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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
3
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Alpine notices include visits from El Paso and Del Rio figures, a steam laundry promotion, and various ads for Hord Co cotton seed meal, Diamond C bacon, Schillings coffees, and Measday Co beef. New arrivals, real estate brokers Collins Glasgow & Co, and cattle rancher arrivals are listed along with social visits and upcoming events.
Alpine updates list Hord & Company as the go to for goods and Measday & Co orders. Residents from Marfa Fort Davis Valleys and Douglas visit, with Shippable fruit and watch repairs advertised. Several town figures move, visit or announce jobs and property transactions as community life pursues summer business and social events.
The Talleys suffered about five hundred dollars in horse stock losses and other misfortunes. John Talley injured his finger by a baseball causing flesh injury. A further $250 mule died. The family left Tuesday for Eagle Pass amid wishes that their troubles ease.
Eugene Stroud sixteen year old son of J A Stroud and a rancher eighty miles southeast of here killed three panthers this week with seven hounds. He tracked them to a cliff and killed the N nine foot long old one with his rifle. Eugene is proud of the feat.
The Civic Improvement Club hosted a lawn festival at Mrs. J. H. Derrick's home on Tuesday night. A large crowd enjoyed refreshments and a fine musical and literary program. Proceeds totaled 43 dollars as the ladies plan to award a contract for a bandstand.
The article reports strong public enthusiasm for an upcoming dry farm meeting. It notes generous subscription to the expense fund and updates on the finance committee and event committees. The next Avalanche will include additional details.
Alpine defeated Marfa in both games of a Monday doubleheader, winning 4–0 and 5–1 as 16-year-old Harry Talley shone on the mound for Alpine in game one while George Blackburn contributed in relief for the second. Marfa players showed grit but visitors were outmatched. Alpine hosted and a dance followed with Marfa visitors listed among attendees.
Master Grant Woodward brought The Avalanche two magnificent peaches and a huge radish grown on the J C Bird ranch in Brewster county. The peaches measure ten and a half inches in circumference and the radish is fourteen inches long and seven inches round. The samples show what irrigation and a little work can achieve in Brewster county soil.
Reg Measday has bought an interest in J. H. Sumner’s grocery store and the partners invite continued patronage to the new firm. They pledge good treatment and thanks for past support.
Young People’s Society presents The Salvation of the City with Miss Sadie Crawford leading opening exercises including songs prayer and Scripture Rom 12 1 12. Songs papers by Clifton Ferguson Beulah Moseley and May Sanford recitation by Bessie Newton closing exercises focus on saving the city.
In Marathon the Marathon Oil and Development Company struggles with machinery failures and may abandon the current site to drill elsewhere. C N Holland, longtime rustler for the San Antonio Express, visited Alpine friends of the paper yesterday. The note closes with a homely breakfast and meal ideas and a prompt to Tell Measday & Co. for troubles.
Miss Jennie James, a valued Roswell public school teacher, married El Paso resident Robert J. McClenny at a Methodist parsonage in Alpine Texas. Miss James, niece of Capt. Jepson W. James, traveled with him to his Alpine cattle ranch shortly before the ceremony. The groom recently worked as a cattleman in New Mexico and now pursues business in El Paso. The couple will reside in El Paso.
A brief ad encourages customers to patronize home industry and have laundry work done locally to save money, urging readers not to send their money away. It mentions JPhone 37, Alpine Stean as the laundry.
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