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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1930
Page
6
A noisy jumble of old time jokes and vignettes unfolds in a chaotic column. A wedding scene, a nurse saving a wife with a pump, a station master recounting a mishap, and President Hoover on the presidential train appear amid quips about golfers and women roles.
A midcentury appeal explains how modern science and trained beauty experts offer personalized skin care. It promises affordable, high quality lotions and regimens suited to each case, addressing women’s questions and easing guilt about cost.
Classified rates to seven cents per line for first insertion and three and a half cents for subsequent insertions. Ads must be prepaid. Includes requests to trade sewing machine and notices from Adelaide Will Trade. Also rental listings for furnished and unfurnished housing near town and college. Listings show prices, locations, and contact names with dates like 10-3-46 and 10-10-49. More ads include milk pricing and farm for sale within six miles of town. Local readers seek tenants, buyers, and trade offers with box numbers and street references.
The Alpine parent group donated two soccer balls to the school as children begin a new sport under Mire, ALP Thomaso, director of the physical education program. The youngsters also have a volleyball and four baseballs for a sports program. Mrs Anna Mae Rodgers, wife of a German in Oklahoma City, seeks a divorce alleging unruly conduct at home and during airport study for a pilot career.
Wardens warn ranchers as hunting season opens to follow landowner licensing rules. Each landowner paid for hunting services must obtain a state license costing five dollars, with fines up to one hundred dollars per conviction. Violations threaten hunting privileges and land protection.
Alpine churches list Sunday school at 9 45 a m and worship at 10 50 a m with pastor sermons, evening service at 7 30, junior and youth groups, midweek prayer, and invites to locals. Bible study and services noted for Christian Science Presbyterian Church Church of Christ Catholic mass times and bilingual sermons included.
The sixth grade junior high team and the fourth grade squad tied 13 to 13 last Friday in central ward play. Monday they met again and the younger players won 6 to 3, with umpire Charles DeAx officiating both games.
Listing offers three sections of land in the Quick Silver mineral belt in Brewster County south part. Describes perfect title with price cut to 8.95 per acre. Terms half cash balance to suit buyer. No. 1197.
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