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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1930
Page
3
The Avalanche is authorized to sabouace the following as candidates for office in Jett Davis County. They oppose the fete at the Democratic primary on July 26, 1920. Treasurer: A Lae BLL, (Re-election).
Bishop Howden and Reverend Newell conducted confirmation at the Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon. Cecelia Thompson Lenore Jones Monroe Miller Hudnes Jones and Preston Fowlkes were confirmed with Miss Terrill providing music and John Pryde accompanied by Miss Audrey Miller. General and Mrs George Bartlett arrived from San Antonio and will stay at their summer home for several months.
John Pride builds an eighteen hole miniature golf course near Fort Davis with green bordered fairways, circular holes, and varied hazards designed to test skill. Local residents and visitors, including Mr and Mrs R C Withers, observe the site while families romance up to summer plans and marriages are noted in the community.
Mise Mabel Bloys traveled to San Antonio Sunday evening to visit her sister Mrs. Les le Fawcett and family for about three weeks. She will be accompanied home by Mrs. Fawcett and her three children, while Mrs. Gray visited Mr. Gray's sister Mrs. R. C. Williams last week. The Grays, formerly of Riverside, California, now live at Deep Well ranch near Hovey. Lena Terrill is the housekeeper for Mrs. Williams this week and plans a visit with home folks in Taylor at the end of the week.
W H Grande, science and tennis instructor, resigns to sail from New Orleans September 20 to teach science in a federally run school in the Panama Canal Zone. His exact role not yet determined. He previously served as principal at the Ashton school after a Sul Ross College background.
A chaotic Alpine scene blends editorials and gossip with mock service charges and light banter. A stray note mentions “Electricity” christening, fashion shifts from dress to step-ins, and a Florida paper headline about Isa bel MacDonald marrying a close family friend, amid random musings on futuristic furniture and a reader’s odd sleep on a bookcase.
A local Alpine editor announces during a seven year tenure that he has prayed twice daily, reflecting on personal faith and community values amid a late evening reflection. The fragment references Keeping Up The Average and a vague discussion of origins and character.
Kermit Allen, Sul Ross College all-round athlete and four season football player, was rejected as head coach of Peacock Military Academy in San Antonio. He is noted as a top swimmer and diver in West Texas and will begin work at Peacock at the fall opening.
A petition filed with the Board of Water Engineers by E. B. Nelawanger of San Antonio, president of Central Texas Power, contemplates Texas’ largest hydro power plant on the Pecos River near Austin.
A protest or petition outlines a long running feasibility plan for a Pecos River site near Val Verde county. It mentions a six month right to investigate with possible extension for three years, exclusive site rights, and presentation rights. The plan involves a tunnel eight miles upstream from the Pecos mouth where the river nearly touches the Rio Grande. The head difference between waters is noted at around seventy three feet, with a proposed power plant location implied.
The text describes banks of the Rio Grande with engineers outlining a plan to bring water and generate large power via a tunnel from the Pecos river reservoir. It notes the project being the only of its kind in Texas and references a figure of 173 head.
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