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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1920
Page
6
A scrambled strip of classified items advertises land for sale and lease in Alpine and nearby areas, including Hovey O11 leases, commercial and residential properties, and valley land near rail lines. It mentions health notices, poll tax reminders, farm services, livestock sale, and local store promotions with multiple names and addresses.
Alpine residents engage in travel and visitors with many returning from trips to El Paso Denver San Antonio and Los Angeles. Local officials report Red Cross film arrivals and community activities as schools roads and septic work progress amid ongoing oil and mining interests and prep for Sul Ross Normal College events.
Fragmentary notes describe Quicksilver as a fluid metal key to Virgin lands to be explored. It mentions millions in potential yield of silver and lead along a river in a district, with references to Brewster Valleys, the Grand Sire, and a mineral flow shaped by folds and seepage from Tampico.
Services at the Baptist church were well attended last Sunday. Sunday school at 10 am, preaching at 11, Junior Missionary League at 6 43 pm, with no evening service due to an installation at the Presbyterian church. Welcome to all. J Walker. Bible school at 10 am. Com
Formal installation of Reverend H J Reems at the Presbyterian Church with oversight by Drs Burma and Tevin. Services start at 10 a m with Sunday school led by W F Caldwell. Evening sessions include a 7 43 p m reunion and prayer meeting. Community members invited.
Epworth League program features Christ in the Poets with Dler Nita Cox leading long prayer and scripture lesson. Leader comments urge awakening of the soul and stirring will to action. Duel Roll Call prompts responses from favorite poets as Miss Mills delivers a short address and reports on movements.
Mr and Mrs TB Pruett and their son T B Jr with daughter Mrs William Adams and her son William Jr from Pecos spent Wednesday visiting Mrs Pruett’s sister Mrs Hinson and other relatives. They will return home tomorrow.
Messrs A J Tippit B Stewar and Ralph Tippit of Alpine with Mr Bird of Port Davis spent a fishing trip arriving Monday and leaving Wednesday They stopped at Hovey for a barbecue and caught blue catfish The party says it was a fine time and hopes to do it again
Old English White kerels described as 314 exe beauties, larger than American Les son. Price eight dollars. Worth while matured. Address box T Apine Texas.
Public is notified taxes due the City of Alpine Texas for 1920. Flora Daugherty, City Tax Collector, seals the notice dated August 7 1920. Also a sale notice from the District Clerk of Reeves County about a real estate levy against Walter Ama and related parties in a Texas court, with actions in a deed and mortgage case. The notice states publication by Mrewster County for at least one year.
Notice of sale issued by Sheriff Townsend of Brewster County Texas concerning an execution against property. The notice lists amounts due, dates, and the property description in Block 10 WTC, with details of sale terms and the court order, urging compliance by involved parties.
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