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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1949
Page
6
TheWomen's Civic Club held its May 16 meeting at the club house with 11 members attending. Plans for the July 4 celebration included wired chuck wagons and a dance. baseball practice scheduled Thursdays at 4 p.m. Numerous social visits and travels are noted, including members in Alpine El Paso and Cincinnati.
The Granada presents the Technicolor adventure Streets of Laredo starring William Holden with Mona Freeman and featuring William Bendix and Macdonald Carey. Donnell L F Buttrill and W R Green appear with guests Mrs Alfred Negley and Misses Virginia Young and Jean Higgins. Bingo winners listed include Mrs Treadwell first and Mrs Quigg second. Miss Emma Burnham visits Nail ranch this week. The outdoor drama shows Sunday and Monday at Granada Theatre.
Mrs. D W Collins hosted an outdoor barbecue Thursday May 12 honoring Mr and Mrs Tommy Leary with guests including Mrs Mabel Arnold Mrs Margaret Buttrill and Miss Jean Higgins among others. Several family members and friends traveled and visited relatives in Midland Carlsbad and Fort Worth while noting a recent storm impact on ex Marathon residents.
Mrs Clinton Ritchey entertained the Enida Bridge club at the Parkway hotel Friday afternoon May 6. Guests included Mesdames Gage Holland Bill Donnell Raymond Quigg Elmo Weston D W Collins Buck Treadwell L C Ritchey L A Preston Ralph Coe Lee Dragoo L F Buttrill H C Wilson Jack Todd W R Green and Miss Virginia Young. Ritchey won high score Donnell was second Coe won the traveling prize and Preston bingo.
Mrs. Frank Wedin honored her son Johnny on his fourteenth birthday May 12 at the club house. Guests enjoyed entertaining games and Johnny opened many useful gifts. Refreshments were served to twenty guests.
The Presbyterian Missionary Society met on Tuesday May 11 with Mrs L C Ritchey as hostess and Mrs B Van Deman program leader. A program on The Lord Provides followed business. Mrs Crockett offered the devotional and closing prayer and received a small gift. Hostess Ritchey served a salad plate to attendees including Mrs S H Crockett Emma Burnham Mrs B Van Deman Mrs W E Yourlg Mrs Guy Crawford and Mrs G W Worthington.
The Senior class and escorts enjoyed a dinner and Bunco at the school house on Friday May 13 hosted by their mothers and sponsors Mr and Mrs H D Smith. Baccalaureate Services are set for Sunday May 22 at 8 p m with Rev Rueben Smith as speaker. Graduates include Betty Sue Hargus Emma Ann Lemmons Eula Mae Stuart Kenneth Hargus Billy Pat McKinney Gus Willeke Bunkie Rutledge and others entering or finishing high school.
Mrs. Ralph Coe celebrated daughter Marilyns eighth birthday on May 12 at the school house. The first and second grade room hosted games and gifts. Ice cream cake and Cracker Jacks with prizes served to attendees as party favors.
Mrs Gage Holland entertained the Enida Bridge club at the Parkway hotel Friday afternoon serving ice box pie and coffee to members including Mesdames Herbert Smith L A Preston Jack Todd Elmo Weston D W Collins Zoye Decie Earl Young L C Ritchey Harry Wilson Roy Stillwell Buck Treadwell Marshall Roberts Clinton Ritchey Raymond Quigg and Bill.
Fort Davis hosts a year-end display showcasing student projects from the past year. Teachers briefed on the program as high school students and younger pupils view the exhibit in connected rooms.
School night at the Anderson school Wednesday May 11 featured a program led by Mrs. J H Clark and the faculty. Principal W E Smith supervised a rhythm band of first graders singing, with second grade pupils performing Indian Dance Grinding Corn and Cowboy dances.
Macdonald Carey makes his Western debut in Paramount Technicolor Streets of Laredo at the Granada theatre showing Wednesday and Thursday. He shifts from urbane leads in Hazard Suddenly It’s Spring and Dream Girl to playing a conscienceless bandit-killer in the new film.
The sermon emphasizes that faith is more than church membership and quotes Fosdick. It argues Jesus came to elevate people beyond easy living and inspires with a trumpet call of greatness.
The 2nd grade performed two folk dances Shoo Fly Shoo to My Lou and a piece The Census Taker Sates Mother Goose. The 3rd grade presented The Flags of Many Nations. The Intermediate chorus sang The Clarinet The Keeper Little Red Handkerchief and My Mother's Home. The 4th grade put on a play The Flags of Many Nations. The 5th and 6th grades presented School Supplies with songs. Ernest Rivera and Martha Jimenez each played two piano solos. The school choruses sang Far Away Places Lavender Blue and Galway Bay.
Bill Chapin son of Mr and Mrs A V Chapin of Fort Davis is a student at Lon Morris College in Jacksonville Texas. At the recent annual banquet of the event observers noted his presence and the college affiliation.
Bill received a gold medal as the most developed actor from Masque and Wig Theatre at the college. He has appeared in several speech department plays. The award, a small gold mask inscribed M&W on the back, was given by Mrs. A. B. Pearson, head of the speech department and sponsor of the Masque and Wig Theatre.
This notice informs all persons indebted to Milam Harrison and those he owed to present payments and statements of indebtedness to B. E. Harrison administrator at P O Box 215 Pecos Texas by June 1 1949 for settlement of his accounts.
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