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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1924
Page
3
This page lists shopping ads and social news from Alpine including Miss Eva Barnett visiting Marfa, Hord family travel, and local merchants Garnett’s Pharmacy Palace Pharmacy and Robinson and Co promoting at home prices. It covers upcoming events, school and league notes, and community sightings around Marfa and Fort Stockton.
County Judge Jas A Burke officiated the marriage of Francis A Ferguson of San Antonio and Nell M Chandler of Dryden on Tuesday afternoon in a formal county ceremony.
The Alamo Lumber Co yard adopts the Howell Lumber Company name with A. J. Hanna Jr retained as local manager and J. W. Howell of Marfa named manager of the Marfa and Alpine yards. This marks a new management era for the business.
Tickets go on sale at the Kandy Kitchen for the Moore Kortschak concert at Sul Ross College Auditorium Monday evening. Francis Moore the pianist and Hugo Kortschak the violinist are billed as the most distinguished combination in the Sonata field.
Alpine high school announces that first place winners advance to the State Meet next week with Mr. Connell. Named to represent Alpine are Scotty Kelly Walter Garnett Mary Moss Audrey McSpadden Thomas Funk Henry Lease Kermit Allen Eldridge Church Lee Smith. Thanks are given to Alpine business sponsors for prizes including Alpine Drug Store and Mojave Theatre.
The Department of Music at Sul Ross State Teachers College presents Miss Louise Berkeley in a piano recital on April 24 at 4 40 in the college auditorium. She will be assisted by Miss Louise Noble performing Beethoven Rondo in C Bendemeer's Stream Scott Gatty Aragonaise Massenet Dance of the Gnomes Whelpley Souvenir Impromptu Karganou Pantin Noctes made Acomew Godard. See The Avalanche for stationery and envelopes and a $1 25 package of 100 sheets.
E A Waldron of the Waldron Quicksilver and Mineral Development Company outlines plans for incorporation and stock at par one dollar, with property improvements under way in Terlingua. He expects to start extraction of quicksilver likely by early fall and will visit the city around April 26 to transact business on behalf of the company.
Alpine Marfa and Fort Davis Odd Fellows and Rebekahs celebrate the 108th anniversary of Odd Fellowship with a basket picnic at the Paisano Encampment grove. State President Mrs Bertie Davis and Grand Warden Mrs Josephine Forbes visit, with speeches and a new Rebekah Lodge to be instituted in Marfa.
Mr W H Allison has sold his Meat Market business across the railroad and accepted employment with Hord and McCutcheon He invites friends and former customers to visit him in the new quarters Allison is an experienced meat cutter and is a valuable addition to the market force at Hord and McCutcheon
The Fire House under construction on city property at the Tourist Park will add a shower bath and sewer connection for tourist use. Officials say these conveniences will attract travelers and a cooking area and a rest room for ladies could further improve the camp.
Announcement to Alpine and Big Bend residents that Allen's Planery has installed new woodworking machinery. The note highlights built in features for homes and emphasizes quality over price with a motto about dependable service. Service contact via phone 45.
The program lists invocations prayers scripture readings and hymns for both the Parents Service at the Methodist Church with Rev Bowles and Rev J A McMillan and the Youth Service with Charles Simpson and Freda Gibson plus a City Address by Co A Geren and Col John Perkin alongside chorals and benedictions.
Grace Bedell Ruth Smith and Altha Yates served as judges for Fort Stockton High School Clothing Contest. They toured the city with Superintendent Head and planned to attend the state competition in Galveston in April. The day included a luncheon and a fish fry at Stockton Lake.
A Brewster County Texas court order warns non residents and landowners including Littler estates and Kerr Mercantile to appear May 26 1924 as a jury of freeholders assesses damages for opening a road along State Highway No 3 through lands around Marathon. Damages to be claimed in writing to the commissioners court.
Dr Hounshell of Nashville official in Christian work for the Methodist Board visited Alpine meeting twenty seven college and town leaders at the Hollands Hotel. He spoke on his Mexico mission tour and needs in Brazil and worldwide Christianization opportunities for American students. Also present was Mr TH Shelby head of Extension at the University of Texas who described Methodist work on campus.
Local store in Alpine Texas promises to meet and discount prices from any mail order house on all merchandise. Customers urged to bring catalogs to prove savings and prosperity from shopping in their home town.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hord mourn the death of a Corsicana resident, a Mississippian by birth, who died Saturday April 1 at his home. He would have turned eighty on the 7th of the month. Friends extend sympathy to Mrs. Hord and the bereaved family.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a community event or service at 8:10 p m to aid a figure named Jonah or Jonas. Mentions a pastor and a school, but the text is garbled and unclear about exact actions or participants.
The readable text hints at a job notice or interview request linked to a San Antonio area but contains many garbled words. It mentions a manufacturing opportunity, a high value of 5900, and a resident interview context, yet lacks coherent facts or clear names and dates.
Church notes indicate Beery plans travel to San Antonio with no evening services, other than league service, and morning hours are listed as Bays Week starting Sunday.
A supplier reports adding 1500 steers to the herd across cowster ranches in the region. The manager notes ongoing shipments to U.S. buyers.
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