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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1927
Page
2
For sale listings show a mix of residences on College Avenue and nearby blocks with 6 to 10 rooms, multiple lots, and corner locations. Prices range from 1750 to 4500 with half cash down and balance on easy terms, plus a 40 acre ranch offering and a 156x138 foot plot near Sal Ross College.
Classified note offers a furnished four room apartment with bath on a paved street for 22 dollars and a smaller unit with similar features at 25 dollars.
Property trade note from Marfa seeking exchange for two small residences in Alpine. Involves a Fort Stockton block with ten top and lat references, targeted for equal value trade to Alpine property.
Fort Davis citizens visited Valentine to join the chamber of commerce and discuss regional development including road projects, tourist traffic routing, tax revisions and fire insurance rates. Fort Davis delegates signed up members while Valentine residents promoted civic spirit and potential business ties. A Fort Davis party toured a northern resort under construction, noting workers, cottages, a golf course and tennis court. The Eastern Star hosted a St Patrick's party with a pillow race, featuring twelve men and twelve women, won by the men.
Bargain planting season stretches to the end of March across Texas. Act quickly for special prices on fruit trees to plant at home. Write now for a free catalog and tell us what you would like to plant, and mention the ad.
Preparations for the county athletic meet at Valentine on April 1 are under way with events listed across literary, debate, spelling, athletics, and track categories for senior, junior, and sub-junior teams. Community figures including Mr. Leeton, Katherine, and Nick appear in social notes, while other items report on relatives’ travels, obituaries, church confirmations, cattlemen’s conventions, and local visits.
Model Tailors celebrated its first anniversary under current management offering half-price cleaning and pressing for two days. Customers must bring items in person and can inspect the plant. By 8 am on the first morning about fifteen customers had availed themselves, aided by Avalanche advertising cited by manager M. L. Hopson.
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