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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1921
Page
5
Alpine reports visitors and local business ads with notes on heating plants loans and shop services. Mentions Mort Davis and Marfa visits, Waldron Quicksilver shipments to Terlingua mines, and Carl Bechtel loan offers. Includes Epworth League, Scottish Rite, and Boquillas Hot Springs travel notes.
Mrs James Burke III Ava lanche reporter and society editor was taken ill last week and transported to a San Antonio hospital for treatment. Friends and readers regret the illness as Mr Burke stays with her and reports she is improving, though her condition remains serious.
For sale a long established central Brewster county ranch offering 150 head of grown cattle four horses and four mules plus full ranch equipment. Property could handle about 300 head cattle. Price set at 3000 dollars cash or secure financing. For particulars contact C. D. Wood Alpine.
Promoter KE A Waldron announces the Waldron Quick Development company plans a new mining town about 14 miles from Terlingua and 24 miles from Lajitas. Buildings will be erected for workers as material is hauled to the site. John A Shumate travels to Alpine to arrange farms while the Betsey tea room trailer heads for permanent homes.
Property owners in the southeast district urge the City Commission to stop further rubbish dumping on Block 37 Hancock Addition and nearby lots and to clean or cover existing refuse. The old brick yard excavation has long carried trash, a health nuisance and eyesore for travelers and residents. The county offers a thirty acre site near the stock yards for disposal, and officials are expected to act promptly.
Alpine seeks new homes and business buildings funded by Security. Bechtel is expected to supply the money, with plans stored at the Berkeley Building. Phone 45.
Rev HM Smith will preach on The Power of Habit Sunday morning at the Methodist Church The evening Mooring service features a Hen Meeting with talks by several women and men and a Hen Social Friday 2 6 p m with 100 hens to raise funds for a new church Mrs Burgess will coordinate hens arrival by phone 93 Music includes special songs by the women and congregation
Booth and family arrive as new Alpine residents. Mr Booth represents Nortex Hide and Produce of Fort Worth and will soon open a purchasing agency in Alpine to buy hides furs poultry and general produce. He brings fifteen years in the business and aims to make it an exclusive venture in Trewster County.
Rev. J. A. McMillan of Alpine's Presbyterian church led a Sunday service for Sul Ross Normal students and Alpine High School faculty and a large congregation. He spoke on Educational Light houses from Matthew 14 and urged teachers to harmonize Christ teachings with science.
Suttons Montague firms agree to transact legal business to incorporate the Students Loan Fund. A charter application has been filed. The corporation includes representatives from Alpine El Paso San Angelo and Sterling City. Merriweather Burke and wife of Sanderson visit Alpine friends this week.
The Freshman class enjoyed a hay ride Monday evening October 17 with a 4:30 start. The bus gathered students and staff to climb the mountain for a picnic supper before returning home. Attendees included Anne Aynesworth, Ina Cecil Evans, Clarice Cotter, Della McSpadden, Bertha Hancock, Elizabeth Fennell, Lady Bunton, Susybel Junton, Grace Funk, Mary Ferris, Lucille Adams, Teammie Simpson and companions Denman Welborn McKay, Leonard Stone, J.T. Reynolds, and Alfred White.
County Judge M S Burke and his wife returned to their Alpine home last Sunday. After months of treatment in San Antonio, he reports notable health improvement from the move. Friends in Alpine and Brewster counties extend wishes for continued good health. Security is less than four months old. Contracts will mature earlier with them. You can use 3 percent money, why delay Bechtol at Berkeley Bide. 43-01.
Dr Parker of Boston, ill with lung damage from wartime service, studies at the University of South Carolina in a canvas tent. He camps on campus with mosquito bar and cot and progresses in his coursework while advocating open air study for others with similar illness. He was appointed by the American Legion to study conditions at state institutions for veterans training.
Ida Mabel Cochran Newton wife of Thomas W Newton died October 19 1921 in Alpine after a long illness She was born October 6 1864 near Lynnville Tennessee and lived in Brewster Alpine Guadalupe county and San Antonio She leaves husband three children two brothers a sister and a niece. She joined the Methodist church early and remained a devout Christian. Burial was in Alpine Cemetery awaiting the trumpet call.
A window display at Candy Kitcher features the largest Yau sweet potato seen in any state. Grown in Mrs. O. V. Nettleton’s city garden, the tuber weighs ten pounds.
The program lists speakers and duties including Mars Ruth Ray for leadership, Gordon Burks on scripture reading, Mary Blanche Lease for reading, Ruby Penrod caring for the sick, Jesse Peters loving the helpless, and Mary McCutcheon honoring the old ministers.
The Intermediate BYPU program lists Eunice Sublett as leader Walter Gaarnett delivering scripture Soveta Morgan reading Henry caring for the sick Lillie Micou on loving the helpless and Norman Lease honoring the old ministers.
Missionary meeting subject surveys progress through the 75 Million Campaign. Contents include foreign home state missions lectures led by D M Bennett Mamie Loase Mrs Money Mamie Lease and Nina Ford with poems and scripture headings.
Christian Science services held at the new Opera House Sunday morning at 11 o clock. Subject Everlasting Punishment. All are cordially invited to attend.
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