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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1935
Page
2
The Marathon letter reached the office by yesterday afternoon delayed by washouts on the Southern Pacific railroad near Sanderson. This week's letter and next week's will appear in our next issue.
Nell Scott, head of the Bul Ross Art Department, was notified that her watercolor was accepted for the 42nd annual American Art exhibition at the Cincinnati Museum. The work titled Rainy Day At Rheinbekt Perry was painted in Kingston New York while she studied at Columbia University.
The account recalls Emily’s death after she warned others of an imminent raid at a fort. Mrs Raston sheltered her, and a quiet funeral followed as locals later located Emily’s grave among two mounded plots. The story covers the grave’s deterioration, a headboard moved or destroyed, and a later northern fort burial site cleanup. It also details a regional effort for a Big Bend-Davis Mountain Chamber of Commerce and a Marfa district civic gathering.
The page notes the entertainment committee seeks to determine attendance and arrangements. It mentions that five from an outlined group remain to be confirmed and hints at overall plans for a forthcoming program.
Sal Ross will sponsor its fifth annual educational tour for summer students to Chihuahua Mexico. The party will visit the nistorte old cathedral public buildings and various schools, with a side trip to Santa Eulalia Mines. Students depart Alpine June 20 and return July 2. Round trip train price is 858 dollars. July 4 Carlsbad Day is official.
The extension stresses the corporation will assist owners in genuine financial distress but reject plainly ineligible applications. Eligibility hinges on involuntary mortgage default before June 13 1933, or after June 13 1938 due to unemployment or misfortune. Other criteria include mortgage distress, primary home use, home value under $20,000, loan cap at $14,000, and non farm main livelihood.
Fragmentary OCR lists six weekly registration cycles from 10 with a student activity fee of 3.00 for books. Room and board in dorms and private homes ranges from 2280 to 2730 monthly, furnished cottages 1800 to 625.00 per month. College cafe meals mentioned.
Limited time offers for beds wallpaper and garden hose specials appear with rental notices and job ads. Ranch hand trapper seeks work. Rawleigh routes recruiting in Alpine. multiple names and contact hints in dated notices.
The drouth relief plan sends ten cars of Lespedea hay to Alpine and ten to Marfa for Brewster Jeff Davis and Presidio counties. Gibbons says the hay, like alfalfa, is last year’s crop grown in Tennessee and Kentucky. Cost around 18 dollars per ton. feed via local relief agencies with notes possible if ranchers cannot pay. Contact county agent Ernest Gibbons to obtain hay.
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