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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1949
Page
3
Sunday activities at local churches featured talks on stewardship and Labor Day by Rev Woodson Mims of the First Baptist and Rev S M Mims of the First Methodist. Visitors from Pecos, L B Trone and family, toured the Scenic Loop and McDonald Observatory.
The 1949 1950 Fort Davis high school opening in the auditorium featured welcome remarks by Superintendent John G Prude. Addresses covered health and safety with notes on staff changes including John A Conway as band leader and new teachers for Anderson Central and the high school.
The Fort Davis Study Club holds an open meeting Tuesday September 13 at 4 PM in the Library. Dr C T Elvey of McDonald Observatory will speak. Members and friends are urged to attend and bring a book or silver bowl as a donation. Miss Dorothy Hinds begins her presidency.
Weather has been calm in the Davis mountains with temperatures at Mount Locke ranging from 53 to 85 degrees over several days. Rainfall remains minimal at 0.01 inch on August 27 and a trace on September 1. Visitors from Yerkes observatory and McDonald observatory, including Dr W A Hiltner and Albert Shatzel, are at the McDonald observatory this week.
A large gathering at Mr and Mrs Harry Jarrett hosted relatives from Amarillo Clarendon Lakehurst and other Texas towns Sept 3 to Sept 5. Guests included Mrs C A Parsons and Bruce Parsons family with visits to the Scenic loop McDonald Observatory and First Baptist Church.
Canyon Guest lodge will close for the season this Saturday night. Owners Mr and Mrs E Y Freeland have already departed for Brownwood Texas.
Frank Lembo a guest of Mrs E H Carlton and family at Shady Nook in San Marcos Teachers College. Mr and Mrs D Houston Smith return to Houston after summer in Fort Davis. Mrs Clarence Elliott Speer of Jacksonville Fla leaves after attending the wedding of Miss Anne Mims and Stuart Wayne Jones, plans visits in San Antonio and Pensacola before returning home.
Miss Lela Weatherby of Mayaguez Puerto Rico addressed the combined missionary societies of Alpine Marfa and Fort Davis on a Tuesday afternoon at First Presbyterian Church. She titled the talk The Highlights of the Last Twelve Months in Puerto Rico and spoke as Marina Neighborhood House executive about expanding educational religious and recreational outreach including boys clubs.
August records show five births in Fort Davis including three on Saturday August 27 a daughter Pricilla to Mr and Mrs Sifredo Rodriguez a son Alfonso Junior to Mr and Mrs Romulo Alvarez a daughter CARMIN and a daughter Jo Ann born August 6. Also August 25 Margaret Elaine Faire. Visitors included Mr Myril McBride with ties to Sul Ross and University of New Mexico planning PhD. Jarratts from Sweetwater visited Fort Davis and Balmorhea. Funeral of Ray A Hughes of Whitesboro noted in Whitesboro with burial at Liberty cemetery.
Sunday night services end at Old Fort under cotton woods as churches rotate venues. This week's gathering at First Presbyterian with Rev J W Myrose presiding delivered the sermon on Neglect of the Kingdom from Matthew 26. Prayer by Rev S M Mims, benediction by Myrose, organist Mrs S C Bouchette. Morning service at 11 featured Myrose's scripture lesson Psalms 2 8 and the Christ.
Miss Bettie Stewart of El Paso visited Fort Davis to see her mother Mrs. Myrtle Stewart. Attendees from Fort Davis at the Stephens rally at the Baptist church in Alpine on Thursday September 1 included Rev. and Mrs. Woodson Mims Virginia Ruth and Bill Mims Robert C Withers Mrs. Harry Jarrett Mrs. Bob Sproul Mrs. Leonard Rimehart and Mrs. Ira Hector.
Clay Evans 13 son of Mr and Mrs Worth Evans Fort Davis won the grand champion at the 14th annual Kids Rodeo in El Paso. He earned a saddle belt buckle and belt set plus best dressed boy award. This is his third El Paso rodeo.
T A Purcell of the U S Department of Commerce in El Paso announces a new pamphlet Financial Considerations in the Establishment of a New Small Business. It explains equity and debt needs, sources of loan capital, and managing capital to balance fixed and working funds for first time entrepreneurs.
The Commerce Department issues a booklet on financial considerations for starting a small business. It helps individuals planning new ventures and counselors, complements two other publications, and is sold for 15 cents at the El Paso office in the Paso Chamber of Commerce Building.
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