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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1925
Page
3
Local residents and visitors fill Alpine events with social calls and gatherings. Mrs. Herbert Kokernot Jr visits Shafter. Rev S R McClure and family in Fl Paso. J B Casner hosts and welcomes San Antonio broadcaster invite. multiple families and clubs host charity and church events as summer plans begin.
The First Grade Training School presented The Pied Piper of Hamlin at Sul Ross State Teachers College. Miss Clemma Billingslea trained the youngsters who performed a rat ridden tableaux and a flute led exit, followed by enchanted children and fleeing parents. Norman Beard labeled praised for reading.
Alpine Rotarians accept Marfa challenge for a Friday afternoon baseball game at 3:50 pm in Alpine. Businesses will close for the event. receipts fund boys welfare. Admission is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children with early arrival encouraged.
The Alpine Relief Association met in the Chamber of Commerce office with Chairman 8. M. Melton presiding. They adopted a constitution and by laws and planned a three member committee to conduct a membership drive, expecting to expand relief work this year.
Alpine grows as the Locke rooming house in the business district begins a six room addition and upper story remodeling. The Old Ranch House, a local landmark, will be joined to the new structure and stuccoed outside while interiors are modernized by owners W C and J R Locke. The Avalanche subscription promotion ends with a motto about procrastination.
Notice to patrons from Alpine Studio manager George H. Walker announcing elimination of overhead by moving all work to cash basis and not charging on account. The notice emphasizes no charge-on-delivery policy and asks customers not to request charging.
Mrs Geo Langston of Cisco Texas wrote a peace pledge adopted by the Federated Clubs of the Sixth District and State. A Alpine Mountains Federation committee printed 26 copies and arranged school and church displays. Mr A A Murray funded and distributed pledges April 11 to Alpine High Mexican school Sul Ross Training School and six Sunday schools to promote peaceful solutions.
A string of visits and movements between Alpine Hovey Fort Stockton and surrounding ranches is noted. Clyde Buttrill and E. B. Townsend were in Alpine while J R Bennett and family from Fort Stockton passed through Hovey. Mr Griffith returned home after relieving J R Boyd. The Boyd couple returned from Tankersley Knickerbocker and San Angelo after a extended visit reporting mud on the road and cars bogged down.
Electa Wade returned from a trip to Houston and Galveston where she attended a Western Union managers meeting. She cited business value from the visit, met leading Houston and Galveston business figures, and discussed Alpine’s oil development and college ties while noting visitors planning vacations to the Alpine region.
Mrs. A. Howard reports fear of eating due to prior stomach issues eased by Adlerika. Advertisement claims one spoonful removes gas, relieves bloating, and eliminates old waste from intestines. Alpine Drug Store promotes the product.
Mrs Clay Holland hosted the Forty two Club on Monday morning at her College Hill home. Guests arrived at 10 30 and later joined a luncheon at the Virginia tea room of the Holland Hotel. Decorations featured roses and sweet peas with a four course luncheon served to a list of named members and guests.
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