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THE MERCEDES NEWS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1928
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THE MERCEDES NEVTSTfIUDAY, AUGUST 24, 1928
Rio Grande City Is
Neatest Troop At
Scout Encampment
Wins Inspection Prize
Monday; Other Re-
wards to be Given
The troop from Rio Grande City
was awarded the inspection prize
on Monday for having the neatest
camp at Camp Terry near Rio Hon-
do. This camp is the second annual
training camp of the Lower Rio
Grande Valley Council Boy Scouts
of America. The inspection prize
is awarded daily to the group
which passes the best inspection.
Gold, silver and bronze medals will
be awarded to the three boys who
rate the highest on their camp rec-
ords at the close of the camp on
August 29.
The personnel of the camp in-
cludes 290 scouts and 20 leaders.
The program is running smoothly,
with no accidents of any kind. The
camp is equipped in the most mod-
ern way with electric lights and an
amphitheater. Swimming facilities
are excellent as the camp is situ-
ated on the Arroyo.
One of the most interesting fea-
tures of the camp routine is nature
study work, under R. D. Camp and
Harvey Stiles. Mr. Camp is offer-
ing prizes to the boys whose rec-
ord in Bird Study is the best.
Each boy is assigned work on
some detail and all the scouts have
a share in the maintenance of the
camp. There is the kitchen detail,
which has charge of the preparation
of food and its serving; the wood de-
tail, which provides wood for the
kitchen and the camp fire; the san-
itation detail, which has charge of
garbage disposal and latrines; the
water detail which has charge of
keeping the water tank full; and
the mail detail, which is the most
popular one in camp.
Many of the troops have worked
out very artistic arrangements for
their camps, using snail shells as
borders for their walks, and various
other ingenious plans.
Visitors’ Day is Sunday, August
26, beginning at 1 o’clock. The ded-
ication of the camp will be at 3
o’clock, with an address by a speak-
er of statewide reputation. The va-
rious bands of the Valley will pre-
sent a massed band concert. At 6
o’clock a barbecue will be served to
all visitors. Other special features
are being arranged for Visitors’
Day.
Olmito Man Shot As
Result of Family Feud
Antonio Lisarde, age 38, who re-
sided near Olmito, was shot and in-
stantly killed about 8 o’clock Mon-
day morning.
Timoteo Robles, brother-in-law
of the slain man, surrendered to
Deputy Sheriff George Miller short-
ly after the shooting and is now in
the county jail charged with mur-
der. Robles admitted he had fired
the fatal shots, using a revolver be-
longing to R. L. Skinner, Olmito
farmer, who was an eye-witness to
the shooting.
The shooting occurred on the
road between Olmito and Los Fres-
nos, about a mile and a half north
of Olmito. Lisarde was shot three
times, one bullet passing through
the top of the head and the other
two striking in the back near the
right and left shoulders.
Skinner states that the shooting
was the outcome of a quarrel be-
tween the two men. According to
Skinner’s statement there have been
numerous quarrels between Robles’
family and Lisarde over alleged
mistreatment of Mrs. Lisarde and
the children.
Minister Resigns To
Work For a College
Reverend Jeff Davis, pastor of
the First Baptist church of San
Benito, has resigned his pastorship
to accept the position of endowment
secretary of the College of Mar-
shall.
The Rev. Mr. Davis has been in
the Baptist ministry for twenty-five
years and came to San Benito from
Snyder, Texas, about two years
ago.
The college at Marshall is said to
be the largest junior institution in
Texas with properties valued at
$300,000. A $200,000 endowment
campaign is to be opened soon.
The church is said to have several
successors in mind but has nothing
definite to announce at this date.
LOW RATES TO CHICAGO
L. H. Moore, division passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific Lines,
with headquarters in Harlingen, an-
nounces that their line will offer ex-
tremely low rate to Chicago on
September 1, this rate being the
regular one-way plus two dollars
for the round trip.
Stuart Place School
With Ten Teachers
To Open On Sept. 3
The Stuart Place school will open
Sept. 3, according to recent an-
nouncement by the board. The school
has a faculty of ten teachers and
has eighteen units accredited with
the state department of education.
Four and one-half units have been
gained in the last two years, two
being added during the past year.
Robert Ryle will be the director
of boys’ athletics and Stuart Place
will compete in football, basketball,
baseball, tennis and track this com-
ing year.
At present the teaching force con-
sists of: Miss Edna Bryant, Span-
ish speaking primary and director
of girls’ athletics; Miss Bertie Bart-
lett, English speaking primaries;
Mrs. James V. Montgomery, third
and fourth grades and dean of wo-
men; Mrs. W. D. Taylor, fifth and
sixth grades; Mrs. D. M. Hawk,
seventh grade; Miss Mary Bartlett,
high school English and Glee club
director; Miss Lena Forston, his-
tory, public speaking and debate
coach; Robert Ryle, mathematics,
and director of boys’ athletics; Ca-
leb Glazener, science and principal.
Mr. James V. Montgomery is to be
the superintendent.
Stuart Place high school now has
the following units accredited:
English 3, algebra 2, plane geom-
etry 1, advanced arithmetic Yz,
Spanish 2, history 3, civics 1, gen-
eral science, biology, chemistry,
physics, public speaking, commer-
cial geography and economics, Yz.
Soto Gets Preliminary
Hearing For Murder
Preliminary hearing for Jose
Soto, charged with murder in con-
nection with the fatal shooting of
Melecio Olivera, 32, who died at
the Medical Arts hospital Monday
from a gun shot wound received as
he left a dance hall a few miles
from Edinburg early Sunday morn-
ing, was held Tuesday before Jus-
tice of the Peace P. D. Haley.
Soto was arrested in connection
with the shooting by Deputy Sher-
iff Alex Champion.
Olivera and Soto were on a road
just off the highway about one-
fourth of a mile west of the new
Edinburg hospital when the shoot-
ing occurred. The shot was heard
at the dance hall and several men
rushed to the scene and then notified
the sheriff’s office. Olivera was un-
conscious when officers arrived and
died without regaining conscious-
ness.
Motive for the slaying has not
been established.
Funeral services for Olivera will
be held Thursday morning from the
Skinner Funeral Home. He is sur-
vived by a wife and several children.
Edinburg *To Aid Boys
and Girls In College
According to announcement Tues-
day morning the business firms of
Edinburg will be canvassed to ob-
tain part time employment for boys
and girls who wish to work their
way through Edinburg College.
The committee was appointed to
begin the survey at 9 o’clock
Wednesday morning. They were
Mrs. C. C. Rougeou, chairman; H.
W. Miles, J. F. Robinson and G. E.
Hurt.
A schedule of work will be ar-
ranged that will not conflict with
classroom work and the college will
keep a careful check of the work
done by the students to see that
they are satisfactory workers.
The college has received numer-
ous letters from students wishing to
work their way through school,
many of them being well trained in
business lines.
Some parents spend so much time
boasting about their ancestors that
they have mighty little left to de-
vote to their offspring.
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Distribution is the problem. We
need Chicago bank robbers in Ari-
zona or Arizona cashiers in Chica-
go.
All will be well in this campaign
if people practice religion as much
as they talk it.
Becomes Smith Helper
Although formerly vice-chairman of
National League of Women Voters
and a member of Herbert Hoover’s
Belgian relief committee during the
war, Mrs. Caspar Whitney, of Ir-
vington-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., has
accepted the chairmanship of inde-
pendent “Smith for President” clubs.
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District Court Opens
In Willacy County
District court opened in Ray-
mondville Monday with District
Judge A. W. Cunningham presiding,
and District Attorney George Roger
Robinson representing the state.
The grand jury was impaneled with
Mayor M. H. Dreyer of Raymond-
ville as foreman.
Court will last two weeks and
Judge Cunningham states that he
hopes to clean up the docket in that
time. Judge Cunningham’s charge
to the grand jury was along the
usual lines, and he stated that Wil-
lacy county was fortunate in being
the most peaceful and law-ibiding
county in his district.
The grand jury includes the fol-
lowing: M. H. Dreyer, foreman;
Carl Duddleston, J. G. Caudle, A. L.
Johnson, D. W. Oaks, S. L. Gill, E.
W. Archer, W. T Holder, E. H. Jam-
ison, A. K Hocott, C. A. Johnson, E.
M. Tracy, W. Alison, C. D. Gilliland,
J. S; Cox and Henry Hudson.
Attend Convention of
Telephone Association
Managers and chief operators of
all Lower Rio Grande Valley sta-
tions of the Rio Grande Valley Tele-
phone Company attended the state
convention of the Texas Independ-
ent Telephone Association, which
met in Corpus Christi Wednesday
and Thursday.
The speakers during the conven-
tion included J. C. Parton, McAllen,
general manager Rio Grande Valley
Telephone Company; William C.
Grant, Dallas, director Texas Pub-
lic Service Information Bureau; C.
W. May, San Antonio, Texas Asso-
ciated Telephone Company; L. S.
Gardner, Waco, secretary Texas In-
dependent Telephone Association,
and two others whose names were
not announced.
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EVERYTHING TO BUILD
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ANYTHING
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Carlots a Specialty-
Representing quality mills
only. We retail at whole-
sale prices.
2x4, 2x6, 1x6 and 1x8 Ship-
lap, $3.75.
Special: Nails, any quan-
tity, $5.50.
We make loans to build
homes and will put you in
touch with reliable builders
for your repair and new
work. Road and screened
gravel at lowest prices. We
own our gravel pits. Let
us quote you. Phone, wire
or mail your orders.
Cash & Carry Lumber And
Material Company
Mercedes — Phone 187
DRS.
HELMBOLT
Chiropractic
and Swedish
Massage
ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES
One-half Block South Elks’ Club—Missouri Avenue
Schools In Hidalgo
County Scheduled
To Open Sept. 10
According to announcement by J.
S. Bunn, Hidalgo county superin-
tendent of schools, all schools in dis-
tricts 1, 2, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17
will open for the fall term Sept. 10.
The teachers will attend the insti-
tute to be held in the Edinburg high
school, Sept. 6 and 7.
The estimate of the school enroll-
ment for the coming year is 2,000.
The enrollment for the past year
was 1,877.
Teachers from all districts ex-
cepting District 12, Alton school,
have been named. These are as fol-
lows: District No. 1, Redlampago
school, Miss Jennie Ewing, Merce-
des, Mrs. Nell Guest, Mercedes;
Parajito school, Mrs. Myrtle Lang-
seth, Weslaco, Mrs. M. A. Pickens,
Mercedes. District No. 2: Panchita
school, Miss Mildred Schablow, Wes-
laco; La Villa school, Miss Bonnie
George, Weslaco, Miss Edna Brooks,
Mercedes; San Jose school, Miss
Wilma George, Weslaco; Rollor
school, Mrs. Roland Milligan, Ray-
mondville. District No. 9: North
Palm Gardens school, Miss Char-
lotte Tompkins, Mercedes, Florence
Burgess, Weslaco, Miss Mary Edna
Hill, Edcouch; South Palm Gardens
school, Miss Laura Crowder, McAl-
len, Mrs. Lucille Wise, Mercedes,
Miss Cymbeline Neel, Dallas. Dis-
trict No. 13: Stockholm school, Mrs.
Eula Norton, Lyford, Mrs. J. F.
Russell, Lyford. District No. 14:
Run school, L. T. B. Unn, Edinburg;
Webber school, Miss Alma Terveen,
Donna. District No. 16: Los Indios
school, Miss Saima Rissanen, Mer-
cedes, Miss Elma Jones, Mercedes;
Center school, Miss Nora Wilmer,
Edcouch, Mrs. Lily Maye Richards,
Edcouch. District No. 17: Valley
View school, Mrs. Luetta P. Heard,
Pharr, Miss Lois McCall Matthews,
Edinburg. District No. 18: Elaso
school, Mrs. Louis Bukelew, Wes-
laco, and Mrs. Mary G. Know,
Pharr.
REDUCED FARES
Anyone desiring to make a trip
to Hot Springs, Arkansas, any time
between now and the last of the
month, may purchase a round trip
ticket to that point at greatly re-
duced fare, according to L. H.
Moore, division passenger agent of
the Missouri Pacific Lines with
headquarters in Harlingen. Rate
of one and one-half the regular one-
way fare for the round trip will be
in effect over the Missouri Pacific
Lines from August 22 to 31, in-
clusive.
Southern Pacific’s
New Station Opened
The new passenger depot of the
Southern Pacific Lines in Browns-
ville was formally opened to the
service of the traveling public at
noon Wednesday.
The building was recently com-
pleted at an approximate cost of
$130,000. It is of Spanish design
and is constructed of stucco, tile,
and ornamental stone.
The grounds around the building
are now being beautified and the
Brownsville chamber of commerce
plans to plant a redwood tree in
one of the parkways at the main
entrance to the station.
The opening of the station did not
include any special opening cere-
mony.
Work On Brownsville
Hangar Is Delayed
According to J. M. Van Law, air-
port manager, work on the hangar
at Brownsville’s municipal air field
is being held up pending the arrival
of steel to be used in the construc-
tion. The steel is expected to arrive
in about ten days.
The concrete floor of the building
has been completed. Gravel and
sand to be used in the construction
of the field’s administration building
has arrived in Brownsville and the
actual construction on this building
will begin in a few days, as the
contract has already been let.
Rainfall Is Big Aid
To Crops In Willacy
Farmers in the western part of
Willacy county, in the vicinity of
Hargill, have begun preparing their
lands for the planting of sorghum
and milo maize, and a little later
truck crops. Showers of rain have
recently fallen in this section, con-
siderably more than one inch rain-
fall being recorded, and this rain is
enabling the farmers to begin an
early planting.
Considerable truck will be planted
in this county this fall, which will
include tomatoes, turnips, cabbage,
and English peas, besides the usual
large acreage of onions.
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LOW GALVESTON RATES
A rate of $10.00 for the round
trip to Galveston on Labor Day is
announced by L. H. Moore, division
passenger agent of the Missouri Pa-
cific Lines at Harlingen. Mr.
Moore states that the tickets will
be good for the return until Sep-
tember 5.
Long Distance Service
Inexpensive
By using Long Distance phone service, you can in
a short time, have-personal conversation with any
one, at any point, in the U. S. or adjoining countries.
The cost is only a few dollars.
The map above shows the approximate rate from
the Valley to various points for station to station
service.
^This is not the only type of
Long Distance Service we render.
The rates shown on the map
above apply only to day time,
station to station service and are
based on the average Valley rates
to the points indicated.
Information and rates for
other types of Long Distance ser-
vice will be cheerfully given you
by your local phone office.
Rio Grande Valley
Telephone Company
Pouring of Concrete
On Alice Road Started
According to announcement by
the contractors Monday morning,
pouring of the concrete on the old
Alice road, part of the Los Fresnos
paving project, was scheduled to
start Monday afternoon.
The Alice road will be paved four
miles north from the Barreda-Point
Isabel road, and as soon as com-
pleted the paving machine will move
onto the Paredes Line road. Both
are 9-foot projects with the excep-
tion of 1,000 feet at the south end,
which will be paved 18 feet wide.
Reports received at the county
engineer’s office Monday morning
indicated that the La Feria-Blue-
town-Santa Maria concrete paving,
6.4 miles, was practically completed,
and the road is expected to be open
for traffic the entire length in Sep-
tember.
Only able men are hired to de-
cide business questions, but any-
body will do if it’s only a question
of life or death.
Field glasses are common now,
either because of the war surplus or
because of sleeping porches.
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Fortunately, all this talk about
various kinds of marriage comes
from people too old to marry.
AUTO STRUCK BY TRAIN
Clarence Meyers, Harlingen drug-
gist, narrowly escaped death Sun-
day night when an automobile he
was driving was struck by a Mis-
souri Pacific passenger train at a
crossing near Harlingen.
Loyalty has disadvantages. Cab-
inet positions aren’t offered to a
section that will vote the straight
ticket in any case.
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A woman of polish is usually bril-
liant, but that is no reason why she
should cast reflections.
On the Highway by Big Canal *
Atteberry’s Sheet Metal Works
PHONE 344
Expert Radiator Work
6 66
Cures Chills and Fever, Intermit-
tent, Remittent and Bilious Fever
due to Malaria.
It kills the Germs.
Complete Service
Washing—Polishing—Greasing—Storage
Tire Service *
Let us quote you on complete service for your car. It takes & lot .
of unnecessary detail off your hands, and your car is always ready {
to go when and where you wish.
Brooks Mo Co.
Snappy Service
On the Highway
Prosperity
in the Valley
Depends on You
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As a citizen of the Valley you have a duty to perform.
The success and prosperity of this district is or should be
of vital importance to every citizen. Whatever of suc-
cess that comes to us as a whole will be shared by you
only to the extent in which you do your share. Co-operate
with your fellow citizens in boosting your community;
join with other farmers in marketing your products on a
plan that will be of the most benefit to all; plant crops
which will command the highest market prices and which
are in the greatset demand; in fine, associate yourself with
your fellows in every forward movement.
It is within your power to make of the Valley
the garden spot of America. We have the land,
the climate and the markets. Practical farmers
are settling in the Valley and are being wel-
comed by those already here. With the influx
of newcomers agriculture will be stimulated as
never before and the wise man will reap untold
benefits which will accrue to the man who
grasps opportunity.
The American Rio Grande Land and Irrigation Company
has many desirable farm tracts on easy terms of payment,
and they always take great pleasure in showing this land
to anyone interested in the possibilities of this wonderful
Valley.
Real Estate Department
American Rio Grande Land and Irrigation
Company
Mercedes, Texas
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