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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1947
Page
7
A playful dialogue shows a son recalling his father’s steady Sunday school attendance, with the father affirming his consistency and the son remarking on his own future habits, ending with a bilingual interjection.
The week showed strong wool lamb prices with top morning bids near 23.75 to 24, feeders and old sheep steady, and ewes at 7 to 10. Cattle and calf values varied, hog prices fell sharply as consumer resistance trimmed pork, while fat cows 11.29 to 15.50 and good grain fed cattle 20 to 24.80. The report notes a paring of hog supplies and mixed cattle activity across markets.
A miscellany of small, evocative scenes opens with a creditor maid dialogue about mis nuts and coats, then a rural misdirection joke about invasion era directions. A girl reports camp meeting conversion at a grocery, and a mother disciplines five year old Janie for swearing, ending with a neighbor observation.
Houston April 1 with a turbine goal of twenty eight dollars for Browsers county see Berna Bight Alpine Brewster Sey chattnen week for the fines arve of the Texas ai noes American Cancer society emit Houston evident of the Tents division Trem Cancer say announced Sha Mie Smith also announced Morahan been atiealy named Cine noth ty an ot fren and tat drive cow Lion Service sed research in the fire of cancer contol in Timer Gov cone Stevenson now areeychutan for toe tae drive pointed out that cancer deus have incensed in eee Sear unt the Genaly disease Tow ing ne person every three minutes i the United 8 writet approximately Americans in 167
The Latino American Community Center board will move monthly meetings from the first Friday to the second Friday. The April session is set for Friday the 11th at 7 20 p m at the Center. Rummage is requested with clothing and household items, nets and cuts priced at 11 25. Calves and cattle prices are listed with multiple grade ranges and sale figures.
The Holland hotel noon luncheon featured Lion John Reynolds reading a new poem and Lion Pittman announcing Lion Toombs as a candidate for Lions governor of Dist. 2 T with upcoming talks in Pecos and Odessa. J C Lewis gave an Al Jolson impersonation, and Lions Toombs Pittman McPherson Davis Paul Beard Criswell and Kay were named as district convention delegates for El Paso next month. Guests included sport Gunn Alpine Glenn Hyde and H C Cassle of Odessa. Abraham Lincoln was paid for transporting two men by flatboat to a river steamer in the Mississippi.
William Powell of Hereford, England, was granted a separation from his wife after she kept a dagger under her pillow to threaten him if he snored. Separately reported, Brazilian bauxite deposits used in aluminum manufacture are described as far from tapped and largely untouched.
A brief notice urges residents to vote in the school trustee election on April 5th. The message emphasizes civic participation and reminds readers to cast their ballots for local governance.
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