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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1924
Page
3
Mr Bary Lacey returns from Best Sunday while Mr W N Gourley heads to the ranch. Mrs C D Wood returns from California. numerous people visit Alpine for institutes, visits, and family trips. For sale items include a Jersey cow, piano, and sewing machine. Weather reports of rainfall drift through the week as many plan moves to Abilene and El Paso.
Mrs Phebe ck Warner of Claude spark such a plan during her Alpine visit as Alpine Study Club members and ladies from Marfa Fort Stockton Marathon Fort Davis and Alpine organized the Davis Mountains Federation of Women's Clubs. The session at Sul Ross College outlined aims and drafted a constitution with officers and committee roles.
A barbecue supper with salads pickles and cake will be served Saturday at 7 at the Casner Bros showroom. Proceeds will help pay the Volunteer Fireboys equipment debt and feed San Angelo Good Will visitors arriving on a special Orient train, about two hundred men.
Margarito Juarez pled guilty and received seven days in jail plus costs after a complaint accusing theft of $8.65 from Alpine Hardware Company. Judge Jas. A. Burke ordered payment of $23 in costs.
We express deep appreciation to all who aided us during the illness and death of our husband and father. Mrs R S Dod and Family.
As Israelites struggled without straw, a school board and teachers show similar strain without patron support, highlighting tensions in school operation and community involvement.
The Consolidated Teachers Institute bringing public school teachers from Brewster Crockett Jeff Davis Presidio Pecos and Terrell counties met at Sul Ross College led by President H W Morelock. About eighty teachers attended representing six counties as the program sought expert instruction from university and college staff to elevate teaching standards.
At a chamber meeting Wednesday night San Angelo welcomed committee actions to entertain visiting Sea Angelo Good Will Evangelists arriving Saturday at 6 PM. Transportation housing and entertainment committees outlined car shuttles from the Orient depot, lodging for visitors, a Saturday parade, an 8 to 10 PM open air meeting, a Casner Motor Company hall ball, and possible tea garden band music with details to follow.
Sanderson railroad men led by Jack McKee W. M. Druse and F. L. Cochran visited the Waldron Quicksilver mines with E. A. Waldron and Frank Duncan the Marfa mining photographer. Duncan shot interior vein pictures and praised the mine's vein system. The party, including Mrs. Waldron and J. M. Pouncey, returned to Alpine on Tuesday.
Mrs N S Murphy president of the Woman's Auxiliary Chamber of Commerce urges residents to place noncombustible trash in accessible containers for pickup starting Monday Sept 8. She emphasizes respecting collectors and stresses communal cooperation for uplift.
At a Wednesday meeting the Trans Pecos Teachers Association voted to raise institute assessment and hire expert instructors for Primary, Intermediate, and High School departments. They also approved retaining Mr. R C Jackson of El Paso to lead teachers of Mexican children and elected S M Melton as president with Miss Elbertine Williams secretary and W B Connell treasurer.
A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Rogers on August 29. Twin girls arrived for Mr. and Mrs. Rex Russell on August 30.
Catarrhal deafness is linked to mucous inflammation of the Eustachian tube and hearing impairment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims over forty years of success in treating catarrh and related nose and throat issues, available from all druggists.
Clyde Buttrill reports a telegram from Mrs. L Martin confirming Mr. Martin underwent a major operation in El Paso Tuesday and is doing well. Friends feared the operation could be grave given his weak condition, and the community awaits final word of his recovery and return home.
Bible School at 10 a m. Preaching at 11 a m. Evening service at 6 o clock instead of 8 The pastor L Weil will close his work here the last Sunday in September.
The pastor urges moral reform and stronger church work after vacation. A Sunday School talk on habit follows the service. Junior League meets 3:30 PM and Epworth League 7:15 PM with active town youth invited. Evening sermons begin on the Fundamentals of the Christian Religion. John K. Beery, Pastor.
About twenty students from Texas applied to Sul Ross for aid while attending. The Student Labor Committee asks those in need to visit the college office and note available work. Past jobs include waiting tables, house chores, child care, clerical work, greasing windmills, yard cleaning, carpentry, store clerks, and odd jobs.
A prominent official’s Sunday sermon at the Presbyterian church centers on the idea of being born again. The text notes that many lives have been saved by wireless telegraphy, framing it as a spiritual sign. The sermon titled The S.O.S. of the Soul is set for Sunday morning at 1 o clock and evening at 8:00, with Sunday school at 10 a.m.
Messrs. Lord and McCutcheon sold two carloads of calves this week to Mr. C. W. Ardoin of Los Angeles, formerly of Alpine. The calves were shipped to Los Angeles. Ardoin purchased two or three cars of cattle from Hord & McCutcheon early in July and shipped them to his Los Angeles company.
Special notice calls all members of the Auxiliary to the Chamber of Commerce to meet the Ladies of the San Angelo Good Will Trade Excursion with Mrs. N. So Murphy serving as president. The meeting is due here Saturday and Sunday.
The Avalanche reports Scribner's Magazine September issue includes a poem by Miss Anna M. Branson of Alpine Texas titled The Dreamer. A biographical sketch of Branson by Miss Thalia Gillett accompanies the poem with recollections from Alpine residents.
An unnamed speaker reflects on dreaming many visions before dawn. Life feels calm now yet peril lies ahead on a rising wave of bliss. The plea is for Christ’s aid to gain hope love and strength as days grow wan and weary and the dawn nears.
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