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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1947
Page
4
Ordinance No 26 requires plumbers to file with the City Clerk a 1000 bond payable to the Mayor. The bond protects Alpine from losses due to negligence and enforces compliance with all plumbing ordinances. The Board of Commissioners must approve the bond, and work is barred without it.
The Commissioners' Court of Brewster County will hold a budget hearing on Wednesday August 20 1947 from 2 to 4 pm for the 1948 budget. Taxpayers may attend and participate. J W Frazer County Clerk.
The Alpine Independent School District Board will hold a budget hearing for 1947 48 Monday night August 25 at 8 o clock in the high school building. The public is invited. Peyton Cain superintendent.
Alpine society page lists residents and guests traveling to and from cities including San Angelo Austin Los Angeles Dallas El Paso Abilene New Orleans and Houston. Individuals mentioned include Mrs Pecos d Mrs J Roy Spence Mr and Mrs Wayne Mosley Miss Jeanette King and many others visiting relatives and attending events. Dr Elizabeth Barrett and Dr Rose Coleman visit and plan professional moves while families host guests and attend hospitals and conventions.
Alpine passersby report on new Holland hotel work and a tourist court contract on East Holland Avenue. A telegram to Gov. Fuller protests clemency for Sacco and Vanzetti and Alpine residents sign as From Alpine in the Alps of Texas. J. W. Phelps dies. local lighting tests begin. Jim P. Wilson plans a brick business building. Presidio bridge opens to pedestrians. Hub Filling station shifts to El Paso officials. Citizens from Slinton and Pecos visit, with Carter family guests.
Gene Benson reports Miss Margaret Linn buyer for Mitchell-Gillett Co leaves for St Louis to purchase fall goods. Col Crimmins the famed rattlesnake serum man visits Fort Davis and Alpine. Shreveport men abandon Fort Davis newspaper plan citing small regional population. Thalia Gillett returns from San Luis Potosi and friends in Mexico. N L Casner of El Paso visits on business. Graystark starring Norma Talmadge and Eugene O Brien plays at Mojave theatre. Mrs E S Cross and Jack Cross plus Tom Cross return from Dallas and San Antonio.
The Lockhart clinic announces a new electric time call system to speed service for patients and nurses on duty. Names listed include Mrs. Norman Miller Alpine minor operation on the 7th and Mrs. Chas Gregory Alpine major operation on the 9th, among others. Emma Partridge, a nurse at the clinic since December, has left for private duty in San Angelo before Navy duty.
Louis Lewenthall has bought the J. F. Coldwell property west of town and will erect stables and a race track for training his race horses. He said that later, if demand warrants it, he would build a modern plant for holding races and rodeos.
The first permanent white settlement in Indiana was established at Vincennes in 1734 by emigrants from Canada.
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