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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1935
Page
2
Alpine weekly paper notes it is Brewster County’s only newspaper in its forty fifth year. It lists staff and offices in Alpine Fort Davis Terlingua and Terlingua area and provides rates for notices and Classifieds with a per line charge.
A terse, comic exchange centers on Polly returning from a bridal trip with two dollars fifty in his pocket. Molly calls him stingy as he tries to justify the amount in a lighthearted domestic moment.
News from Marathon reports the marriage last Sunday of Orene Roberts to W R Green at Marfa. Mrs Green is the younger Roberts daughter. a Marathon High School graduate of 1905. Green worked for Ritchey Bros. The couple took a honeymoon unknown location.
Mr and Mrs Jess Buttrill visited O M Roberts home Sunday Walter Skinner Jr is improving after a thorn infection but remaining too ill for school Mr HS Munroe of San Angelo will join Marathon Drug Store as registered pharmacist Mrs Arp Jolly and Mrs Tom Shackelford visit Alpine for the week Presbyterian Missionary society met with Mrs G Worthington on Dec 10 Christmas lesson from Luke studied A lovely salad plate served Mrs Francis Rooney hosted Methodist Missionary society at Mrs EB Hancock’s home Dramatics Club to present High Flyers Dec 18 at eight in the high school auditorium admission 25 cents adults 10 cents children friends and supporters encouraged by attendance
Mrs Crit Haynes of Bosex Mo touts Cardut as helpful for cramps and relief during change of life. She notes calmer nerves and reduced back pain after using Cardut, with thousands of women reporting genuine benefits.
Terlingua Disc Er. Bledsoe visited Study Butte over the weekend. The Terlingua Bridge club met with Ethel Skevington and Ernestine Behrens. Jim Bennett and Hannah Weinkaut won prizes. Fredricksons shopped in Alpine and L. Burcham recovered to attend commissioners court. Families from Butte and Balmothea joined Mariposa visitors including Dawson and Shannon relatives.
Methodist ladies held a bazaar last Friday in the courthouse to raise funds for Christmas, serving a supper and earning about eighty dollars in an annual event. Spitzy Passes On Espacion Hinojosa, aged about sixty one, died in an El Paso hospital after weeks of illness. He spent most of his life here and was a friendly presence at George Clothier's ice house, touched American and Mexican communities. RC Withers traveled to San Angelo for medical advice for a stomach ailment, returning with his family except he stayed a few days longer. Eula Mayfield of Valentine left her relief office post to join Rural Resettlement Administration in Presidio. Irvings to Amarillo Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Irving attended celebrations in Amarillo for the twenty-fifth year of a Presbyterian minister there. Bible program for club celebrated Christmas with Miss Callie Holt leading and nine club members assisting. Numerous local ladies attended and refreshment hosts served holiday-colored favors. Grateful thanks extended to Alpine residents for support during illness and death of the Dawson family member. names listed.
Rev. J M Garner long time pastor of Pecos and Marfa Baptist churches resigns in Marfa to become financial secretary at Baylor Hospital Dallas. He and Mrs Garner will move to Dallas this month and plan to relocate to Waco next fall. Their son Walton, a Sul Ross freshman, will stay in Marfa for the rest of the term.
From Alpine, Mesdames G. W. Baines W. Van Sickle M. H. Moorman H. W. Morelock Halden Braddy Jones Pennington Drury Wood C. D. Wood Forrest Binion Charles Livingston and Miss Helen Baines attended. Dr H W Morelock spoke on Assets of the Big Bend.
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