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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1926
Page
3
Public notice seeks to lease 200 acres of land near town in Harlingen Texas with ample water supply. Provides distance from town soil depth and character, and crops grown last year. Quotation of yy per acre for one year lease via Box 421.
Alpine defeated Fort Davis 24 to 12 in a junior high basketball opener. Key players included Lease Carter Skevington and Expy for Alpine and Johnson and Dumas for Fort Davis. The game featured slow starts, fouls, and a late Alpine surge led by Skevington.
Public notices post no hunting camping or trespassing on Kennedy pastures Kimball Titley ranch Terry Cathedral and Cienega areas and O2 pastures with no exceptions. Signs warn hunters to stay off and posted notices request observation by passersby. Also sale ads for canary canaries from German Roller stock offered by Mrs W D Boreham Marathon Texas.
In McCamey Texas a town of about 000, residents, Alpine water could fetch fortunes if a well yields. The article notes locals already making money from oil, while drinking water costs a dollar per barrel from Alpine and river water from the Pecos for other uses. A dramatic call for developers to tap paying quantities of water appears in Tug's Tooter.
Hornish describes his Bi-Weekly as a seven column four page sheet intended to tell the stories of Sam Angelo and West Texas in lively fashion. The paper recently arrived filled with engaging items and bold reporting.
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