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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1909
Page
3
Personal notices include Mrs. Jim Walker staying with Mrs. J. C. Bird and J. L. Crawford home from the Dallas fair. Local businesses tout oats and chops from Alpine Livery, Hord & Co groceries, Acorn flour, Sumner & Measday school supplies, and the Golden Gate brand. The John Young Land Co reports a land sale. guild meeting at Episcopal church and steam laundry promotion noted. Ring 45 for fresh groceries and feeds.
J S Barnhart leading Alpine Commercial club presents a Credible Alpine exhibit at the El Paso fair. The display features minerals from quicksilver mines including white to jet black marble granite coal and cinnabar along with dry farming products such as Rutledge Nicajack Winesap apples large pecans rubber plants prairie hay alfalfa and Mexican beans. Novel items include Lotel plant resurrection plants and two large ker shaw vines with a nest of four white squash. Secretary Yates notes Barnhart reports strong interest in the Alpine display.
Alpine churches unite B Y P U Epworth League and Christian Endeavor forming a single organization led by Allen Burton as president and S A Starr as vice president. Miss Enon Smith is secretary, Miss Lula Griffith treasurer, Miss Mary Sanford organist, Miss Lillie Massey assistant organist. Meetings will be held Sundays at o o clock using non sectarian literature.
J. R. Holland walked with crutches after an accident getting off a train last Saturday and suffered only a bruised knee. A real estate deal last week sold Crenshaw's residence to W. O. Moore for 3500, bringing a new Alpine citizen while Crenshaw considers El Paso as a future home.
A smoldering fire threat was detected in the Mitchell Worth & Co store when a pile of books and papers under a desk ignited but was stopped by the book-keeper Mr Johnson. The damage could have been severe if the blaze had started hours later, per Mr Gillett.
Alpine faces a potential rail expansion as Santa Fe plans a Lometa to Alpine branch, with connections to San Angelo division and Southern Pacific, amid talk of a broad West Texas grid and growing fruit country. Local events include Mothers Club lunch funds for library debt, Pratorians banquet, and Measday & Co offering fresh oysters and fish each Tuesday.
Telegram from Austin informs Mr J S Barnhart that Governor has pardoned Charles Raymond, who was sent to the penitentiary nearly ten years ago from El Paso county on a robbery by force of arms charge. Raymond plans to meet his family in Alpine after release.
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