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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1930
Page
10
The piece urges readers to celebrate mothers this Sunday with affection and simple gestures. It contrasts motherly devotion with paternal paths, citing Kipling and a call to tell mothers of their value while they can hear and feel love. It recommends giving flowers if gifts are costly to speak the language of flowers.
Brown Shoe Company rep Walter Nelson of Brownwood visited Alpine calling on customers and greeting friends. Jol Kelly, noted Sonora figure, toured Alpine this week as did Marcus Hulings and family. Several El Paso, San Angelo, and Marfa residents appeared for weekends or business, with a warm list of locals and travelers in Alpine society chatter.
Alpine residents discuss speeding across West College Avenue with West College Hill seen as a launch point. W J Terry notes cars accelerate past his home as locals urge stiff fines. The Avalanche editor joins the call for action amid a wider concern about street speed. A separate New York bridge game ends in upheaval after Daisy makes a bold bid and an angry partner reacts.
A program for National Hospital Day is announced to be held next Monday evening at 7 o clock on the Turney hospital lawn. Mrs J Wright Dr C E Eaton Blanche Cotter and Dr J B Wright are featured speakers on topics such as What Hospital Means to the Community and Loyalty We Owe Our Hospitals. The public is urged to attend and bring ill or indisposed neighbors.
An Orient Dairy advertisement warns that bacteria in milk and cream cause sour flavors and disease, with up to a billion bacteria in a single drop. It notes that utensils harbor millions of germs and that cleaning with soap or boiling water fails to kill them, while live steam effectively sterilizes dairy equipment.
The report urges continuing the customary visit or flower delivery to shut-ins in Alpine. It notes the rose as the association’s official flower guiding the tradition and calls for observance of this sympathetic practice.
Fort Davis is to receive the play Ask and Slipper by special request. The production will be carried there and presented Friday May 9. Mr. Cohn, superintendent of Fort Davis Schools, handles publicity and helped bring Teebound to Fort Davis. Teebound has now been staged four times including Fort Worth and Fort Davis.
Pho Sal Ross leads the Skyline orchestra to accompany the stage production. The note confirms performance duties and venue alignment with the show.
The Study club sponsors a Sacred concert at 5 o clock Sunday afternoon May eleventh in the high school auditorium Alpine and vicinity are invited. Miss Irma Lee Datey head of the music department at Su Roms college directs the chart with Miss Paylls Burnton at the piano. Auditorium doors open. tickets are requested to be purchased early. the program will close at the hour.
A Danish critic claims films pander to nitwits while noting either the cinema or the critics are rotten in Den ark. The remark hints at broad discontent with contemporary film culture and reception.
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