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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1917
Page
3
Local items note Daisy Bread promotions and the Daisy Bakery offerings in Alpine. Mentions include markets, livestock requests, hay and feed deliveries, and various residents visiting or traveling to nearby towns.
W E Caldwell and W A Myrick representing their Dallas company visited the city this week to discuss purchasing road and bridge bonds. Mr R L V Dickey, ranching sixty miles south of Marathon on the Boquillas road, conducted county seat business during the visit.
Alpine residents reported flag raising at public school on Columbus Day with student crafts and a home made steel flag pole. Veterans joined a sunrise breakfast atop College Mountain and the community heard speeches on liberty, justice, and internationalism amid wartime mobilization.
An editorial argues diamonds offer strong economic value as dividend paying assets amid concentrated capital. It promotes diamond jewelry as a prudent investment rather than mere spending.
Brewster County is called up by 75000 dollars in Liberty Bonds as a safety measure. County Chairman A M Turney calls a mass meeting tonight at the courthouse urging every citizen to attend to finalize plans for continuing the Liberty Loan drive and to prepare for upcoming actions related to regional industrial arrangements.
Notice from D. C. Walker prohibiting hunting and other trespass on the Meta Harms pasture No 1. Pasture users are warned not to drive herds through the area under pain of prosecution.
A trespass notice declares no hunting or other trespassing on the Nevill ranch. Individuals taking wood water or gas or entering pastures face prosecution as outlined by HLT Fletcher and manager O2.
The Winter Chautauqua opens in Alpine on November 4 with the Cor Company of four: Miss Nova Concert Marietta Day violinist Miss Dorothy Hill impersonator and others. Season tickets range from 78 to 180 dollars with various family and student discounts. Five numbers feature personalities Mr dee twety Iwigns Jan 4 Ber 11 and Ap volts Feb 18. Disie Lyceum Bureau contractors guarantee 4800 dollars with local officials and Civic cooperation urged. phone 222 for tickets.
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