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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1931
Page
6
The article argues that small cities show better pavement quality than large urban areas due to newer construction and maintenance emphasis. It notes city owned car traffic outweighs rural use, with smaller towns often paired with smoother surfaces. Chicago is cited among large cities making progress in hard surfaced pavements.
Paderewski and the ipica Orchestra schedule a concert in El Paso, Mexico lineups and reservations handled by Miss Nell Wilson of Marta. The event marks a historic moment in American concert history with new compositions by native authors. The Mexicans perform a matinee before Paderewski’s solo appearance.
Classified notice seeking a small farm or goat ranch with living water and improvements in Big Bend country or the Davis Mountains. Requires elevation, location, full description, price and terms in first letter. Incomplete, fragmented text references divorce filing and a court case involving Anastasia O’Keefe and Floyd Tharpe.
A mix of classified lines offers trades, rents, and help wanted in Alpine and Mineral Wells Texas. Property for trade includes a four chair barber shop on two acres with a chicken farm and a new house, plus fruit trees. HB McCaim in Mineral Wells lists the Alpine property and trade options. Dairy notes report a milk bacterial count of 24 000 rising to 50 000 for GI A milk. Measday Dairy lists contact numbers. For rent new furnished apartments near college hill offer three rooms and four baths at 25 dollars monthly. Electric service noted. A furnished house between town and college with Arcola heat and electric hot water is listed. A WANTED apprentice for Alpine Studio. part time work sought afternoons or evenings for four months. contact through Sur Rows. Land/ranch seekers near Alpine or Ft Davis sought. W A Daugherty invites inquiries.
Schedule listings for Southern Pacific and Santa Fe lines with eastbound and westbound times, northbound and southbound arrivals including Alpine and Presidio stops, and additional bus routes to Port Davie Marfa Ojinaga Van Holm El Paso Fort Stockton McCaney Del Rio San Antonio with daily and weekday services. Also noting nursery ads and a court annulment filing involving Chester A Jones of Beacon New York.
Churches plan Sunday services with Christian Science at 11, First Christian at 9 48 am Sunday School, morning worship and communion, no evening service. Joint drama He Came Seeing at High School auditorium at 7 30. Mid week service Wednesday 7 30. Presbyterian notes 10 am Sunday school, 11 am worship, no evening service due to program at Junior High. Church of Christ Bible study 10 am worship 11 am, young people's meeting 3 00 pm. Batey leads study as 148. Biking?
St James Episcopal Church announces Sunday services with church school at 9 20 a m and evening prayer at 7 20 p m The rector will preach on 1 Corinthians 13 1 and invite all to attend Lent begins Ash Wednesday February 18 with a series of fifteen short addresses titled Bell for the Average Man and We The sermon and lectures aim to prepare for Lent and its reflection on Jesus 40 days in the wilderness
The piece by C. H. Baker features the Lord's Prayer engraved on a pin head as a world first. It required 1863 cuts and three years of work. The San Francisco Exposition praised the minutely spaced letters. A Van Horn Advocate report notes the exhibit and its significance.
For sale ad lists cash price offers including an east front corner lot at 150 dollars and a $400 bargain. It notes an estate closeout of seven fold blocks with four lots sixty six feet by unknown depth, fiber and home-ready features, priced at 2350 dollars with half cash and easy remaining payments.
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