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Train Information
MISSOURI PACIFIC LINES
No. 12—To Houston. San Antonio. 8:00
a. m.
Not 18—To Houston. San Antonio. St.
Louis. 8:38 p. m.
No. 16—From St. Louie. Sxn Antonia
Houston. 7 :56 a. m.
Second No. 15—From San Antonio and
Houston. 8:10 a. m.
No. 11—From San Antonie end Hous-
ton. 9:65 p. m.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES
Not 819—From Houston. Ssn Antonia.
9:46 s. m.
q No. 820—To Houston. Ss? Antonio.
" 6:30 p. m.
NATIONAL LINES OF MEXICO
(Mstsmoros Station)
Not 132—To Monterrey. Mexico City.
8 :50 a. m.
No. 181—From Mexico City. Monterrey
1:30 p. m.
RIO GRANDE RAILWAY
To Point Isabel. 9:30 a. m.
From Point Isabel. 4 p. m.
BLACK DIAMOND BUS LINES
Cars to Mission on the hour every hour.
8 a. m. to 8 p. m.. and st 7:30 a. m.. 6:30
p. m.. 7 :30 p. m. and 9 p. m.
To Point Isabel. 8 a. m.. 12 m. and 4
a m.
Political
Announcements
The Brownsville Herald !» authorized to
Bake the following announcements of
candidates subject to the democratic pri-
mary in July:
FOR CONGRESS—
Sid Hardin.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY:
D. S. Purl Corpus Christ:.
Geo. C. Westervelt.
FOR SHERIFF—
R. H. (Bob) Johnson
G. G. (Gib) Henson.
Duncan S. Wngbt.
W. Frank Brown.
C. A. (Mike) Manahan
S. M. Jester.
L. G. Nichols.
COUNTY ATTORNEY—
M. R. Hall (ra-election).
FOR COUNTY FUDGE:
H. H. Banker.
Oscar C. Dancy.
COUNTY COURT AT LAW:
W. T. Carlton.
COUNTY TREASURER:
Mrs. A. W. Cocke re-election.
Mrs. 0. L. Hipp.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR:
W. B. Walton.
J. J. Fox.
FOR CONSTABLE—
E. J. Hanna Justice Precinct No.
2 Brownsville.
John Martin: re-election; justice
precinct No. 2. Brownsville.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER:
Frecinct No. 1.
H. M. Pattce.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER Prj-
cinct No. 2—
Sam H. Bell. Jr.
Geo. Champion.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT:
R. A. Wooldridge *\io Hondo.
Mrs. W. R. (Bill) (ones.
FOR JUSTICE OF PEACE:
Precinct 2. Place. 2. Brownsville.
Paul R. Dye.
FOR COUNTY CHAIRMAN:
H. L Yates.
Lost and Found
LOST—Coat with glasses and Gruen
watch. Watch has initials JG on
back. Twenty-five dollars reward for
return to Merchants’ National Bank.
G-26
AUTOMOTIVE
Automobiles For Sale
----— i
FORD Coupe 1926; new Puco finish.
New tires. Mechanically recondi-
tioned. Good battery.$275.00
CHEVROLET Touring. 1926. Good
mechanical condition. New Duco
finish; 4 new tires. New top seat
covers; food battery.$215.00
CHEVROLET Ton Truck 1926 with
ercules cab and Woodward body.
Mechanically reconditiined. Good
tires . $400.00
STEVENSON MOTOR CO„ INC.
10th and Adams
Brownsville. Tel. 1111
BUSINESS SERVICES
Dray—7 ransfer
•*— ..■' -. M—
Mason Transfer &
Grain Co.
Lifht and Heavy Hauling
WE MOVE ANYTHING
J105 Adam* Phone 139
AUSTIN
TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO.
Phones 421 and 519
1126 Washington St.
DELTA RAPID TRAN |1T\ daily
tracks to points betweei Brownsville
and Mission. P.ayraondv ie on Wed-
nesday: local hauling. Phone 4*0.
Brownsville. J B-4
Try a Herald Gasified Aa
AUTOMOTIVE AUTOMOTIVE
ENJOY THIS SUMMER IN
ONE OF OUR
GOOD USED CARS
1 1926 Dodge Panel Truck % ton... $600
1 1926 Dodge Panel Truck \\ ton ....$550
1926 Dodge Coupe.
1 1926 Graham Truck 1 ton.$800
1 1926 Dodge Sedan motor reconditioned. $600
1 1927 Dodge Sedan Demonstrator.$800
Come in today. Compare them with the best you
have seen. We need Chevrolets and Fords.
Bring yours in and we will enjoy telling you what
we can allow for them.
Jesse Dennett Inc.
USED CAR MARKET
Fhone 904 W.'A. Ross Mgr. 1217 Levee St.
BUSINESS SERVICES
Florists
BO WYE R THE FLOKIET flowers
ano funeral designs. St. Charles
and Fit a streets. Fhone 771.
CUT FLOW EKS—Bouquets and fun
eral designs our specialty. Ferns
bioominr plants ornamentals. Out of
town orders solicited. San Benito
Nursery ard Floral Co„ San Benito.
Texas. A-6
Builders—Contractors
PROCTOR & DUDLEY
General Contractors and At -hitects
Home building in brick stucco or
frame. W'e specialize in brick and
concrete constructin'*
Brownsville Texas Phone 627
Architects
E. G. HOLLIDAY
Architect and Builder
401) State Nat. P>ank Bldg.
Phone 906
R. NEWELL WATERS
Architect
9-12 Sccrrity State Bank Building
Wfeslaco Texas
Insurance
w. b: CLINT
INSURANCE
SURETY BONDb
208-9 Merchants National
Bank
PHONE
Tailor*
SOL BETTIN
Bench Made Clothes.
Expert work on repairing
cleaning ami pressing.
1216 Elizabeth. Phone >25.
P-296
Funeral Directors
Hinklcy Mortuary
CompVte Funeral Service
/’hones 123—300
St. Charles and Eleventh
Street
HOTELS—CAFES
White kitchen
Famous for its
Cooking—Immaculacy
and Service
The popular place for
business lunches
12th between Elizabeth and
Washington
Too have not completed your
trip to Brownsville unless you
ate at
Blackstone Cafe
Opposite Travelers Hotel
OFFICE EQUIPMENT
ART METAL
FILING
Equipment
Maverick-Clarke Litho Co.
208 Merchants National Bank
Phone 617—Brownsville
NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO..
Registers bought sold end exchanged.
W. E. Sanders. Representative.
Phone 29 Harlingen Texas Box 905
All Steel Filing Cabinets
And Supplies. We cave you the
high cost of Transportation
HARGROVE’S STATIONERY &
BOOK STORE
Typet-Titer*
NEW UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS
Exclusive Valley Representative
Fred R. Scroggins
Phone 295. P. O. Box 47.
SALES Harlingen . SERVICE
V-38
WOODSTOCK TYPEWRITER
SALES CO.
Typewriters—Adding Machines
Supplies—Repairs
Phone 606—Harlingen Z-12
BROWNSVILLE Typewriter Ex-
change—We buy. sell tepair and ex-
change all makes typewriters aduing
machines cash registers and check-
writers. Phone 109. F.1S*
OFFICE EQUIPMENT
Typewriter*
DAVENPORT Typewriter Exchange.
(Brownsville’* Typewriter House i
Sole Valley distributors new "Si-
lent” 8 L. C. Smith and late Corona
I. Save 40 per cent on Underwood
and Royal typewriters by buying
factory “rebuilts” from us. Fully
guaranteed. We repair all makes
1112 Elizabeth St„ Phone ItOS.
YOU CAN ONLY buy the new “Silent
8” L. C. Smith typewriter from Dav-
enport Typewriter Exchange in
Brownsville and Valley. G-23
EMPLOYMENT-
Help Wanted
WANTED—Girl for soda dispenser;
also two girls for curb service. Ap-
ply Chic-Inn. Mercedes Texas. Phone
299. G-39
WANTED—Automobile painter one
that can spray and stripe. Blake
Auto Hospital Brownsville. G-42
BOY WANTED for route. Apply to-
day. Circulation Dept. The Browns-
ville Herald.
WANTED immediately English-
speaking woman or girl to care for
sick lady and baby. 1235 Adams.
TYPIST WANTED having fair
knowledge of English. Write in hand
writing P. O. Box 146. Brownsville.
THE GUMPS — O Women In Our Hours of Ease
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GETTING MAIL I'M TIED
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HIGH PRESSURE PETE — Bob Katz (Cats)
—Swan
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EMPLOYMENT
Help Wanted
UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY is open
to man with willingness to work.
Permanent profitable business sup-
plying consumers with nationally
known line of household necessities.
Business established 40 years. Write
W. T. Rawleigh Co. Dept. TX-6052.
Memphis Tenn. G-31
' Situation Wanted
PRACTICAL NURSE 13 years* ex-
perience; obstetrical nursing a spe-
cialty. Best of references. Mrs. L.
M. Montague Phone 41 Lyford Tex-
as. G-ll
STENOGRAPHER with four yeaTs’
experience desires position. Good
recommendations from three former
employers. Can do general clerical
work. Write Alice Brown General
Delivery Raymondville Texas. G-25
EXPERIENCED middle-aged lady de-
sires position as hotel keeper or
manager land company club house
or housekeeper in motherless home.
References. Address Mrs. Mabel
Suits 706 Van Buren St. Harlingen
Tex. G-12
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHIC WORK—
Mrs. W. G. Haddon offices Foster-
Moothart Company ground floor
Cromack Building. Correspondence
legal etc. Reasonable prices.
• E-223
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
FOR SALE—Oldest established bot-
tling plant in Valley; now doing
good business; with or without lot
and building. Write P. O. Box S71
Brownsville. G-40
FINANCIAL
Mortgages—Loans
Annual or
Monthly Payment
LOANS
on
Residence
and
Business Property
Small Payments
Prompt Service
— Telephone 163 —
Todd and Underwood
Spivey-Kowalski Bldg.
407 Elevehth St.
Brownsville. Texas.
F-109
FINANCIAL _-
Mortgages—Loans
LOAN’S—Monthly or term. Browns-
ville San Benito and Harlingen.
Monthly payments $10.10 per $1000.
Quick service low expense. Foster
Moothart & Welch. Cromack Bldg.
Phone 470. G-9
LIVE STOCK-POULTRY
WILL purchase rent or keep a good
milk cow. W. W. Dodd phone 549-J.
G-37
REGISTERED ENGLISH Pointer
pups sire and dame perfect trained
bird dogs. Will he old enough for
fall shooting. W. A. Ross Den-
nett’s Used Car Market phone 904.
Brownsville. G-18
THOKOBRED German police pup-
pies for sale. Mrs. Stafford. Glen-
wood Hotel phone 619.
professional"
Chiropractor
MARGARET HUNTER CAMPBELL
chiropractor specializes I. women's
and children’s diseases. Hours fore-
noon only. 135 W. Elizabeth street.
Phone 1154. G-14
M. Cook D. C.
CHIROPRACTOR
State National Bank Bldg.
Brownsville. Texas
Room 405 Phone 703
Chiropodist
FOOT SPECIALIST
Dr. E. Hillinger on highway between
San Benito and Harlingen. All foot
troubles treated. D-169
MISCELLANEOUS
Furniture—Used
FOR SALE—Electric range gas stove.
d>ning table. Call at 1250 Washing-
ton street. F-4C
Articles For Sale
GOOD sorted potatoes for sale at
$1.50 per sack. Rio Grande Delta
Gardners’ association. Seventh street
at S. P. tracks. G-22
FOR SALE—Old newspapers. Suit-
able for shelves under carpets pack-
ing or wrapping. 2 l-2c per pound.
Apply Press Room. Herald. tf
FOR SALE: High grade house paints
all colors. $2.50 per gallon Oleson
Furniture Co.. 1126 Washington
street phone 5i9. X-244
SELLING OUT all kinds of dress ma
terials and other dry goods very
cheap. Call at 142 West Levee
street. Mrs. Kennedy. Phone 1139
afternoons and evenings. F-204
MISCELLANEOUS
Articles For Sale
FOR SALE—Forty feet of walnut
office partitions with frosted glass
panels. Cheap. Rio Grande Valiev
Gas Appliance Co. opposite postof-
fice.F-169
REAL ESTATE
E. A. MON'SEES
REALTOR
CITY FROPERTY
LARGE AND SMALL ACREAGE.
1113 1-2 Elizabeth Street
Over Olympia Confectionary.
G-19
Farms For Sale
300 ACRES. choice non-irrigated
land. 100 acres in cultivation; with
house; about 10 miles east of Ly-
ford; |45 per acre. Terms. See
Paulus Hooke two and one-half
blocks west of court house on Hi-
dalgo avenue. Raymondville. G-38
LAND BARGAINS—152 acre*—235
acres—Donna district cultivated.
Nothing better. Priced low. Wire '
write or call—C. H. Swallow Alamo.
Texas. Y-235
TWENTY ACRES Low-er Rio Grande
Valley; six acres one-year-old trees.
Pine neighborhood. Address owner.
Box 582 Brownsville. Texas. F-156
FOR SALE—1000 acres of good citrus
and farm land in Cameron County
located between the Box Ranch tract
on the North now being developed
in citrus orchards and the Laguna
Vista Tract on the South. This Tract
connects at its northwest corner with
the new Water District No. Eleven
and is a desirable tract for subdi-
vision and development purposes.
This land fronts the S. B. & R. G. V.
Railway for two and one-haif miles
and the present terminus is located
on the East end of said 1000 acres. A
good highway connects with Point
Isabel ten miles distant and Browns-
ville and San Banito each nineteen
miles distant. Call on or address
Faulk & Abney. Brownsville Texas
or the owner. W. B. Abney. Lampasas
Texas. F-118
FOR SALE—2-acre homesite on re-
saca near highway to be paved right
away. Southern Realty Co. Phone
014. F-204
Lots For Sale
RIVERSIDE PARK lots *750 up. All
improvements including all-weather
streets. Take advantage of our easy
payment plan. Foster-.Moothart
Co. _ F-61
RENTALS
—
P'OR RENT—Store room. Levee St.
near I3th street and new Interna-
tional bridge. Call at Money Ex-
change on corner. G-35
_RENTALS
Apartment*
FURNISHED three-room apartment
modern with lights gas water tele-
phone and garage; $35. Phone 111 1.
G-32
FOUR-ROOM FURNISHED apart-
ment private *bath. gas. Corner
Palm Boulevard and .'ims street.
Phone 761G I
BACHELOR A PART M ENT—Up-
stairs apartment with hot and cold
shower also tub; two garages fur-
nished. Excellent for one or two
bachelors. or couple. Moderately
priced. Call 1173-W. F-38
DESIRABLE APARTMENT — Nicely
arranged and furnished. Living
room bed room kitchen hreakfast
room and bath. Water lights and
gas furnished. Moderately prired.
Call 1173-W. F-38
FURNISHED OR UNFURNISHED
Duplex; also small furnished apart-
ment. Good location. Very reason-
able summer rates. Elbert Lockard
office phone 673; residence phone
810-J._ F-199
FURNISHED APARTMENT. sink
built-in cabinet lights water and
gas furnished. Phone 429. D-36
TWO-ROOM APARJMENT with iris.
also sleeping rooms. Phone 258 or
1054. 540 Elizabeth street. C-7
ALONSO APARTMENTS—Furnished
or unfurnished. Phone 839. C-229
VERY COOL south apartment; ga-
rage free. Phone 946-W. F-49
FOR bENT—Modern unfurnUhet
apartments new Fngidaire gas
electricity garage prices reasona
ble. ".\r System Store. 658 Eliza-
beth street. A-p)3
ROOMS and apartments. 701 St.
Charles. Tel. 1017. E71
UNFURNISHED DUPLEX. I’hone
351. Y-3
GENTRY APARTMENTS with ga-
rages south bedroom gas equipped.
Summer rates. Apply 744 Palm
Blvd-. during afternoons. F-66
NEBRASKA APARTMENTS — Fur-
nished every convenience frigidaire
and gas ranges. Jcfferso;. and Four-
teenth Streets. Phone 11-4. Wr-42
Furnished Rooms
ROOMS. 1023 St. Charles street.
Phono IK* G
NICE. COOL BEDROOMS south and
east exposure. Close in. 1022 St
Charles street. Phone 928-M. F-206
SOUTH BEDROOM. Phone 745-J.
G-21
DESIRABLE ROOM adjoining bath
private residence. $20; walking dis-
tance. Ph«>ne 1071 -VV. G-36
RENTALS
Furnished Roomr
FURNISHED ROOM in privata
family. Phone 578. F-183
ROOMS AND APARTMENTS—Glon-
wood Hotel 933 Washington street.
Phone 619.
ROOMS AND APARTMENTS—600
Washington street. G-4I
Houses
FOR RENT—Two good modern 5-
room houses; also two nicely fur-
nished apartments and a large fur^
nished house. Southern Realty Co.
Phone 914. F-204
FOR SALE OR RENT—House at 1243
Washington Street gas pavement
garages. 3 apartment*. 130.00 each.
Phone 820-J. G-29
MODERN 6-KOOM house; screens*!
sleeping porch gas garage. Phone
911._ F-85
SEVEN-ROOM MODERN HOUSE.
413 on Sixth and Levee streets.
Phone 839. F-200
FOR RENT—Nicely furnished house
for the summer. 1022 St. Francis }
Street West Brownsville. Phone
957-J. F-lOt
DL PLEX tOR RENT bath garage
gas. lights and water. On paved
street one block from high school.
Apply Popular Store. F-193
MODERN FIVE-ROOM house with
scrcened-in sleeping porch gas and
garage. Call 1044-W. F-201
NEW FIVE-ROOM house garage and
servants house. Modern. One block
of school; 435. Phone 912-R. G-21
FOR RENT—Three-room furnish cot#
tape 723 W. Levee street. Showet
bsth and garage; $25. Thone 1227-W.
__ G-34
Valley Utility Worker
j Wins Prize For Paper
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO July 7.—Miss Jewell
Dunston cashier of the Mercedes
; office of the Central Power &• Light
company received first prize for
j the beat paper submitted by any
employe of th« Midwest Utilities
company it was announced here
| Thursday night at a pul 'ic relations
meeting of employes of the com-
pany. |
The announcement was made bt*
| W. D. Boone secretary and treas-
urer of the company! who compli-
mented the Valley district on it* at-
tendance at such meetings.
E. Menger. general auditor of tha
company spoke at the meeting on
auditing. William Bates. assistant
j district manager presided in tha
absence of Frank C. Ludden.
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