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KASEY’S DRUG STORE
KASEY’S DRUG STORE
MERCEDES, HIDALGO COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9 , 1928
NUMBER 1
VOLUME 15.
ADDITIONAL SCOUT
This Week
TROOPS URGED FOR
CITY BY COUNCIL
SCHOOL IS OUTLINED
According to the Browns-
Garner.
perimental work in progress there for
laid the harbors matter before
be devoted to poultry raising.
HOME TOWN HENRY
They need not be members of
department of the store.
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or more specialists in this particular
industry will be on hand to offer
FEDERAL FUNDS WILL THREE DAY COURSE
COMPLEX PT.^BEL TO BE HELD HERE
Clearing waste paper from the va-
cant lots of Mercedes on Wednesday,
the three Boy Scout Troops of Mer-
cedes did the community the “good
turn” laid out for the day in observ-
their Mercedes branch, Mr. Edelstein
stated.
dates chosen for the course, all ses-
sions of which will be held in the
Junior High School auditorium.
Citrus and poultry will be given
especial emphasis during the three-
had cleaned out the fish pond on
the high school grounds and provided
gold fish to eliminate the mosquito
hazard.
The day’s program Wednesday con-
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g
Rehearsals for
Elks Minstrels
Began Wednesday
Johnson, for the use of the furniture ed
Scouts Clean Vacant Dots as Their
“Good Turn” for Mercedes on
Wednesday—Start Day With
Flag Raising at School
Grounds
Boys of South Palm Gardens School
Give Program Before Rotary
Club Tuesday — School
Ranks Highest in
County
the people of that expense General
Jardwin has ordered Colonel Schley
to make a special survey to ascertain
February 14th is
VALENTINE DAY
See our stock of Valentines
and Valentine Cards
"HOMETOWN HEHRY" (S WHAT
MY FRIENDS CALL ME BECAUSE
I ALWAYS HAVE A GOOP WORD FOR
THE "IOWH I LIVE IM • I AM PROUD
OF THAT MAME, I TRY TO UVE
UP TO IT AMD WHEH I PASS OM,
I WAHT THEM TO CARVE OM MY
MARBLE MOHUMENT THESE
WORDS, " HE ALWAS STUCK
UP FOR HIS HOME TOWN."
Secures Building Now Occupied by
The Vogue. — Will Carry Com-
plete Line of Furniture—See
Good Future For
Mercedes
A second entrance, facing Second '
St. will be built in the space between ■
the Texas Ave. entrance and the pres- 1
ent Second St. entrance, which will
be closed in for show windows.
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La Feria Lions
Plan Frolics of
Twenty Eight
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Presbyterian
Services End
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Mercedes Long
Staple Cotton
Brings Premium
"City Beautiful” Contest Is
Announced for 2nd Year by
B P Club; Many Prize Awards
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Roman-Talbert to
Feature a Display
Of Farm Equipment
army board in Washington in Decem-
ber.
Relative to the maintenance of the
(Continued on page 12.)
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Borderland Plans
Improvements for
7684
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Mrs. Clark's Father
Dies Monday Night
Definite assurances that the federal
government will complete the 18-foot
harbor at Point Isabel were received
in Brownsville Monday morning in a
telegram from Congressman John N.
LEGION WILL BUILD-
CLUB HOUSE; QUEEN
CITY ANNEX IS SITE
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CITRUS FRUIT
PRICES BRING
GOOD RETURNS
The second annual Valley short
course will be held in Mercedes this
year, according to a preliminary an-
nouncement by the Valley committee
in charge of the event, working in
conjunction with officials of the Ex-
this (
of
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ville Herald, Garner’s wire was
follows:
“Chief of engineers decided 1
morning that he had authority
I home demonstration clubs of Cam-
I eron and Hidalgo counties.
! Because of the spreading interest
in poultry growing in the Valley, an
entire day of the short course will
Spring is Here
Time to plant Flower Seeds.
We have a good stock of
Ferry’s Seeds
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HISTORY OF RURAL
The “Frolics of 1928”, staged by
the Lions Club of La Feria and Har-
lingen, will have its La Feria show-
ing at the Dukedun Theatre on the
ug-
CITRUS AND POULTRY WILL BE
GIVEN SPECIAL ATTENTION —
ATTENDANCE IS EXPECTED TO
SURPASS THAT OF LAST YEAR.
cost of maintenance. This report known as Citrus Day at the short
should be made at the earliest pos-course. The day’s program will in-
sible moment so I can get item in the . clude a tour of the Valley Experi-
river and harbors bill relieving peo-ment Station between Weslaco and
ple of maintenance charge.” Mercedes and a discussion of the ex-
The action of the chief of the en-
gineers fully complies with the re-
piovided, according to Mr. which they are particularly interest-
With the advent of spring, and the
accompanying revival of interest in
lawns, flowers and all kinds of plant
life, the Business and Professional
Women’s Club of Mercedes announ-
ces its second annual “City Beauti-
ful” contest, with prizes in the var-
ious classes of competition amount-
ing to hundreds of dollars, the de-
tailed list of which will be made pub-
lic next week.
An unusual amount of interest was
created by the contest staged by the
club last year, and exceptional co-
operation is being shown by residents
of the city and all business interests,
according to Miss Mary Anne Makens,
in charge of the contest. Numerous
calls have been made since the first
of the year for services of Stanley
Crockett, who is giving landscape ad-
vice to all entrants in the contest,
and from all indications, Miss Makens
reports, there will be literally hun-
dreds of contestants who will enter
the competition this year.
A premium of from 10c to 12c a
pound is being offered on the New
Orleans market for Mercedes Long
Staple Cotton over ordinary cotton,
according to A. W. Miller, who has
several bales in the hands of John M.
Parker & Co. The bales of Mercedes
Long Staple were quoted at 30c to
32c per lb. when the market was
paying 20c and 20%c for the ordi-
building is not large enough to afford
room for a large stock, the Mercedes
stock will be supplemented by the
large stocks of the Brownsville and
McAllen stores, according to Mr.
Edelstein.
An increased number of customers
from the Mercedes community, and a
quests of the port committee which ' demonstrations of citrus preserva-
..... - - .. ’ - a thetion work carried out by members of
week. The day previous the scouts
„„ tension Service of Texas A. & M. Col-
d S I
ilege. March 13, 14 and 15 are the
1 tension Service will be on hand to
' make suggestions, answer questions,
' and offer advice in community hand-
! linug of projects.
Wednesday, March 14, will be
Charles R. Morrison, aged 50, died
Monday night at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. L. A. Clark, at her
home in Palm Heights, resulting from
a stroke of paralysis.
Mr. Morrison came to Mercedes
from California about eight months
ago to make his home with his
daughter. The body was shipped to
Dennison, the family home, for bur-
ial. Besides his daughter Mr. Mor-
rison leaves one son, James R. Mor-
rison of Oklahoma.
Rehearsals for the Elks minstrels
which will be given in Mercedes on
the night of February 20 and 21 be-
gan on Wednesday night of this week,
directed by Miss Fern Helscher, rep-
resenting Jimmie Holmes, manager
of the show. A cast of more than
sixty men and women will be used in
the performance, Miss Helscher stat-
ed, and special costumes will be used
which have been secured from New
York City.
Black face comedians will be a fea-
ture of the minstrel, and a chorus of
35 men and girls will furnish a de-
lightful background for the musical
numbers.
Proceeds of the performance will
be devoted to the Mercedes General
Hospital.
Services conducted for ten days at
the Mercedes Presbyterian Church
closed last Thursday night, a total of
19 persons joining the local church
as a result of the meetings. Rev.
James F. Hardie of Houston, pastor
of the Second Presbyterian Church
of that city conducted the meetings,
and made a deep impression on all
who heard him.
Dr. Hardie has already been re-
quested by the local church to return
next year for a series of meetings,
according to Rev. C. P. Owen, pas-
tor of the church.
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OLD STUART PLACE
TO BE DEVELOPED
Miss Mildred Bridges of Fort Worth
has bought the old Stuart place on
Mile 2, and will improve it With mod-
: ern buildings and a citrus orchard.
One ance of the birthday of the organiza-
tion being carried out all of this
“Better Farm Week,” with its at-
tendant slogan, “Good equipment
makes a good farmer better,” will be
observed all of next week by the
Roman-Talbert Implement Co., Inter-
national Harvester Co. dealers in
Mercedes. A complete line of farm
machinery, especially adapted to the
uses of Valley farmers will be on dis-
play all of the week by the company,
and members of the firm will be on
hand to explain the uses to which the
various pieces of machinery can be
put.
“The trend of the times in farm
machinery manufacture is to give the
farmer every possible help in reduc-
ing his farm overhead,” according to
Oscar Roman, “and all of the Inter-
national line is designed to cut down
labor and other costs.” Experts from
the international factories have spent
months in the Valley studying the
problems of Valley farmers, and the
results of their investigations show in
the machines they have designed for
Valley farmers.
THREE MORE SCOUT TROOPS
NEEDED AT ONCE, SAYS PO-
TEET IN OUTLINING WORK OF
BOY SCOUT COUNCIL FOR COM-
ING YEAR — OFFICIALS ARE
ELECTED.
practical information and answer
the men. The women will observe
Farmers of the Valley are exper-
iencing the result of over-production
this year in the low prices brought by
their vegetable crops. For years it
has been the custom to blame the
buyers when the oversupply could not
be sold by the grower. Happily the
growers themselves, through their
own co-operative associations, realize
this year that over-production, and
nothing else, is responsible for the
low prices being received.
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On the other hand, the saturation
point in citrus fruit products seems
to be a long way off. Right ow cit-
rus growers are receiving higher
prices for their fruit than have pre-
vailed since the first weeks of the
season when the unusual premium
for the first fruit of the season was
being paid.. And, at the same time,
every effort is being made to extend
our citrus market, especially that for
grapefruit, to foreign countries.
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The Mercedes News, boosting the
“trade at home” theme among local
merchants, proudly displays a sign on
the main highway of Mercedes, adver-
tising the construction of its new
$20,000 home. Of the eight firms
whose names, are blazoned forth as
participating in the construction, six,
including the general contractor, are
from Harlingen, one from San Be-
nito and one from Mercedes. Even
the lumber and other building mater-
ials are shipped from Harlingen—
but—YOU should buy at home.
With 45 boys of Boy Scout age en-
rolled in the three Boy Scout troops
of Mercedes, there is an immediate
demand for at least three additional
troops in this city, according to E. H.
Poteet, who on Tuesday night was re-
elected chairman of the Mercedes
Boy Scout Council. Formation of new
troops was pointed out by Mr. Poteet
and other members of the council as
being the main objective for the com-
ing year in scout circdes. The three
troops now existing are sponsored by
the American Legion, the Kiwanis
Club and the Christian Church, and
other organizations will be urged to
undertake the organization of troops.
Eighteen of the scouts are enrolled
in the Legion troop, 16 in the Chris-
tian Church and 11 in the Kiwanis
troops, W. Edward Perry reported.
Of this number, 2 are first-class
scouts, 7 are second class, and the re-
mainder have all passed the tender-
foota tests.
The first year of organized Boy
Scout work has made its influence
felt, Mr. oPteet stated, saying that it
was a rare thing for the school au-
thorities to ever have any question
with any member of a Boy Scout
troop.
Plans for the observance of the
Boy Scout anniversary being carried
out this week were outlined by W. Ed
Perry.
Officers of the scout council elect-
ed for the coming year were: E. H.
Poteet, re-elected chairman of the
council; James Howze, re-elected
chairman of the Court of Honor cim-
mittee; Fred Johnston, finance; O.
E. Van Berg, leadership and training
and George Commons, camping ac-
tivities.
The Mercedes City Beautiful con-
test is being sponsored by the Busi-
ness and Professional Women’s Club
in co-operation with the Chamber of
Commerce and the City of Mercedes.
It is the desire of the club that every
lot in Mercedes, both north and
south of the track, will be entered
in the contest. It is to be remem-
bered that there is no obligation tak-
en at entrance. Anyone may drop
out of the contest at any time.
Chances are as great on lawns about
humble shacks as lawns graced with,
mansions. Prizes are to be given
strictly in accordance with the points
mentioned below.
Judging of Lawns in Contest
The lawns entered in the contest
are to be judged b‘y out-of-town
landscape gardeners and nurserymen
on the following points, general ap-
pearance, 25; arrangement of trees
and palms, 15; arrangement of
flowers and shrubs, 15; parkway and
sidewalks or general appearance if
(Continued on page 4.)
“The test of the pudding is in the
eating,” and judged by that standard,
the interest shown in the second an-
nual “City Beautiful” campaign is
proof conclusive that the campaign
conducted last year by the Business
and Professional Women’s Club was
a decided success. Certainly such a
campaign, having for its object a
more beautiful city of more beautiful
homes should appeal to every resi-
dent of Mercedes from the standpoint
of civic pride, to say nothing of the
pride of the individual who surrounds
his home with beautiful flowers and
plants.
law to complete the Brazos Santiago
project, including dredging of a com-
pleted inner channel. He also de-
cided that the people in that territory
would have to maintain the inner
channel. With a view of relieving
The South Palm Gardens School
ranks highest among the rural
schools of Hidalgo County, Le Roy
Edwards told members of the Merce-
des Rotary Club at its Tuesday
luncheon, and is the only rural school
in the county to be accredited by the
state department of education. The
local school passed 844 points out of
a possible 1,000, LeRoy stated, 800
points being necessary to satisfy the
requirements of the state.
The barn of T. R. Riggs housed
the first South Palm Gardens school,
according to Le Roy, bonds being
voted for the present school build-
ing in 1921. The common school
district in which the school is located
comprises 10,080 acres, and has a
present assessed valuation of $1,044,-
048 as compared with a valuation of
$64,300 in 1922.
In addition to LeRoy, Charles
Beauchamp, Myron Potts and Stuart
Lentz represented the school, under
the supervision of Miss Lillian Hess.
Songs and stunts given by the boys
proved most entertaining.
COMMUNITY DAY IS
OBSERVED BY SCOUTS
home demonstration clubs, or even
farmers or farm women.
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Already scores of calls have been
made for the services of Stanley
Crockett, landscape expert, who is
acting for the club, and new homes
will be surrounded by artistic
grounds as a result of the interest
achieved last year. New features of
the campaign being introduced this
year will be explained through the
press as the contest progresses, and
detailed information will be con-
tained in a pamphlet to be issued by
the club. •
Better than average prices are be-
ing secured for Valley citrus fruit
as the end of the season nears, ac-
cording to local orchardists. As
high as 3c on the trees is being of-
fered for the fruit remaining, and
citrus growers are disposing of even
the smaller sizes at that price.
According to the regulations of the
limited quarantine q established
against Valley citrus, no fruit will be
allowed to remain on the trees after
March 1st, and the season will prac-
tically end by that date.
“r
Mercedes Building of persons in attendance
• - | This year s short course is expect-
! ed to attract a much larger group of
Improvements to the exterior of visitors than attended the event a
firm faith in the business future of i the Borderland Hardware Co. build- year ago when about three hundred eluded with a brief ceremony in the
Mercedes, led to the decision to opening in Mercedes are planned for the men and women gleaned instruction city park at 8:15 p. m. when all
very near future, according to E. E. from the three-day series. I scouts of the city assembled and re-
Johnson, vice-president of the com- Anyone interested may attend the newed their Boy Scout oath, taken
pany. Additional show windows are ’ entire short course, or sessions in when they first joined the organiza-
to be piovided, according to Mr. which thov are nartienlarlv intorast- tion.
Special services for the Boy Scouts
will be held in all churches Sunday,
when the week’s anniversary observ-
ance will close. All scouts will at-
tend their respective churches on that
day.
EXPECT CONSTRUCTION T O
START IN NEAR FUTURE—REC-
ORD CROWD AT MEETING UN-
ANIMOUS IN FAVOR OF AC-
CEPTING GIFT OF HARRY LAW-
SON.
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The president of the marketing as-
sociation of New York, speaking last
week, said in effect that farmers of
the country were making a serious
mistake when they planted the limit
of their acreage, loaded the resulting
crops on trains, shipped them to the
big market centers of the country in
superfluous amounts, and then
blamed the jobber and the other mid-
dlemen when these agencies could
not sell their produce. The fatal er-
ror, said he, was made when the
huge acreage was planted, for no one
can repeal the law of supply and de-
mand, and an overproduction will
bring consequent low prices as surely
as the sun sets.
i day/school. Specialists from the Ex-
Establishment of a branch furni-
ture store in Mercedes within the
nevt sixty days was announced this
morning by M. Edelstein of Edel-
stein’s of Brownsville and McAllen.
A lease of the building now occupied
by The Vogue has been secured from
L. Champion, Mr. Edelstein stated,
and possession will be given as soon
as the Vogue moves into its new
quarters in the Wattson building now
nearing completion.
A- complete line of furniture will
be carried in the Mercedes store, Mr.
Edelstein stated. Although the
night of February 14, according to J.
F. George of the La Feria Club. The
musical comedy played to a packed
house atHarlingen, and turned away
more than 500 persons from the Ri-
voli at San Benito when it played
there.
nary varieties.
The Mercedes Long Staple was de-
veloped by Dr. E. L. Rothrock and
Mr. Miller from seed originally
brought to the Valley from Oklaho-
ma, and has brought a substantial
premium each year. This year, for
the first time, a limited amount of
I seed is being offered for sale.
V
<g22.
On motion of Ralph Buell, second- |
ed by Walter Collier, the Mercedes j
Post of the American Legion last Fri-
day night voted unanimously to ac-
cept the gift of two lots in the Queen
City Annex offered by Harry J. Law-
son as a building site. A building
committee of five, as provided in
Buell's motion, was appointed by H.
E. Sugg, post commander, as follows:
W. J. Copeland, chairman; R. R. Tal-
bert, Harry Rouse, R. C. H. Bigden
and J. H. Mellon:
No opposition to the acceptance of
Mr. Lawson’s gift was expressed at
the meeting. An effort to put before
the post a proposal of J. A. Chapman
to give the Legion an acre of
ground as a building site was ruled
out of order by Sugg when J. M.
Reynolds attempted to introduce the
offer in a discussion of the motion to
accept the Lawson proposal. Follow-
ing the favorable vote on the Lawson
proposition, the Chapman proposal
was submitted to the post, and
brought a vote of thanks.
Preliminary plans of the new club
house are expected to be submitted ।
to the post by the building committee
at the next meeting. According to
Post Commander Sugg, all material
used in the building will be furnished
the post at cost by the American
Company, and other concessions from
contractors and material men are ex-
pected to be made.
No business other than the build-
ing proposition was discussed at the
Legion meeting, which was attended
by 75 Legionnaires, the largest num-
ber ever to attend a meeting of the
Mercedes post.
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EDELSTEIN’S WILL
OPEN AT MERCEDES
SURVEY ASKED ON COST OF
MAINTENANCE OF INNER CHAN- <
NEL—GOVERNMENT MAY AS-
SUME THAT EXPENSE — GAR-
NER WIRES BROWNSVILLE OF
SUCCESS.
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