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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1941
Page
2
Local residents and visitors from Del Rio El Paso Lubbock Shafter Fort Stockton Winters and other Texas towns spent Christmas and New Year’s Week in Alpine. Families including Adams Hitt Casner Clifford Turner Swatzett Scott Benson and Lane Dabney hosted relatives while others traveled to Houston Austin Ballinger San Antonio and Galveston for family events and university openings.
Thirty-one members attended the Rotary meeting with one visitor, Ray B. McGrew. Milton Smith led a program with five members delivering five minute talks on Rotary for 1941, urging better community service funding and orderly donations. Several members spoke on 1941 programs, Eagle Scout work, bicycle safety, and potential guest speakers from the Army and local clubs.
Texas counties number 254 in a state with a big footprint. A jail project is planned, contracts drawn, and payment arranged in cash, reflecting local county priorities and the long process to secure funding and completion.
Classified notices list a private furnished room with bath and a garage two blocks from a college campus with water included. Mention of Mrs J W Rixon and date 12-20-tfe. Also small furnished cottages at Mitre Peak Guest Ranch with electricity, water and phone, town rental rates. Contacts Mrs Arthur Blucher and numbers 189F2 or 126. 10-25-tfe. Ambitious reliable man sought to sell Watkins products in Alpine, Memphis Tennessee. Write J R Watkins at 70.00 W. Iowa Ave. Miscellaneous notes include dirt hauling by Pine Disposal Service and an update on Mrs A J Tippit’s visit to Albany.
Mrs. G. W. Martin returned from Austin after the death of her mother Mrs. R. E. Allen aged 84 after a short illness. Burial was at New Liberty, the family’s old home. Mrs. Willis Griffin of Sabinal accompanied Mrs. Martin on the trip back and they sent Christmas greetings to relatives.
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