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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1917
Page
3
Local notices from Alpine mention moves and visits by residents to Marfa San Antonio El Paso and Sanderson. Tasks include repairs, tire services, hay and feed, bread goods, and Daisy Bread marketing. Several residents plan teaching posts, ranch work, and market trips while storms and rains affect farming in the region.
Mr and Mrs W W Collins relocate to El Paso while Frank Woods family moves to San Antonio. Roger Blaine of Orona visits Alpine for several days as Mrs J M Hamilton and daughter Emma return home from vacation trips.
Miss Una Jackson wed Jas E Casner in Alpine amid surprise and secrecy. The bride, daughter of J D Jackson, studied at Alpine High and Texas Christian University, later Northwestern University. The groom leads a local business and civic life. They planned a New York departure but delayed due to late train and fled toward Marath. They will reside in Alpine.
Mr Young invites the public to a millinery opening at the Alpine Furniture store on Saturday. The notice mentions residents Mr and Mrs Frank Williams returning to Alpine after a brief stay in El Paso. Also referenced are a winter rent arrangement for Witt and a family note about Mrs W F McGaughy and 90 J children with no illness.
Wanted cattle to pasture near Marathon six miles southwest with grass and water for about 1000 head. Will contract to pasture and care for any number up to 1000 head. Texas inquiries to LaPrade, Marathon.
A Brewster County advance guard departs for training camp from the selective draft as friends and relatives bid them goodbye Wednesday evening. Claude Ivan White, Marathi Delmer White Collins, Alpine, are named among the men leaving for national army service.
A city air advertises a free public swim to be held at 4 P M on the last Saturday of the month. The event offers cash prizes for top swimmers and is hosted by A J Balwards, Prop.
A brief article describes a marriage at a rural parish house. Rev Randy officiated, uniting Miss Sadie Crawford and Mr Lee Harrington, a prosperous Alpine youth, before they departed together shortly after the ceremony.
El Pasoans welcome a revised timetable with an earlier departure to Sweetwater and an earlier arrival in San Angelo, replacing the old route via Alpine and the Southern Pacific. The change, improving convenience, moves travelers from this city to San Angelo more efficiently.
An incomplete roster lists men connected to Brewster County who have volunteered for or are performing military duties. Names include Lieut John W Gillett Russell Clark Martin Dai Fred Parsell Frank Miller Charlee Brown Lee Hancock Brame Hilliard Edwin Gillett JF Clark Hiram McSpadden W Vernon MeIntyre Gideon J Hubbard Joe Harmon WM Ockerson Felix McGanghy KS Smith W Christopher Je Jot Gee M McSpadden Athert Chambers Wells Metatyre J Monroe Rooney DLE Seteer Dittard Franks.
A 1918 Ford car offered in good condition with intact wheels, speedometer, tire rack, trunk rack, and shock absorbers. This office 930-2.
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