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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1940
Page
3
Poem fragment by Ingeborg Hoerner presents a reflective speaker denying orchid status and embracing being a daisy. It contrasts talent, applause, flowers, and the metaphor of weed and rare buds in a literary voice.
Mask and Slipper presents Hedda Gabler on Sul Ross stage in February with promising costuming by Leota Baker of Balmorhea. Cecelia Thompson stars as Hedda. delay due to her injury and basketball season. Annie Kate Ferguson directs Sul Ross players.
Sunday church services at the Methodist church will be led by Rev. H. E. Carrell. Morning worship at 11 with the sermon The Steward in Society. Evening service at 7 30. All are cordially invited to attend.
Federal trapper C. L. Parker finally outwits the famed coyote known as Old Three Toes in Mason County. The animal, famed for a distinctive three toed print from raids on goat and sheep flocks, had evaded trappers for years before Parker secured its pelt. The coyote had earlier severed two toes from its right front foot while escaping a trap.
Irving Cobb, longtime Texas hunting visitor and humorist, lauded deer and duck hunting in the Lone Star State after a recent tour. He bagged two ducks in Southwest Texas and enjoyed Eagle Lake in Colorado County during the open duck season, while observers in Galveston credited him as a skilled shot.
A state game warden on vacation had a morning hunt spoiled by a coyote that bayed and scared off four bucks. The animal then lingered 850 to 400 yards away, making noise to deter any approaching deer.
Reports to the State Game Department executive secretary say the trapping season closed with a poor season. Fur bearing animals appeared to increase, but prices for pelts remained low and open season trapping was light. Not more than half the normal trappers were active.
Two state game managers report a shrike impaled a female cardinal and carried the load just three feet off the ground, managing a 20 yard flight before the cardinal was retrieved with minor head pecks and no other injuries observed. The incident illustrates the butcher bird’s feeding behavior and strength.
King ranch foreman Lockhart watched a coyote point a covey of Bobwhites like a bird dog along a Kingsville pasture during the open quail season. The animal held the point for a minute then charged the covey, securing one bird before retreating.
A bluebird released by the Bureau of Biological Survey in Washington DC in 1938 was captured by Clyde Anderson on Mrs. M. G. Anderson s Winters Texas farm. Birds are banded and released to study migratory habits of species.
The essential elements of game restoration are food, cover and water. Without any one of these, the game cannot survive.
More than half the Texas counties now produce oil or gas with 147 of 254 active. In 100 more counties exploration is under way, bringing total counties with oil or gas activity to 247.
Elmer Taylor announces his bid for a second term as Brewster county sheriff assessor and tax collector. He is a long time resident and plans to visit every voter in the county during the campaign while asking support from The Avalanche.
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