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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1954
Page
3
The Fort Davis public library reports 241 books circulated in June despite vacation season. New books added by the May book committee attract fast turnover while a new shelving section expands display space. Visitors include Rev and Mrs Hall and family from Hobbs with plans for a fellowship dinner.
Members of the First Baptist church and their families and friends gathered at Point of Rocks for a church picnic. Attendees enjoyed fellowship and a day outdoors with games and shared food.
Wind and rain showers touched Fort Davis and nearby ranches with unofficial totals up to 3 inches. Mount Locke recorded 2.11 inches for the week with daily highs and lows listed. Visitors include Dr Barbara Middlehurst of England and the Borge family who survived Ozona flood losses.
The Old Fort Davis museum expanded to daily hours from May 19 and saw strong holiday crowds during the July Fourth week. Attendance breaks include 151 Saturday 431 Sunday 318 Monday with daily hours 10 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. across all days. July totals reach 1 018 in the first five days, with a grand total of 4 247 since opening. Visitors include Rev J C Worrell and family, Bishop Worrell, Jim Holt, Charles Brient, Judge William Granger and family, and Cpl Foster Bell Granger among others.
Haynes V. Mixon of Phoenix Arizona returned to Fort Davis Lodge during a weekend visit with his wife their married daughter and young granddaughter. Mixon noted he became a Mason in Fort Davis in 1906 and attended the lodge briefly before moving to Arizona. He said he came back to be in his old lodge once more and joined the regular meeting on Monday night July 5. He recalled meeting prior local acquaintances Tom Granger George Clothier and Harold Thompson during his 27-year-old departure era.
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