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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1926
Page
8
Local residents report a busy week with Miss Novella Smith visiting Miss Billingly and Mes Myrtle Voules. Mrs Walter Smith and family host gatherings while Mrs Winnie Kennedy returns to El Paso after a visit. Alpine Motor Co advertises anti-freeze as freezing time nears and multiple notices seek rooms, jobs, and service, including tailoring, cleaning, and coal supplies amid town chatter and travel plans.
The Mojave Theatre announces a week schedule featuring a burlesque premiere loaded with Noah Beery and Raymond Hatton as a comic duo. Also shown are The Lucky Lady from Life editor and an interpretation of Peter B Kyne story Rustling for Cupid with a Fox Comedy slot.
The article discusses funding for distinctive road markers costing about 800 dollars with 200 dollars authorized from local funds. It urges immediate action on road improvements from Alpine to Del Rio and San Antonio area junctions to guide traffic through Alpine. It highlights tourists misrouting at junctions near Van Horn and along the Davis Mountain Border route due to poor markings.
A committee studies marker plans to guide highway work. Officials discuss using a large sombrero design and potential location plots to show marker placements. Immediate action favors markers at junctions and strategic points while awaiting the original system’s rollout.
The article urges Alpine to complete essential improvements to attract attention and investment. It highlights the town’s sidewalks streets downtown lighting sewerage and fire fighting gear while arguing a united sustained effort will secure these upgrades and benefit the city’s progress and image.
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