Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 166, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 12, 1909 Page: 3 of 4
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TRY US; WE'LL TREAT YOU RIGHT
PHONE No. 65
Brownsville
Grain
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Incorporated
Buy and Sell All Kinds oi
Hay Grain and Feedstuffs
Wholesale and Retail
SPECIAL:
Field and Garden Seeds
Large and Small Lots
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AVEATHEIt FORECAST
New Orleans La. Jan. 12. To-
night generally fair. Temperature
from 25 to 2S degrees. Wednesday
.generally fair rising temperature.
Moredate Northeast winds subsiding
"Wednesday.
San Antonio Texas Jan. 12 12
m. Temperature 20 sleeting. Wind
i2 miles per hour.
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Absolute efficiency at least expense. A practical fence that will positively
turn cattle horses hogs and pigs. A fence that is strong-practically
everlasting proven thorouslilyetficient under every possible condition.
EVERY ROD GUARANTEED
If you want yoar fencing problems satisfactorily solved call and see the Ellwood
Fence and let us show you for how little money you can get absolute satisfaction.
DEALERS IN
Lumber Hardware and implements
RAYMONDV1LLE TEXAS.
I IS MOW OPEN 1
ates: $2.00 and $2.50 Per Day f
Rvervfhino- New and HnfoDate &
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i For Large Pleasant Kooms with open
Pire Places apply at ootel River
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& S1CI. Special rates by the WeeK or Month.
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Furnished or Unfurnished Rooms with or without
Eg board at the TERRY RESIDENCE. Comer 9th and
rS Levee St.
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Mrs. E. J. rIarknessf Proprietress. - p
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Open Day and Night All the Year
Home For Commercial Men and Tourists
American and European PJan.
Rates $2.00 Per Day and Up. Free Sample Rooms and Bath
Everything Modern and New. We Solicit Your Patronage
Adams street between lith and lZth Ms. Brownsville icxas
Hera!d Ads Give Uniform Satisfaction
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All of the latest popular novels at
opular prices. The Variety Store.
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WANTED TO BUY Horse and
buggy. Must be cheap for cash. Ad-
dress Box 307 Brownsville ltx. tf
Single Combe Rhode Island Reds
Young stock and eggs of National
prize winning strains. Mrs. A. J.
Hood Box 62 Brownsville Texas.
I- 9-6
Electric Lights. Electric lights
are today being installed in the local
immigration offices by the Browns-
ville Electric and Plumbing Com-
pany. Col. Fordyce Here. Last night the
private car St. Elmo with Col. Sam
Fordyce aboard arrived in the city
from St. Louis. Col. Fordyce left
thjs morning in his private car for
a trip up the branch.
House for Sale. Brand new house
of six rooms hall and reception hall;
modern and up-Jo-date; price 53000.
Also a nice eorner lot near school
house for $650. For particulars call
on "J. H. Ryan at new Mason house.
II- 19-tf
Automobile Bargain. Autocar
five passenger touring car with top
detachable tonneau runabout hack
line condition. First reasonable offer
takes it. R. D. Blaisdell La Gloria
Canal Santa Maria Texas. 1-12-ttf
I have property in prosperous Tex-
as city worth $20000 tto $25000 to
exchange for - tract in Brownsville
counttry of equal value or greater
value paying difference. H. D. Mar-
ttin Cotton Exchange Houston Tex-
as. ' 1-13-2
Special Meeting. A special meet-
ing of the oCunty Commmissioners
Court has been called for Thursday
January 14th in' the county court
room for the purpose of awarding the
contract for tearing the old roof off
the court house and putting on the
uew one.
Rooms are badly needed for the
delegates to the mid-winter conven-
tion. These visitors come here at the
invitation of our city and it is our
duty to see that all are accommodated
with comfortable quarters. Any who
have even one spare room should of-
fer it for their use. Notify Secretary
Magill at the Commercial- Club if
you can take one or more of tile x'isi-tors..
The Best Onion Crate on the mar-
ket is manufactured by the Iveith
Lumber Company Voth Texas. We
are their sole agents" in this terri-
tory and will sell to you at the
same .price you would pay to get them
direct. Send for sample. Frontier
Lumber Co. Brownsville Texas.
12-30-17
Xew Steward. Yesterday P. D.
Smith who has accepted the position
as steward for the'TUiller Hotel var-
rived in the city. He comes direct
from the McAtee Hotel of Houston
and for several years held a similar
position in the Tremont Hotel in Gal-
veston. Rooms are badly needed for the
delegates to the mid-winter conven-
tion. These visitors come here at the
invitation of our city and it is our
duty to see that all are accommodated
with comfortable quarters. Any who
have even one spare room should of-
fer it for their use. Notify Secretary
Magill at the Commercial Club If
you can take one or more of the visitors-Rooms
are badly needed for the
delegates to the mid-winter conven-
tion. These visitors come here at the
Invitation of our city and it is our
duty to see that all are accommodated
with comfortable quarters. Any who
have even one spare room should of-
fer it for their use. Notify Secretary
Magill at the Commercial Club if
you can take one or more of the visi-
tors.. Another Prize Lot. The enter-
prising Brownsville Land and Im-
provement company has added an-
other town lot to the grand prize
list that is offered for the best dis-
t play of "Valley products at the exhi
bition. A deed to a cho-'ce lot in
West Brownsville with the name of
the person to whom it is to be deed-
left blank has been handed to Secre-
tary R. N. Magill of the Lower Rio
Grande Valley Commercial Club by J.
B. Scott the general manager of the
Brownsville Land and Improvement
Company. This lot is valued at $200
and will be given as a grand sweep-
stake prize for Valley products.
Land For Sale.
100 or 200 acres of the choicest
land in the nlo Grande Valley; locat-
ed five miles North of Harlingen and
one mile east of Combe's station on
the main line of the St. L. B. & M.
railroad. Dark sandy loamy soil
very fertile and easily cultivated
does not stick when wet. An abund-
ance of pure well water for irriga-
tion within 30 feet of surface. No
salt or other minerals in this water.
All fenced 20 acres in cultivation.
Good well with a 14 foot Samson
windmill pumping outfit reservoir
etc. A bargain for cash. Address
E. R. Templeton owner Harlingen
Texas. 1-11-10
Rhodesa produced 2264773
ounces of gold from 1902 to 1907
both years inclusive the output grad-
ually increasing from year to year.
Agents for the
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Trade-marli
Trade-mark
FOR. SALE BY
The BOSTON SHOE STORE
Carlos
Hotel
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GEO.fS. SEARD. Manager;
Two Blocks North of Depot. American Plan
Rate $2.00 psr day. Special by Week ty. "oalh
Commercial and Tourist Trade Solicited
Strictly New. AH Outside Rooms with Modern Conveniences
S Free Sample Room. Hot and Cold Water Baths
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D. F. FIELDER Proprietor'
RATES: $1.50 PER DAY
Special Rates by the Week or Month
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O. P. ARCHER Proprietor
j tvery Thing New. Hot and Cold Baths
First-Class Service. Rates $2.00 per day
McALLEN
TEXAS
HERALD WANT ADS
For Rent
FOR RENT A good nine room
brick house. Newly repaired. Two
blocks from the passenger depot. Cor-
ner Levee and Tenth streets. Apply to
W. H. Mason sr. 11-14-tf
FOR SALE REAL ESTATE.
271 acres virgin pine East Texas
land. Will cut about 8000 feet lum-
ber to acre. Will trade for land
near Brownsville under irrigation.
Can also sell fine truck farmes close
to Brownsville . Call and see me. W.
S. Blackshear. Cl-6-tf
FOR SALE By owners 11 acres
adjoining townsite. Bargain for quick
sale. Address P. O. Box 4 Harlin-
gen Texas. Cl-9-8
For Sale Miscellaneous
Automobiles
FOR HIRE
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PHONE No. 6
BROWNSVILLE TRANSFER
COMPANY
Frank W. Kibbe
R. E. UoHm
Kibbe & Holland
AttorneysaatLaw
Brownsville Texas
FOR SALE OR TRADE One
Franklin Runabout first class con-
dition. C. W. Zelie Santa Maria
Texas. - Cl-11-12
FOR SALE Al gentle buggy
horse also an upright piano good as
new. Apply to W. H. Mason sr. -
11-14-tf
FOR SALE Fifteen inch Morris
pump complete with boiler engine
etc Address The Hidalgo Irriga-
tion Co. McAllen Texas. C12-18-tf
BUSINESS NOTICES.
Mexican mines lead zinc and sil-
ver. See samples. Room 10 Puente
building near postoffice. Browns-
ville Realty Company. C12-22-tf
NOTICE.
Proposals for the deposit of the
funds of Cameron County Texas:
Notice is hereby given that the
Commissioners' Court of the County
of Cameron State of Texas will on
the 9th day of February A. D. 1909
at eleven o'clock of that day at the
court house in the city of Browns-
vilte in said'eounty receive proposals
from any banking corporation asso-
ciation or individual banker stating
the rate of interest that said bank-
ing corporation association or indi-
vidual banker offers to pay on the
funds of aid county of Cameron ior
the term of two years from and af-
ter the said 9th day of February A.
D. 1909 up to and until the Febru-
ary term A. D. 1911 of said Com-
missioners' court.
Said interest to be computed upon
the daily balances to the credit of.
said county with such depositary and
payable monthly to the county treas-
urer of said county of Cameron.
Said proposals to be accompanied
with a certified check for not less
than one-half of - one per cent of
$38887.46. Said $3S887.46 being
the amount of the county revenue of
the preceding year A. D. 190S.
Said proposals to be submitteu
subject to the provisions of Sections
No. 20 to 33 both inclusive of chap-
ter 164 of the General Laws of the
State of Texas approved May 1st A.
D. 1905.
JNO. BARTLETT
County Judge Cameron County Texas
Brownsville Texas. Jan. 4th A. D.
1909. ' 1-7-20
Putegnat Building.
Notary ia Ottfc
PORTO RICO
5c Straight
"Everywhere1
TUST INTRODUCED
An immediate success the
most satisfying cigar in the
world. No "heaviness;" the
cool smoke burns gently.
Get next to it; it is better to
smoke now than hereafter.
The Eagle
...Pharmacy
Geo. J. Head. Prop.
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We are prepared to do aH
kinds of
WELL WORK
anywhere in this section es-
pecially in the Rio Grande
Valley.
Figure with others and then with us. We
give you satisfaction. Aaddress
W. S. Coiiks
Mercedes Texas or P. O. Box 165
Brownsville Texas
Slakes Kidneys and Bladder Right
Brownsville Motor Car
Automobiles' & Machinery
We carry a Full Line of Automobile Accessories and
are prepared to do repair work on machinery
of all kinds on short notice.
GARAGE cAND REPAIR SHOP
On Lower Levee Street
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$ Livery Feed & -Sale Stable
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LEVEE ST. RIVER FRONT TELEPHONE No. 139
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Open Day and Night. Special Attention
to Baggage and Carriage Calls
9 $ o
Good Drugs
the
are as essential as diagnosis in cf
of sickness your physician mi
know his profession so must
druggist his. Vie fill prescriptions
promptly properly of pure ingre-
dients at not exorbitant prices and
bespeak your patronage if we hav
it not now. Shall we be so favored?
Every toilet accessory.
WILLMAN'SlPHARAlACY f
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Phone 40
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allam Colonization Company Sales Mgrs.
Cooperative Canal. Sugar cTkEill Now Building
and a Spur from the Railroad -.tothe Mill
Apply to Any Real Estate Deile
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Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O. Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 166, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 12, 1909, newspaper, January 12, 1909; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth147897/m1/3/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .