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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1924
Page
1
The first grade of Sul Ross State Teachers College Training School presented a Texas history pageant detailing origins of Texas under French Spanish Mexican and Republic eras. Students portrayed figures and events with dances songs and reenactments admired by the audience.
Rock Island and Orient officials toured Alpine on Monday to inspect the Orient for possible purchase by the Rock Island. The aim is extending the Orient to Mexico, improve freight and passenger service, and strengthen the entire system. Alpine could gain machine shops or a division end, with better railroad connections and regional benefits. Mrs. Kate Nevill warns that trespassers on Nevill Ranch lands will face full penalties.
Editor John M. Sharpe praises Sul Ross College for hiring Georgetown Superintendent Tom Lee for a summer session in Alpine Texas. Lee will teach history and education from early July to early September. He will be joined by Mrs. Lee and his mother Mrs Theopolis Lee on the trip to Western Texas.
Precinct primary conventions in Alpine elected delegates to the County Convention held Tuesday May 6. Precinct 1 chose J L Martin as chairman and W W Jenkins secretary with an uninstructed delegation to the national and state conventions. Delegates named were W I Terry Sr, J D Jackson, John Verkins, I L Martin, and S K Gillett. Precinct 2 named PF L Clark, Geo A Brown, J S Hord, and Jim P Wilson with an uninstructed national delegation. No report from other precincts.
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