Alpine Boys Week Ends With Field Day Triumphs
About 200 Alpine boys aged 8 to 19 gathered at Jackson Field for field and track events and baseball. East side teams won most races and the baseball games, with the dwarfism team prevailing 16 to 4 and juniors 11 to 7. Rotary sponsors provided lemonade and 47 prizes. The boys then led city activities including school governance, traffic control at city hall, Civic league cleanup, and special church services.
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Lange Moves Boot Shop Into New Home This Week
Practically all of Lange's Boot Shop machinery and equipment have been moved into a newly completed building on Fifth Street. The commodious modern quarters will enhance Fifth Street's business area. The owner, Mr. Lange, also owns the building.
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Fifth Street
New High School Building Nears September Opening
Work on the new $80,000 high school on West Avenue D progresses rapidly and is expected to be ready for use at the September opening. The school board awarded contracts for stage equipment, furniture, and other furnishings, with Oklahoma City firms handling stage scenery and decoration and a Temple company supplying furniture. Laboratory equipment was also purchased.
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West Avenue D
Oklahoma City
Temple
No Junior High Commencement To Be Held This Year
The school board decided to move the tenth grade back to the high school next term. Ninth graders from the Junior High will graduate again from the city school in the college setting. The closing activity announced features a spring program and the "Zander-Gump Wedding" at the auditorium Monday night.
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Sul Ross College
Historical Society Annual Meet in Alpine on May 10
The Historical Society of Alpine plans its annual convention this evening at eight o clock with Henry T Fletcher president in charge. Attendance is expected to surpass prior meetings as many women visitors and others join the work. The program includes musical numbers by the Ross Glee Club under Miss Ivine Shields and folk dances by Sul Ross students and Pioneer Club led by Miss Lutie Britt. Prof Cottle will present slides on wild flowers from West Texas after collecting 600 specimens. Miss Elizabeth Keefer leads the domestic program segment.
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Henry T. Fletcher
Vance
al Ross Glee Clubs
Ivine Shields
Sul Ros
Pioneer Club
Lutie Britt
Cottle
West
Texas
Elizabeth Keefer
New Game Law Explained by Senator Berkeley
Senator Berkeley's bill, passed last session, limits western Texas to one blacktail buck with a pronged horn from November 16 to November. The law keeps existing limits of two bucks per hunter for other deer and does not alter season dates or bag limits east of the Pecos. Flagtail and white tail are the other deer species in Texas.
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Crawford
Tad Meson
Pecos
Texas
Old Frontier Days Veteran James W. Taylor Dies at 83
James W. Taylor, 83, veteran ex Texas Ranger, died at the Lockhous e Alpine after a brief stay. Civil service ties noted in papers found with him. Authorities to locate relatives. body buried in the local cemetery yesterday.
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Casas Granches
Mexico
Alpine Clean-Up Effort Revives Town Pride
The annual Alpine clean-up sponsored by the Civic League concluded after a week of yard raking and property brightening. Committees report better than expected results and note the community’s strong participation, with Boys Week supplementing efforts and Rotary involvement.
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Rotary
Fox
League
Cross Sells Out Business to Howell's
The sale of 1 B S Crom furniture business to Howell Inc took effect this morning after a yesterday afternoon completion. No operation plans were announced by the new owners. Oxianoma and Louisiana report bumper peach crop.
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Howell's
Louisiana
The
New Yorker
Simmons and Sul Ross to Open Spring Grid in Alpine
Simmons University Cowboys meet Sul Ross at Jackson Field in Alpine on May 12 to raise funds for Marshall Borah. Graver drills three squads including lettermen Duck Younger and Stanton McLean while promising rookies Hugo White and Lynn Halber push to prove ready for the spring clash.
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Cowan
Clark
Squatty Carroll
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Lewis Glaze
Hugo White
Full Duncan
Lynn Halber
Marcus Connally
Nod Martin
Simmons
A.C
Denton Teacackle
Bridges
Simmons Bunch
Baylor
Albil
Beekeeping Boost for Texas Press Women Convention
One hundred pounds of Marathon Honey Co. honey will be distributed at the Texas Press Women's convention in Alpine. The liquid sweet was provided through Mr. A. B. Anderson to the Alpine chamber of commerce for luncheons and banquets. Each delegate will receive a 16 ounce honey jar as a souvenir, with cookbooks and Highland area handbooks also offered.
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Brewster County
Texas Press
Alpine
Marathon Honey Co
A. B. Anderson
Marthon
Chamber of Commerce
Highland
Alpine Club Defeats Shafter For 8 4 Victory
Alpine Vaqueros topple Shafter 8 to 4 on Sunday as Bill Duncan stifles the visitors through most of the game. Tubby Lease shines with glove and bat, while Alpine’s offense pounds out eight runs despite late threats from Shafter.
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Alpine Vaqueros
Prolumn
Pecos Club
Bill Duncan
Vaqueros
Duncan
Tubby Lease
Timber cut on national forests in Colorado in 1928 report
Forest Service records show Colorado national forests harvested 71 746 100 board feet in 1928 with timber sales at cost totaling 196 504 58 dollars. The figures reflect official data on timber production and sale prices for the year.
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Colorado
Forest Service
District C E session ends Sunday night
A successful Christian Endeavor district session concluded in Alpine with a Sunday night program titled Growing With Christian Endeavor. Out-of-town delegates from El Paso Mart Fort Davis Balmorhea attended. officers were elected for the district including Mrs H W Ferguson and Dorothy Winkless. An upcoming Mother Day program at 4 45 pm will be led by Ida Purmoss and Mao Weyerts.
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The
Christian Church
Christian Endeavor
el Paso
Marts
Fort Dave Balmorhea
Alpine Society
H.W. Ferguson
FE. Weyerts
H. W. Ferguson
Dorothy Winkless
Jack Hupperts
Dallas
Afiss Therine Majors
Vody
Christian Land Presbyterian Churches
Christian Endeavor Society
Alpine
Presbyterian Church
Ida Pur Moss Sxyniac
Mao Weyerts
Pen Women Convene in Alpine Texas
More than forty delegates attend the Texas Woman's Press association convention in Alpine with officers led by President Emma Cobb Evans of Dallas. Welcome addresses given by local club presidents, while a Rotary-hosted reception occurs at a local hotel delayed by heavy rains that disrupted travel from Dallas.
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Associaion
Emma Cobb Evans
Dallas
Marta
Fort Davis
Alpine
H. J. Cottle
Rotary Club
Sweetwater
Big Spring
North Texas
Cow Weekly Market Fort Worth Stocker and cattle prices
Market report notes thinner cattle activity in Fort Worth for May 7. Best fed steers around 13.75, cows mixed with scarce high grades, yearlings mostly 12 to 14.40, stockers soft with limited movement and prices slipping from last week.
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Oklahoma
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