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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1925
Page
2
Alpine weekly edition reports Brew County happenings from Alpine Texas with local notices and state news. Subscriptions priced at $2.00 per year. manager T R Moody oversees mail matter under 1879 act.
Southern Pacific Lines expresses interest in the Alpine Brewster region development and seeks cooperation. The letter from W. McCormin ds of the Southern Pacific invites Mr. Pate to provide research materials and arrange distribution through SP agents to aid publicity and progress.
A June 22 letter from Cuero Texas to Sul Ross requests a high school math teacher and football coach with at least two years experience, or one year if necessary. The district will offer up to 1620 annually for a strong candidate and notes reliance on college recommendations to fill the next division’s faculty.
Alpine Mercantile Co announces continued operation with no material change in plan or methods. Ritchey Hotel Tuning Pianos and San Antonio Music Company are referenced along with items like pianos vitrolas and wricks in the notice.
Coach Graves announces a seven to eight game slate facing colleges including Texas School of Mines, New Mexico A&M, Texas Tech, and KL Mase Junior College with Alpine games and others at Brownwood and Alpine. Fans urged to rally student body and town turnout to back a rebuilding season as training starts in September.
A fragment notes how a lowly thief in a biblical scene avoids blame by turning the other cheek, contrasting with a righteous person. The writer references a weekly read, The Avalanche, suggesting moral reflection.
A detailed account explains candelilla wax production in the Big Bend along the Rio Grande. It describes the weed’s location, growth, harvesting by Mexican families, wagon transport to wax plants, processing with sulfuric acid, skimming and cooling the wax, drying, and packing for shipment to Alpine to middlemen and manufacturers.
The college calendar committee seeks August 7 from 7 to 11 pm for Sul Ross Boosters Club entertainment on the College Green. The program includes songs yells stunts and orchestra numbers with Coach Graves likely to perform mandolin and violin. President Morelock will address Summer Normal students before departure.
Miss Ford, a college librarian, entertained a small group at a bridge breakfast at her residence. The menu included iced melon, rice with maple syrup and whipped cream, fried chicken, potato chips, biscuits, mar malade, and coffee as four tables of bridge players spent the morning at play.
A small group of students with Miss Black and Miss Bat ey spent an afternoon and night in Fern Canyon on Saturday. Some climbed to the canyon pool for a swim and a cool plunge at Tippit Ranch. Other members listed include Nina Belle Caldwell, Hazel Dumas, Bertha Mae Hancock, Mary Bell, Miriam Webb, Drury Wood, Walter Caldwell, Maurice Bell, Homer Ferguson and Troy Hickman. Linda Lancaster and her mother of Lockhart Texas arrived last week for a stay in Alpine and Lancaster plans to teach History at the University of Texas this year. The Lancasters will stay through the summer in Alpine.
Professor R A Studhalter head of Biology travels to Texas Techno logical College in Lubbock to arrange business for next year and to take up the post as head of the department there next September. He notes the new school construction is progressing well and reports achieving 31 miles per gallon on the car trip. W R Hunton of Miles Texas visits his daughter at Alpine Teachers College.
Brewster County Texas probate notice directs publication for ten days in a county paper. Mrs Beatrice Black Martin has filed for probate and letters testamentary for I L Martin Jr deceased. hearing set for August 17 1925 at Alpine courthouse with contest allowed by interested parties.
W. M. Waters of Terlingua disputes a published rodeo report claiming Joe Hord owned the winning stallion, noting Waters owned the horse and supplying extra results. He cites a 200 yard free-for-all won by Con cho Sis and Terlingua Sorrel Stallion second, and a 250 yard cow horse won by Billy Sunday owned by George Jones of Valentine. Con cho Sis died days after the races. Waters reportedly paid $606 for the animal.
Mrs. Ruth J. Maurer, president of the American Cosmetician's Society, warns that cigarette smoking can ruin a woman’s beauty. She cites sloping mouth lines, yellowed whites of the eyes, yellowed teeth, and yellow skin with stained fingertips as consequences.
A good seven room house on five acres with two wells and windmills. Includes a truck and chicken farm. One mile of Normal on Marfa Highway. Interested parties contact owner L A Herring in Alpine Texas.
The Reverend Dr George W Truitt of First Baptist Church Dallas and noted evangelist will speak to Sul Ross students at an assembly next week during the Paisano Encampment opening Sunday. He is scheduled to preach there and then address the student body.
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