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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1938
Page
6
Local notes list Mrs. Samm Nelson and Mrs. Waller Diep driving to Hi Paso, trips by B Burges to San Angelo, visits by Miss Gena Parr and Miss Anna D Linn, and several residents traveling to East Texas, San Antonio, Ruidoso, and Langtry. Many names appear with brief travel or visit references and health updates.
Fort Davis area reports a possible find of an old musket barrel on a rocky knoll near a road cut. The fragment, broken and bent, suggests a pistol or club-like use, while lore says Sibley’s Confederate regiments buried cannons near Limpia Canyon, though no cannon has been recovered.
The First Christian Church announces morning worship at 10 50 with church school at 9 48 and a sermon The Path of the Just. A 1 20 union service at the Methodist Church features a College Choral Club concert. Evening program includes a joint service at 7 00 and a special musical program. M M Fulmer pastor.
Announcement declares the dissolution of the partnership between FL McCollum and Jesse Allen, owners of Model Tailors and the McCamey establishment named Allen & McCollum. It states McCollum will lead Model Tailors while Allen will run the McCamey shop under the change.
Alpine Rotarians presented a college assembly program featuring speaker Teebe, E, and others as part of a club outreach effort.
In Maria district four state men and one county man were employed in January to eradicate scabies. About 0.95 was spent on the regular eradication program. One hundred eighty five herds and 216 shop goats and cattle were inspected or dipped. Work to continue in Marta district under L. J. Watts to protect livestock from imported infection and issue necessary certificates for inter-state movement.
The report notes Texas underground oil reserves near 11 200 900 barrels, about half of the United States estimate of 12 400 8000 barrels. St James Episcopal Church schedules services with morning and afternoon times, inviting the public to attend. Reverend George Wood serves as rector.
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