Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1926 Page: 1 of 10
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VOLUME XIII.
MERCEDES, HIDALGO COUNTV, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1926
NUMBER 1
ELECTION CONTEST SET FOR MONDAY, FEB. 15TH
SHIPMENTS INCREASE MEXICANS ARRESTED
AS PRICE CONTINUES FMt DEPOT ROBBERY
GOOD; 404 CARS OUT TtyLsjSS.”*
VEGETABLE SHIPMENTS SHOW Two Suspects are in Jail at
INCREASE OF 150 CARS OVER S
PREVIOUS WEEK. — PRICE TO
GROWER CONTINUES HIGH.
With shipments of. fruits and veg-
etables for the week ending Wednes-
day, February 10, showing an in-
crease of 150 cars over the week pre-
vious, the vegetable situation is as-
suming a more satisfactory aspect.
Total cars moved for the Aveek were
404, comparing with 259 for the week
preceding. Shipments for the season
have been 1905 cars against 2164
last year. In spite of the fact that
the movement this year is sloAver than
that of last, growers and shipers are
pointing out that the prices being
paid the grower are considerably
higher, so that more actual cash is
coming into the hands of the grow-
ers. Local banks report a consider-
able increase in deposits since Janu-
ary 1, which increase is8 directly
traced to Aregetable returns.
Of the week’s total of 404 cars,
Mercedes furnished 75 and Weslaco
90 cars. Donna, Alamo and Pharr
also furnished heav yshipments.
Cabbage shipments 'lead with 180
cars, followed by mixed vegetables,
151 cars; beets and carrots, 29; car-
rots, 20; spinach, 14; fruit, 6; let-
tuce 3 and potatoes, 1.' Cabbage con-
tinues at $50 per ton to the grower,
with beets at 80 cents and carrots
around 15. Beets are beginning to
come in greater quantities and in fair
shape.
SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS
FEWDELINQ’NT TAXES
Tax Collections are in Best Shape of
Years.—Total Delinquent Taxes
Since 1912 are Under
$17,000.
In the best financial shape in years
fcs the report of the Mercedes Inde-
pendent School District, according to
i’red Johnston, collector and asses-
)r, who reports that delinquent
Lxes. due the district are at the
liallest total the books of the dis-
|ct have ever shown. From the
ir of its formation, 1912 to date,
[ire are now due the district $16,-
in delinquent taxes, of which
!>unt $7,92 5 are from the taxes of
5, becoming delinquent on Janu-
Sl. Of the $39,925 due the dis-
for 1925, $32,000 was paid
the time expired on the last
L>f January.
Vhquent taxes by years are as
}s: 1924, $4,000; 1923, $1146;
rt $1054; 1921, $995; 1917-1920,
r$ 1551 and 1912-1916, $165.
The amount unpaid for 1925 rep-
resents the smallest total unpaid to
the school district at this time of
the year within recent years.
Pedro Trevino and Nasario Guz-
man are in jail at Edinburg, suspect-
ed with having been implicated in the
robbery of the freight depot of the
Gulf Coast Lines early last Thursday
morning. The arrest was made by
H. M. Wallace, special agent of the
Gulf Coast Lines, working in con-
junction with local customs officers
and peace officers. Goods missing
from the warehouse were discovered
cached in the brush near the river on
a Mexican ranch 8 miles south of
Mercedes.
Thieves entering the warehouse
last Thursday evidently gained ad-
mittance with a switch key and made
quite a haul, including a box of dry
goods, 4 cases of shoes, 16 automo-
bile casings, a carton of tubes and
other small articles. The goods were
discovered on Tuesday and returned
to the warehouse awaiting the order
of the firms to whom they had been
shipped.
Cut Down Cotton Acreage
And Raise Own Food and
Feed Crops, Advice Given
DONNA BO 10;
MERCEDES 6
By ROBERT ERWIN
The last home game of the season
was played here last Tuesday, with
Donna in a very close game.
The Tigers’ center, Brown, gets
the jump, but Donna gets the ball
and rushes it down to the goal and
and puts it through for the first
two points of the game. A personal
foul is called on Ewing but Donna
fails to make a free count. Brown
shoots a real pretty overhanded goal
for Mercedes. The ball is being
passed very lively when the quarter
ends. Mercedes 2.
Brown starts the second quarter,
by getting the tip off. The ball is
rushed to Mercedes’ end of the court
where Hinojosa makes a counter. A
foul is called on Lilley. Donna makes
one point on the free shot and fol-
lows with a field goal ending the half.
Mercedes 4.
Brown starts the third quarter and
rushes to Mercedes’ goal where the
ball is passed to him and he shoots
another pretty, long shot. Donna
fouls Avith another ringer ending the
third quarter. Mercedes 6. Donna 7.
Brown as usual gets to hit the ball.
A foul is called on Ewing for charg-
ing, but Donna fails to tally. Robin-
son takes Edward’s place at forward.
Donna rings another goal. A foul is
called on Ewing but Donna does not
put the free shot through. A foul is
called on Lilley, Donna making one
of the points bringing their total to
10, Mercedes with a total of 6. The
Tiger lineup and points scored read
as follows: forward, Hinojosa (2);
(Continued on page 10.)
Cut down on the acreage to be
planted in cotton in 192 6, and raise
as much food and feed as possible on
the farm, is the advice given by the
Texas Safe Farming Association,
headed by Clarence Ousley of Dallas.
In a recent letter the association
says in part:
It is fairly understood in the cot-
ton trade, and may be confirmed by
inquiry at the proper sources, that
with a cotton crop of approximately
15,600,000 bales produced last year,
there would undoubtedly be much
F.W. HOLLINGSWORTH
CITY CLERK, BURIED
Deceased Was Deputy State Land
Commissioner of Wisconsin for
Years.—Died Thursday
Night
BILL BOOSTER SAYS:
y^hUILO OS. BUY 'YOUR. OVJU HOWE
AUD YOUlt ALWAYS BE &LA0
YOU DID. YOU DOKlT HAVE PAY
REUTj UOR MOVE, MOR PUT UP WITH
IUCOUVEU10JCES. AUD YOU Will
GET A IOT OF SATIS FACXIOU OUT
OF BE1UG YOUR. GWU UAUDIOR-D >.
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Three Thousand
Attend Auction
Sale at Lasara
A crowd conservatively estimated
at over 3,000 persons attended the
opening sale of the lots of the Lasara
townsite in Willacy County, accord-
ing to those attending from Merce-
des. The sale opened on Wednesda3r
of this week, and hundreds of lots in
the new toAvnsite, were sold, prices
yanging from $780 to $80 per lot.
The sale is being, handled by Col.
Rufus J. Lackland, who reports to
the Tribune that several other real
estate auctions will be handled by
him in the Valley during the coming
year.
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DRESSMAKER AND DESIGNER
IS LOCATED IN MERCEDES
F. W. HollingsAvorth, city clerk of
Mercedes, and a member of one of the
pioneer families of the state of Ne-
braska, died Thursday night at 9:30,
following an illness of several weeks.
Heart failure was given as the imme-
diate cause of death. Mr. Hollings-
worth was 72 years of age, and is sur-
vived by two daughters, Mrs. O. E.
Van Berg of Mercedes and Mrs. R. E.
French of McCook, Nebraska. Mrs.
French had just left Mercedes, think-
ing that her father was improAdng.
Born in Boston, Mass., Mr. Hol-
lingsworth. removed with his father
and family to Nebraska early in life,
his father being one of the first state
officials when the state of Nebraska
was formed. The deceased himself j
was deputy state land commissioner
of Nebraska for years.
Funeral services were held from
the home of Mrs. Van Berg on Fri-
day afternoon, interment being made
In the Mercedes cemetery.
lower prices but for the fact that a
large part, probably 3,000,000 hales,
of the crop was injured by bad wea-
ther at picking time, and consequent-
ly is not tenderable on contract. It
is the opinion of men well informed
in the cotton trade, that but for this
fact middling cotton today would
hardly be Avorth more than 15 cents,
and possibly not more than 12 cents
per pound. ,
If we should have another big crop,
even though we did not have bad
weather at picking time to injure one-
fourth or one-fifth of it, it would not
be too much to expect cotton to sell
as low as 12 cents, or perhaps 10
cents a pound. The largest farmer
of- our acquaintance, who keeps
strict account of the cost of produc-
tion and operates with the utmost
economy possible, te^s us that on the
average yield per acre, 17 cents a
pound is about the lowest attainable
cost of production.
We submit the foregoing facts for
your information and for such use
as you seee fit to make of them, and
DIRECTORS OF
VALLEY FAIR
CHOSEN TUES
John H. Shary of Mission and C.
H. Swallow of Alamo were added to
the directorate of the Valley Fair As-
sociation at a meeting of the stock-
holders held at Harlingen Tuesday
afternoon. All of the old directors
were re-elected, including R. T.
Stuart, Stuart Place; Finley Ewing,
Harlingen; Joe Roberts, Harlingen;
Sam Botts, Harlingen; John T. Lo-
max, San Benito; A1 Parker, La
Feria; W. E. McDavitt, Brownsville.
Plans for the fair are now being
made and the dates will be set at a
meeting of the directors to be held
in the near future.
SMALLPOX SCARE AT
LAFERlAOpRAUD
Eight Cases Have Been Reported
Which are Noav Under Complete
Control, Says Communica-
tion Asking Correction
That the small pox situation at La
Feria Has been greatly exaggerated
and that false reports spread through-
out the Valley are injuring the
MANDAMUS CASE PUT
OYER UNTIL MARCH
TERM OF DIST. COURT
COURT RULES MANDAMUS IS NOT
PEREMTORY CASE AND CAN-
NOT BE TRIED AT ONCE.—
$3,500,000.00 BOND ELECTION!
CONTEST SET FOR MONDAY.
Ave respectfully suggest the, wisdom community, is the substance of a
Southwest Baptist
Convention Met at
McAllen this Week
of advising farmers to make sure of
producing their own food and feed n
1926. There is no way of knoAving
what the cotton acreage will be in
1926, or of knowing what the weath-
er and pests will do to the cotton
planned. We are hopeful that there
will be a considerably reduced acre-
age in cotton, in order that the sup-
ply will be kept within the world’s
demand, but we feel that it is a safe
position to make sure of food and
feed, so that whatever money we re-
ceive on our cotton will not have to
leave the state for supplies and can
be applied to debts.
ORGANIZATIONS TO
FINANCECAMP SITE
Chamber of Commerce and Rotary
Club Directors Offer to Finance
Purchase of $3,000 Site for
Y. W. C. A. Camp
Directors of the Mercedes Chamber
of Commerce at a meeting on Tues-
- I day night of this week voted to co-
Hundreds of members of the Bap-1 operate Avith the Mercedes Rotary
tist Church from all sections of j Club in financing the purchase of the
Southwest Texas were in McAllen on I site southeast of Mercedes as a loca-
Wednesday and Thursday of this
week attending the annual sessions
of the Southwest Texas Baptist Con-
ference. The meeting of the confer-
ence Avere presided over by Rev. Cal-
vin Nelson of San Antonio, Dr. J. B.
Hoit of McAllen acting as secretary.'
tion for the Y. W. C. A. camp. The
ground wanted may be purchased for
$3,000, payments to be made annual-
ly for ten years at the rate of $300
per year. At a meeting earlier in
the day the directors of the Rotary
Club had voted to recommend such
Attending the conference on Wed- action to their organization, and the
nesday of this week from the Mer-
cedes Baptist Church were Rev. and
Mrs. J. R. Hickerson, Mr. and Mrs.
Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. Coon, Miss
Leone George, Mesdames Wattson,
committee of the Rotary Club was
authorized by both bodies to submit
the proposition to the Y. W. C. A.
authorities.
Since the Various offers were con-
Peyton, George, Shankle, George J gidered some time ago, efforts have
Morrison, Grant Morrison, Lentz and 1 been made to locate the camp at Rio
" " ~ Hondo and Harlingen and San Benito
together have appointed committees
to endeavor to raise $3,000 needed
to purchase the site. A decision as to
the location of the camp is expected
from the Y. W. C. A. in the near fu-
ture, as it is desired to immediately
begin construction of the camp build-
ing.
Mrs. H. Scott, who has had twenty-
seven years experience as a dress-
maker and designer in McKinney,
Texas, has moved to Mercedes, and
Is located at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Gaddy, 918 Palm Heights.
F. E. Bennett, Walter McNeil and C.
S. Hickerson. Dinner was eaten at
McAllen.
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Farmers’ Society
Meets Wednesday
The regular meeting of the Mer-
cedes Farmers Protective Society will
be held on. Wednesday night of next
week at the grammar school audi-
torium. Officers of the society urge
a large attendance, as matters of in-
terest and of importanct to the land-
owners of the Mercedes system Avill,
be discussed.
statement sent the Tribune by the La
Feria News, asking that the facts of
the situation be published.
The statement follows:
“According to Dr. Duggan, local
physician, and Dr. Joe Tyson, County
Health Officer, there have been only
eight cases active here, four of which
are in the town and four in the coun-
try. All of these have been very mild
with the exception of one. Over 1,-
3 00 people have been vaccinated at
La Feria.
Trial of the election contest
filed by John A. Cook, J. E.
Eakin and Clay Everhard of
Pharr and Willard Ferguson of
Mission has been set for Monday*
February 15, by Judge J. E. Les-
lie of the 93rd District Court.
Answer to the petition filed by
the contestants was given1 by the
defendants, County Attorney J.
C. Epperson. County Judge A.
W. Cameron and Commissioners
Chadick, Evans, Lipscomb and
Brooks last Thursday night, the
last day allowed by law in which
to make reply. It is expected that
the first days of the trial will be
taken up in the argument of
points of law and that the con-
test proper will not be reached
before the latter part of the
week.
In their answer the defendants set
up a general denial of practically all
of the allegations set out by the con-
testants in their petition. A counter
claim was also set up that at Alamo
fifteen persons who were named vot-
ed against the bond issue who were,
not duly qualified voters.
* Mandamus Decision Given
Decision in the mandamus suit
filed against the county clerk, Cam
E. Hill, two of his deputies, and var-
relict. 1
:Since the last Exposure the period I i°us election judges was given by
T. ,J. FLKES ACTING AS CITY
CLERK UNTIL COUNCIL MEETS
T. J. Fikes, who has been filling
the position of deputy city clerk, col-
lector and assessor during the illness
of F. W. Hollingsworth, is acting in
that position following the death of
Mr. Hollingsworth. The vacancy will
probably be filled at the next meeting
of the city council.
Judge Cunningham
Addresses Students
Of Teachers’ School
Judge A. W. Cunningham of Har-
lingen, Judge of the 35th District,
spoke to the students of the South
Texas State Teachers College Tues-
day mornipg upon the subject of the
responsibility of the teacher to the
general intellectual standing and
moral tone of the citizenship of their
respective communities. Judge Cun-
ningham met the members of the Val-
ley Club and commended them upon
the steps they are taking in prepar-
ing themselves for this responsibility.
of incubation has passed and no new
cases have developed, according to
statement issued by Dr. Duggan. Tne
schools closed temporarily for one
week and expect to reopen Monday.
The town has not been quarantined
as has been reported and the epi-
demic has been stamped out with no
serious effect.
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Tax Collector’s
Records Refused
Application Made
The records of the tax collector's
office showing the poll tax payments
made for the year 1925, and the per-
sons paying their poll taxes for that
year were this week refused to Mrs.
H. O. Shalaben, representing the
parties contesting the $3,500,000
special road bond election by Tax
Collector O. Em Jones. When first
approached, Mr. Jones stated that his
office could supply copies of the poll
lists of the various precincts desired.
Later, he refused to furnish the
lists, stating that it would be several
months before they could be gotten
out by his office, and when Mrs.
Schalaben desired to go over the
records and copy the lists herself,
permission was denied by Mr. Jones.
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Monroe Hopkins End
Pleases Rotary Club
Members of the orchestra of the
Monro Hopkins Players delighted the
Mercedes Rotary Club with a musical
program at the regular meeting cf
the Club Tuesday noon. Monroe Hop-
kins accompanied his players and
favored the club with readings and
songs which were very greatly en-
joyed.
The meeting was one of the largest
held by the local club, nearly a dozen
visiting Rotarians from other cities
being present.
DRESSMAKING PARLOR IS
OPENED HERE BY MRS. BURKE
Mrs. E. F. Burke announces this
week the opening of a dressmaking-
parlor at the store of Shekell &
King. Mrs. Burke comes to Mer-
cedes from Yoakum, Texas, where
she has had twelve years’ experience
in this line.
Judge Leslie on Monday morning.
The court ruled that a mandamus pe-
tition was not a peremtory suit de-
manding instant trial, and that it
should be treated in the same man-
ner as any civil suit, and therefore
was not entitled to immediate trial,,
but should be set for the March terra
of court.
Attorneys for the petitioners had
claimed that a mandamus was of
necessity a case that demanded im-
mediate trial, or the remedy afforded
by the decision of the court would be
lost. The mandamus case was set for-
hearing three times, delay in each
instance being at the request of at-
torneys for the defendants.
ELKS BAND TO
GIVE CONCERT
IN CITY PARK
The first band concert since last
fall Avill be given by the Elks Band
in the city park at 4 o’clock on Sun-
day afternoon. The band is now
comprised of over 40 pieces, with
over 50 attending the weekly re-
hearsals, and some good music is
assured those attending Sunday’s
concerts. Crowds enjoyed the music-
furnished by the band last summer-
and fall, hnd the director states that
with the addition of new members
and new repertoire, a treat is in
store for the music lovers of the com-
munity.
Historical Ground
Will be Donated to
Historical Society
A tract of two or three acres, part
of the ground over which the battle
of the Resaca de las Palmas was
fought in the Mexican War, is to he
given to the Valley Historical Socie-
ty by the Brownsville real estate firm
of Fernandez, Morton and Scott, ac-
cording to an announcement made at
the last meeting of the society. In
this battle, General Zachary Taylor
commanded the United States troops,
The society hopes to make the plot
of ground a shrine for patriotism in
the Valley, and hope for Valley-wide
co-operation in the erection of a
monument.
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Buell, Ralph L. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1926, newspaper, February 11, 1926; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1003935/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.