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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1925
Page
2
The Alpine Avalanche serves Alpine Texas as the official city and county paper in its thirtieth year. It publishes state and local news to upbuild the Alpine territory and asks readers to report any statements about a person’s character for correction. Editor manager T R Moody. Subscription price two dollars annually. Post office entry as second class matter.
H C Burt & Company announces the relocation of its main office to Austin to enhance service to city, county, and school offices. The firm will maintain a Dallas branch and keep the current Houston office as a branch while expanding Texas operations with staff visiting municipal entities.
Engineer Henning division engineer Miehway District No 6 left Wednesday afternoon for Sweetwater to attend a gathering of highway construction and maintenance engineers. The meeting called by Burkett aims to discuss road building and maintenance issues facing the state and is expected to benefit West Virginia highway engineers. Alpine’s ilehemith and Port Stockton’s Odom will also attend.
Brady Chamber sponsors a ten thousand dollar egg project to prove infertile eggs can profit farmers ship a carload daily. Weatherford plans a municipal band funded by tax, Texas towns embrace band taxes. Rail growth faces fights as roads seek extensions amid competition. California heat offers relief to Texans while future Texas valleys may rival California. Early gubernatorial candidates emerge, politics remain unsettled and editors' reply rates criticized.
Baylor professor Dr. C D Johnson argues that merchants should advertise during dull seasons. He cites John Wannamaker's success from year round heavy advertising and lists six reasons including reader reach, memory imprint, reduced ad spend, confidence in the advertiser, better rates, and proven higher value from continuous ads.
The Eleventh District Federal Reserve Bank at Dallas warns in its monthly business condition report that exceptionally poor wheat oat and corn yields along with cotton decline threaten farm income. Low feed crop yields force heavy farmer purchases as input costs rise.
A dental ad style line promotes Adlerika as a fast acting intestinal evacuant that removes gas in ten minutes and claims to expel large amounts of old waste matter. It touts use for constipation and stomach trouble and urges readers to buy at Alpine Drug Store J-3.
Alpine Independent School District invites bids from banking corporations and individuals in Brewster County Texas to serve as depository for funds for the 1925 27 biennium. Bids due August 27 1925 at 4 p m with interest rate and a $100 good faith check. Bond of $75 000 required. Bidder selection subject to district board rejection.
An article discusses working women balancing meals with hurried schedules. It promotes evaporated milk as a pantry staple and provides a baked dish recipe with potatoes ham and cheese. A public notice from Brewster County Texas announces probate proceedings for J D May with Ophelia May filing for letters testamentary and a publication order.
Sheriff citation directs weekly publication for ten days announcing probate of C A Brown deceased. Mrs Eula C Brown and Charles Andrew Brown Jr seek letters testamentary in Brewster County Court Alpine Texas. hearing set for August 17 1925. readers may contest. Office of Deputy Gula Burke signs.
Notice of sheriff sale in Brewster County Texas for parcels sections 18 38 36 and 24 in Block 1 identified by Scrip numbers 17 312 23 232 17 442 and 17 286 to satisfy a February 14 1922 judgment in W H Dodson vs Raymond W Fisk. Sale set September first 1925 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at Alpine courthouse.
A 1941 Beaumont Texas notice offers ten dollars for information on the whereabouts of Selima Green Sassella and George Philip Sassella or their children. Selima married George in 1880 at Galveston and traveled through Indianola Corpus Christi and Laredo in 1881, last heard from in Laredo that year. Contact Van Auken Box 8008 Beaumont Texas.
Alpine Drug Store advertises Lavoptik eye wash with camphor witch hazel hydrastis claiming rapid relief for sore red or watery eyes. Includes free eye cup and note C-15.
A 7 room house with five acres two wells and windmills for sale near Normal on Marfa Highway. Includes a good truck and chicken farm. Interested parties contact I A Herring owner Alpine Texas.
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