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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1913
Page
2
Je Yanns subscription price 11.0 in advance. Thursday Feb 6 1913 Alpine mail matter of second class. Do your part. Alpine clean and sanitary. commissioner McGaughy seeks citizens cooperation to keep it healthy as crowds arrive. Trash and outhouses need cleaning to avoid neighbor objections and health notices.
At a county meeting last Saturday the new clerks office and jail addition were turned over to county authorities. Sheriff Walton will move in immediately while County Clerk Lease says his office will take months to prepare. The Gillespie trial was postponed due to four key witnesses absent. Judge Douglas fined them $500 each and issued attachments.
Mr A J Tippet of Mitre Peak Orchard northwest of Alpine orders smudge pots to burn low grade oil this spring to fend off frost and save his peach crop. The note also includes local ads for feed fuel cleaning services and market items amid a report on A M hazing dismissals and upcoming court sessions with juror lists.
Alpine High School girls defeated Fort Stockton in two games by scores 16 to 8 and 17 to 9. The Alpine party traveled by cars donated by local businesspeople and received hospitality in Stockton, with standout performances from Mabel Crawford Nell Collins Bonnie McSpadden and Pansy Baumgartner.
Deputy Wilcox of the tax collectors office says tax collections were unusually good this year and the delinquent list will be small. Poll tax receipts issued total 450, about 200 fewer than last year, due to this year not being a year for a son.
In Austin Representative Boehmer pushes a measure to disfranchise illiterate voters. The bill, reported from Privileges, Suffrage and Elections, would require aid in ballot completion only if a voter has physical infirmities and would have the ballot prepared in the presence of two election judges, ideally from opposing parties, aligning with Kennedy supporters.
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