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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1942
Page
4
Local items list Texas A and M and University of Texas students and relatives visiting for holidays, with several medical updates. Notables include Mrs Chas Fisher undergoing minor surgery, Jim Spann recovering from a tonsillectomy, and Senora Aeneid Garcia recuperating from an appendectomy. Also mentions Brooks Field officer and Navy service members visiting families during Christmas.
A daughter Marianna was born to Mr and Mrs Jack Mitt of New Orleans on December 17. Mrs Hitt is the former Miss Bessie Leath, daughter of Mr and Mrs J G Leath of Alpine. Mr and Mrs J F Coorpender of Longview announce the birth of a son Paul Bruce on December 14. The baby weighed eight pounds. Mrs Coorpender is the former Miss Helen Haines who taught in the Alpine schools in 1939 and 1940.
Classified land and misc items listing a five room stucco house with bath hall two porches garage on southwest corner at Kin Caid Ave and N 13 St Eugenia Hi Chandley Mesilla Park NM with other ads for Stark Bros nursery stock address F E Howard Alpine box 63 and various items including a bicycle lawn mower garden tools and a lost item notice plus a court petition over a sugar ration card and car title ending with a Joliet Illinois reference.
Mrs Marbeth Sloan, a loyal former leader, moves to Austin as Alpine Girl Scouts reorganize with new officers led by Leader Mrs L C Pope and Assistant Leader Mrs C B Cas Troop committee members Jo Nell Pope and others. Scouts include Dorothy Jean Crawford Dorothy Coleman Rose Anna Smith among them. New members Bettigenessic ver Jimmie Gaile Barrow Joan Brady LaVerne Phelps Delores Simpson. Meetings Wednesdays at 4 30 pm at Mrs Pope s home with reporter noted.
John H. Burns and George Burns returned from a West Texas trip to haul goods for the Mayers now in Pecos. En route they visited Marathon and the Big Bend country, noting Burns’s Marathon school years and earlier Big Bend work. He predicts Big Bend National Park will draw vast numbers of tourists yearly. The article also mentions the electric eel in Brazilian rivers reaching six feet.
Visiting Rotarians Roy Gough of Marta and Fred Sheriff of Battle Creek plus guests Frank Pugh and son-in-law Franke Young and Frank Shearer joined a Rotary meeting. Rev. Fred Rogers spoke on Joseph and Herod, contrasting spiritual and temporal security, with a Christmas spirit quote. A county court docket note from Alpine Texas in 1942 included a land trespass suit involving MK TE Ry Co over 640 acres in Brewster County.
You are commanded to appear before the District Court of Brewster County at Alpine Texas by 10 o clock A M on the first Monday after forty two days from issuance dated February 8 1943 to answer Plaintiff Petition filed in said Court with known heirs Tom Becknal and Susie Becknal and their unknown heirs listed as defendants in this public citation.
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