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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1938
Page
5
Miss Delia Bishop a Rankin teacher returned Friday to continue work but plans changed when Sam Fowler Lampasas teacher arrived Saturday and persuaded her to wed. They carried out a marriage planned for Marfa last year, were married in Rankin Sunday, and departed for Lampasas.
A Saturday evening event at Melba and Ira Bowles engagement party hosted by Mr and Mrs R A Jurry. About sixty guests attended on the terrace with a lace table, a giant wedding ring centerpiece, pastel leaf circlet, blue lighting, and a punch salver presided by Mrs Deas Wright. Ruth Wright distributed envelopes with the engagement cards while Mary Bess Hamilton provided piano music and Bowles sang love songs.
At a bridge party held last Thursday at Mrs C D Wood's Del Rio guest of honor Mrs Drury Wood won all three prizes for high score and high cut refusing the guest prize. Other attendees included Mrs Knox Reid L McCollum L D Harris A M Brown Frank Pollitt J E Burgess W H Terry Miss Eva Caffin and Miss Leitha Chaffin.
Mrs. George A. Brown hosted a Mexican luncheon at the Green cafe on Tuesday to honor her sister Miss Josephine Linn who left that afternoon for Victoria. Attending guests included Mrs. James Cotter and daughters, Mrs. Rey Spence of Pecos, Mrs. Forrest Robinson, Mrs. Frank Anderson of New Rochelle, Mrs. Lalu White, Mrs. Dorothy Scannell, and Mrs. Linn with her daughters De Josephine Linn and guest Miss Inna D. Linn. Mrs. Brown attended with Mr. Linn. from Presidio arrived Mrs. Stovall.
The Alpine Methodist church, built in 1905, has long carried debt but now nears payoff after years of strain. Bishop Ivan Lee Holt will visit Alpine on September 9 to preach and participate in the dedication ceremony. A fellowship supper is planned that evening.
Frances Fortner recounts Presidio on the Rio Grande as the origin of West Texas cattle, linking it to cattle drives from northern Mexico, the Conchos and Rio Grande junction, and the historic cattle routes via the old trail. The piece notes duty changes affecting cattle imports and the region’s ranching legacy and mentions Don Meliton Wes and early Texas cattle barons.
Texas livestock forwardings to interstate points and Fort Worth stockyards rose in July from a year earlier, led by cattle and sheep. Total shipments reached 4696 cars, up 112 percent from 5947 last July, with cattle at 4274 cars, hogs at 98 cars, and sheep at 498 cars. First seven months totaled 47234 cars, down from 52774.
Tom Austin reached Alpine with no camp site. Warden Williams found a camping place on the Richardson ranch. The party moved to Fort Davis where Game Warden Tom Redford planned a friendly welcome. Williams has aided many Scouts, helping entertain a caravan of 150 plus Scouts in the Big Bend last week.
The dove shooting season will run from September 15 to November 15 with a daily bag limit of fifteen and a possession limit of fifteen. The 1908 state game commission statement, received by State Game Warden Ray Williams, notes concerns about shooting near public reeds and lists local outlets in Alpine for licenses.
In Rochefort France farm hands gathered for the annual labor auction to hire for the coming year. Bidding was weak due to unemployment, with mature workers fetching about 120 to 150 francs for a year of service and food and shelter. Younger shepherds also sought work with bids reflecting local demand.
J H Webb of Sherman was hired by the Alpine school board as the new athletic coach for football basketball and track He is a student at Austin College with a BS degree and has coached in football Webb will arrive late this week and begin duties at Alpine High School Daylight saving time origin noted in passing
Plans are about complete for two hundred thousand dollars of U. and H highway 90 bridge and culvert construction around the Sanderson country according to the Sanderson Times. The bridge east of town will be replaced with a three hundred foot structure and there will be three structures west of town, two three hundred feet long and one two hundred seventy feet. The Sanderson channel is to be changed involving removal of about one hundred twenty thousand feet of earth and some stream crossings will be widened from twenty to thirty four feet.
The Sanderson Times reports County Judge G J Henshaw sets September 8 for a $25,000 bond election to fund a Mexican school building and to add rooms and showers to the American school gymnasium.
The article notes global car registrations totaling 42.4 million at 1998 start, with the United States showing high ownership while many countries lag. It cites Germany one car per 38 people, Italy 105, Japan 138, Soviet Russia 688, Canada nine, Australia ten, and hints English-speaking nations share wide ownership. The piece ends with a playful aside about Donald Duck surpassing Mickey Mouse.
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