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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1923
Page
2
The piece urges Texas aid to boost Alpine’s summer enrollment while reporting heavy sleet and snow in Alpine and surrounding areas. From last Monday to this Monday the region saw about seven inches of precipitation with thawing later in the week. Temperatures hovered near twenty degrees with no severe cold despite persistent wet conditions.
The State Democratic Executive Committee backed Gov Neff for the presidential nomination, a move praised by some and criticized by others. Critics claim it serves partisan aims and harms McAdoo’s prospects, while supporters see it as a calculated step toward a Southern nominee and a response to the wets veto dynamic.
Sul Ross State Teachers College closes the fall term of its fourth annual session on December 21 with enrollment up over last year and more students in the college line. The winter term opens January 2 with plans for increased enrollment of about twenty five to thirty, Berkeley Hall reservations noted, and more beginning courses offered including Education English Biology Music Mathematics History Industrial Arts and the Doble. Correspondence courses in History Mathematics Education English Industrial Arts and other subjects will be available to meet demand.
In Dallas last Saturday Marshall Hicks urged endorsement of Governor Neff by the State Democratic Executive Committee. The column notes W. J. Bryan’s possible support for Neff and argues the anti McAdoo stance isn’t limited to wets. Also cites Hon. PC Maynard and a McIlvyan letter suggesting Neff as nominee. Auction ad and cabinet Victrola also listed.
Sul Ross Mask and Slipper Club presented three one acts under Eva Sweet on December 17. The Maker of Dreams featured Pierrette and Pierrot with Richard Gillespie as the Maker of Dreams. The Mandarin's Coat offered Dorothy Mendon, Bobby Lennox, and jealous husband roles by a strong cast including Margaret Bennett and Merrell Pouncey. The Florist Shop centered on shop girl Maude with Merrell Pouncey, Olin Lincecum, Lucille Rives, and Richard Gillespie. Hub Hext played Slousky across multiple parts with notable versatility.
Alpine High School notes that the Bucks defeated Maria 24 to 12 on Alpine’s home court. The team received sweaters from coach W B Connell with captain Lee Smith speaking to supporters. Players honored include Henry Lease John Dugan Jim Derrrick Kermit Allen Lloyd Carter and Walter Garnett. A January challenge from El Paso Junior College is tentatively planned.
The Alpine Studio offers a free large picture with each dozen photos as part of a Christmas drive by the Methodist church. Members are urged to bring food for a Christmas dinner for the less fortunate and donate to the orphanage in Waco during the Sunday and Monday events led by the Women’s Missionary Society.
Sunday schools in Alpine will stage Christmas trees and gift events at multiple churches. The Presbyterian church hosts a tree at 7:30 PM Monday with a brief children's program. The Methodist church plans a 7:30 PM program with Mrs. Skevington in charge and a tree afterward. Baptist, Episcopal, and Christian churches also schedule trees, plays, and gifts for the King or Buckner’s Orphan Home, with times around 5 PM Tuesday and 7 PM Monday evenings.
A Lafayette Ind reader thanks The Avalanche for growth and development remarks. An ex newspaper man questions expenses and praises local news coverage and the editor manager bookkeeper role. He notes admiration for the paper’s conservative view on oil and mineral possibilities.
The Foods class under Miss Grace Bedell prepared a three course luncheon for the Board of Regents and President and Mrs Morelock. The December 15 gathering in the college model dining room featured a menu with Yule-tide salad wafers chicken fricasse escalloped oysters baked potato Harvard beets cranberry sauce Boston brown bread Christmas pudding and coffee.
Interstate Commerce Commission data show Texas leading the United States with 16,125 miles of railroad. The 1920 national total reached 253,090 miles, with the ten states listed including Pennsylvania 11,551 miles and New York 8,390 miles.
Miss Rose Sharp Brewer of Brownwood holds the University advanced fellowship in English at the University of Texas. A 1916 B A graduate, she has pursued work toward a Ph D and has taught English at Sul Ross State Teachers College in Alpine.
For collecting state and county taxes LE will be at Ter lingua on Monday December 17 and Tuesday December 18 1923 and at Marathon on Monday January 7 and Tuesday January 8 1924 E. E Townsend Tax Collector.
Quick action of camphor with witch hazel hydrastis and Lavoptik leye wash surprises users. A small bottle allegedly eases sore weak or strained eyes. Free aluminum eye cup offered by Alpine Drug Store.
Mrs. Burk Burnett widow of the Burkburnett oil pioneer donates four million dollars to Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. The church school will receive 25 percent of annual income during her lifetime and the entire fortune eventually. Immediate 150000 goes to a library building. This living endowmentsurges Texas education.
Horace Donnelly warned at the Investment Bankers Association convention that 10 percent of people commit fraud, fueling schemes from fake farm lands and degrees to fake securities and whisky. He cited an $18 Canadian rye scam where twelve quarts of roasted rye replaced promised product.
The Texas exhibit at the International Grain and Hay Show in Chicago, prepared with Southern Pacific support, was praised as the most unique and artistic. The Seventh Texas National Egg Laying Contest begins at A. and M. College with 40 pens from 8 states and Texas, raising Texas’ egg record from 228 to 269 eggs over six years.
A correction from Mr. McCormick of Southern Pacific states no ten day stopover is allowed on Holiday tickets. The Avalanche had reported a stopover and quoted the wrong fare in a local note, now clarified as one and one half fare for Holiday rates.
A reflective verse contrasts potential states of being using verb forms and hypothetical phrases. It weighs could have, might have, and has been against the fixed identity of are and has. The piece muses on transformation and permanence.
Mr. Vernon McIntyre of Alpine was a business visitor here Tuesday. The Decie Brothers sold Mr. R. A. Serna a carload of Christmas calves. Rev. Bell filled his regular appointment in Sanderson. Hays Moore and the Rackley Brothers hosted a barbecue and dance at the Rackley ranch in Dry Valley. Mr. Newt Cockrill is buying cattle this week. O. L. Nichols left for El Paso to join his sister bringing their mother for final interment in San Francisco. Palmer French returned from Tampico, Mexico and reports that the fight is on.
Next Sunday the Christian and Presbyterian congregations unite for morning worship at 11 o clock with the sermon The Pilgrimage of the Wise Men and a reading by Miss Mollie Lee Bowles. At 730 p m they join again at the Christian church for Joy to the World with the Presbyterian pastor speaking. Sunday school meets at 10 a m directed by J A McMillan.
A downtown pharmacy advertises typewriter ribbons, toilet articles, jewelry, sundry notions for ladies. It promotes cold drinks and real ice cream and presents a ladies rest and shopping space in an up town location.
An advertisement promotes a local remedy for catarrh claiming fast relief through topical application and internal medicine tonics. It markets the product as a two item system sold by a Toran-based druggist and claims to cleanse the blood surfaces.
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