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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1940
Page
6
Casner Motor company will premiere the 1941 Chevrolet tomorrow in a nationwide display. Felix Mc Gaughy praises the new model for beauty performance economy and safety with a longer wider body and a sturdier valve in head engine. Alpine area residents are invited to view the car.
M. M. Fulmer urged Rotary to sell itself to the community stressing good will and planned actions. He cited cooperative planning as key and urged definite programs to show Rotary’s value to citizens. Peyton Cain proposed broader junior outreach and quarterly meetings for eligible youths.
Texas rental notice offers a modern six room stucco house two blocks from the post office at four thousand dollars with easy terms. It lists choice business district lots and additional six room hollow tile and stucco houses with servant quarters yards and single or double garages. Appointment only.
Fort Davis notes a surge in birth certificate requests local registrars face backlogs with 1 477 pending at the Texas Bureau of Vital Statistics. The piece cites faulty reporting, 12 000 corrections, and a Navy recruiter seeking a 1917 birth record. It also covers a 6 man football plan canceled for the year and local talks on oil industry advances and aItaly war discussion by Dr Vincent Luly.
The Alpine V A classes are organizing for another year with all classes active and federated officers to be elected the first week in October. Field trips assess parliamentary procedure at El Progreso Study Club and Alpine Study Club, visit the Christian church to see rock masonry of contractor Mr McClure, and inspect feeder calves and cattle breeding on nearby ranches.
Floyd Slover announces the opening of a Purina feed store in the old Keystone Garage building just west of the Holland Hotel. The business offers a full line of high class feeds and invites friends and interested customers to call at the location, phone 10 Adv. Sc.
Miss Byrd Bacon arrives as assistant librarian at Sul Ross College replacing Miss Mary Hill. She holds a B.S. and M.A. and is well known locally after serving on the college library staff for several summers.
The document lists teachers and grade level class groups from first through tenth grade. Names include Mesdames and Misses Owens Lewis Petsick Bishop Peterson Petsick and others alongside numerous students across grades and honorifics.
Mesdames J. P. Thompson Charles Livingston Bill Dorris A H Richardson J C Wade H Van Fossan Repy are listed among fifth grade staff and organizers in the school column.
Fort Davis note reports Smith Furniture ending Pine Trading Post operations south of the S P depot and relocating its used furniture department to the Fuller building basement two doors from the old stock. It mentions Leonard Kaplan, a West Point graduate, visiting with his wife at Carlton's Shady Nook Inn while serving with the Ninth U S Infantry at Fort Sam Houston.
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