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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1929
Page
6
Fragmented town notices list rewards for information on a missing person, and a dense mix of ads for leases, rentals, cattle pastures, furniture, milk, and real estate. Mentions Fort Stockton Fort Davis Alpine Camp Grant and various local names with scattered church notices and sales.
The fragment notes a 10 am service at Emphatic Presbyterian Church and a later meeting at Mor Juve Theatre. It mentions H W Morelock as teacher, a pastor Jimi Murray of the Texas Synod, and an incident with a bear nearby Nellgwatone Park. Parish attendance and a sugar collection are referenced amid garbled text.
Cassidy-Southwestern Commission Co reports steady to strong prices in Ft Worth. Best heavy calves 9.0 to 9.5 per pound, some up to 10. heavy calves 48 to 9. half-fat calves 7.5 to 8. common calves 5.5 to 6. Two loads of choice stocker steer calves at 11, bulk 10 to 10.5. Fats bale 60 to 1, back to 3.80. Markets slow with few stockers, dehorned white-face steers higher by 2 cents.
A jogged list of property deeds in Alpine and nearby areas shows transfers involving N N Turner et ux, A Jen Wag, White, Hiamcook, Sarah A Kelter, Dixie Smith, Frank Mang Terry, Metta Harms, and M T Chastain among others. Amounts range from 200 to 22,400 with terms in sections and blocks across the Alpine region. A concluding line remarks "Cast your bread upon the waters" and odd food reference.
An ad dense page promotes Adlerika as a bowel remedy and Alpine Drug Store. It lists sales, estate items, land parcels in Pecos county near the Yates oil field, and various real estate listings with cash prices and terms. The numerous listings include land tracts, corner lots, and a sowing of sale notes.
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