Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 253, Ed. 1, Thursday, April 25, 1907 Page: 4 of 4
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Closing
Out Sale! j
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS.
On and after May the first my
Entire Stock of Goods
will be put on the market at and below cost. This
is an opportunity of a lifetime to buy
goods at such low prices.
Many goods
At Prices Lower Than the
Wheteiaie Price Today.
I invite my old customers and the public generally
to come and take advantage of these low prices. I
also have a great many goods at prices that will
interest the merchants who are also invited to call
and see for themselves.
F. SNIPES
THE DAILY HERALD.
THURSDAY APRIL 25 1907..
The Brownsville Grocery Co.
FEED STUFFS
Alfalfa hay
Oats
Prairie Hay
Staple and
Fancy
Groceries
We Sell
BLUE VALLEY
BUTTER
The Best on
v Earth
W. H. CLAY Proprietors K. H. McDAVITT
H. cTfet Field
Commercial Co.
Groceries Feed Shelf and
Heavy Hardware Crockery
Glassware and Non-Breakable
Enameled Ware Oils
Paints Window Glass Car-
riage and Wagon Material
Lime and Cement Stude-
baker Buggies Wagons
AAAiiiAAAAA
I Chatter Oak Stoves f
f Old. "JOE GIDEON" Pure Rye
Awarded Gold Medals:
St. LouisMo. 1904 Portland Oregon 1905
vSOLD ONLY IWtr
T. Crixeii & Bro. V. L. Crixell
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS
Dry
LA FRONTER1ZA
JOSE BESTEIR.O (8b BRO.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS INJ
Goods Notions Shoes Hats Ready Made Clothiag
Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods and Jewelry
SiSTEKO BlflLWNG
TBXA&.
PERSONALS
L. H. Hallam went to Hidalgo
Joday.'
Mr. 'and Mrs. Closner left for
their home at Hidalgo today?
; L. G.JJastman an experienced
grape grower from California is
here on a prospecting trip. J
C. Liadsey of San Antonio ar-
rived last night' on a business visit
and;will be hexeabo'ut-a: week. '
O. C. Sadder returned last night
from- -San Antonio having been
greatly benefitted by his stay there.
S. E. Silver came dqwn from
Mercedes yesterday with the. ex
cursion returning home this morning.
Judge-Wells -:re'tunied 1 Home last
night after a short absence visit-
ing San .Diego Corpus Christi and
other points. .
W. H. Stenger and S. A. Rob
ertson returned to Bessie today
having come down with the ex
cursion yesterday.
Miss Ida B. Schreck of Cincin
nati Ohio who has been spending
some time in Matamoros with her
uncle F. S. Schreck left for home
today.
Mrs. A. Celaya and sister Miss
Scanlau returned last night from
Corpus Christi having spent sev
eral dayo very pleasantly as guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Duval West there.
Mrs. W. A. Neale left today
with her daughter . Miss Elsie
Neale on a visit to her son Willie
Neale at Monterey where Willie
has been employed for some tim
past.
A. E. Buck traveling freight
agent of the St. L. B. & M. with
headquarters at Corpus Christi
came in with the Houston excur
sionists yesterday and gave-his old
friends in Brownsville the. pleasure
of shaking hands with him again.
Mr. 3uck remained over today
but will leave tomorrow.
Mr. and Mrs.O. W. Hey wood
Alba Heywood Mrs. Bridgeford
Mf-Broughton and W. L. Peters
went up from Brownsville yester
day and made a short visit to Mer
cedes returning on the Houston
excursion train. Today the same
party drove out to see the Blalack
and Piper farms.
County Assessor Ezequiel Cava
zos is on a tour of the county
hunting the elusive tax dodger.
Mr. Cavazos goes armed with Capt.
McDonald s letter of instructions
on this trip and he will doubtless
bring iri considerably increassed
assessments from a good many
property owners by virtue of the
persuasive powers of that epistle.
New Governor Once a Minister.
One of the new governors recent
ly inaugurated Dr. H. A. Butchel
of Colorado is so far as known
the only minister and college pro-
fessor. For six years he has been
chancellor of the state university
at Denver and before then was an
active minister and missionary.
Dr. Butchel was born in Ohio
sixty years ago and was educated
at De Pauw university Indiana a
famous Methodist college- After
graduation be entered the minis
try and shortly after was sent to
Bulgaria as a missionary remain-
ing there for several years. He
finally returned to this country to
become pastor of a church in In-
diana from which he was transfer-
red to several Indiana churches i"
succession and then to others in
New York state and in Ne sv Jersey .
From his last charge he went to
the university at Denver.
It is understood that Dr. Butchel
woum nave mucn preferred to re-
main in his scholastic seat and to
have eschewed politics. But he
was practically forced to accept
tne nomination last tall he being:
so esteemed in Colorado that his
party believed correctly as the
event proved that he would be
feiled as the best man to quiet the
severe labor troubles of the past few
years. Holland's Magazine.
Commercial printing at Hekald
Ofkc.
SAN BENITO LAND
i AND WATER COMPANY
Held a Directors' Meeting at Bessie and
Determined to at Once Push
Development.
The meeting of directors of the
San Benito Land aud Water Com-
pany ivag held Tuesday at Bessie
the following officers and members
being present: Alba Heywood
president; W. H. Stenger vice
president and general manager; E'.-
F.Rowson treasurer; S. A. .Rob.-.
. . r-V -TV .
ertson secretary; kj. yv. ueywooa
and R. L. Batts".
'The meeting determined to push
fee work of- development as rapid
ly as possible settled "some mat
ters regarding-land interests f theji
company and while in effect no
change was made in the policy: of
the company but a number of mat-
ters ' of more or less importance
were decided.
2b Newman
3 Imported B? lao
Mackerel
Pickled Herring
" Smoked-Herring
Imported Swiss
Cheese
i
Staple and
Fancy
Groceries
Phone 65
Fancy Crackers
Heintz Pickles
Crosse-Blackwell's
Jams
Maple Syrup
Breakfast Foods
Stuffed Olives
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$
Twentieth Century Club.
The meeting of the Twentieth
Century Card Club held yesterday
afternoon with Mrs. A. Ashheim
was quite a pleasant affair. Owing
to the absence of several members.
there were onlv three tables of
players one less than usual but it
was nevertheless a pretty and in
teresting game. There were three
contestants for the royal souvenir
Mesdames Stephenson Lay ton and
Chase. The first named lady cut
ting high was awarded a handsome
silver mounted hat brush. Mrs
Norman E. Rendall won the second
souvenir a very pretty jardiniere.
Refreshments were served after
the game consisting of coffee
lobster salad with mayonnaise and
saltines.
The postponed evening meeting
will be held next Wednesday when
the club and its guests will be en
tertained by Mesdames Celaya and
Layton and Miss May field.
The guests at this meeting were
Mrs. Stephenson of Corsicana Tex
as Mrs. Chase of Dallas Texas
and Mrs. Thorne of Coatesville
Pa. The club members present be-
sides the hostess were Mesdames
Fatsans.F. Putegnat R. B. Creager
Porter F. Layton N. E. Rendall
and Miss Julia Bollack.
SERPENT POISON.
Tha Venom of the Cobra Is Deadly A!
most Beyond Belief.
It was in the autumn of 1891
that Calmette while acting as di-
rector of the Bacteriological insti-
tute of Saigon Cochin China first
commenced his experiments on the
neutralization of serpent venom in
te animal system. He had excep-
tional opportunities in the matter
of serpent venom wherewith to car-
ry out his investigations inasmuch
as a band of cobras had recently at-
tacked a village in the vicinity of
Baclieu and by order of the gov-
ernor of the district no fewer than
ninety specimenfe-of the terrible Na-
'a tripudians or cobra de capello
were forwarded in a barrel to the
institute.
Forty of the reptiles arrived
alive and several were at once sac-
rificed to secure their venom glands.
Each gland resembling both in size
and shape a shelled almond con-
tains about thirty drops of venom
and in this transparent limpiS liquor
is embodied a toxin of extraor-
dinary strength. As is well known
this cobra is the most dreaded of
all serpents and it is widely dis-
tributed over. India Burma Suma-
tra Java Malacca and Cochin Chi-
na. Until Calmette however set
to work to systematically study the
nature of - this reptile's venom hut
little precise or reliable informa-
tion had been obtained as to its
character. It was of course nec-
essary in the first instance to as-
certain within as narrow a limit as
possible the exact degree of toxic
power inherent in the venom and to
determine if possible the precise
dose lethal in respect of each varie-
ty of animal experimented upon.
A correct calculation of the quan-
tity of venom required in every case
was however found to be quite im-
possible for so virulent is the
poison that a single drop of an
emulsion produced by pounding up
eight glands in 300 grams of dis-
tilled water is. sufficient when in-
troduced into the vein of a- Tabbif s
ear to kill it in five minutes. All
the "mainnrals'to which1 Calmette ad-
ministered this cobra venom such
as monkeys dogs rabbits guinea
pigs andrats succumbed more or
less quickly according "to the size
of the dose. Westminster Gazette.
FRONTIER LUMBER CO.
Sells Sasb.. Doors Blinds Paints and
S All Kfndsf:BuiMersyStippires F
I SAIso Complete Line of WALL PAPER 'and Other In
terior Decorations. Represents Four Leading
Wall Paper .Manufacturers
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AN ORDINANCE.
Levying and providing for the assess-
ment and collection of taxes to defray
the current expenses of the City Got-
ernment ot tne City ot Urownsvillef
Texas for the improvement of roads
bridges and streets of said City and
for the erection construction and pur-
chase of public buildings streets sew-
ers -water-works and other permanent
improvements within the limits of said
City for the year A. D. 1907 and
providing for six per cent interest per
annum and a penalty of ten per cent
on all delinquent taxes etc.
Be it ordained by the City Council
of the City of Brownsville Texas.
First. That for the purpose of de-
fraying the current expenses of the City
Government of the City of Brownsville
lor tne year A. u. 1VU7 there is now
hereby levied and shall be assessed and
collected an Ad Valorem Tax of twenty-
five (25c) cents on the One Hundred Dol
lars (5100.00) cash value thereof estimat
ed in lawful currency of the United
States (which said cash value shall be
estimated in the manner prescribed by
the laws of this State and ordinances of
this City) on all property real personal
or mixed situated in the said Citv of
Brownsville County of Cameron and
State of Texas (not especially exempted
from taxation by the laws of this State
and ordinances of this City) on the firt
(1) day of January A. D. 1907 and on
all property sent out of said city of
Brownsville Texas prier to said first
aay oi januarv iyu lor tne purpose
of evading the payment of taxes thereon
and afterwards returned to said City.
second. That for the improvement
of roads streets and bridges of and within
the limits of the City of Brownsville
County of Cameron State of Texas
there is now hereby levied for the yar
A. D. 1907 an Ad Valorem Tax of Fif-
teen cents (15c) on the One Hundred
Dollars (1100.00) cash value thereof es-
timated in lawful money of the United
States (which said cash value shall be
.estimated in the manner pre6crbed by the
Laws of this State and ordinances of this
city) on all property real personal or
mixed situated in the said City of
Brownsville County of Cameron State
of Texas (and not especially exempted
from Taxatiou by the laws of this state
and ordinances of this City) on the first
day of January A. D. 1907 and on all
property sent out of said City of Browns-
ville prior to the said first day of Jan-
uary A. D. 1907 for the purpose of
evading the payment of taxes thereon
and afterwards returned to said City.
Third. That for the erection and con-
struction or purchase of water-works
public buildings streets sewers and
other permanent improvements within
the limits of the said City of Brownsville
County of Cameron State of Texas there
is now hereby levied for- the year A. D.
1907 an Ad Valorem Tax of Twenty-
five cents (25c) on the One Hundred
Dollars ($100.00) cash value thereof es-
timated in lawful currency of the United
States (which said cash value shall be
estimated in the manner prescribed by
the laws of this State and ordinances of
this City) on all' property real "personal
or mixed situated in the said City of
Brownsville County of Cameron and
State of Texas not especially exempted
from taxation by the laws of this State
and ordinances of this City on the first
(1) day of January A D. 1907 and on
all property sent out of said aty of
Brownsville Texas prior to said first
day of January 1907 for the purpose of
evading the payment of taxes thereon
and afterwards returned to said city.
Fourth. That all of the aforesaid;
taxes so levied shall be paid in lawful
money of the United States only.
Fifth. That all such taxes as herein
before levied shall become and be due
and payable on the first (1) day of Oe-
tober A. D. 1907.
Sixth. That all such taxes as herein
before levied and provided for by this
Ordinance if not paid on or before the
first day of February A. D. 1903 shall
thereafter bear interest until paid at the
rafe of six (6) per centum per annum.
Seventh. If any person or associa
tion of persons firm or corporation sliall
fail or refuse t pay the taxes imposed
upoihim or them or his or their prop-
erty by this Ordinance before the 1st
day of February A. D. 1903 then a
penalty of ten (10)) per cent shall there-
upon.accrne on the entire amount of such
taxes due by him or them and shall be
.paid by such person or persons firms or
corporations in addition to such taxes
and interest thereupon. -
Eighth. It is hereby made theiluty of
the Tax Collector of this City to collect
all such taxes interest and penalties
that accrue and become due under and
by virtue of this Ordinance as hereinbe-
fore provided and all such interest and
penalties shall be fully collected by him
at the same time that such taxes upon
which such interest and penalties may
have accrued are collected by him.
Ninth. That all Ordinances or parts
or Ordinances in anywise in conflict
with this Ordinance are now hereby re-
pealed.
Tenth. That this Ordinance shall take
effect and be in force from and after ten
(10) days publication hereof as required
by law in such cases made and provided.
Approved April 22nd. 1907.
Frederick J. Combe Mayor.
Attest:
F. Champion City Secretary.
Another discrimination that we
object to is that all the scarecrows
put up in the garden and field are
built on the masculine plan. Yet a
man is no greater scarecrow than a
woman. We wonder that in the ef-
fort to frighten crows and black-
birds into spasms no farmer or gar-
dener has ever hit upon the plan
of dressing the scarecrow to look as
a woman appears when the milk-
man and iceman see her in the
mornings. Atchison (Kas.) Globe.
A smoker never has enough
matches to mske him resist an op-
portunity to steal a few more.
. MAY PROVE FATAL
When Will Brownsville People Learn the
Importance of It?
Backache is only a simple thing
at first;
But when you know 'tis from
the kidneys;
That serious kidney troubles fol-
low; That diabetes Bright's disease
may be the fatal end
You will gladly profit by-the
following experience:
Miguel Allegro painter living
on Calle de Ocampo Laredo1 Tex.
has tried Doan's Kidney Pills and
earnestly recommends them as
follows: "If a continual backache
is any indication of kidney trouble
I had it. It annoyed me most
when bending over or attempting
to straighten up and there was
also a weakness of the kidneys'
which bothered me especially at
night. It was anything but pleas-
ant and when Doan's Kidney Pills
were recommended to me I went
at once and got a box. They re-
lieved me in a iew days and finally
disposed of the attack. The back-
ache left me the kidney secretions
were regulated and my general
health was also improved."
Plenty more proof like this from
Brownsville people. Call at J. I.
Putegnat & Bro.'s drug store and.
ask what customers report.
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo
New York sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the same Doan's
and take no other.
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Wheeler, Jesse O. Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 253, Ed. 1, Thursday, April 25, 1907, newspaper, April 25, 1907; Brownsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth147441/m1/4/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .