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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1927
Page
10
Local short items recount residents traveling to Dallas and Higginbotham area visits, plus rambling ads for canary birds leather goods boot shop auto repair and a Midland reporter job, with relatives staying in Ill Springs Mineola and San Angelo plans. Names include Charles W Lette Mex G Hutchinson Le Roy Mildred Hest Newman Yates Yarbro Chastain Puller and McAlester from Batonville.
Local item notes a prominent Houston financier visiting Alpine and the Davis Mountains with family, staying a few days on a pleasure trip. The piece also lists various Alpine residents, visitors, and local business ads, mentioning farms, shops, and services with scattered names and places around Alpine, Fort Stockton, and nearby.
A feature length travelogue style film leads with Rex Benen as producer and writer, boasting an all star cast headed by Viola Dans. The picture is billed as a real human story about a text in search of food and shelter, with a strong Klondike story backdrop. News Heel runs 11 days with a Wednesday Thursday Western program.
A movement to promote the Mexican Border Route asks for a test trip from San Antonio to El Paso to gauge road conditions and attract tourists. Reports claim the route from Laredo to El Paso draws growing interest and could become a military and commercial corridor with possible paving from Brownsville to El Paso.
Hotel Orndorff on the plaza El Paso invites Alpine and West Texas visitors to make it their headquarters while in El Paso. The new hotel offers rooms with bath circulating hot water rates start at 2.90 and up. Coffee shop Spanish restaurant barber shop and beauty shop are in connection.
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