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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1915
Page
3
Local and Personal notices reveal Alpine activity as newspapers pause for Christmas. Advertisers are asked to submit by Tuesday to cover the four December issues. Recurring names include Arthur Flynn, Miss Guida Mayer, Judge Martin, Miss Selena Hord, and Frank Startz, with visits from El Paso, Fort Stockton, Sanderson, and Deming.
A young boy suffered a neck injury from a pecan knife incident on school grounds after a kick by Jim Beach. Local society notes include visits, parties, sales at Alpine Mercantile and Alpine Hardware, church and post office appeals, and upcoming Christmas gift suggestions and events.
Young men discuss a Christmas week program featuring goat roping horse racing cigar races and dances with an invitation to nearby towns. Jno Young Jr will handle arrangements while Alpine Hardware Co and Anderson Bros. Jewelry advertise gifts and late shopping. A dry election in Pecos County ends saloons, Alpine gains a night watchman, and a shower boosts ground moisture amid Marathon rain reports.
A scrambled Tealead notes thanks for bereavement aid, a clothing cleaning ad, a marriage notice for Mr Charles Gowrilux and Miss Winfield Wilcox, a Del Rio Goodwin case delay, and a Star Theatre promotion featuring Julia Dean in Judge Not or The Woman of Mona Diggins in six parts.
Purified sweet cider offered at grocers in Alabama in bottles or jugs with order by phone. Adot Mpine Bottling Works features typed press and cleaning service with affordable 25 cent math ch
The usual services will be held at the Christian church Sunday morning and night at Ham and 8 pm Prayer meeting Wednesday at 3 o'clock Bible school Sunday morning at 10 o'clock All invited Rev H M Bandy Minister Mr and Mrs Luther Yarbro of Marathon were Alpine visitors this week
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