Military music at Fort Davis Texas in the 1880s
Graduate student John Buchanan analyzes how regiments formed bands for music in 1881 with trumpeters paid for cavalry artillery and infantry. Dress parades featured bugle calls guiding troops as Elizabeth Custer described the bugle as time and drill guide. General Custer recounted the Washita attack with Garry Owen signaling the charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Davis
John Buchanan
Sul Ross College
Texas
Cavalry
Artillery
Infantry
Elizabeth Custer
General Custer
Elizabeth Custe
Washita
Oklahoma
Garry Owen
7Th Cavalry
Ndiars
The
Custer
Lee
Parie Ground
Alpine Vocational Nursing class holds cap and gown event
Ten students at Alpine Vocational Nursing School attended a Friday night cap ceremony at Alpine Community Center. Speakers included School Supt. Clarence L. Winn and principal David Bates. Caps were presented by Ruth R. Brown, with the Pledge led by Brown. Rev. C W Newbill gave invocation and benediction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alpine Vocational Nursing School
Alpine Community Center
Emma Arriola
Clara Mae Baxter
Clelia de la O
Eugenia Lines
Velma McEntire
Ellen Peacock
Alicia Rodriguez
Hermalinda Hinojos Sandate
Romelia Valenmela
Theresa
Betty) Valero
Clarence L. Winn
Venita Greene
Muses
Brewster Memorial Hospital
David Bates
Alpine High School
Brown
Wildcatter Nickname Traces to Oil Frontier Era
In early Pennsylvania oil camps pioneers coined the term wildcatter for drilers and night crews contested scraps of food left by day workers as they hunted meals in remote, rough drilling fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wildcatter
Pennsylvania
GA Council Meeting Draws Big Bend Girls in Van Horn
About 75 girls with directors and counselors from Baptist churches in the Big Bend attended the GA Council meeting at Van Horn Baptist Church on Saturday January 20. Mrs James Best and her counselors brought 12 girls from Alpine. After the program offices were elected the next meeting will be in Ballmorhea in April. Lamar’s Birthday noted by Hally Bryan Perry Chapter of Daughters of the Republic of Texas marking President Maribou Lamar’s birthday on January 26 and noting lands set aside for education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.L. Witter
Big Bend Association
GA Council
van Horn Baptist Church
James Best
First Baptist Church
Alpine
Lamar
Hally Bryan Perry
Daughters of the Republic of Texas
Maribou Lamar
Texas Republic
Notice of Unclaimed Items at Alpine Processing
Announcements warn that all processing and portraiture items more than six months old will be disposed of if not claimed by January 30, 1968. Signed by Margot Barnhill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alpine
Margot Barnhill
Also Mentioned on This Page
Don Martin
Marathon
Big Bend
Musgrave
Mmes
Paul Holstein
Bobby Sopo
Council
van Horn
Ballmorhea
Stan
Moore's General Store
Highway
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