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MEKCEDES TRIBUNE
PAGE ELEVEN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1928
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Pack, Market, Profit—Together
Texas Citrus Fruit Growers Exchange
VICE IS FASTER—MORE ECONOMICAL
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Invitations
CALL-BY-NUMBER SERVICE is just like
making local calls. Don’t call the Long Dis-
tance’ operator. Just give the name of the
town and the number you want to your LO-
CAL operator—she will connect your num-
ber to meet me at the same time at
River restaurant.”
the feller
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dent of the junior class, a member of
Mood Hall Honor Council, sport edi-
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the Epworth League cabinet and stu-
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“The Texas Citrus Fruit Growers Exchange has
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RAYBURN BROWN IS MADE
EDITOR OF “MEGAPHONE”
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A letter or phone call will bring an Exchange representative who will be
glad to answer any questions you may care to ask and to explain the many
benefits you may gain by affiliation with this organization.
You will make no mistake by marketing your citrus fruits through the
Exchange. You may rely upon the experience gained in six years of suc-
cessful operation and upon the business judgment that has brought the
Exchange from its small beginning to the dominant factor in packing and
marketing Valley citrus fruit.
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Air circulation is necessary to properly pre-
serve food .. . and food preservation is health
preservation. Ice creates air circulation in your
refrigerator... preserving your food as well as
keeping it cold. No regulating is necessary
... just keep the box half to two-thirds full of
ice at all times and it will keep your foods
just right.
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Through it all, the Texas Citrus Fruit Growers Exchange has functioned
constantly in the interests of its members. It has grown and expanded
with the passing of the years. It has established a brand which is already
well and favorably known wherever Valley citrus fruits are marketed. It
has built well equipped, modem packing plants at stragetic points through-
out the Valley, and has built up a splendid surplus for further expansion
and advertising. It numbers among its members the oldest, most exper-
ienced and most successful citrus growers in the Valley and its board of
Directors is composed of men who have been associated from the very be-
ginning with sound, conservative development in the Valley.
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The last six years have been by no means easy. There were literally
thousands of problems crying for solution. Rapid development brought
an urgent need for an efficient marketing organization and it has been
necessary to keep pace with, and guide the unparalleled program of plant-
ing and production.
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Office in Gonzales Bldg., 102 Texas
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Six years ago .... long before the future of citrus in the Valley was as-
sured .... when only a few scattered groves were planted .... the Texas
Citrus Fruit Growers Exchange was formed. A small group of pioneer
grove owners associated themselves together, believing that such an or-
ganization could do much to foster the development of the industry, and
to standardize quality and marketing. Born with the industry itself, the
Texas Citrus Fruit Growers Exchange has ever been an active leader in
every phase of development and progress.
THIS NEW CALL-BY-NUMBER SER-
Yqur ice box also has high and low gears
... but they operate on the element of time
instead of power. It requires time to get your
ice box saturated with iced air.. . that's your
low gear and it consumes more ice. When you
get it thoroughly chilled you can shift to high
by keeping the box more than half full and
only a minimum amount of ice is needed...
you use a chilled ice box plus a little ice.
School Press Association. Last year
he was assistant editor of the Mega-
phone.
In addition to literary work in
Georgetown, he has won the Texas
Conference tennis doubles champion-
ship the past two years, he is presi-
fourth place in
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the grower. It always will.”
Six years ago, Valley citrus fruits were totally unknown in national mar-
kets. Growers themselves had little knowledge as to what varieties to
plant, how to care for the trees, to harvest the crop and to market it in the
most profitable manner. The problem was one of vast proportions; no
funds were available for research; no plants and equipment had been built;
experienced men were few; skeptics were many.
NOW .... Citrus development has covered the Valley as by magic.
Emerald groves, heavy laden with golden fruit dot the landscape in every
direction. The ultimate hope of every farmer . . . .every visitor . . . .
every business man is to own a producing citrus grove. Already fortunes
are being made, and it is almost a certainty that within only a few years
citrus fruits will return to the Valley more revenue than all other crops
combined.
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Rayburn Brown of Mercedes, at
one time editor of The Tiger, was
elected editor of the Megaphone,, a
weekly college paper of the South-
western University at Georgetown, of .
which he is a student.
Brown graduated from the Mer-
“Well, then,” said Simon Judd,
“how about him coinin’ to play cards
and stayin’ over night quite frequent,
Richard? If I was tryin’ to figger
this out I’d sort of say ‘John Drane
was a woman and she didn’t want it
known. If she didn’t want it known
she wouldn’t be havin’ a feller stay
over night much, especially if he
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He ain’t hardly able to stand it, he lived right here in town,
says. So he took some of the med-
He: “She won’t. I have invited
ber immediately. Numbers in every Valley
town may be obtained from one of the Con-
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solidated Telephone Directories. Rates are
25 per cent lower than Person-to-Person ser-
vice.
Lifting the load always requires more
power, that’s why your automobile is equipped
with low gears. These low gears enable you
to get your car rolling ... and of course con-
sume more gas. Once the car is rolling you
shift to high and only a minimum amount of
power is needed to keep it in motion ... you
use momentum plus a little power.
the chauffeur was sorry but he had
gone to bed and didn’t think he
could bear to get up.
“He says, Mist Brennan, how the
growth in his stomach got mighty
bad all-of-a-sudden-like a while back,
and he ain’ able to stand it. He
cedes High School two years ago; jg
during his editorship, The Tiger won ; 22
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AN ADVERTISEMENT'BY THE RIO GRANDE VALLEy-
TELEPHONE CO.
More and more members
of Valley society are now
using the telephone —
CALL - BY - NUMBER
service to answer invita-
tions . . . and when it is
necessary to send "re-
grets" it is easy to ex-
plain in a satisfactory
manner over the phone.
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considering this new idea. He did
not tell Simon Judd what he was
thinking but it was that if William
Dart was indeed John Drane’s wife
the last will and testament made by
John Drane might be of great im-
portance in solving the mystery, such
as it was, of the murder. If Drane
had made a will leaving everything
to Amy, as Amy Drane said Drane
had told her he would, William Dart
would have been foolish indeed to
kill Drane, but if the latest will left
a large sum to Dart and Dart feared
the making of a new will this might
be a reason for the murder of Drane
by Dart. Coupled with the flight of
the undertaker from the house on the
night of the murder this might all
mean something.
“You’re wrong, Richard,” Simon
Judd said, interrupting the detec-
tive’s thoughts.
“You’re thinking maybe this un-
dertaker feller murdered John
Drane, so-called.”
“How do you know what I was
thinking?”
(To be continued.)
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sort of show they was married. If
he was tryin’ to bulldoze her into
marryin’ him she wouldn’t want him
around would she?”
“You may be right,” said Brennan
thoughtfully. “And does your mind
tell you how long they had been mar-
ried?”
“Oh, pshaw, now, Richard,” Simon
Judd laughed. “You don’t want I
should have a head on me that could
tell you the day and date, do you?”
But Brennan was rubbing his chin,
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icine what he’s got and went to bed.
Yes, sir.”
“Well, what’s the rest of it? Bren-
nan asked. “I can see that’s not all;
you’ve got something else on your
mind.”
“I was only thinkin’. Mist Bren-
nan,” Norbert said, “that if he got a
pain or ain’ he got a pain’ it ain’
goin’ to be much use troublin’ George
right now. No, sir. Seems like he
been indulgin’ in alcoholic liquor to
a very considerable extent.”
“Drunk, is he?”
“He certainly has been indulgin’,”
Norbert said seriously. “I ain’ seen
a man what has indulged more com-
pletely fo’ quite some time. No, sir!”
“Well put George off for the pres-
ent then,” Brennan said. “Are there
any other servants I have not seen?”
“No, sir, ” Norbert assured him.
“We you has seen is all.”
“This George,” Brennan asked.
“What do you know about him, Nor-
bert?”
The negro told what he Knew.
Like the others George—who had the
odd name of Firmandick—had been
in John Drane’s service some little
time. He had been an orderly in the
hospital before coming to Drane and
had had an operation for a growth in
the stomach, but the .operation had
not been entirely successful — the
growth had returned. Dr. Blessing-
ton said, Norbert told Brennan, that
the growth was a serious matter and
would kill Firmandick some day if
there was not another operation, but
the chauffeur was set against anoth-
er.
The chauffeur, Nobert said, was
supposed by the servants in the house
to be engaged to marry Maggie, but
no one believed the marriage would
ever occur because they did not be-
lieve George would live to be mar-
ried.. He was too ill when his bad
spells came upon him. Norbert aald
he supposed George got his liquor
from some bootlegger; the servants
knew George usually had whiskey in
his room but the chauffeur seldom
drank it—only when the pain was
bad. Probably, Norbert said, Maggie
had got the whiskey from George,
but she should not drink. Dr. Bles-
sington said she had a mighty high
blood pressure and whiskey was dan-
gerous for her. He had scared her
good, Norbert said, when she had a
sort of stroke. The doctor told her
she was pretty sure to drop dead if
she took much whiskey.
When Norbert was gone Brennan
lighted a cigarette.
“It’s a queer bunch altogether,
Judd,” he said, but you’d be
amazed how many queer bunches
there are in this world if you
mixed around as I do. I see them
at their worst usually, when they
are keyed up by some catastrophe
and their eccentricities stick out
strong. I think my next job is to
talk to this man Dart, our undertaker
friend. He may not yield much but
we’ll get another angle on John
Drane. I have a notion Dart must
have known Drane was a woman.”
“Pshaw, now,” Simon Judd ex-
claimed, chuckling. You don’t mean
it, do you Dick? Why the old rascal!
A hairy old boy like him, seventy
years old if he is a day, hangin’
around this old lady like he was
tryin’ to be her husband!”
Brennan snapped his fingers.
“There’s an idea!” he said. “There
is a lead worth following! If this man
Dart discovered that Drane was a
woman he might very well try to
blackmail her into marrying him.
John Drane was a very rich person,
Judd. We may have the reason for
the murder there—Dart trying to
force Drane to marry him to avert
exposure.”
“Nope!” nothing like that Rich-
ard.”
“But why not, I’d like to know?"
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the fat man’s decided tone.
“Why, black my cats, Dick!” said
Simon Judd. “He couldn’t be wantin’
to marry her when he was marired to
her already, could he?”
“How do you make that out?”
Brennan wanted to know.
Simon Judd chuckled his reaving
chuckle again.
"I just sort of suspicion it,,,Rich-
ard,” he said. “Seems so to me, as
you may say. A feller don’t always
have to have reasons does he?”
“In my profession he does,” said
Brennan coldly. | ’
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Weimer, Charles B. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1928, newspaper, October 18, 1928; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1454105/m1/11/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.