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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1909
Page
3
Local notes report visits from Tessie Marfa Del Rio and San Antonio residents. Merchants advertise Measday & Co goods Heliotrope flour and Schillings coffee while a mass meeting for the Dry Farming Convention is urged at the Alpine courthouse.
The lineup for the Alpine and Sanderson game against Sanderson yesterday lists Milam Harrison catching, George Blackburn pitching, Cal Edwards at first base, Tim Sumner at second, Hugh Johnson at third, Kit Johnson short, Clay Holland center field, Miles Smither right field, Vernon McIntyre left field, with Robert Slight as substitute.
The Naughty-Eights met Friday with Miss Lillye Runyon and reorganized to hold weekly meetings for lasting vitality. They schedule a meeting tomorrow with Miss Frank Parkerson. New officers are Miss Lottie Lowell president Miss Anna D Linn vice president Miss Frank Parkerson secretary treasurer and Miss Lillye Runyon critic.
The Alpine laundry starts operations Monday morning with a complete plant. It aims to save money at home and attract outside cash to Alpine. Mrs. J. L. Wade is proprietor and A. E. Worley manager.
A general meeting of the Alpine Business Men's Club is set in the District Court room on Monday night July 19 at 8 30 for arranging a program of entertainment for the Dry Farming Convention to be held in Alpine September 1 and 2 All citizens are invited and a special invitation is extended to Civic Improvement Club ladies to attend President Beny F BerkeleySecretary Wit C Eastertine
A Tuesday night AT C U rally drew fourteen attendees. Miss Una Jackson led the program with readings from The Horned Frog, the college annual, and a display of college yells. Professor Cockrell of Waco contributed notably to the entertainment.
Between midnight and daylight yesterday morning the drugstore of R B Slight and Co was burglarized and jewelry valued in the several hundreds of dollars stolen. Entry was gained by breaking a window of the refreshments parlors and reaching through to trip the latch. Ten gold and gold filled men’s watches, three ladies’ watches, rings and fountain pens were taken. Police believe they have a suspect.
G W Terry begins a residence on the South Side adjoining his blacksmith shop. R L Henderson adds an eight room two story hotel annex with halls. F L Dietz builds a residence in the Henderson addition. Dr George W Page completes a five room residence and is ready for occupancy. Paul Vogt reshingles his home.
The Christian Church at Alpine invites attendance for Lord's day services by Egbert R Cockrell. Morning theme is The Lord's Supper and evening subject is Man. Bible school follows at the usual hour. This may be Professor Cockrells last Lord's day with the church.
A reader contributes a poetic prose vignette about a prospector's harsh life. It describes hunger, thirst, heat and cold, futile searches for leads, desert wandering, dreams of childhood springs, and temptations in town that blur moral lines.
A man abandons his claim and leaves a stigma. he tells a straightforward story but faces accusations of guile. The episode centers on perceived honesty and the consequences of his actions in the record.
The Baptist church Young People's Society schedules a Sunday afternoon program at four. Leader Miss Mattie Anderson will read scripture and lead quotations on Anger. Papers by Cooke Atchison and Beulah Moseley discuss how anger expresses itself and its harm. Short talk by Clifton Ferguson focuses on prayer for self mastery.
Call at City Market for White Leghorn eggs. 7Sea setting. January hatched cockerels, extra good, $1.00.
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