McAllen Daily Press (McAllen, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 103, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 29, 1926 Page: 1 of 4
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The Only Afternoon Daily Newspaper Published
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McAllen Daily Press
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Out of thia movement the McAllen
Then the* only aide of man that
ion
Wichita, Kansas.
foiratoi
Glendenning
Mesdames E.
nurse.
We have caught our clue from an
idea that was expressed In a talk that
was madv at the High School bulle-
ts nothing like a good conscience of
a life spent in helping .others. —
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TODAY A TOMORROW TODAY & TOMORROW
McAllen, Texas. Thursday, April 2D, 1028.
this purpose, to hold for same.
The subject that I have decided to
write on. today Is, “building a town’*
Card and • Leo
The few business men who wi<re
here at that time attempted and did
putjn a water trough on Main
Street for the farmers use when they
came to town. > - ♦
Dr. W. E. Davis will leave Monday
for, Houston to attend a
Hpr 8tat% Ottcopatinc ’
which corfvenm thewr fi, suit
6th*"
It you were called upon the write
an article on this subject, what
would you say?
las ceased to
low it is the
bnest service,
kertising and
lea with it
s to others,
p day and
JUt and’ Mrs. J. itr Andrews re-
turned Tuesday from-’ «' week’s visit
to Dallas.
THE McALLEN PRESS GOES
INTO EVERY AMERICAN
HOME IN McALLEN
assured TuntTe -for Yhe construction of'
a large and commodious
Removed to Temple
Sanitarium
Dr. jfih Wlghdtn A Mission, who
has been a patient at the McAllen hos
pltal since Monday, wan taken last
night on‘ the 7 o'clock-trahr to the-
Spirit-was started, and the same fel-
laws who Unfit the first water trough
sin .
THAT’S MY BABY
r and Tige Comedy
USTER’S SKYZ
L ROCKET
Editor of the
g The Dayton,
At a meeting of the McAllen business men last night
in the office of the Mayor, therbuilding of an eight
story hotel was launched, with an enthusiastic meeting.
They took up a subscription
bllilfi thiiulrough. and canvassed
n« watte,;
telegraph.
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business ot
chfef agency,
manised and
int once good
hed nothing
e deliberately
Mrs. Fred. !*." Gantner, MlnsTlw
dolyn .Ga.ntner, and Mrs. W. B. Win
'ston, returned overlatfil Tuesday
eight from San Antoni-Where they
"visited friends .for ten days.
jafttfdav.as delo-
Allen Real Estate
be joined enroute
from all Of the
After all, whSt is mere mony, com-
pared with a life of genuine satis-
faction, and to Jsnow that fou are
head and shoulders the equal of all
the other ftjiiows in the cotamunity.
W. *L. Byas, ag<^29. ex-service man,
who spent many months in France in
the service of his country, died yes-
terday at Ft. Sam Houston hospital
in San. Antonio.
•EJis remains will be shipped to In
gram, Texas, where it will be laid to
scat In the Nichols Cemetery, bjr his
buddles. He has been a resident of
/ for seven-, years,' his. tern-
There were about thirty business men present and 100
per cent of them were enthusiastic for the proposition.
The business men of McAllen were asked to subs-
—-Igay ■>
Good Comedy
tucompanlfd them to Dallas,' whore Music. Olub. Mrs. W. G.. Stewart
Dr. rfoMr attended the NaUonri Med and Mrs. R.- L. Gregory will* also sb
leal Association,'are .at-presenT flsit- tend, the meeting, both of these ladies
jng lli.7 father and mother of Dr. being mambera of the executive board
Doss at RaiT Saba. They will return of the 5th District. They will he.
home the first of the week representatives trpm the Study Club,
Brenhiolts& Landry
VALLEY’S LARGEST JEWELER
All In Readiness for The Big Show
of the American Legion at the Palace
The only thing that , the man who
gives gets, that the man who, does I and that it is as much 'your totfm
not get is a satisfaction that he has | as anyone’s.
become hi« .best invqstnient and
greatest source of pleasure. Thera
BRF.NHOLTS &
The House of Smile
hold is to be built on a lot 75x150, building having
two store buildings on the ground floor and the lobby,'
with a mezzinine floor and * eight stories including
ground floor and mezzinine, with a roof garden on top.
The cost of the building, including furnishing will be
approximately $2,000.00 per room, being 150 rooms
at a cnst nf $350,000^00. “-------------'—**t’
The site for the buildinghas been selected, and is on
the present Methodist Church site, being built on the
Fred N. Gardner and D. NV Rowe
will leave tdnight
tend a uieetftttt
tors Friday and
gate from the Me
fioard. They wifi
by representatives
I Valley towns.
A deal was consumated yesterday CHICAGO CONTINUES QUEST
afternoon Whereby Dr. F. E Osborn ' ; ~- -------------
meeting ot > Mrs. Alex Woolridge*left yesterday
'Y6f “WifioiT'MissourL where she will
visit her father and ntolhhr; Mr. atM
S^i^McCalL.,^^
nas been Passes Away
assassins
A Horney Bul8 ,eft last ni8bt on the
»o'clock train tor Dallas, City, III.,
The beer waFfhat has raged iu ""Ponse to a telegram conveying
I the news of (he critical illness of
— Mrs. M. H. Blaine entertained the
members of the Merry Go Round
Bridge Club and if number ot addi-
tion*!—guests this afternoon.
The local McAllen post number Among the comediana- that will be
.thirty sevfn will present to focal featured are G. A. Miser, Floyd Watt;
ahowgoersTKAcIeverost attraction
seen tn many moon, When they pre-
has been closed sent the “Monster Legion Minstrel"
tonight.
With a cast of some forty perform-
ers picked from the Valley’s-Clever-
est entertainers, a full two hour show
will be * presented, featuring the
latest song hits together with a full
first part- cast.
Special scenery and costumes will
There are many things that can
be said, and many different phase*
Of city building. There' are many
different kinds of people w'ho must
be contended with, and many dif-
ferent angles that a city’s people
have to contend with.
Mr. Horn told of an old "water
trough movement away back yonder
when McAllen ' was In its infancy.
This wag MBOIlt the year' IW when
the McAllen spirit, or the ‘‘water
trough’’ idea first originated in Mc-
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Those who refused hare since
then moved away and beeq forgot-
ten. Thera might be a few excep-
tions to this, but those who refused
to give ahd have remained still
refuse to give.
received by Mrs. Burg stated that Mr.
Burg, SF., had passed away.
mamtferod* Ii
were quiz- friends «in McAllen, having spent sev-
eral winters here* as a guest in the
home of his son. He. was 82 years of
, Many, friends of the Burg fam-
sympathise with them in their
A business man may give till it
hurts, of hi» means, in helping his
town go forward, and when his town
has grown in also, see a competitor
TBB1B nr ana raws ms fuslmnerT Sid
some of the' very fellows he bad been
working with, may drop him for the
neW man. still It pays, for the rea-
case of pneumonia several weeks ago
and never fnlly recovered. He . was
sent (o San Antonio a few days ago,
where the end came.x He was a
brother to Jack Byas of' McAllen and
left a host oft friends in the Valley,
who have knpwn him for .a long
time.vnnd learned ^o love him as a
.friend <hd companion.
Twenty-five were killed
the last four months. Over a liuiy *'11
hundred suspects
zed by the police.
McSwiggin was killed in a
fusilade of machine-gun fire-'®*®)
are from a curtained auto Tuesday *'>
night- ...sorrow
Those who have “always given
travcTJuTlt the town up around*ChMe~
who refused to give. But those who
have built the town have had a bet-
ter time, been liked socially better
who have to
have as yet
But to me
r better days
r a cOopera-
Lr tn th^f
If man as
t editors, oom-
■<l. guard as
of their ad
ley do the run
s brought the
pause , every
has sought tD
leipfni, human
I the change
f Tnl* property & very valuable as'detailed to hunt the
business property and is ideally Io-' of Assistant States
cated for business building, being Williata McSwiggin.
; one-tartf block ofT Main street 7- _ *_ _ __________
, With the sale of this property, the in Chicago for the past’several
State Bank and Trust Company
McAllen for mapy years. L—-
A. E. Cairns, A. L. Meyers, white
such singers as Mose Harris ‘ and
Bradley Kimbrough wIllTte heard*in
* *,
somo of Broadway's latest song hits.
Thq. “Senior Five” orchestra . will
handle the music and a number of
rod hot specialties will be introduced.
Hampstead Bentley, “Southland’s
SweOtest Tenor”, lato of the Al. G.
’Ffel Is Minstrels is .making a apodal
The same conditions prevail in
every town. Some give to boost
things along and home will not give,
but reap the rewards ot the money
spent .for public enterprise.
getting most out of the life they have
lived. _
oibe stock in the proposition to the ametmbnf ^50,-
000.00, and furnish the lot upon which the hotel would
be built. Approximately $40,000.00 of that has been
subscribed up to date. ”
Mr. Ralph C. Cameron, architect, who is employed
here the McAllen school board-la work out the
school building program, had recently returned from
Dallas, whexe lie-rec
are mosUy all here yet and _ have __
prospered in a way, most of them do- 5011 clf>l AftMhT U> la the spirit
teg well;-----------*-----------
business men. There were some
who gave their ten dollars and some
who would not give a penny.
Mrs P I* Williams Lift nvortend-
yesterday for Kansas, accompanying
her aunt and uncle home whe- have
beejj her guests through Tire winter
►ti^d a great deal to one of the hlg-^trlp back to McAllen to help thfo
' g.'St .shows of Its kind ever attempt-'voi-hy cause ' put the .show over tn j the-Valley
Mr. and Mrs. Harold L.emhurg have ; , » • , . . * ,,
helped. From a business standpoint
it does not help anything. The buy-
ing public does- not take these things
I’tTrnr ft realm t whch trading,' 'and 'the
man who does not give has learned
this fact. Therefore he 1b Secure In
his business patronage and can say
“imt'A knowing that it will not cost
his> one penny.------;----—
homo pvqgrtMiveness. ■ Pelug "ilttu ot
the fellows about town, and taking a
keen delight in the factJ hat he has
added his weight to the best things ir
in his community, are his reward
bvcauiB"fht’'’WG,t‘r""bT'irie ""Methodist, * f OK McS WIGGIN ASS 1
Chureh property on ISth St. and 17th .—■—: ■ ■■...
Avenne ’ The consideration was. re-' CHICAGO, April 29.-—The Father of O. E. Burg
ported to have been around .
iThe 'site for their new church has
not been selected yet, butjterhaps.be
selecte'd at once.
There is considerable prospects fof
there lading a large hotel going up on
tliis property, and if plans that
how under way ihaterialize, Dr. Os-
. 4ioru- will tusa-Uw» property over to*
the hotel syndicate.
Property In this neighborhood is
changing hands rapidly. P. E. Mdnt-
gomery bought the.. Nasxarene.J.jtrO;
petty on the next corner south and
across the street and only kept it
‘ 2f”bbpra*an3 ’r»«oid it. Many other
deals have been made in the locality.1
- -recently.----• —-r—:—"—;—H-
The Methodist denomination have1
in .the deal that
kept the ’church building and *w1U..»t the Palace theat^*
. move Tl off. ’ * ----- ‘ *
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McAllen Daily Press (McAllen, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 103, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 29, 1926, newspaper, April 29, 1926; McAllen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1199354/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting McAllen Public Library.