07 Aug 1919
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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1919
Page
1
E. J. Moyer from Pecos comes to Alpine to become managing editor of the Alpine Avalanche. He has spent years at the Pecos Times and will move his family to Alpine in a few weeks. Alpine can expect a capable editor and active citizen in local affairs.
In San Francisco July reports praise the World Club of San Francisco for promoting metric units in the US and Britain to aid math teaching. Notable educators like Eliot and Butler support the move. The piece lists performers and numbers from a New Edison revival, plus letters from Col. Langhorne and Marfa officials thanking him for an exemplary community celebration. The article also notes thrift drives and the American Legion’s goal to organize 4.8 million veterans nationwide with state and local posts forming in the coming months.
Arrangements are made for a weekly Red Cross film at the Airdome starting next Tuesday August 12. Manager Jack McFarland will show "Serbia Victorious" with the regular program, inviting the public to see the Red Cross efforts depicted in these evenings.
A lady reported her missing brooch after an advertisement placed in Ava News. The sequence shows the ad running at 4 08 pm, press at 4 15 pm, and a claimant arriving at 4 18 pm, confirming the find. The note ends with the line it pays to advertise.
A sale list advertises 35 large Kentucky Jennets 10 male colts and 1 good stallion for viewing at Matthews ranch east of Marathon Texas.
Lillian Dean Measday and James Riley Gilbert were married Wednesday night at the bride’s mother Mrs. Fred Measday home with Rev. U S Netterville officiating. Gilbert recently discharged from service. Bride grew to womanhood in Ontario.
The annual Bloys Camp Meeting begins Wednesday August 13 at Skillman Grove, sixteen miles west of Fort Davis in the Davis mountains. The event features renowned preachers led by Dr. George W. Truett and others, with a historic unveiling of a marble shaft planned for Sunday morning August 17. Local residents hope many attend parts of the gathering and ceremony.
A fragment notes a publication under the direction of a public committee, a national American Legion magazine serving American veterans. It mentions Legion Publishing Corporation, owned by the American Legion, and an unrelated real estate line for a five room house near a school.
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