
Weslaco; Viola Landry, Misison.
Junior .match: Howard Onstot,
Donna; Florence Donohoe, Mission;1
Dency Plant, Pharr-San Juan.
. Finals: Viola Landry, Mission;
Bernice Best, Donna; Mary Doris
Cox, Pharr-San Juan.
This is the fifth spelling match in
the county. The first one was won
for Mercedes by Paul Ruckle, the
second for Mercedes by Afton Smith,
the third for Edinburg by Miss
Schunior, the fourth for Mercedes
by Edna Groves and this last by
Viola Landry of Mission. Howard
Onstot and Miss Landry will repre-
sent this county in the district meet.
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is wrong because it is nonproduct-
ive.”
As an illustration of the interest
being taken in the course, Mr. Stiles
is offering the following essay writ-
ten by Emmett Kisor, a member of
the class in agriculture:
“Today we had a very interesting
lesson. It was on fig growing. We
learned that the Smyrna fig is no
good without being polenized and
that they get their polen from the
capri fig. It is the male fig, and the
pollen is carried from the capri to
the Smyrna by a small insect called
Blacktophaga. The capri fig is the
home of this insect and to get the
pollen from one to the other they
must get the capri figs and string
about a dozen of them on a string,
then throw them up in the Smyrna
tree. The insect then crawls from
the capri to the Smyrna and leaves
the pollen which it carries, and thus
causes the Smyrna fig to perfect it-
self.
“The Smyrna fig is known the
world over as the most delicious
and greatest fig on the market. Un-
til about twelve or fifteen years ago
the Smyrna fig was not known in
this country. Then a man from
California went from here to the
native home of the Smyrna fig and
brought back some of the capri figs
and insects. But when he got them
here they were dead. He went hack
again, but the same thing occurred.
He then tried to bring a tree with
the insects on it. He put the tree
in a glass case and brought it here
to his home, but the insects had all
fallen off when he arrived. He was
not going to quit, however, se be
polenized the Smyrna fig artifipiaUy
and was successful, and that is how
we grow the capri fig today; and in
California the Smyrna fig trees pro-
duce several million pounds of figs
annually.”
Mr. Stiles declares the essay to be
a perfect interpretation of the lec-
ture given on the culture of the
most famous market fig, a fig that
can be successfully raised in the
Valley, he said.
TIMELY FARM TOPICS
OPEN HOUSE A SUCCESS
(Continued from page
Many Women Visitors Endorse Plan
of Local Council —
ground through the crown of the
plant and on down to the tuber, as
it matures. If the insect becomes
bad, the tuber is completely perfo-
rated and spoiled or destroyed, even
as hog feed.
The insect was ^fpCTnCriy. ..CQUfiend
to the coast country, but has reach-
ed as fails' the Texas-Oklahoma
line "in-North Texas, and as far west
as Valve rde county, 200 miles or
more west of San Antonio. About
100 counties in the state are infect-
ed. The crop should not be plant-
ed on the same ground two years
in succession; and after one crop is
raised, all the vines and harvest
trash should be carefully gathered
and burned. Hogs can either be
turned in on the field to gather
the loose potatoes, which escape the
harvest, or else the ground should
be gone over carefully several times,
in order to make sure that all the
potatoes are gathered.
The field should be kept clean of
the miscellaneous morning glories
of the various types, since the weevil
lives on this plant also. It would
be advisable in getting slips for
spring setting to procure them from
an uninfected district, in order to
lessen the danger from the weevil
as much as possible.
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house ulafn of the Mer-
is xUne that fills a
nt jKnd. which is greatly
/declared 0ne of the
from the Mercedes
spent a few hours last
the Community House
Saturday afternoon
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sect;
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members of the Women’s Council of
Mercedes act as hostess.
The open house plan was inaugu-
rated last Saturday but dozens of
women visited the Community House
and had tea and wafers and spent
several hours there after completing
their shopping.
While the open house was design-
ed primarily for the benefit and con-
venience of out of town women Mer-
cedes women are also urged to vis-
it there Saturdays and to help mem-
bers of the civic committee in ex-
tending a cordial welcome to visit-
ors.
1916 STILL BANNER YEAR
0. H. Price Says Recced Made by
Tom Fikes Never Equalled
Buy a lot. on Missouri avenue for
investment. Price $350, concrete
walks included. Lots 50x150 feet,
60 feet street, 20 feet alley, easy
terms, will accept Liberty bonds.
Wm. Lingenbrink, Agent. 6-3t
Met Fate of the Weak.
It seems that there can be no doubt
that the cliff dwellers were extermi-
nated by their more savage and war-
like neighbors, the men being killed
and the women being adopted into the
tribe of the conquerors, though in some
cases migrations may have become
necessary as a result of drought or
pressure from outside tribes.
Traffic Truck
WARNS AGAINST RADICALS
The lowest priced 4000-lbs capacity truck in
the world
It takes 10 acres.toi grow the feed a team of horses
consumes in a year. Traffic Trucks feed on gasoline.
cheaper. It costs on an average of $1.20 a
-for $1.20 worth of gas-oline a
which is
day to feed a team-
Traffic will haul a 4,000-lb load 5G miles in 4 honrs.
Figure it out for yourself, brother—and besides, the
Traffic is the lowest priced 4,000-lb. capacity truck in
the world. It saves you hundreds of dollars in first
cost and cuts the cost of hauling with teams in half.
See it today.
TRAFFIC MOTOR TRUCK CORPORATION
St. Louis, Mo.
W. W. VANN, Valley Distributor
Mercedes, Texas
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Have Some Pickled Kelp.
An addition to the delicatessen line-
is pickled kelp, put up in glass bottles,
It is not only edible, but really deli-
cious.
For SPRING in SUMMER
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Beautiful Organdie
Waists
Satin and Poplin
Skirts
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A new shipment of the prettiest
waists we have shown this sea-
son, just arrived. Made in the
newest styles and in all the
much desired tints, attractively
trimmed and in all sizes.
An assortment so varied and at-
tractive that you are sure to fin<
one just to your liking. Some ar<
fetchingly trimmed in pearl but
tons, others with sport pocket!
all the latest cuts.
RARE BARGAINS AT
$1.50 to $5.00
EXECELLENT VALUE AT
$5.00 to $14.50
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PRETTY FROCKS FOR GIRLS
for Easter and Conformation Wear
Easter comes this year on April 4. Every girl wants a new and at-
tractive frock. We have a big variety, bought especially for Eas-
ter wear and for girls who are to be in confirmation classes.
They come in all sizes from 5 to 16 years and are made in attract-
ive styles of white lawn and organdies, prettily trimmed in lace
be
White CanVass Oxfords
A new assortment of pretty
canvass oxfords and pumps,
stylish, well fitting and appro-
priate for spring and summer
wear, of good material, well
made add in all sizes and lasts
Priced from $3.50 to $6.50
Save S & H Stamps
The S and H Green trad-
ing stamps are just like
money. We give them
with all purchases and
they are redeemable in
handsome, useful and
costly premiums. Ask us
for a book and cataloug.
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“We hear much nowadays about
the big profits being made from cab-
bage,” said O. H. Price here a few
days ago, “but the record made by
Tom Fikes in 1916 on an acre and
an eighth a mile northeast of Mer-
cedes has never been equalled. In
that year he cut and sold $1500 worth
of cabbage which yielded more than
twelve tons to the acre.’ ineteen
sixteen is down in truck history as
the one in which cabbage hit its
highest mark ever known. However,
cabbage is making many Valley
farmers unusual profits this year.
Last fall Mr. Price rented two and
a half acres a mile east of here,
a part of his farm adjoining that of
Mr. Fikfes, for $30. This week the
man who had rented it had rea.1-
ied $800 and still had another big
cutting left in the field.
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You cannot solve the
High Cost of Living
until you trade with us. We have the
quality and prices
COFFEE
Mexicans Told to Avoid Bolshevism
as They Would the Plague
Warning his hearers to beware of
jail radical doctrines and to avoid
Bolshevism as they would the plague
Luis G. Soto, of Vera Cruz, address-
ed more than 300 Mexican residents
of Mercedes here Wednesday night.
Soto has been; to all border towns
giving free lectures on the perils of
radicalism and preaching to Mex-
ican audiences the doctrine of good
citizenship and loyalty to their
adopted country.
Soto’s work, which is being carried
on without pay, has been highly
praised by American officials and
local Mexicans declare he is one of
the biggest men in Mexico and that
his tour is inspired solely by his in-
terest in seeing Mexicans here as
well as in Mexico prove themselves
good, law abiding citiens.
Our stock of Coffee is complete—nothing but
the best, consisting of such well known
brands as
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Sunset Folger’s Golden Gate
Hill Brothers Wamba
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VEGETABLES
We always have as big a variety of fresh
vegetables as it is possible to obtain
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Rector, J. F., Jr. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, March 26, 1920, newspaper, March 26, 1920; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1017867/m1/4/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.