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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1951
Page
4
Kohler offers sharpened hand and power circular saws as well as joined gummed and set machinery by Joe Frayser at 2058 Fifth Street. Also an ad for paying a good price for burlap feed bags wool remnants and mohair by Bryan Kelley at 208 North Toth Street with phone 538.
Alpine high school will send five delegates Bonnie Tt Sell Charlotte Slight Cather i Amajean Gray and Alice Ow ens to the Texas Future Teachers of America state convention at Labock March 40 31. Mrs. Vivian JB. Davis sponsors the club. About 400 delegates are expected with nine workshops three general sessions a Friday party and Saturday banquet. The program aims to aid local club activity planning for the next year. A remark notes more women in politics but jokes about changes in minds.
Easter holiday visitors traverse Texas towns as residents return home. Miss Anne Whitaker and Jack Scannell from the University of Texas join Easter gatherings in Alpine. Ronald Klein from Ft. Bliss and Rudy Krenek visit family, while Ray Davis goes back to Camp Polk after leave. Mrs. Ona Brown, Mrs. Henry Bailey travel to Oklahoma City. Mrs. Wright Boyd of Lamesa visits Alpine with Mrs. Balith Caldwell and family. Local residents host guests from Dallas and Lubbock during break.
The Alpine Public Library receives a $100 donation from El Progreso Club toward a Britannica encyclopedia set. President Mrs Henry Bailey notes long standing belief in the library needing Britannica and urges other Brewster County residents to contribute. The set costs about $200 to $250 with shelving and yearbooks also funded. Contributions sent to Mrs A J Gard or the Alpine Public Library.
Morning worship at 10 50 a m and evening worship at 7 30 p m on Sundays with Sunday school at 9 45 a m Training Union 6 15 p m Youth Fellowship 8 30 p m Choir rehearsal Tuesday 7 pm Officers and teachers meeting 1 Wednesday 7 p m Mid week Prayer service Wednesday 8 pm The first and third Sunday morning services will be broadcast over Station KVLF Glenn W Bales is pastor
Marathon parish announces Masses on Sundays at 7 8 9 10 and weekday Masses at 7 Evening service at 7 Father Santiago pastor conducts weekly church activities and Sunday 9 a m Mass is noted.
A Sunday schedule lists Sunday school at 9 45 a m worship and communion at 10 50 a m youth fellowship 4 30 p m evening service 7 30 p m and Bible study Wednesday 7 30 p m The Christian Science weekly Lesson Sermon titled Reality emphasizes spiritual reality and God’s unchanging nature with citations from James Psalms and the text by Mary Baker Eddy.
A compact notice lists multiple local churches with service times and activities. Wilburn Rainey and Austin H Dillon are named as ministers. Mexican Baptist and Presbyterian schedules include Sunday school, worship, evening services, and youth activities.
A Houston St Patrick’s party tale from Glenn McCarthy’s Shamrock Hall recounts a tall man striking a pudgy rival, mishearing a joke about Truman, and an apology that followed. The crowded scene shows gossip, humor, and Texan raconteurs in a lively El Paso Herald-Post feature fragment.
Fragmentary column discusses income tax burdens and civic resolve to avoid higher brackets next year. Mentions Gettysburg and a community tone about duty and calculations, with a note on Fort Davis resident A. Simmons who bought the Old Fort grounds in 1946 and spent time between Houston and Fort Davis.
Election notice issued by Alpine Independent School District Board to elect two school trustees. Ballot at Alpine Courthouse on April 7 1951. Signatures of President D L Cross and Secretary Chalmers Broadfoot. Also includes church and community notices with schedules and fellowship events.
Mrs. Lance Brown and her son Bobby of Breckenridge were guests of her sister Mrs. Fred Rogers and Mr. Rogers for several days this past week.
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