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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1959
Page
6
The notices name Richard Randolph Riddle and Rosaria Cobos as deceased estate subjects. Gray and Gnaciano Cobos announce probate actions in Brewster County Texas with deadlines for debts and claims to be settled at specified addresses. The text contains garbled lines and ends with a quip about fools and money.
Fort Davis notes tell of the Denver Kiwanis Club Man of the Month award to Judge William J. Burnett of Denver Municipal Court, presented by President Lee W. Doud at the Albany Hotel. Burnett, son of Rev Bill Burnett once at Fort Davis Methodist Church, was born here while his mother taught at Anderson School and is linked to Alpine’s Hal Burnett. Further local items cover visiting relatives, family news, and rainfall totals reaching 234.73 inches in the area gauge through Saturday evening.
Fort Davis saw 0.51 inches of rain on Saturday with a total yearly tally of 968 inches. July 21 brought 1.81 inches from one gauge and 2.50 inches at Martin Krebs residence. Harold Thompson and W. G. Patton reported heavy downpours. Masonic lodge officers for the year include Hall Burnett as worshipful master and Raph Russell as senior warden with others named. Former Fort Davis residents Dee Jones and P. L. Wilson visited town Sunday.
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