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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1940
Page
7
The grade school staged a community close of school program last Thursday directed by Miss Fay Bowman. Third and fourth graders presented a colorful show featuring Fairyland circus and a scene titled The Hunchback Boy and the Wishing Well with elves and fairies in costume.
A production featuring many cast members performed in the Brink er cottage interior in Amsterdam in 1878. The WPA sewing room tour details garments made, staff wages, materials, and distribution to county programs, plus a high school dance and community events with local hosts and speakers.
The display centers on a detailed hacienda replica with a white house, a patio accessed by a ladder, and a rear clothesline. Mexican pottery, gourds and flowers decorate the scene while Senors, Senoras and Muchachos populate the yard. Miss Vada Roberts is the artist behind the window. Alpine guests visit the Skevingtons and Mrs Earl Fallis visits with her mother Mrs C E Martin amid notes of local activity.
Past year visitor is here with his parents Mr and Mrs J A Mc Gonagill. Miss Hollye Sansom teaching at Monahans for the term Mrs F P Rooney. Mrs Arp Jolly of Toyah arrives Monday evening to visit with the Tom Shackelfords.
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