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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1922
Page
6
The Alpine Avalanche lists staff names and roles with Johin Young as president, A. S. Koonce as secretary treasurer, and W. J. Wenderson and Win. Phelps as directors. It notes pricing for subscriptions, display ads, and local notices, and confirms second class mail status in Alpine Texas.
A 1922 Avalanche column defends responsible reporting while inviting corrections. Readers’ letters express varied desires for more or less royal wedding coverage and praise for the paper’s service to the community. The editor pledges balance and responsiveness to both readers and standards.
A passage discusses inflation giving everyone wealth during wartime and deflation reducing living standards. It notes homeowners facing loss in value, smaller incomes, and the need to cut expenses or sacrifice luxuries. The text argues deflation follows economic law and hits those accustomed to luxury.
Readers flock to the Avalanche each week as numbers rise. More people are turning to the publication for news, commentary, and features, signaling a growing audience and stronger community engagement.
A fragment recounts two Black men in a possum chase with chanting. Rastus climbs a tree to retrieve the animal as the scene unfolds with regional rural storytelling voice.
The American Red Cross announced cash prizes for meritorious action in saving lives across the United States. Recipients include J. E. Woods of the Atlantic Coast Line for saving a colored baby near Darlington South Carolina, and Frank Knight of the Atlantic Coast Line for saving his sister near Cairo Georgia. Additional awards went to railroad workers and lifeguards for rescuing others from moving trains and water hazards, with multiple districts named.
The speaker warns that losses and reputations fall when built on sand and urges Alpine to rely on solid foundations. He decries oil as a false hope, touts local resources and temperance, mocks overlong talk, and chastises Prohibitionists as intemperate while urging steady, moral development.
A historical document lists county and district officials for Sonora Texas including James Cornell Jedge Llord Judicial District N W Graham district attorney M S Burke county judge and other officials such as sheriffs treasurers clerks commissioners and justices of the peace by precinct numbers and names.
In Pend Oreille County Washington in a heavy surf at Diamond Lake the second prize of 25 dollars goes to Charles W. Kabisus of Ocean Beach California for rescuing Francis Layne Doyle before he died of heart failure. Third prize 15 dollars goes to Dorothy Davidson of Brockton Massachusetts for plunging into the lake fully clothed to save a drowning person. Fourth prize 10 dollars goes to Frank Muscett of Silver Beach Washington for rescuing Mrs Edward Lee Taylor and her two daughters from thirty feet of water near a log boom. Read The Avalanches and Watch Alpine Grow.
Justice Court Precinct No 1 meets on the fourth Monday monthly. County Court holds third Mondays in February May August November. Commissioners Court meets second Mondays in February May August November. Probate Court meets Wednesday of the first week of County Court. District Court 63rd meets sixth Monday after the first Monday in January and July.
The city commission chaired by Mayor Beni. F. Berkeley and members F. E. Gillett Geo. W. Baines Jr Nay Bowles and City Marshal set monthly meetings on the first Monday at the Masonic Building.
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