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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1936
Page
6
Approximately 140 in gross was realized from the President's Ball held last week. Campbell Barker, general chairman, said seventy percent of the net will stay in Alpine Cemetery treasury, while thirty percent goes to Warm Springs Foundation associated with President Roosevelt.
A special service followed by a banquet will be given by the Baptist church next Wednesday evening at 7 30 for members of the Alpine Volunteer Fire department. The event is an appreciation program with a social in the church auditorium then a banquet in the church basement.
Local items list week end visits and travel for residents and friends. Mr and Mrs Joe Parker visited San Angelo while Mrs M M Mitchell and daughter Mary Miles head to Austin for governmental work. Numerous names appear with moves, medical trips, and work assignments including CCC, education, and WPA in El Paso Austin Del Rio Alpine and beyond.
E I Casner of Alpine, recalling last week's Avalanche story by Barry Scobee, asserts the Fort Davis missing man, also called Buffalo, is the Will Chestnut he knew in Llano and Burnet counties. He recalls Chestnut as a dressed-to-kill rancher seen with gold buttons at a Colorado River barge dance and notes Chestnut's brother Oscar still lives in Burnet County.
A list of Central ward and Junior high students earning honor roll status from recent exams was released by Supt. Dru Fy Wood. Names span second through seventh grades and include Yannis Binion Marilyn Moody Peggy Ruth Young cer Harriet Walker Milton Gilmer Joan Tomlinson Walter Wooley Julian Wilks Norman Spencer Betty Jo Crawford Martha Gertrude Murray Mary Jane Arledge Ford Jackson Ann Chastain Mary Sue Barger Claudia Black Eva Jean Ferguson Kathleen Mor van Juliana Bierschwale Mary Beth Robinson Evelyn Shaw Anna Pearl West Hal Smith David Walker Mary Lu Murray Olivia Garrett Margaret Wade Mary Lois McAnally Jackie Louise Cross La Fawn Wilks King Terry Ruth Slight Wanda Williams Cecil Duncan John Richard Whiteside Claude Garner Nancy Salisbury Minnie Arriola Eris Binion Joan Carney Mary Ethel Crawford Gladys Yarbro.
A new settlement has formed on the Rio Grande near Castalon in Mexico. The respondent notes about 80 families were placed there by the Mexican government and will engage in agricultural work and local livelihoods.
The Alpine Cemetery Association will hold a meeting next Monday afternoon at three o'clock at the chamber of commerce offices. Kell Barker serves as president. Members and others interested are urged to attend.
An ad paragraph offers free consultation and promotes various services from a firm named Carroll Vaughn, with unclear content about medical or diagnostic services and a target location opposite the courthouse. The readable text mentions sinus trouble, free consult, and multiple other claims. The fragmentary note suggests a medical service advertisement context from an old newspaper page.
A publishing correction explains that the notice for the First National bank referred to the Bankrupt Act of 1905 but should have read Banking Act. The bank remains thriving and not in bankruptcy, with the Avalanche making the correction.
Patton's Pharmacy runs a special offer advertising a blended powder with every purchase. The promotion urges patrons to support the home printer and suggests mutual patronage.
Dean Miller formerly of El Paso has taken a salesman position with Brewster County Motors the local Ford dealer. He has worked with automobile agencies in Albuquerque and El Paso and arrived in Alpine with his wife to settle before their son Dean Jr joins them from El Paso.
A howling west wind blowing all day Monday peaked with a sharp temperature drop to 24 degrees Tuesday morning. Dust and sand accompanied the wind, but the storm subsided overnight. Weather moderated Tuesday afternoon and has stayed notably warmer since.
Dallas authority Webb Roberts was named technical adviser and consultant to the State Board of Control for the monumental program in the Centennial drive. The appointment supports more than 600 monuments and markers statewide. Roberts, born in Ball Ground, has long been linked with a nationally known monumental lineage. The program aims from simple markers to large memorials commemorating Texas history and figures, with Roberts visiting each site in the coming months.
Mrs. Espy, long known as Mammy by relatives, died after months ill in El Paso near her daughter Mrs. Finley. Surviving children attended the funeral as friends and citizens honored her career and character. Her life embodied the courage and fortitude of the region's earliest settlers.
A historical note catalogs place names associated with Apaches and Fort Davis era across Presidio, El Paso, Brewster, and surrounding counties. Entries include Apache Spring near Fort Davis 1854 origin, Aparejo Peak near Shafter, Armendariz siding renamed to Buford, Arroya Primero and Segunda creeks in Presidio county, Arroya Seco in Brewster, and Arroya Venado in Brewster.
Historical notes describe Ash Creek running ten miles southeast into the Rio Grande near Boquillas and Ash Creek in Brewster County rising northwest of Mount Ord and flowing south into Calamity Creek near Nevill ranch. Ash Spring lies on Rough Run west of Pulliam Bluffs in the Chispe k mountains foothills. Continued next week.
Mrs. W. Adams of Murray Kentucky reports seventeen years of use of Thedford Black-Draught powder for biliousness and praises Syrup of Black-Draught for children. The ad asserts widespread parental confidence in the powder and syrup as reliable laxatives.
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