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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1927
Page
5
Christian Church invites worshipers to start the year in the Lord’s House with Bible school at 9:45, services at 11, 2, 3, 6:15, 7:1, and 7:18 pm. Pastor Leon Williams urges 100 percent service. Also advertised Bargain Sale items including coats, suits, and pants with name-your-price offers.
The church invites all to 11 a.m. worship with theme Greater Things in 1928 and 7 p.m. young people's service. Members explain missing services by saying one gets out of the hab it. the minister urges starting 1928 by rejoining, with W. E. Caldwell and David J. Murray inviting attendance.
Sunday at 11 a.m. gatherings held over the post office location invite all to worship with us in a cordial, community church setting.
Sunday school begins at 9 45 with a New Year message by the pastor. Special music and offertory follow. B Y P U meets at 6 45. Evening sermon at 7 45. A church invitation notes that a good start helps the race and urges attendance next Sunday.
The Church of Christ meets at the ward house with Sunday services at 10:00 a.m. for Bible study and 11:00 a.m. for Communion. A Tuesday Bible study begins at 7:30 p.m. Visitors are welcomed at all services.
An advertisement touts Adlerika as a fast gas reliever that clears old waste matter, improves meals and sleep, and claims even a spoonful brings relief. It includes a testimonial about stomach pressure waking a man at night and a physician note from St James Episcopal Saturday page.
Advertisement notes needed clean white cotton rags at 15 cents per pound for the Avalanche cleanup effort. Seemingly offers to keep buttons from rags. Local appeal for material aid.
Alpine Rotarians left the luncheon in high spirits after Roy Slagle of the Holland Coffee Shop provided a turkey feed that impressed the group. The event featured speeches by Fa Gilman and others, with musical hams and chatter about civics and poetry, as members donated toward a new piano for the club.
A fragmented dialogue shows a child requesting a drink to sleep while a parent or guardian questions crying aloud. The rough text references a toy bed and a sense of urgency or frustration in trying to soothe a restless youngster.
A fragment from a humorous excerpt set in a diner scene features a woman motorist signaling a turn, a visitor’s teasing remark about a name, and a comic exchange with a waiter. It juxtaposes a soldier named Dawn and a chaotic interaction over tea and pie.
Two men, Pat and Mike, on the tenth story of a building under construction, witness Mike slip from the edge as Pat shouts reassurance. Mike clings to the rope, declaring God is with him, while bystanders react to a bank robbery alert and police pursuit.
A frantic scene unspools as a pedestrian, a messenger boy on a bicycle, a delivery driver, a Buick driver, and a Ford driver converge to find police. Six policemen appear just as bandits escape, while Walter Caldwell of Galveston resumes studies after holidays with his parents.
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