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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1948
Page
2
A casual note reflects on meals and gratitude as friends discuss dining options in a nearby town. The writer laments abundance in some places and questions the availability of food in others while sharing a lighthearted cheesecake aside.
The column notes welcome Valentine wishes and humor from readers while praising recent improvements on the Central ward school grounds. It mentions Trans Texas Airlines expanding to the Marfa Alpine terminal and forecasts a bustling future for the region.
A derelict horse barn in Montclair New Jersey is transformed into a white clapboard five room cottage for a Navy veteran his wife and child The remodel by C Wesley Townsend preserves a Dutch door keeps a stall door and uses a dormer to create a nursery The family moved in before completion showing the project rapid and heartfelt appeal
Work began on a new vulcanizing shop next to Holland hotel. Alpine Jewelry Co B B Market and a confectionery planned to move into Holland hotel quarters. Funeral of Ona D Billingsley held at the Wilson home. Cowboys rode broncs on the dusty road now Highway 90 amid local humor and reminiscence.
Monahans on the Texas and Pacific line notes rail activity while Sul Ross campus gains 75 trees on the hill. Miss Anne Belle Von Schocler wed Truman Pouncey in El Paso. A panther is shot by Mac Sproul on a Davis Mountains ranch after tracking a cat that had slain a burro. Evelyn Constance nine months old daughter of Fort Davis County Attorney dies. J J Roberts of Marathon, representing the Gage ranches, pays 44000 for 174 registered Hereford bulls at the National Western.
Lee Hancock arrives from unknown location. Miss Gladys Peters a Balmorhea teacher resigns to take English post at Alpine High School. Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton star in Now We're In the Air at Mojave Theatre. technicians assure radio noises clash with vacuums pose no harm to receivers. Is your subscription paid.
Hayes Hord launches a barber shop in the newly thriving oil town as Jimmy Yancey opens a cleaning and pressing shop, signaling growing local business activity.
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