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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1903
Page
4
The fragment shows a historical newspaper page with a railroad time table and notices. It lists passenger train numbers and schedules, with an editor proprietor credit and rough publication metadata.
Dr Cameron dentist arrived Monday. Engineers moved camp to Paisano yesterday. Graham of Hill county investigated land titles. Judge Van Sickle made a flying business trip to El Paso Tuesday. Johnnie Peace, fiddler from San Antonio, accompanied John KR Holland home. John King visited Marathon to see her sister. Mrs Nichola returned to El Paso. Neakley laid foundation for a new house. Rodigell returned from San Antonio. Alamo city praised. Campbell may win mayor. Elder McKissick closed church meetings and left for the east. Strouds returned with Nannie Irving, who will be governess. Poll tax figures noted for 1901 and 1902. Alpine displays new samples at the drugstore. Building boom hinted for Alpine this year. Harman back from Austin. state politics unsettled over quarantine and lease laws. Christian church to host prayer meeting tonight at Mrs. Kincaid’s residence. Church plans to build a two-lot site north of Courthouse Plaza. Teachers from various towns in Alpine for a lecture. Census 1900 showed Brewster County 306. Marathon 21. County population 2900 with growth in Terlingua.
W Van Sickle as Chairman of the Executive Committee on Railroads calls a meeting at the Alpine Courthouse next Friday February 13 at 7 30 pm for supporters to discuss securing the Orient railway right of way. Spokespersons from other towns and local offers are noted as incentives for large attendance and subscriptions.
The marriage of Dr. B. F Berkley and Miss Clara Dugat took place in a Tucson Methodist church on Monday February 2 1902. The couple is described as joined in a heavenly tie with enduring love.
Open forum led by Mr. Mebus of Fort Davis covers child education as state investment tax support for schools district taxation and the case for consolidated schools versus local options. Debates focus on teacher salaries industrial education school facilities and prioritizing useful studies.
The New Orleans Mardi Gras car line offers a round trip fare from El Paso and San Antonio with a Feb 17 to Feb 23 sale window and return valid until Feb 28, extendable to March 14. Two daily trains from El Paso and San Antonio and three from Houston include Pullman sleeping cars, chair cars, day coaches.
A man from El Paso arrived on the first Saturday en route to a Mexican ranch near Terlingua to move four hundred head of steers, threes and fours, to be shipped as feeders by Cox and Gonzales of El Paso. Jackson and Harman ordered eight cars for cows and bulls, due today or tomorrow. Local cattlemen praise a new federal livestock inspection law allowing shipment without state inspection, once inspected by a federal livestock inspector. The Avalanche has urged respectful discussion on the land question to inform the legislature and public. Nigh, Misa Whalen, nurse to Mrs EB Altgelt, returned to KE Vaso on Tuesday.
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