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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1941
Page
4
Mrs. Phillip Newsom visits Edinburg while Miss Margaret Adams leaves for Baylor. Many Alpine residents travel to Midland Corpus Christi and San Antonio for jobs, teaching posts, and family visits. Newborn Mickey blessed. Miss Betty Jo Kerr enrolls at Sul Ross. several relatives plan moves to Oklahoma and California.
The notice lists services at Episcopal Presbyterian Church of Christ and Methodist Church. It includes times for holy communion Bible study morning worship Sunday school and evening services. Pastors G W F McKinney Fred E Rogers Jas A Fry and Ray McGrew are named with service details.
The Friendly Church invites all to attend Sunday services led by Pastor Buford Isaacks with a morning worship and sermon, Sunday school at 9:50, a 7:30 pm college student service, a musical and devotional, and a social hour at the parsonage. All students, friends, and members urged to attend.
The notice lists Baptist Church events including Sunday school and services with choir rehearsals and study groups. It also notes Christian Science readings and Quotations, plus a general update that civic and fraternal groups are purchasing Defense Savings Bonds and stamps.
Campbell Lively from Livingston met with Vince and other locals during a brief stop in town. The men, raised together, had not seen each other since World War days in France. Lively, passing through, could not extend his visit due to pressing business.
Classified advertisement lists adjustable walnut finish shelves 24 in deep 12 ft long 6 ft high from Smith Fur Co contact 9 1244. A pistol shoot at Shafter last Sunday between Alpine and Presidio clubs saw Travis Roberts win timing and rapid fire events while Connie Duncan earned the marksman medal and Bud Fisher defeated Bruce Duncan by eight in the expert match.
The PTA invites all mothers and fathers to the first meeting of the year at Junior High Monday afternoon at 3:39. Mrs. Howard Johnson will speak on Duties of the Room Mothers, with Mrs. Bogel and Mrs. Lockhart presenting the musical program. A Defense Savings Bond can be bought for 18.75, maturing to 25 in ten years.
Thirty-seven Rotarians and four guests attended. W E Williams new agri supervisor and Sam White along with Coach Webb and Gordon Griffin visited. Dick Bankhead outlined work and remodeling at Sul Ross facilities for students. Alpine Bucks vs San Felipe Del Rio set for tonight. Katie Lee Gilbreath named Rotary scholar. Club discussed feeding projects for FFA and securing grounds, building, water and fencing with ongoing investigations for next meeting.
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