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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1939
Page
2
Local society notes list Dr and Mrs CB Casey and Mrs J W Gilmer visiting in Austin and San Antonio respectively. Families including the Smiths, Lockharts, and others spend Easter holidays with relatives in Alpine and nearby towns. medical updates report Mrs TF Cook traveling to Del Rio and Mr Harry Bryan recovering from surgery.
Rev and Mrs M M Fulmer will travel to Waco to attend the Texas Baptist Sunday school convention. Mrs Fulmer will present Tuesday on The Junior Department Organized and Equipped and lead a round table discussion. She is superintendent of Alpine Baptist Sunday school Junior department which recently earned the Standard of Excellence. Only five such departments exist in Texas. They plan to return Friday.
Miss Margaret Adams daughter of Mr and Mrs Dom Adams Alpine will visit New York City this weekend with students from Ward-Belmont College Nashville where she attends school The trip is part of Easter vacation activities by Oklahoma county attorney and her sister Ruth Morris and others accompany them in El Paso Tex and nearby locales including Alpine and Austin during the period
Funeral services for Mrs. Charles G. Burnham, 38, who died of pneumonia in San Antonio, were held at the Presbyterian church. Born Adele Haskell in St Paul, she married Brewster County Commissioner Charles Burnham in 1913 and lived on their ranch in the county’s south part and in Alpine.
A Marfa blaze caused substantial damage to two business buildings on the Valentine end of town believed to have started from spontaneous combustion. Estimated losses near ten thousand dollars affected age structures adjacent to the Fort Davis Valentine road. The fire impacted local businesses and involved WPA laborers and equipment operators in the response and assessment.
Fort Davis reports a $10,000 Works Progress Administration project has begun under County Engineer RD Swarts. Work starts in Jeff Davis County with local officials confirming site preparation and anticipated completion steps.
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