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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1931
Page
7
Fort Davis correspondent reports sparse text with names and phrases unclear, noting local notes and terse fragments. The readable bits reference names and places, hinting at a brief community item without a clear event or outcome.
Zuber has returned to a San Antonio home after bees in place for three or four weeks. He mentions an apartment in their route to rent and notes passes of over sixty years of ing people away who did not fit. He plans to go to Fort Davis again and will be contacted when the apartment is rented. While here, fencing was done on land belonging to Zuber and Mrs Zuber, about 35 acres, part of the old Dan Murphy estate. Mrs Murphy was the former wife of Dan Murphy before she married Mr Zuber.
Bob Johnson took second in the high jump at the district meet in Alpine last week, five feet nine inches. Audrey Miller competed in declamation. The piece also records long, winding anecdotes about Aunt Melissy Williams of Saragosa, a Civil War era figure famed for wartime travels, encounters, and survival tales.
The Fort Davis schools announce employment for the upcoming year. Supt B E Coan heads the staff with Miss Mabel Bloys Miss Callie Holt John Prude Miss Eda Watson Mrs R Withers and Miss Jeasle Weatherby. One position remains unfilled. A census by John Prude shows 353 pupils in the district up eleven from last year. Schools end in May.
The Fort Davis church schedule lists Baptist services for Sunday and the fourth and fifth Sabbaths. A handbill invites worship with phrases like Is Love Welcome One Mile High but looking higher. Missionary Baptist Dode church is named in the invitation. Frank Abies and John Dumas dispute lease payments on the Dumas building housing the Abies restaurant. Rentals were understood behind, and an out of court agreement fixes Abies to vacate by month end. B F Coan with R J Ratlitt of Sul Ross, with Professor Bean of Presidio, traveled to Barstow for a brief business visit Monday afternoon.
A Fort Davis area theft wave targets assorted items including car wheels a generator and a cowboy’s underwear. A 19 year old Mexican resident of Fort Davis faces multiple theft charges after allegedly stealing clothing boots fire from X ranch steel traps and other goods from Clovis Moore. Mrs Mary Cox and her daughter Mrs Lee Sproul retired from local stay to Dallas and Sherman. Canyon Land County Clerk H D Bloys bought three sections of land.
The report notes Eugene Edwards on the former Mulhern ranch tract now leased to the Granger and Pool parties. It mentions Mr Pool departing for Oklahoma for personal business, with Mrs Granger and Mr Pool having stayed weeks, and C D Brown of Shawnee as head of the Oklahoma corporation tied to the resort project.
FORT DAVIS Texas and Pacific railway crews have started a large fiat dam on the Seven ranch near Tea McCutcheon’s old place now held by Jimmie Duncan. The work includes a concrete faced dam about fifty feet high and three hundred feet across, with a three hundred foot thick base and top thirty feet thick. Concrete core is in place and a dirt power shovel is active as piping is laid to Toyah and Toyahvale.
Monday at noon two baseball games were played at the Junior High School. A Madera ward team beat our older boys 6 to 3. Seventh grade girls beat Central rol fourth grade boys 13 to 8. Last Thursday there were more games 10 to 2. The honor roll for fifth, sixth and seventh grades lists Don True Bowman Dorothy Burling Vir Willis Philip Newsom Bobby Major Bill Blevins John Holla Joe Hord Murray Jackson Rutger Major Paul Penrod Lucille Anderson Barbara Cox Margaret Fletcher Arlia Blankenship Richard Lewis Rose Winette Coteman Melba McMurry Audrey Belle Julia Gentry Joyce Phelps Brelyn Whiteside.
Genevieve Fast notes the annual district Interscholastic meet held in Alpine drawing contestants from fourteen counties. The event showcased top performers while district schools, including Alpine Junior High, reported strong attendance and seniors preparing for graduation in a new auditorium.
The Buffalo Frail Council selects a Davis Mountains site near Madera Springs below cliffed towers for a summer boy scout camp. Attending were H P Davis Revs Gus amage and Winston Borum. The W J Kison ranch location near Phantom Lake hosts the camp set for three weeks after June 8 drawing hundreds of boys.
A fragment reports a young girl named Irene de Troerg, a ten year old from Russia, showing surprising skill in an open event. The line suggests she will paw, route, and perform strongly as the tournament begins.
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