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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1909
Page
1
The bank promotes growing together by inviting customers to bring accounts and view banking as a mutual profit relationship. It emphasizes building the community’s finances and offering helpful services for all finance needs.
Montery Mexico suffers a 1.5 million dollar fire while Decatur Illinois endures a 1 million dollar blaze. Van Horn El Paso county plans a local option vote. State scholastic apportionment is 6.25 per capita. Fluvanna Scurry county hosts a large race meet and barbecue. Taft to back postal savings banks and visit El Paso San Antonio in October. Mosby’s guerrillas reunion at Luray Corners Virginia. Arnold Texas Commercial Secretaries Association lectures at Del Rio and the club reorganizes. Harriman ill and visiting San Antonio. Pellegra outbreak hits Butler and Clark counties Alabama. Taft defends tariff on Western trip. A negro shootings in Monroe Louisiana and public burning after death. Feud tensions rise in Meadville Mississippi after an attempted killing of chancery clerk Ernest Newman.
Complete abstracts to any lands and town lots in Brewster County are furnished on short notice. Office with the County Surveyor at the courthouse.
Alpine Public Schools set to begin the 1909-10 session on September 6 with preliminary exams on the 6th and 7th for new and conditioned pupils. The district approved $30,000 in bonds for building and expansion, reflecting strong community support and a view of Alpine as the region’s educational center.
In a Seattle message, W Van Sickie extols the Northwest’s expansion, noting Seattle’s growth, deep soil, and a federal effort on the Columbia and Snake rivers costing three million dollars to make waste lands habitable. He urges Texas to adopt similar public works and water projects while criticizing politics over business. Secretary Bal linger visits Seattle to oversee reclamation efforts.
The Eagle Pass Industrial League nominates W. C. Barrickman and Jos. O. Boehmer as delegates to the Dry Farming Congress and invites the convention to meet in Eagle Pass next year. Promised events include a bullfight with Mexican authorities at C. P. Diaz and side trips to Monterey, plus tours and road improvements for delegates.
Sealed bids due by noon September 4, 1909 for a stone and brick school building in Alpine Texas. Brick will be Alpine-made at $12 per thousand. $500 certified check required. Board reserves right to reject any bids. J D Jackson president.
The notice requests listing ranches associated with Collins Glasgow & Co. The item implies these firms will handle subsequent steps or administration. No further details on locations numbers or actions are provided.
The Alpine Avalanche editor Will Easterling urges coverage of the Dry Farming Congress set for September in Alpine. The Orange Leader notes the editor’s strong interest in the dry topic, joking that irrigation might suit him better.
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