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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1954
Page
9
Mrs Phillips and Mr McCollum entertain guests for a Wednesday 42 game at the McCollum home. Dom Adams wins traveling prize and high score for men while Mrs Edwin McCollum tops the ladies and Mrs Georgia Dallman takes low score.
Mrs Charles Treadwell Jr entertained the Friendly Bridge club on Wednesday afternoon. Guests included W I Winter Mark Herring Onah Brown and Bruce Sutton. Winners were Mrs Winter high for guests Mrs Moss high for members and Mrs Herring second high. Mrs Anshan won bingo. Dessert featured cream puffs and coffee. G H Harfst Jr and Meridan Garner attended the Cotton Bowl game in Dallas last Friday.
The Alpine Garden club meets this Friday at 3 30 p m at Mrs Louis Forchheimer home with Mrs Forchheimer Mrs W J Smith and Miss Nellie Litchfield as hostesses. Mrs Grady Nelon will speak on Green Thumb in the Kitchen. Virgil Miller visited her daughter in Schertz and also called on friends in Gatesville and San Antonio. Bow and Nance partnership in City Drug Store dissolved December 31 1953 with Bow taking over as sole owner and continuing the business under the firm name City Drug Store.
Edwin McCollums entertained a group of friends at their home on New Year Eve. Guests included Mesrs. and Mesdames B. B. Bounds Lloyd Henderson Glenn F. Davis Dom Adams Frank McCollum J H Lisenbee and James A Boyd. High score winner was Mrs Lisenbee with Mr Lisenbee receiving a consolation prize. Refreshments of a dessert plate and coffee were served.
Boss Lion Williams returns after work with the college. Guests include Peyton Cain and R L Smith of Tucson and R L Smith Jr recently from Korea. Carl Shults reports the monthly data and is praised as district secretary. New members Bob Halpern and Bill Heidt welcomed. Ladies Night set for Jan 19 with Marvin Kay as program organizer. Regular meeting at Holland hotel resumes.
Victor J. Smith of Alpine returned from Tucson where he joined a joint convention of the National Folklore Society and the American Anthropological Association. He represented the West Texas Historical and Scientific Society and reported record attendance as papers on Texas folklore and archaeological research were presented. Dr. Joe Ben Wheat, a former Sul Ross student, gave a scholarly summary of Southwestern Indian culture.
Mr. and Mrs. George Bevier and daughter Pamela returned from a Caribbean holiday cruise. They left New Orleans December 23 aboard the U S Fruit ship Chiriqui, sailed to Colon Panama, spent two days in the Canal Zone, rode a canal boat to the Pacific side, visited Santa Marta Colombia, reached Sevilla banana plantation on a 50 mile train ride, and docked back in New Orleans January 4. Mrs Herbert Pruett of Houston and son Herbert visited the ranch during Christmas.
A. J. Gard and his son Bob returned Sunday from a visit with Mrs. Gard's father in Yoakum. Mrs. Gard accompanied them but was detained in Austin due to the serious illness of Mrs. Joe Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Winton of Sulligent Alabama are the proud parents of a daughter named Mary Catherine born December 31 in Sulligent weighing 8 pounds. The mother is the former Catherine Slight daughter of the late Judge R. B. Slight and Mrs Slight of Alpine. Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Winton of Birmingham. Mrs Slight has been visiting at the daughter’s home in Sulligent since last October.
A son weighing 5 lbs was born on December 24 in Sanderson to Mr and Mrs C W Cox of Alpine. The baby named Coleman Wesley Jr arrives with grandparents Irvin Roberds of Algert ia and C F Cox of Alpine.
Mrs Gard had lived with a longtime companion before marriage and the funeral was held Sunday. Mr Gard traveled to Austin on Wednesday to attend the service and bring Mrs. Gard back. Miss Betty White, daughter of Mr and Mrs Hugh White, recently at Texas Tech in Lubbock, has returned home and will enroll at Sul Ross at mid term.
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