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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1930
Page
2
The Alpine Avalanche prints city and county notices with standard rates for resolutions cards of thanks and reading notices. Circulation staff and various correspondents are listed, reflecting this newspaper’s local reporting network.
A short editorial urges reading and study despite age or laziness. It cites Lincoln and Johnson rising to prominence after late learning through borrowed books and a wife’s instruction, arguing education is accessible through hooks magazines and newspapers and that no one should remain ignorant.
The fragment describes several long standing stores and a weekly newspaper, noting the Davy store is 48 years old and The Review is 68, with four years of uninterrupted advertisement space equating to 1,3690 pages. It hints at an Evart area combination of stores and messages, but details are unclear.
A woman at dinner remained calm when a cobra appeared at the table, freeing others and escaping danger. The event underscores decisive nerve and quick action while noting no antidote exists for cobra venom and a rapid fatal outcome is possible.
The piece argues that cotton's health affects the entire economy, not just farmers. As cotton prices fall, purchasing power shrinks, limiting the textile industry and related sectors. It calls on manufacturers and producers to back a public drive to expand cotton use, suggesting new domestic applications and a potential rise in demand with a 2 million bale growth goal.
BM Shrout descended a 24 inch well near Branson to retrieve a lost drill bit buried in soft mud and cave-in risk. He wrapped a log chain around the bit, signaled, and pulled it to the surface after a perilous, minutes long effort, marking a notable deep well rescue in the region.
Public notice states that on November 4, 1920, at 10 oclock A M and 4 oclock P M the County Courthouse at Alpine will sell at auction all rights of ALAN Welch in property tied to a 1929 date, as ordered by the Brewster County District Court in case No 1226 where A Adams is plaintiff and A N Welch is defendant, with the sale conducted by Sheriff W Hale.
844 feeder lambs were sold at the Breeder-Feeder sale in Dallas. Lloyd Mitchell of Marta owned and bred high quality lambs, with 60 head championship batch bought by Swift and Company for 87 per hundredweight. Leroy Cleveland and Frank Jones also sold lots at strong prices, with Highlands lambs commanding cuts above other Texas centers like Sonora and Ozona.
Leonard Gelverg of New York, a boy of two years and ten months, prefers a man sized cigar to candy and ice cream, though he says he likes them not too mild. The remark reflects a curious childhood taste noted in a local column.
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