Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1919 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

SPECIAL EXCURSION TO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY OF TEXAS Private Pullman Cars—Special Train Round Trip Rate $25.00 from RENSSELAER for this excursion only, including meals, berth and all side trips. We will you to Houston and there you will see a busy, hustling southern city. We will take you to Galveston and while there give you a boat ride on a big pleasure boat out on the Gulf of Mexico. We will provide bathing suits and bathing "privileges so that you may take g dip in the briny 'waters of the Gulf. We will give you an automobile ride covering about 200 miles through the Southern Rio Grande Valley. You will visit farms and farmers. You will visit grape fruit and orange" groves. You will see the fragrant pomegranate at home where nature intended it to grow. We will traverse the historic border between Mexico and the United States. You will see beautiful palm trees and the fig in its native element. You will see hundreds of tropical and semi-tropical plants at home In this valley. You will find the farmer growing hogs and cattle for one-half of the cost to yon.. Where hogs and cattle graze on green pasture every month in-the year. You will find farmers who made $150.00 *per acre from dheir corn crop for the year 1917. You will find other farmers who made $300.00 per acre from their broom corn for the year’ 1917. You will, find farmers who made SIOOO.OO per acre from their cabbage crop for the year 1917. You will find other farmers who made SIOOO.OO per acre from their onion crop for the year 1917. You will find alfalfa fields being cut from eight to eleven times per annum. You will find the richest soil in the world from twenty to sixty feet deep, where you can make the moisture to suit the crop and where the sun shines down nearly every day. It is a wonderful trip. You will travel by private Pullman sleeping cars in a special, fast, through train. You will be furnished three good meals every day and a good bed every night. DON'T MISS THE TRIP: TAKE YOUR WIFE WITH YOU Friday, Apr. 4 on Monon train No. 6 at 3:54 p. m. W. E. Stewart Land Co. ELMER GWIN, Special Representative