Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 21, 1921 Page: 1 of 10
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MERCEDES, HIDALGO COUNTY, TEX., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21, 1921
NUMBER 45
REGISTERED COWS
PAY FOR THEMSELVES
Mercedes Dairymen Borrow Money
To Buy Registered Jersey Stock.
Liquidates Half of Original Cost
In Two Years From Offspring
Alone.
.That registered dairy stock is a
paying investment in the Rio Grande
Valley is evidenced by the experience
of R. F. Graham who has one of the
finest herd of Jersey cattle in the
Valley. Mr. Graham just two years
ago borrowed $2,400 from a local
bank with which to buy the herd
of ten registered Jersey cows from
the offspring alone of this fine herd,
he has already repaid half of the
original loan. In addition to this,
the returns from the sale of milk
has taken care of the interest as
well as the expenses of the farm.
Mr. Graham’s herd is of the “You’ll
E>o” and “Gamboges Knight” strains,
headed by Gamboges Knight of
Fawn Hill which was bought from
the King Ranch where he was
brought direct from the Island of
Jersey, the home of the Jersey cows.
Gambo ges*Knight is a half brother
to the sire, “Oxford (You’ll Do” which
took first prize at the Island of Jer-
sey in 1915 and first prize for him-
self and his get at London, Eng-
land the same year.
Gamboges Knight of Fawn Hill is
the property of the Mercedes Bull
Association which has headquarters
at Mr. Graham’s farm three miles
east of Mercedes and one mile south.
Also the property of this association
is a twelve months old bull which is
a grandson of Oxford Wexford Spot,
the Champion Imported Jersey of
Hasied, States, and Oxford You’ll
bulls as this young one
being one of the best
in the south, is also a
ridual, will be one of the
greatest factors in placing the dairy-
ing business in the Valley on a high-
er basis.
Notable is the fact that all of the
stock which Mr. Graham has sold
has been sold right at his farm to
other farmers in the Valley. There
are now three other herds in the
Valley headed with bulls of his rais-j
ing.
The high quality of milk from a
herd of this kind is due not alone to
the fact that these strains of stock
GRAMMAR SCHOOL GROUNDS
ARE BEING BEAUTIFIED
ides
Under the auspices of the Parent-
Teachers Association the grounds of
the Harriet Claycomb grammar school
are being subjected to a thorough
cleaning, men having been at work on
the grounds the greater part of last
week. It is the idea of the Parent-
Teachers Association to beautify the
grounds in the near future and to
plant, shade trees around the entire
block occupied by the school grounds
as sooff as money shall be available
for the purpose, it being estimated
that at least $100.00 will be necessary
for that purpose. Some trees have al-
ready been donated to the Association.
ROTARY GLOB HOST
TO FOOTBALL TEAM
The Mercedes High School Foot-
ball team was entertained at lunch-
eon Tuesday, by the Mercedes Rotary
Club. Following the luncheon, F. E.
Bennett addressed the team briefly
on the origin of Rotary and its inter-
national scope, stating that tho Ro-
tary has been in existence less than
twenty years," . there are now over
75,000 members.
Following this, talks were heard
from G. K. Wattson on the Rotary
Code of Ethics. R. F. Gribble on
“What Rotary Is Doing;” H. L
Schmalzreid on “The Place of ' Ath-
letics in Education,” and from Har-
old Wood, the past year’s Captain
and “Doc” Lewis the new captain.
SIXTH GRADE PUPIL WINS
PRIZE FOR BEST FIRM NAME
“Orange Grove Poultry Farm” is
the name which won for Lucile
Sparks of the sixth grade the five
dollar gold piece offered by N .F
Donelson for the best name for his
citrus fruit and fancy white leghorn
farm. The contest began last week
when Mr Donelson explained thatjhe
wished to select a name for his farm
from the names submitted by the
pupils of the Harriet Clapcomb
School, and that he would give a
five dollar gold piece to the one
giving the name chosen.
TO GALL ELECTION
FOR STREET PAVING
City Council Plans Improvement Of
Many Streets. —New Lights to
be Added Where Needed
EL JARDIN FARMERS BUY
POLAND CHINA GILTS
FROM MERCEDES FARMERS
have for ^generations been bred for
their production of milk and butter
fat but also to the consideration
HARRIET CLAYCOMB SCHOOL
SELLS 8239 X-MAS SEALS
given their health. They are tested
regularly to insure their being tu-j
berculosis free. All of Mr. Graham’s |
cows yield not less than three hun-
dred pounds of butter fat per year
each and some, have a vield of four
hundred pounds.
These figures compared with the,
average yield of butter fat per cow
in the United States of one one hun-
dred and fifty pounds, and one hun-
dred pounds in Texas shows how
much more profitable is a carefully
selected herd of Registered stock.
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MERCEDES BOY MAKING
GOOD IN COLLEGE ATHLETICS
The Harriet Claycomb School re-
ports the sale of 3239 Christmas
Seals, the greatest number sold bj
any one grade being 875 by the
fourth grade taught by Miss Free-
man. The third grade taught by
Miss Nutt was a close second with
a sale of 7$0, followed by the fifth
taught by Miss Glass with a sale of
• 500. Robert Buck o fthe fourth
grade made an individual record of
selling 305 seals.
The City Council Monday night or-
dered an election called for the lat-
ter part of January for The purpose
of voting $100,000 of bonds for the
construction of streets and addition-
al street lights in Mercedes. The
main street to be improved is that
which will connect with the County
Highway on the east and on the
west. The streets under consider-
ation, type of improvement to be de-
signed according to the traffic needs,
are Texas Avenue, from Fourth to
Tenth Street; Ohio Avenue, from
/Fourth to Tenth Street; Missouri
Avenue, from the railroad to Tenth
Street; Illinois Avenue, from Sec-
ond to Sixth Street; Texas Avenue,
from railroad north to Cameron
Streqt; Palm Heights, from Sixth to
Tenth Street; Tenth Street, from
Ohio< to Missouri Avenue; Sixth
Street, from Palm Heights Drive to
Missouri Avenue; Fourth Street,
from Texas Avenue to Oregon Ave-
nue; Third Street, from Texas to
Maryland Avenue; Second .Street,
from Ohio Avenue, east and north
and east to the city limits, and from
Texas to Washington Avenue.
In addition to taking care of the
above improvement and additional
street lights, the bond issue, if
passed, will take care of . the present
pavin gand" any who have paid their
assessments on same will be given
credit for the amoim'. In this way
the cost of the paving will be dis-
tributed, and none will be assessed
double which would otherwise be the
case.
The date o fthis election will be
set as soon as the proper blanks for
callin git have been received from
the Attorney General at Austin, and
will probably be the thirty-first of
January.
TRAFFIC ASSOCIATION
FORMEDBY SHIPPERS
James Bowie of San Benito Will Be
First Manager. Plan to Stabi-
lize Market.
James H. Cowan of Brownsville
was in Mercedes Monday to pur-
chase fifty of A. J. Wade’s Poland
China gilts for the Community
Breeding Association composed of
farmers on the El Jardin Tract.
The farmers on that tract are mak-
ing a specialty of Poland China hogs
and bought six gilts at the recent
Cameron County Fair from W. W.
Allen of Los Indios. These gilts
were sired by Yankee Boy which
was bought for ' $3,300 and is the
highest priced boar in. the Valley.
PLAN PERMANENT
CITRUS ASSOCIATION
To form a permanent Citrus
Growers’ Association for the entire
Valley is the object of the meeting
called for Thursday, December 29th,
at the Empire Theatre at one o’clock
in the afternoon by the committee
appointed at the preliminary meet-
ing held on .the 30th of last month.
The committee has plans formulated
for the establishment of an associa-
tion which they will place before
the meeting for their acceptance. It
is hoped to include all the Citrus
Growers in the Valley in this asso-
ciation.
NOTES MIST BE PAID
Valley Must Meet Its Obligations Or
Lose Ground Already Gained
Says O’Brien
HIGHWAY COMMISSION
GRANTSSUBSTANTIAL AID
FOR HIDALGO CO. ROADS
Commission Favorably Impressed
With County’s Road Building
Program—Initial Appropriation
of $300,000, with More to Come
In the Future
Expressing themselves as highly
pleased with the road building pro-
gram planned for Hidalgo County,
the State Highway Commission on
Tuesday of this week granted $300,-
000 State and Federal aid to the
county as an initial award on the
project of this county out of the this
year’s funds. When the Federal ap-
propriation for next year is avail-
able, it is expected that Hidalgo
County will be given additional help.
The Hidalgo County delegation
which appeared before the members
of the Highway Commission was
headed' by County Judge George P.
Brown, and included Commissioners
Evans, Brooks and Lipscomb, Drain-
age Engineer P. S. Perkins, County
Engineer P. S. Devine and Ralph L.
Buell. From the very outset of the
conference when Judge Brown stat-
ed that the county had voted bonds
to. the extent of one and a quarter
million dollars with which it ex-
next five years, and General Dawes
has included 100 millions a year for
the next two years in his. budget
covering that time. An appropria-
tion of this size would give the State
of Texas 6 million dollars a year of
Federal money for road building
purposes.
The type of road as outlined by
County Engineer Devine calls for a
hard surfaced road of the best type,
to be built according to Federal
specifications, from the Cameron
Couniy line to a point a little to the
west of Mission, and from Pharr to
Edinburg. From Mission to the
Starr County line, where the traffic
is not so great, it is proposed to
build a gravel road.
All three members of the commis-
sion in addition to Captain Fauntle-
roy and. Engineer Johnson of the
Federal Department and State Engi-
neer Windrow, were very enthusias-
tic over the program outlined by
pected to build the very best type ••-Judge Brown and Engineer Devine,
of road htat could be built, all
work to be done according to Feder-
al specifications, the interest and
willingness of the Commission to
That the public in general and es-
pecially those who subscribed to the
issue of second mortgage bonds of the
Rio Grande Railway is not alive to the ; help the county in its program was
seriousness of the situation is the. very evident.
opinion expressed by William T. Rur- Tim Judge told the Commission
nett, who was in Mercedes the latter ^ that to build the road as desired, ^the
part of last week endeavoring to make very limit in State and Federal aid
Word received from the athletic
authorities of Daniel Baker College at
Brownweod, Texas, states that Henry
Irby of Mercedes is making his mark
in athletics at that institution. Al-
though in his freshman year, he made ! Byers, Past Worthy Matron,
0. E. S. BANQUETS
AT BAPTIST CHURCH
The • Mercedes Chapter of ’he Or-
der of the Eastern Star entertained
their members Fridaywith a turkey
banquet in the basement of the Bap-
tist Church". About a hundred mem-
bers, including visitors from other
Valley cities were in attendance.
Speeches were made by Mrs. O.
E. Jones, Worthy Matron, Mrs.
and
a strong bid for the football team, and
is expected to show up well in coming
years. lie played several years on
high school teams before entering col-
, lege last fall.
CITY STREETS-
|EINS REPAIRED
Messers R. H. Kern and Fred
Wright. Responses were given by a
number of the visiting members of
the order.
The committee in charge of the ar-
rangements consisted of Mesdames
Powell, Hadden, Garrison and Kern.
For the purpose of enabling its
members to keep in better touch with
the markets to which Valley products
are being shipped and of rendering
helpful service in the marketing and
shipping ■ of its products, the Lower
Rio Grande Valley Traffic Association
has been formed with James C. Bowie,
president of the San Benito District
Chamber of Commerce as manager.
The membership of the Association is
made up of the • cash buyers and the
Growers Exchange, through its var-
ious member;-1 cooperative societies,the
Pharr cooperative alone not being a
member.
It is the purpose of the Association
through its traffic manager to keep
the* various shippers throughout the
Valley informed as to each days ship-
ments to each market, so that any
possibility of flooding any market may
be avoided. By means of cooperation
in shipping and packing methods and
more cooperation from the railroads
it is hoped that swifter and better .
transportation service may be obtain- 1S *ost at.the same time-
collection of notes given as payment
for the bend subscription.
According to Mr. Burnett, the rail-
road has on hand money enough to
meet drafts drawn upon it for goods
and material already purchased. It is
not in a position to pay the interest
charges on the first mortgage bonds,
or the taxes, both of which are now
due. The interest amounts to $3,000.-
00 and the taxes to $4,000.00. These
sums were allowed for in the estimate
of expenses and are covered by the
second mortgage bond issue of $191,-
000.00, of which approximately $38,-
000.00 is covered by notes now past
due and unpaid. Unless these notes
are retired in sufficient sums to pay
the interest charges immediately, the
Rio Grande Railway is back to the
place from whence it came, oblivion.
Mr. Burnett states that owing to the
present financial situation collections
are exceedingly hard, but that he be-
lieves that if the public could be awak-
ened to the extremity of the case, a
more general response would result.
If enough of the notes could be collect-
ed to care for the interest and tax
would be necessary. Chairman Hub-
bard of the Commission told the del-
egation that the State Highway
Commission ,was desirous of doing
everything in its power to aid this
county in its program of road build-
ing, but that sufficient money was
not at this time available to give
Hidalgo County the aid necessary.
He expressed the 1 opinion that if the
county would separate its work in-
to two or three projects that the
Commission would* be able to grant
them very nearly the maximum
amount of aid. With this end in
view, County Engineer Devine re-
vised his figures to cover a portion
of the contemplated work and met
with the Commission on Tuesday
when the initial $300,000 was grant-
ed as Federal aid to Hidalgo County
for building the best possible type of
road.
The Highway Commission stated
that considerable money from Fed-
eral appropriations was expected to
be available during the next five
years. A bill now before Congress
payments, the balance of the notes provides 100 millions a year for the
could be paid in the next sixty or1 -■. -f
TRUCK SHIPPED
situation became easier. If these notes j
are not collected, not only is the Rio ! F! 11R IN R PA WFFff
Grande Railway lost, but Deep Water I UUIIIIlU IHul 9vLLS\
The Finley Method Company have __________
been engaged in repairing the Tar-1 ^es j wee^ and
• . . ,, , ,, • announced that they would open a feed
via stieets in Mercedes, the pastj st0re at La Feria by the middle of this
week, filling up the many holes week. Mr. Myers has been one of
which have been worn and putting' t})e most prominent farmers on the
them in much better condition be-1 fe/™ Krcslcr
., ! bought cotton m the Valley for the
sides preventing much unnecessary, past three seasons.
wear which will always result from ! -o-
lack of timely repairs.
ed.
Seeing that cars of members of the
Association are properly iced, that
they are moved on time and attending
to claims as to the condition of the
cars upon arrival at destination will
form an important part of the service
which the Association will endeavor to
O. T. Myers and Lee Prosser form-! rAender' Xt is a;'no’™ed that while the
er residents of Pharr, were in Merce- j Association will not attempt in any
way to fix prices, yet it will try to see
MILL OPEN FEED
STORE AT LA FERIA
J SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SERVICES
The Sunday School of the Preshy-
Albert Kalbfleisch shipped the' terian Church will hold their Christ •
first solid car of grapefruit Monday. I mas exercises at the Church Satui ■
to Houston where he had advertised day night to which all are invited,
it for several days. Mr. Kalbfleisch I Sunday morning Rev. Gribble will
went along with the car and intends preach a Christmas sermon, tbe
superintending the marketing him- text to be, The Song of the Whole
selL 1 i Gospel.
that prices are such a level that there
will always be a demand for ti e pro-
ducts of the Valley because the price
is within the reach of the consumer.
The affairs of the Association will
be handled by a board of six directors,
three to be named by the Growers Ex-
change, apd three by the cash buyers.
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APPROVES BOND FOR ,
CITY DEPOSITORY
The City Council at its regular
meeting Monday approved the bond
of the First National Bank of Mer-
cedes for the City Depository.
According to Dave O’Brien, presi-' Shipments of cabbage, carrots and
dent of the road, the public has been i beets continue to occupy the major Was stated that ^ Fed a] d ..
misinformed as to the status of the i portion of shipments from Mercedes * .
Deep Water proposition. Mr. O’Brien! during the past week. The market * ^ haVm* * SUrve'
and style;] the desire of both the
State and Federal authorities to see
a first class road in the Valley and
leading to the Valley.
Previous to the hearing of Hidal-
! go County, the counties between
Brownsville and San Antonio on the
route of the Old Spanish Trail ap-
peared before the commission asking
that the route as proposed be de-
signated by the Commission as a
major highway to the Federal au-
thorities. In their petition the road,
building program of the counties-,
concerned was recited by Judge1
Perkins of Alice, showing that Atas-
cosa County had $90,000 on hand
with which to construct 26 miles;
Live Oak County has an election
called for January 14 for the con-
struction of 55 miles; San Patricio*
County needs to construct but 4
miles and has called an election, the
petition being signed by 90% of the
voters, to vote $150,000 of bonds-
on January 14; Jim Wells has called
an election for the same date, the pe-
tition being signed by 85% of the
voters, for the construction of 55
miles; Brooks County has largely
completed her program and the rest
is under contract; Hidalgo County
had voted $1,250,000 for the work;
Cameron County has .12 miles of
concrete road completed and an
election called for January 14.
Members of tbe Commission could
give no promise that the route pro-
posed by the Old Spanish Trail As-
sociation would be designated as a.
major highway. That there would
be designated a major highway into
the Valley was stated as certain,
but which route would be designat-
ed they were not in a position to
state during Monday’s hearing. It.
states that the notes given as payment is rported as being dull due to the
for the bond issue must be paid in full1 advent of tbe holiday -je isou. It is
before work is started by the federal | expected that a heavy demand will
government on the channel, contrary j be noticed after the first of the
to the general belief that the govern- year.
ment was fully satisfied with the sta- ] During the week the Farmers Co-
tus of the railroad. In other words,1 operative has shipped one car of
says Mr. O Brien, not only the Channel cabbage and two of tomatoes. Acker
Fund, but the bond issue must have j0nes & Saladino Company report
the cash m the bank before work is the shipment of one car on Monday,
starve , in compliance with the act of two on Tuesday, with probable ship-
Congress authorizing the proposition. ment of three cars during The rest
® Sa.vatl0n Valley is ip its 0f the week, all shipments being of
o™ an s says r’ O Brien. | cabbage, carrots and beets. The
FIRST OTBAWBERMSSOr i A”eriean Frul* Qr°wers M*
SEASON BROUGHT M|carrots and beets ,tlixed.
ml , , - The new siding to the loading
ie ns stiav Denies of the se:1--1 sheds of Acker, Jones and Saladino
son were brought in Iasi" week by: Company was completed on Monday
Mrs. J. R. McAdams who lives east [ and is now in use, enabling this
of here. The berries were large and i firm to load directly from their
of extra good quality. ! sheds.
having a survey
Continued on page 5
SAN JUAN COMMUNITY
CHURCH CALLS CASTOR
By unanimous vote the members
the San Juan Community Church,
last Sunday called Rev. Chamnis of
Illinois as their pastor, for the com-
ing year. Mr. Chamhis and family
are already in San Juan and at work:
in the pastorate. The Church and
San Juan are glad to welcome therm.
BUSINESS HOUSES CLOSE
As Christmas and New Years
fall on Sunday, a petition lias
been circulated and signed by
the business men in Mercedes
agreeing to remain closed all day
Monday, December 26th’and all
day Monday, January 2nd.
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Holland, W. D. & Buell, Ralph L. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 21, 1921, newspaper, December 21, 1921; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth637955/m1/1/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.