Marathon News Highlights Party, Travel, and Local Notices
Marathon residents head to Alpine for hospitality and business updates as schools face suspension amid local tensions. The study club meeting is postponed due to illness while a bridge party at Stillwell Club Room draws many residents. Local travel includes El Paso visits, Nash Roadster sightings, and cattle trading among area families. A political notice announces a commissioner candidacy in Brewster County Precinct 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stillwell Club
Mesdames Spald
Guy Combs
King
Burcham
Stillwell
Arnold
San Antonio
Young
Wyatt
Collins
Skinner
Scott
Buttrill
Ritchey
Brown
Lucille French
Ruth North
Todd
Lucille Morrow
Pearl Green
Naomi Griffin
Messrs
Spalding
Clark
Granger
Walter Skinner
Mrs. Delmar
Brewster County
Texas
Gmnas P. Decie
Guayule Prices in Marathon May Stand Amid Market Fluctuations
Marathon Texas guayule factory and field operations discuss maintaining the $40 per ton standard price at the plant, with $7.09 to landowners and $24 to contractors, arguing a fair price sustains large deliveries. Company notes Mexican competition and market declines could threaten the price if rubber values fall further.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marathon
Texas
Kuayle
Mesa
Baling
Thore
Guayule
Mexico
Howe
Haw
Local court notices and auction ads from Alpine Texas
A fragmented OCR excerpt shows court clerk Mamie Lease issuing a January 1926 writ in Brewster County Texas, involving a divorce petition in a Barrera v Barrera suit, with references to abandonment and calendar dates. The text also mentions cattle sales by W J Meriwether in Alpine with a box address, and a legal citation about returning writs.
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Johnie Barrera
Robert Barrera
Liewster
Dant
Mamie Lease
Brewster Countcy
Texas
Alpine
Momte Lease
Brewster County
Gula Burke
Pitsburg Gazette Tim er and Pittburgh Chronicle Telegraph on advertising
The piece argues newspapers are vital to society and progress, highlighting advertising as a powerful force in commerce and daily life. It emphasizes the newspaper’s role alongside church and school, noting ads drive reader money and support modern business growth.
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Oliv
Publiaker
Pitsburg
Gasete’ Timer
Pittburgh
Yelle Pon
Isafta Hupendows
Inessenabte
Howe
Howan
Nave
Daitien
Hines
Edson K
Wait
Shawnee
Okla
Publication Citation Adjourning Brewster County Court
Texas summons ROBERT BARBERA by publication in Brewster County weekly for four consecutive weeks before the return day. The district court session at Alpine begins on the 15th. if Brewster has no newspaper, publication in the nearest county newspaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Texas
Sherf
Brewster County
Robert Barbera
District Court
Alpine
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Marathon News
Mrs. Press Chambers
Fred Rice
Jimmie
Chambers Hotel
Mr. R. C. Anderson
Fort Texas
Hen Taylor
el Paso
Albert Rice
H. L. Roberts
Atss Leta Mae Shirley
Julia Lockhausen
L. C. Ritchey
Clinton
Lee Drago
Ben Dragoo
M. E. Bomer
Marfa
Wiliam Green
Kate Pettijohn
L. F. Butrill
Dublin
Roy Stillwell
Jim Roberts
Bessie Granger
Willie Mae French
del Rio
Joe Granger
Clay Roberts
Mrs. Roberts
Devine
Edma Kendrick
Kendrick
Terry Shely
Tesnas
Flo Clark
le W. Cain
Sherow
Ariz
Hee Tleter
W. Carter
J. W. Potter
Sanderson
Johnnie Scott
Alps
Ben Dragov
Ana
Miss Mamie Lease
H. A. Serna and
R.A. Chambers
Serna and
Roberts
J. D. Jackson
R. A. Serna
Wm. Green
A. F. Robinson
Wm. Cotter
Louise Scott
Ida Mae Coulson
Avalanche
V.K. Bates
L. L. Hiness
Fred Clark
J. J. Roberts
Earl Clark
Marathon State Bank
Alpine Meat Market
Namif Lease
W. J. Meriwether
State National Bank
Alpine, Texas
Benj. F. Berkeley
H.W. Ferguson
Geo. C. Miller
G. B. Crawford
Asst
W. G. Muter
BIG Bend Bread
Hudson's Bakery
Wm. A. Buchanan
Alpine Steamsee Steam
Davis Mountain
Davis Mountains
Normal Hill
John Young Land Company
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