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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1922
Page
3
Alpine residents share business trips, visits, and specials from Packaway and Clarence Hord stores. regional updates include births, gifts, public notices, theater ads, school events, and church activities alongside hunting trips and local classifieds.
An infant of Mr and Mrs Foster in the southern town died of pneumonia. With no local aid, Red Cross volunteers provided emergency assistance and the baby was buried the next afternoon. The item highlights calls for organized charity through the ministerial association and notes Red Cross reports and donor listings.
Public school notes report spelling contests in several rooms, a Alpine vs Marfa High basketball game won by Alpine 16 to 8, a hike to Kokernot Springs with Miss McAfee and the seventh grade, a school play on December 16 at the High School Auditorium to benefit athletics, and a PTA meeting on December 18 at 3 30 PM. Total enrollment stands at 226 with teachers noting student progress and parents urged to support missing grades.
An Alpine Jewelry Co promotion offers customers a chance to win either a diamond ring or a wristwatch. The contest details outline entry methods and eligibility requirements.
No trespassing wood hauling or hunting is allowed on the Kokernot ranches. Violations will be prosecuted. H I Kokernot Jr 44-46.
On December 6, 1922 the Ladies of the Christian Missionary Society met at Mrs B Berkeley’s home. With Mrs J G Warris in charge, Mrs J D Jackson led a devotional on Latin America. Papers discussed Latin America topics by Mrs T G Harris Mrs F E Weyerts and Rev Brown. The group shared tea and prayers as members listed include Harris Walker Jackson Justice Carr Livingston Abbott Ferguson Brown Church Weyerts Berkeley Browns.
A squadron of the Seventh Cavalry led by Lieut Col Frank J. McNarney, stationed at Marfa Texas for a year, will return to Fort Bliss soon. The Marfa unit will be relieved by part of the Brest Cavalry Regiment from Douglas Arizona, per a War Department order received by Col. Walter Short.
Sunday evening at 7 30 Susybel Bunton will present an original arrangement of The Other Wise Man by Henry Ike in the First Christian auditorium. On Wednesday afternoon December 19 at 4 o'clock the college lecture room will host a recital by several pupils in the Expression Department with free admission.
Sunday morning service at 11 00 Communion and preaching. Afternoon Junior Endeavor at 3 00 Senior Endeavor social hour refreshments at 3 40 program at evening The Other Wise Man to be presented by Miss Susie Bell Bunton as the feature of the program
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