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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1948
Page
8
City commission acts as local legislature passing ordinances and policing rules. It may appoint and remove officers, set compensation, abolish certain posts, and appoint health officers. city clerk duties include keeping records and sealing documents. Also notes farm telephone growth and pending applications.
At The Churches Sunday School at 9 45 a m Morning service at 11 Training Union at 7 p m Evening service at 6 p m Midweek prayer 8 oclock Senior choir Thursday 7 30 p m Pastor Frank C Dutton welcomes all services masses Sunday 9 and 10 30 weekdays 7 30 evening service 7 Father Roman Pastor Christian 945 4 m Bible school
The Avalanche lists candidates for the Democratic primary on July 24 1948 including Charles B Moore for State Senator 29th District Clifford Lawrence for Representative 87th District J T Johnson Jim Skinner P Rackley for Sheriff Assessor Collector C Be Patterson for County Attorney Avora Owens Berry for County Treasurer J T Carney for County Surveyor and commissioners Woon dhl King Lee SMITH Prec 1 David L Kokernot Prec 2 RR H Murrah Jr Prec 4.
10 50 a m The Lord s Supper 6 30 p m Youths meeting 7 30 p m Evening worship You are cordially invited to worship with us John E Pickering Minister.
The article outlines the Sunday Lesson-Sermon for all Christ Scientists on February 15 with the Golden Text from Leviticus and a Isaiah quotation. It also cites Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health stating Soul is immortal, incorporeal to Spirit, and life eternal when falsities are lost.
Bible classes at 10 a.m. Morning worship at 10 50. Young people meet at 7 p.m. Evening service at 8. Wednesday Women’s Bible class at 3 p.m. Prayer meeting at 7 p.m. You are invited to attend.
Holy Communion at 8 a.m. Church school at 10 a.m. Morning prayer and sermon at 11 a.m. Holy communion at 11 a.m. on the first Sunday each month without a sermon.
The notice lists church events including 9:45 a.m. church school 10:50 a.m. morning worship and a 6:30 p.m. Methodist Youth Fellowship featuring the Asbury club for high school and the Joyful Junior club for younger students.
The notice lists Wesley club for college junior choir practice and youth choir practice with an evening service at 7 30 p m led by Pastor Austin H Dillon.
The public is invited to Nazarene Church services led by Pastor I C Dunbar. Scheduled are 10 a.m. Sunday Bible school, 11 a.m. morning worship, 7:45 p.m. evangelistic service, and 7:45 p.m. Wednesday midweek prayer meeting.
The Presbyterian Church lists Sunday activities with nursery for children, morning worship at 11, junior choir led by W. C. Friesen, and chancel choir directed by Glenn F. Davis. Special evening services are announced by Minister Fred S. Rogers.
S M Melton superintendent of Kermit schools is named by Texas State Superintendent L A Woods to join 24 other Texas educators on a nationwide flying classroom tour Feb 15 to 21. Michigan State College sponsors the trip to connect educators with major business and industry leaders through plant tours and discussions of training and skill needs. The Texas group will depart Fort Worth by plane for the field study.
In Chicago a tour begins on Feb 15 visiting large plants in Chicago Detroit and New York ending in Atlantic City New Jersey for the annual convention of the American Association of School Administrators. Melton a former superintendent of Alpine schools is noted in the report.
The fragment notes a deputy state superintendent assignment ending at Kermit, mentions Orange County New York hosting America’s first cooperative dairy in 1856, and references mimeograph stencils and paper at The Avalanche, suggesting a historical archival context.
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