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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1938
Page
3
Readable classified notices list multiple rental and sale offers for houses and ranches. Entries include 5 to 9 room homes, brick and modern styles, land leases, and terms such as 10% cash and 5% interest. Also mentions hospital sickness and liability policies and FHA loan connections.
The town celebrates with a Community Christmas tree at the Methodist church hosted by Sunday School groups. Old Kis Kringle will greet children, and gifts will be given. A short musical program and recitations follow. Holiday shopping fills streets, and Oswald the homing pigeon stirs in festive chaos with gift reminders. Christmas dances and parties are planned for the weekend and Monday nights. Grimmers join a Grand Prize convention in Houston, visiting Hobbs and College Station on the way home with Daniels, Ritchey, and Clinton. Arrivals for the holidays include Stillwell, Starr, Dunbar, Kane, and Roark as Marathon welcomes visitors.
William L Clayton of Houston head of America's largest cotton firm named Texas chairman of the Celebration of Births committee in a note detailing local birthdays and fundraiser aims. The piece lists participants, travel notes, a child accident, a school recital, and holiday greetings with several recorded names and local places like Alpine El Paso and Raleigh.
Courthouse hosts an old-timers dance on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve with Bogle’s Orchestra. Public invited. Five grandsons of John Silver of Ondon are to share $15,000 provided they refrain from drinking smoking and vaccination for 20 years.
Bids will be received at 1008 First National Bank Building Fort Worth Texas for a project cost not exceeding 140000.00 with a 5 percent bid bond. Wage rates follow in house schedule with penalties for underpay and a right to reject any or all bids. Submissions must arrive by 10:00 A M Central Standard Time December 20 1998.
A bidding notice states no bid may be withdrawn before the scheduled closing time for receipt of bids for at least thirty days.
The Amusement Area of the 1999 New York Work Fair revived tales of Steve Brodie famous as the man who leaped from a bridge. The event referenced his daring stunt amid other heritage features in Old New York exhibits.
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