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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1902
Page
4
Alpine residents urge strong support for the Orient road project with calls to pull together and watch Alpine grow. Visitors include Judge Van Sickle and Marfa figures while reports note frosts, local weddings, and ongoing surveying near Presidio.
The Sixth Grade notes efforts by Mrs Kokernot and visits from Mrs MeIntyre and Miss McClanahan. They discuss literature studies, attendance praises, and classroom changes like a new spelling method and decorative improvements.
A note on a planned sociable at the schoolhouse tonight suggests a unique event. local managers may knit stockings that bachelors and married men neglect for their wives. The Avalanche wishes them success in this community gathering amid other local notes.
Ss L Wakulewicz chief of a corps of engineers for the Kansas City Mexico and Orient Railroad visited Monday with L H Hobbs. The survey team includes L Wakalewics JS tarlow W W Campell W W Hyde L Archer W W Canfield Louis Marx Harry O Walker L H Lobbs Monroe Craig Quincey Craig Wm Kelley Roger Adams and kh W Wegar. They camp in Jackson’s pasture twenty miles northeast of town and plan two preliminary lines via Billingsley ranch Alpine Paisano Vase and Sunuygien then a permanent survey before returning to Fort Stockton and proceeding toward San Angelo.
Local stock notes report Capt J Gillett shipping calves to Saint Louis and two cars of cows from Albuquerque. George Sanders of San Antonio sent 78 calves at a top price of 87 per head. A deal involving 150 yearlings with Jackson Harman collapsed. Reports of heavy recent rains and wolves preying on calves. Also listings for sale horses mares and cattle at Marathon Texas with prices and contact.
The First Baptist Church of Pecos Texas adopted resolutions at a September 24 2002 meeting to call a Friday night gathering on October 24 to discuss forming a new Baptist association. Churches wishing to join are urged to send messengers to Pecos. Signed by Eld A S Bunting and L Collings.
Brewster County officials announce C H Hector as candidate for County Surveyor and G W Page for County Attorney in the upcoming November election. Both notices indicate authorized candidacies for the county offices.
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