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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1937
Page
6
Annual inspection of Alpine Commandery No. 90 Knights Templar conducted Monday night by Grand Captain of the Guard H. B. Tuer of Pallas. Attendance was small due to flu and other illnesses affecting the membership.
Local items list residents traveling for business or illness. Shirley Scales suffers flu like ailment. Arledge and A J Belle visited San Antonio. Several residents visit family in Alfred Texas El Paso Dallas Houston Uvalde Carrizo Springs Bartlett Menard La Pryor. California visitors include Chet Chase Gene Sbarbor a Ray Arlin Jr from USC and UC Berkeley. Phi Delta Chi convention in Indianapolis.
Valentine mayor Ben F. Morris earns the nickname the plucky mayor of Valentine after confronting a wandering tramp in his store. The incident, described as a swift ejection, follows ongoing issues with vagrants along the U P railway and Border Highway. Deputy Wilbur Medley investigated the incident and noted repeat vagrant visits, with Morris praised for decisive action amid a cautious town mood.
Travelers on the Santa Fe doodlebug between Alpine and San Angelo praise conductor A. H. Spring for old style hostlike hospitality. Spring has served 77 years on Santa Fe and Orient lines, previously San Angelo to Altus, Oklahoma, and now on a year and a half running this line. He notes Santa Fe’s interest in extending to Topolobampo on the Mexican west coast.
The Parent-Teacher Association held a regular session on March 24 25 at the Junior High school for Founders Day events. Committees were elected to nominate officers for the coming year as part of a district conference hosted here. The notice also promotes Midget Beauty Shop services with low prices and sanitation features.
Alpine man EM Thorton who was injured when a county highway truck collided with his truck in Fort Stockton last week was brought home Sunday. He suffered two fractured vertebrae and will be bedbound indefinitely, though officials report he is doing as well as possible under the circumstances.
More than 250 head of livestock will be shown at the Southwestern Livestock Show and Purebred Hereford sale in El Paso February 22 to 25. Ninety five 4 H and FFA club boys will exhibit prize calves lambs hogs and dairy cattle. Fourteen breeders of West Texas and New Mexico will show and sell registered Herefords February 25. The show occupies a new 120000 livestock show building for the first time. An all expense trip to the Fort Worth Fat Stock show will be awarded the feeder of the grand champion calf by the Texas and Pacific railway. This prize aims to encourage 4 H and FFA in livestock feeding work. Patronize Avalanche.
A chiropractor asserts that severe flu leaves lingering problems due to nerve interference in the spine. He argues medicines suppress symptoms while the underlying cause remains, and that chiropractics restores health by freeing nerve energy, claiming recovery leads to health.
Intermediate and teachers from Wink Fort Stockton Alpine and other towns list at Alpine for the association including Marie Wilson Lipscomb Norman Waldrum Leath Casebier Ayers Blackwell Maria Walker and others. Officers elected last year include president Mur. County officials join the effort to promote a Texas Big Bend park and Highway 67 as complementary projects with petitions to be gathered across counties.
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