Alpine Texas official city and county paper notice
Entered as second class matter at the Alpine Post Office under the act of March 1879. Official city and county paper in Brewster County. Forty fifth year devoted to Alpine and Davis Mountain Big Bend region news. Subscription rate per year two dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alpine
Texas
Congress
O Sly
Brewster County
Davis Mountain
Big Bend
Brizely Rats
Threahs
Zee
Carlton
Port Davis
Jess
Nee Prom
Fragmented humor and misheard quotes echo rural life
A garbled montage presents absurd jokes and rural banter from an Alpine village, including a master class in miscommunication about meals and discipline, a comic misread of farming and education, and quips about shaving, boats, brickwork, and a silent townsman waiting for a storekeeper.
Fort Davis flourishes with new Baptist preacher and school notes
Fort Davis reports Rev Laan Richardson, newly installed pastor, preaching monthly at the Fort Worth Baptist Theological School and at local churches in Pyote and Sierra Blanca. The town details school additions, rainfall records, and community events including a Lone Star State lecture by Charles W. Hodges and high school visitors from Pecos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laan Richardson
Fe Mus
Richardson
Fort Worth
Charles W. Hodges
Historical Lecture Bureau of
Waco
Lonestar
Texas
Post aed pastures south of Alpine hunting trespassing barred
Public notice from MIS J C Bird warns that pastures south of Alpine are used and that hunting hauling wood or any trespassing is strictly forbidden. Dated 10 26 H16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alpine
Mis
J. C. Bird
West Texas road funds aid Port Civic Maria stretch
State Highway Department allocates about eleven thousand dollars for maintenance of the Port Civic Maria road section of state highway No 17. Fort Davis residents praise the grader work improving the rough road. Barstow high school football notes a Barstow victory over the Indians and upcoming games at Kermit and Barstow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Department
Port Civic Maria
West Texas
Fort Davis
Barstow
Fort Davis High School
Indians
Kermit
Insane
Birwow
Davis
Alpine and Terlingua Visitors and Local Trips
Alpine residents and visitors were active last week with trips to Terlingua, mining camps, and Paso. Names appearing include Alding Nelson, Joe Burgess, C Amstrong and family, Lem Taylor, Mr Gwinn, Mrs Humphreys, Babb, Dahlgren, Cartledge, Henry Armstrong, A C Spalding, Marion Buttrill Boyd, and Walter Pulcher. The notes mention dove hunting, funerals, and weekend visits in Alpine, Study Butte, and Marathon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N Nelson
Alpine
Joe Burgess
Alpin
Crstolon
Humphreys
Paso
Babb
Dahlgren
Bob ‘Cartledge
Sunay
Babbs
Henry Armstrong
el Paso
A.C. Spalding
Marion Buttrill Boyd
Marathon
Walter Pulcher
Butte
Marathon Louise Crawford Cor Amt
Mr and Mrs Terry Shely and Mrs Karl Clark retire from Indian Hot Springs near Sierra Blanca after medical treatment. Mrs Esther Shely accompanied them. Mrs Buiter Yarbro returned from a four month Brownsville visit. Jack Bourland travels from Carbon due to Wilson Bourland’s illness. Leona Griffin visits brother Tom Yarbro and family. Roy Sims visited San Antonio last week.PTA Study Club races and rodeo last Friday drew a huge crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terry Shely
Karl Clark
Sierra Blanca
Esther Shely
Local notices include prizes, birthdays, and church events
The column lists prizes awarded at Sunday school, race winners, and a float contest. It notes a tonn birthday party with pink and green decor, a Save hotel dance with a Halloween motif and Mexican orchestra, plus arrivals of Miss Shields and new recruits at a Chisos mountains camp. It mentions Mrs Abe Boyd's death, Ida Shields’s visit, a plane sale, and a Methodist Church service on Sunday Nov 3.
PTA Announcements for Central Ward Mothers Meeting
The council for Central Ward school mothers will meet at the building next Monday November 4. Mrs Warren Chastain was appointed chairman and Mrs Walker will lead on Children’s Need for Activity. Senior Hi school mothers and teachers met October 28 at the library with few preventions but many questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PTA
Council For Central Ward
Warren Chastain
Walker
Brary
Joe “Mord
Morelock
Earth of High School Children Program Description
The program on the fourth Monday in November will resume at that time with the title The earth of High School Children. Publicity Chairman.
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Alpine Avalanche
THE
E Publishing Company
DM. Bennett
Raitor
Lient
Mes Hall
Mesa
Frontier Hardview
Pete Blackmore
Barry Seabee
Mr. Priezett
Tom Prisvil
Pecos
B. Eaton
T. B Smith
Piater
Driente
Neighberty Preatier
Pecas
Mr. Boyd
Mim
RL. Irving
Maree Polio
Limpia Canyon
Soe
Paeaypen Teat
Merrill
West
Terlingua District
Mrs. A.C. SP
Alding
Louise Crawford
Buiter Yarbro
Brownsville
Stet
Jack Bourland
Carbon Rere
Wilson Bour So
Mrs. Leona Griffin
Tom Yarbro
Mrs. Yarbro
Roy Sims
San Antonio
PT. A. and Study Club
Conoco Gas and Oils
van Bintor
Clanes
W. Hi. Miller
Home Economics Chase
Giudge
D. W. Collins
Bill Burnham
Boyd Chambers
Albertine Starr
Gene Lee
Donald Wade
Jean Ritchey
Leona Starr
Save Hotel
Annie Mae Turer
Prasces Hargus
Mary
Alice Wade
Marie Stillwell
Julia Nail
Mary Lou Sims
Eddie Jo Hancock
Messrs
John Skinner
Walter Skinner
Clinton Ritchey
Raul Jura
Homer Rackley
Howard Sonier
Roy Stillwell
Clifton Roark
Ed Lee McKinney
Lillian Sonnier
Hal Sansom
Marsathon
Abe Martin
Utopia
Mrs
Milam Lambright
Abe Boyd
Marion Buttrill
Ida Shields
California
J. A. Hargus
Chisos Mountains
Hisirplane
Ben Estes
Sanderson
Methodist Church
Arkansas
Purners and Arcolas
Storey-Whiteside Lumber Co
Andeen Fon
Alpine le. Oo
Hw. Dey
First National Bank
Alpine, Texas
H. L. Robernot
Geo. W. Baines
B. Crawford
Alpine Lumber Co
Ms Ae
Avery Enanes
Ford
Deornet
Matt Cay
Detroit
Ford Finance
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