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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1922
Page
5
Alpine columns report visits from Terlingua Sanderson and Marathon residents. court sessions in Marfa Del Rio and Dallas, new goods at Packaway The Packaway fresh oysters eggs and milk Measday Dairy windmill services creamery and Tanlac ads. Local clergy sermons funerals and church events fill the week with social and civic activity.
Alpine Society notes recount Mr and Mrs T G Webb hosting a Valentine themed buffet for Miriam Webb's seventeenth birthday on February 11. Decorations center on a cake with seventeen candles, red hearts and green ferns, with guests enjoying creamed chicken, pastry shells, heart sandwiches and a progressive 42 game. Attendees include Miriam Webb, Ethel Clifford, Dorothy Cotter, Lorena Garnett, Frances Gillett, Louise Berkeley, and many others, with guests listed by family and friends.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church will hold a bake sale on Saturday February 18 from 9 to 12 at Yates Saddlery Shop.
The Woman's Missionary Society met at Mrs. Mary Sandford's home Tuesday afternoon to discuss Havana Cuba. The program included scripture, papers on Cuban life, letters, and geography sketches, with refreshments served to members including Mrs. T. A. Beard and Rev. H. M. Smith.
Mrs Walter Garnett hosted a Tuesday afternoon party for Little Lorena Crawford in honor of her sixth birthday. Miss Ethel Watters assisted with decorations red hearts and a six candle cake. Guests included Eula Brown Louisa Adell Dorothy Ann Perkins Allene Carol Martin Elizabeth Hord Gene Parr Julia Gentry Inda Benson Anna Marie Stigler Sonnie Pearl Sandifer Mablelair Lorena Crawford Glenn Kokernot Russell McMillan Henry Walter and Francis Garnett.
A Valentine party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Clifford by the Ladies Bible Class of the Methodist church as a compliment to the Men's Bible Class. The house featured heart decorations with a fishing pond in the dining room and blooming Freesias. Guests enjoyed various games followed by a salad course of chicken salad and date sand.
Mrs R E L Allen hosted a heart and dart gathering for her Sunday School class and former teacher Mrs E N Waldron at J J Men home from 1 to 6 pm. Mrs Waldron spoke of Mexican outreach in Waldron Texas while Mrs Mion shared the Valentine tale before a Valentine drawing. Refreshments followed with attendees Ivan Beaty Gay Miller Lowry Miller Truett Johnson James Lewis Dan Lewis Bird Babcock RoG Dunlap T J Watson Mrs Waldron Mrs Mien and Johnnie Allen.
Mrs Anja Wilson hosted a Monday afternoon Bridge Club event with heart themed decor and refreshments including chicken sandwiches fruit salad and heart shaped cakes. Guests included Mrs Ida Koker Mrs Cas Edwards Miss Anna Cecil Evans and Mrs Wells McIntyre along with club members Mesdames R EF Beaty J E Burgess A A Newell C D Wood M S Burke Co Mi Wilson P Kennedy I McCool PF E Gillett Grace Anderson J A Wilson and Mrs Ninja Wilson.
The Ladies' Aid Society and Christian Women's Board of Missions held an open meeting at Mrs. Hh M Raney's home Tuesday afternoon. Attendees included Mesdames J D Jackson, J A Ferguson, T G Harris, Livingston, Weyerts, J FE Yates, Crawford, Sullivan, Reece, Cary, TH Ferguson, and guests Mesdames Justice, Candlin, Mathews, Massey, plus Misses Cook and Billingsley. Refreshments of chicken salad, sandwiches, cakes, tea and coffee were served.
On Monday evening February 13 the Ilich School Faculty hosted the Normal Faculty for a Valentines party. Decorations featured red hearts, a bow and arrow game with a prize for Miss Evie Fulcher, partner matching with heart pieces, a heart on a fork race, and refreshments of red heart shaped ice cream.
To villagers: Hatching eggs from S C Rhode Island Reds offered with several pedigreed cockerels. Mrs Wm Dougherty requests phone contact 137-18 for farm poultry. Also reports of adenoids and tonsils removed from D C Thrift’s son by Drs Middlebrook and Turney.
John Holland a famed plains cow man died early Sunday morning February 12 1922 in Alpine. Funeral services were held at his home with Reverend H M Bandy delivering the discourse and the body laid to rest in the local cemetery. Surviving are his wife and son Clay who reside in Alpine. A fuller obituary will appear next week in the Avalanche.
The Nesthee at 1la m. and 7:50 p.m. The Choir will sing the anthem Be Still and Know That I am God in the morning, and in the evening the Misses Burford perform a duet At Eventide.
Christian Science services to be held Sunday morning at Li Opera House with subject Souls. For sale a Ton Indiana truck in good condition with full body and top. Dr Candlin contact via phones 21 or 94.
From the files of the Avalanche dated February 7 residents are noted as deceased and events unfold. Mrs Clara Withrow dies at 27. Mack Harmon visits family. newborns John T Chelf and a daughter for the Madenport couple are announced. mining fever claims Dr Berkeley’s Terlingua work. Local figures Kilpatrick and Van Sickle visit, irrigation and housing projects progress. stock cattle travel through Nipine. mineral discovery claims millions. W H Ply dies February 9. Mrs. W H Ply was sister of Willis and Bennett McCutcheon. Alpine commerce shows Ranch Saloon ads with cognac brandy and Hostetters’ Bitters samples.
Presbyterian Church invites worshipers to a Sunday 7 30 pm sermon titled The Gospel of the Other Side addressing misjudgments and harmony with facts. Morning service at ten features Christian Crusading topic. Pastor J A McMillan welcomes friends.
A brief classified note announces a butcher offering windmill work services. The ad provides a contact phone number 130 and a date 6-38, implying a 1938 listing for repairs or parts. No additional details or location are given.
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