Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, June 24, 1921 Page: 2 of 10
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WHAT THEY THINK OF THE VALLEY
Members of the Texas Press Association Who Were With
iTs Last Week, Write Their Impressions of the Country
At 4:00 o’clock adjournment was
'voted and the entire assemblage was
-escorted to autos in waiting for the
-drive of 25 miles to Mercedes, tbiu
the new and thriving towns of Pharr,
San Juan, Alamo, Weslaco and Don-
na. Mercedes is a city beautiful of
3414 population and made merry tor
•our visit. A reception was held in
the spacious plaza which is beautiful
'with imposing palms and other semi-
tropical growths. As the guests of
this city of liberal and progressive
-citizens we were given a banquet and
'reception at the Stewart Club House
on Llano Grande Lake-side, the din-
ner consisting of the following menu
served to music by the beautiful
light-footed, nimble girls of the Val-
ley familiarly referred to m die
"vernacular of the day as chickens,
Menu—Valley grapefruit cocktail;
friend spring chicken, escalloped corn
mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, Par-
kerhouse rolls, jelly, ice ceram, cake-
coffee, cigars, cigarettes.—Sealy
News.
advertised reputation upon this oc-
casion.—Kingsville Record.
We have not been asked what we
did in the Valley but what we saw.
We have been pressed for time since
our return but will have much to say
later because a visit to the Valley is
productive of thought. This much we
will say now: Had the editors on
viewing the Valley given unrestrained
utterance to their impressions, they
would, like the soldiers of Cortez,
have exclaimed, “It is the promised
land.” A true description of the
Magic Valley is difficult because by
words alone we must lead our readers
up to a conception of it. There is
nothing in the experience of most
people to compare it with in order
to present more easily its wonders.
We will have some things to say in
subsequent issues.—Lockhart Post-
Register.
Editors to Mercedes.
Friday’s session of the Association
over, the editors were taken in auto-
mobiles to Mercedes, twenty-five
miles -east of McAllen. After a
drive around town, cars were stopped
at the Stewart Club House, where a
-chicken dinner was served and. a
flow of wit and humor enjoyed. The
Association numbers among its mem-
Ifoors some of the best humorists oi
The country, and they are equal to
any occasion. The women of Mer-
cedes are not only good cooks, but
artists when it comes to decorating,
land are the mothers of the finest look-
ing daughters we encountered while
In the Valley. The young ladies
.-served as waitresses, and we got a
number of “close ups. ’ We know a
■pretty girl when we see one- and we
also know when they have smeared
on itoo much paint and powder.
These girls were not guilty.—Deport
Times.
Farmers Co-operate.
Another thing that stuck out like
sa sore thumb' is the co-operation of
the farmer and ithe business man. The
tiller of the soil is a member of the
‘commercial or community club, and
jpays his dues monthly. He is as
much interested in the development
of the town as- the resident thereof,
because he realizes that the growth
of the town means the development
of his community. We venture the
assertion that the mail order houses
find slim pickings in the Valley. Those
farmers will walk up to a visitor
introduce themselves and give him
any information he desires. They
are live wires without a knocker
among them.—Deport Times.
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The Donna News in commenting on
"the entertainment at the Club House
says that Mercedes “did herself proud
and such a wonderful feed and the
\inique dedication was never before
carried out to such a success. The
flowers ,macle from vegetables was
one of the features of the evening
"that the visitors will never forget.
Even Lewis wore a flower made of
squash and carrots and wore an
American Beauty rose cut from a
beet. That dinner was great; it was
•good and plenty of it. The speech-
making was juSit right and in all
Mercedes saved the day.”
Possibilities of Valley.
I would like to write a long piece
about the possibilities of the lower
Rio Grande. Irrigation, of course,
is what makes the Magic Valley
magical. The soil is endlessly rich,
apparently and the climate makes
crops run races with each other. All
that is necessary is an abundant, un-
failing and economical water supply.
They already have done much and
they mean to better their water re-
sources. The Rio Grande goes rolling
up ceaselessly, but what they hope to
do is to impound the winter flood wa-
ters and inaugurate gravity irriga-
tion. The pump avails much, but
gravity would avail more. Of course
they have many beautiful citrus
groves, their-grapefruit being partic-
ular noted.
Also they can and do raise an in-
computable amount of cabbages and
various winter vegetables, sometimes
more than they can market. For my
part I know little of fancy farming,
but when it comes to the sordid bus-
iness of raising corn and cotton my
efficiency is 100 per cent plus. Be-
ing a materialist and rather gross
in my idealism. I take small note of
the refinements of civilization. I
have no eye for the beautiful, no nose
for the sweet. The rarest flowers
might spread their thousand delica-
cies in a panorama at my feet with-
out attracting my vision or assailing
my senses with their perfume. The
most radient of members of the fair
sex, the gurgling college girls, the
sprightly debutantes, the stately ma-
trons might pass in continuous pro-
cession before me without winning
the tribute of a glance from my pre-
occupied optics. But the minute you
get seventy- five-bushels-tp-the-acre
corn and bale-to-ithe-acre cotton in
fields alongside the road I travel I
am all agog with rapture. This kind
of corn and this kind of cotton I saw
for miles along the • roadway up the
Valley. The fields may not have been
very wide, but they were long. The
cotton and the corn are there. I can
not speak of the rest of it, for lack
of knowledge, but I repeat that their
cotton and their corn can not be sur-
passed.—J. J. Taylor in the Galveston
News.
The thing in the Magic Valley
which impressed us more than the
Wonderful fertility of the region, wa,s
the splendid and up-to-date school
houses of all the Valley cities. Ed-
ucation is almost a religion with the
Valley people. And to merely see the
"numbers, the beauty - and brightness
of the Valley children makes one
understand the universal desire to
give them every opportunity in life.
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Every editor who picked oranges,
lemons and grapefruit from the trees
in the Magic Valley, who saw corn-
stalks 10 feet high and laden with
ears, who saw . land which was a
desert seven years Ago "now covered
with bearing orchards of citrus fruits,
is beginning to realize the wonderful
possibilities of his state—rich in soil,
rich in minerals,' rich in cotton, and
with a Valley more fertile than the
Valley of the Nile.
On the downward trip only a brief
stop was made at Mercedes, but Fri-
day night the ,party was taken by
automobile from McAllen to Mercedes
where a banqueef .was served. It
was one of the. most enjoyable fea-
tures of the trip.
Purl-Saladino.
A marriage of interest to the com-
urday evening- June 18, at seven
o’clock when Miss Zora Purl and
Charles Saladino, both of Mercedes,
were married by ithe Rev. H. L. Du-
pree. Judge L. T. Hoyt and James
Howze were the only witnesses.
The bridal couple left Mercedes
Monday afternoon for an extended
honeymoon. They will spend a week
or so at Galveston, proceeding from
that city by boat to the groom’s for-
mer home in New York City. From
New York they expect to make many
trips throughout the New England
section, returning to Mercedes in the
course of two or three months.
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Wednesday Afternoon Bridge
The Wednesday Afternoon Bridge
Club was delightfully entertained
having as hostess Mrs. T. Fuller at
her quarters at Camp Mercedes.
Four tables made up the players
for Auction Bridge in which Mrs.
W. F. Powell made high score.
Lovely cut flowers added to the
occasion and after the games a most
tempting course of refreshments were
served.
The players included Mesdames R.
H. Kern, W. G. Garrison. R. E. Lee,
R. A. Trufant, W. F. Powell, Childs.,
P. J. Dowling, E. E. Evans, Rundel,
Dawson, Misses Mable Warren and
Ella Saunders.
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Thursday Afternoon Bridge.
Mrs. R. It* Barton was a delight-
ful hostess to the Thursday After-
noon Bridge Club at her country
home. The drive was most enjoy-
able and soon after arrival the in-
teresting games of Auction Bridge
were begun.
Mrs. H. E. Hager was awarded the
club favor- a dainty bud vase, and
Mrs. Wj T. Malone received the guest
favor, a pretty hat brush.
After the cards were put away
a delicious plate luncheon was served
to the following: Mesdames C. C.
Lockett, L.. T. Hoyt, Fred Warren,
E. E. Evans, N. P. Barton, H. E.
Hager, Rita Ferguson, James Ander-
son, H. J. Menton, R. M. Winn, R.
B. Hadden, A.-B. Scott, W. T. Malone,
R. H. Kern, Warner, Miss Mable War*
ren.
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Just We Neighbors Club.
Mrs. Fleet Lentz was hostess to the
Just We Neighbors Club Thursday af-
ternoon at her country home, “New
Eden,” in South Palm Gardens. The
study in Spanish and needle work
occupied the greater part of the af-
ternoon.
Mrs. Carl Rogers of San Antonio
was a guest.
- As evening approached the needle
work was laid aside and tempting re-
freshments were served.
The ladies present included Mes-
dames J. Bixler, A. E. Darlington, L.
J Hartzell, H. Marliere, Geo. Morri-
son. S. P. Nichols, J. C. Potts, O. E.
Ridenour, T. R. Riggs, Alden Wade,
S. O. Welch, Willie Siler, M, M. Green-
wood, Levi Greenwood, H. L. Schmal-
zried, Misses Cleo and Hazel Darling-
ton.
The club meets next with Mrs. T.
R. Riggs.
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Birthday Party
Emerson invited
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YOU CAN’T
GO ALONG
spending all you make and expect to get ahead. IT
CANT BE DONE.
But if you will practice a little economy and put
some money in the bank each pay day, there is
nothing can stop you from becoming wealthy.
Come into our Bank and open an Account and
add to it regularly.
WE WILL WELCOME YOU.
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Bank of Commerce & Trust Gj
GUARANTY FOND BANK. MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Texas Ave. at Third Street, Mercedes, T<
TO THE PUBLIC.—Monday, July 4th, being a legal holiday,
this bank will not be open for business.
Marie
a few
their husbands met Friday evening
June 17, with Mr. and Mrs. Hevn and
I spent a very enjoyable evening. Miss
! Kelly came down Worn Edinburg and
j brought with her Miss Ponder, Red
! Cross Nurse and Dr. Carrick State
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Since I have returned from the Rio
Grande Valley I have been asked a
hundred times, if once: “Isn’t the
Valley broke?” The Valley is not
broke. The Valley is far from broke.
There is financial depression there
just now, as there is everywhere. The
situation there is no tenser than else-
where. This condition is merely tem-
porary there, as elsewhere.
No community will ever go broke
as long as the citizenry is imbued
with the spirit wlych prevails in the'
Valley. As long as there is co-opera-
tion. belief in one’s community and
civic pride there is no .breaking.
Things may perforce slow.up, bu,t
in- time the old momentum will .re-
turn and lost ground will be covered
in a jiffy.—San Antonio Express.
with her Wednesday, June 15th, in
honor of her thirteenth birthday. The
afternoon quickly passed with fa-
vored games and music. Later in the
evening, refreshments were served
including a lovely birthday cake on
which were thirteen candles.
Those enjoying the afternoon wer
Barbara Hoyt, Betty Williams, Ruth
Carmean, Mary Francis Haynes, Sa-
rah Haynes, Faustina Heidhriek.
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The ladies of the A. A. I. Club and
fifteen lessons on home nursing to
a class of twenty ladies of the club
or any one else wishing to join, pro-
viding we have the required number
by our next meeting. Dr. Carrick
gave some valuable information along
the lines of home sanitation, purifi-
cation of drinking water, prevention
of disease, etc There were several
very welcome visitors present. The
next meeting will be with Mrs. Per-
ish at the home of Mrs. Ward
north of the Perish home,
east, July 1st.
STRUCTURAL STEEL
REINFORCING STEEL
Castings and Machine Work of All Kn
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MODERN HOUSEWIFE ! /
Mercedes has found a use for car-
rots. The deft fingers of the charm-
ing girls of Mercedes have learned
to transform carrots into beautiful
; artificial flowers.—Judd Mortimer
Lewis in Houston Chronicle.
We are not yet through with thank-
fug the McAlenites and the Merce-
desians and all the rest for their
goodness to us. We shall think of
them gratefully every morning when
we sit down to our breakfast cab-
bage and our early roasting ears—
Joe Taylor in Galveston News.
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SCEPTICAL OF
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
After the afternoon business ses-
sion was held, the visitors were given
an automobile ride to the Stewart
dub House near Mercedes, where one
of the best chicken dinners we have
ever eaten was served. The ladies of
.Mercedes certainly deserve much
credit for the manner in which they
prepared and served this sumptu-
ous meal. The tasty manner in which
this meal was served could not be
surpassed by any of the leading hotels
ref the cities. After the dinner at the
Stewart 'Club House the visitors were j
carried to Mercedes where they en-
joyed the music by the band at the
ci,ty park.—Polk County Enterprise.
Tennis Courts Being Built
Under the supervision of H .C.
Sampson, tennis courts are being
layed out and will scon be built on
the vacant lot east of the Empire
Theatre. The courts are being built
by popular subscription, and any
one interested may communicate with
Miss Annis H. Jones for further par-
ticulars.
FINDS VITAMINES TO BE THE
GREATEST FOOD NEWS OF
THE AGE
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Some Impressions of tlie Valley Gain-
ed by Members of the Press.
The night was turned over to the
•city of Mercedes—Queen City of the
Rio Grande Valleev—at which time
the most elaborate spread of the en-
tire three days was enjoyed at Stew-
art Club House, the banquet being
prepared, mainly, by chefs from the
Mercedes military post. The ladies
of Mercedes had gone to unusual
trouble in the preparation of this
feast, all products ref the Valley be-
ing featured in some form, with veg-
etables' cut in the shape of many
flowers as souvenirs to be carried
home by the visitors. Mercedes is
one of the brag cities of ■ the Rio
Grande Valley and lived up ,to a well
Church Auxiliaries.
..The different church, auxiliaries
did not meet Tuesday afternoon on
account of the rain.
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As a general thing, when a man
thinks he has a strong will his wife
calls it mulishness.—Ex.
The modern housekeeper is the original
“woman from Missouri.” She has to be
‘‘shown” at every turn of the road, and1
she is frankly skeptical of so-called discov-
eries in the realm of kitchendom until she
has found for herself that they are reali-
ties, and not the vaporings of some special
writer’s mind.
That was one of the reasons why ‘‘vita-
mines” and the things that the -word stands
for did not become quickly popular when
their disevovery was first announced about
eighteen months ago. Since that time the
experiments of many food specialists and
the results which they have achieved has
removed alt doubt that “vitamines” is the
answer to the questions that she has often
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asked why some foods made her children
grow and others, did not.
“Vitamines” is the name given
the property which
NEW PRICES!
Hemstiching
and Picoting
10 and 12c per yard.
Wc Furnish The Thread.
BROWN’S
Wc Do Accordion Pleating
by sci- j
elitists to the property which some few'
foods possess which makes children grow
and grown folks feel better. It has been j
definitely determined that children must be j
fed foods containing this property in con- j
siderable measure if they are to attain nor- |
mal growth All other food propertied may
he present, but if this one property is |
lacking, growth is not normal.
“Vitamines” are contained in consider- |
able quantities in two foods only, butter |
and the yellow parts of eggs. C.reamery j
butter provides a delicious source of this [
life-giving, growth-promoting property. In j
addition, it contains all of the other food ,
properties in such measure as to make one |
pound of butter the equal of forty eggs or
four pounds of beef steak. ,,
The housekeeper who uses creamery but-
ter a-plenty in her kitchen, as well as on
her table, is giving her family the utmost
in good nourishing food at the lowest
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and flavor. Purity and
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Holland, W. D. & Buell, Ralph L. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, June 24, 1921, newspaper, June 24, 1921; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth637819/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.