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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1915
Page
2
W. J. Yara enters subscriptions at $1.50 in advance for the Alpine Texas post office. This mail matter is designated second class and dated Thursday June 10 1915.
The Avalanche lauds Hon. M. R. McFarland representative for this district for his full session attendance and successful push of measures for the public good. Highlights include voting rights on election day, a $100,000 wild animal scalp bounty, re-enacting butcher laws, $10,000 for West Texas Ranger forces, sale and subdivision of school lands, border quarantine policy, education funding, a goat experimental farm grant, and a $12,500 refund to West Texas counties for scalp bounty overpayments. Always on the job.
Other towns served by P and ROG Telephone Co await action from the Ozona conference. The prompt inquiry asks Bro. Lasterling for a report on the proceedings and any decisions reached.
The article questions how Southern planters will limit cotton acreage as the planting season ends. It notes that expectations often diverge from results and that attempts to shift farmers toward more food crops to lessen payment for imports have repeatedly failed due to individual decisions.
The author warns that relying on others to cut cotton acreage risks a zero reduction. By each grower calculating a likely large crop and shifting to food crops for personal safety, the region could gain collectively rather than suffer from shared overproduction.
Local residents press Congressman Smith for help after a drunken mail inspector error. The 95 percent margin for Smith in Crockett County last year is cited, while the Stockman warns of an appeal to Hon. Jno Garner. The Avalanche suggests relief would come from Smith.
A federal grand jury in Corpus Christi returned multiple indictments against prominent Nueces county officials including Walter Limon county judge W B Hopkins Nueces district judge Mike Wright Nueces sheriff J C Bluntzler tax assessor Ed Oliver tax collector August Whlinger county clerk Lee Riggs and Corpus Christi police chief Claud Fowler. The action follows long standing accusations of corrupt methods in Nueces county and is billed as a warning to other communities to clean house before federal action.
Captain Hickok's Troop K station at Alpine receives orders to break camp and march to El Paso for embarkation to the Philippines. The departure is met with regret by Alpine residents who note the troops' favorable conduct. a company from the 13th Cavalry will replace them.
Walter W. Nelson invites all Christians to support a protracted meeting at the Methodist church beginning Sunday July 1. Rev W F Packard of Travis Park San Antonio will preach, with a large chorus choir to lead singing and a strong evangelist presence expected to bolster Pine County religious life.
A special term of the Brewster County Commissioners Court will be held at the Alpine court house on Saturday June 12 1915 to hear objections to property assessments from the May 1915 term. W H Lease county clerk and deputy M S Burke authorize the notice. Alpine Furniture Co advertises white enameled Gibson ice boxes and refrigerators priced from 10.50 to 37.50.
Bechtel announces readiness to compete with any dentist and states he operates from his office except when traveling to his ranch. Describes a Pyorrhea Alveolaris treatment using Emetine Hydrochloride at 3 dollars per ampoule, one ampoule daily for three days, with possible repetition in severe cases. Keep the money at home.
A dance will be held Friday night at the Athletic club for visiting Normal students. Music by R. Guyon and his orchestra. A small admission fee applies to non club members, while all Normal students enter free.
A Thursday evening concert at the Athletic club led by Raymond Guyon of Marfa featured Mrs. Dantzler, Douglas H. Johnston Jr., D. M. Bennett, and Messrs. Lopez and Ranuelos. Though the audience was smaller than hoped, the performance earned high praise for skill and artistry with pieces by Schubert Paderewski Keler-Bela and others plus a Venetian trio and violin works.
In Brewster County on June 6 1915 substitute trustee I J H Derrick sells at public outcry the Palmanteer deed of trust property in Alpine including two described tracts with improvements to satisfy a note and interest plus taxes paid by endorser C Given. Also sheriff J A Walton advertises levy sale of Block 9 Hancock addition Alpine on July 6 1915 for A M Turney with notice in Alpine Avalanche for three weeks.
Alpine Ice and Light Co announces delivery of ice to all town parts with regular service for paid orders only. A day current service is now available and the company guarantees satisfaction or money refunded with their frostfree refrigerators. Alpine Furniture Co advertises.
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