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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1937
Page
2
A garbled OCR description highlights luxurious train accommodations including lounge, diner, drawing rooms, bedrooms, extra berths, telephone service, and an air curtain to reduce kitchen odors aboard a premier Burlington route. Mentions G. W. ompany and Denver Phil lists amid fragmented references.
Community news from Terlingua recalls visits from San Antonio and Austin families, school openings on January 4, local travels to Laredo Sul Ross Alvin and Sul Ross students returning, and holiday memories in Alpine Mercedes and the Rio Grande valley. Social gatherings feature Miss Mary Katherine Roy and Janet Roy with Marjorie Lewis, Hank Dumas, and others as cake and coffee are shared.
Judge C R Sutton will preside as district court opens with an unusually light docket. No petit jury venire summoned. grand jurors named include HL Bell, WD Bloys, J Carlton, BE Davidson, J C Dun Robert Everett, W A Foley, Jack McCutcheon, Joe Kingston, b Turner, FM Miller, AE Babckev, Elmer Campbell, Bill Pry Valentine Rand. Community notes mention highway work, county officers sworn in, and changes at the sheriff's office.
Eula Snyder moved her dress shop last weekend from the Holland hotel building to the Indy Beauty shop quarters on Hol. The beauty shop will also continue to operate in its same location. A Hollywood confectionery customer told a clerk she resembles the Whitney girl, and the clerk was actress Eleanor Whitney gaining practical experience before a candy store role.
The Chamber of Commerce braces for 1897 plans with ads across state papers and new bulletins for the Big Bend park theme. Maps from local firms and a February banquet at the Holland Hotel set the stage for officer elections and a park report, with reservations through Worth Frazer or Mrs Lassiter.
Fort Stockton report says Joe Simmons of Kimble County admits giving his wife all the dimes he earned hauling cedar posts. He told how a man found a dime and he explained sending money home weekly. Simmons had 138 posts on his truck offered for sale at four cents each amid local cedar timber trade.
California voters decisively defeated a chain store tax by a wide margin with more than 2.3 million ballots cast. Reports say 57 of 58 counties opposed the measure, second only to the presidential vote in size. Editorial comment spread nationwide on this first statewide referendum on the issue. Ella Cook of St. Louis was arrested for swindling convict wives out of small sums to help free their husbands.
The Sul Ross college band won first place in the college band division at the Sun carnival in El Paso last week. The 36-member Lobo ensemble drew favorable comments from spectators as the large parade unfolded in the border city, boosting home trade and merchant support.
Sealed proposals for constructing 0.562 miles of drainage structures on Highway 10 between Alpine and Fort Stockton in Brewster County will be received at the Texas State Highway Department in Austin until 2:00 PM. Bidders must follow prevailing wage provisions and the House Bill No. 4 wage schedule. The notice lists minimum daily wages for laborers, drivers, operators, masons, and common laborers.
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