The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, July 27, 1928 Page: 1 of 16
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LPIN
LANCHE
"A BOOSTER FOR BREWSTER”
IN BREWSTER COUNTY 37 YEARS
VOLUME XXXVIII.
ALPINE, BREWSTER COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1928
lsep SWORN CIRCULATION 1000
NUMBER 31
Variety Show It
RAINFALL
various members of these bodies ad-
never presented a more beautiful ap-
to yesterday afternoon was $3925, Garnett Chocolate Shop ...
F. Berkeley, J. D. Jackson and H. W. E. J. Wood ....
For Committeeman Precinct No. 2:
the
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The Family.
Camp Grandview —.___________________
Mamie Lease Livingston ____________
J. W. Frazer _____________________-________
Mrs. Lula Murphy _____________________
Judge & Mrs. A. M. Turney ______
Polk Hinson _____________________________
Howell Lumber Co. ------------------
W. H. Huffaker ------------------------
Highland House -----------------------
Mr. & Mrs. W. B. Hamilton-----
Hurley Furniture Co---------------
the records showed, with $2537 paid
in and deposited in the bank. The
committee is still -working, confi-
dent that the remainder will be rais-
ed in a short time. Senator Benjamin
J. A. Anderson ________
H. L. Hord ______________
these roads. The estimated value of
all state highways which have been
built by county bond issues is placed
at $55,000,000, statistics show.
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any other county contest as each of
the present incumbents in these of-
fices has an opponent. Mamie Lease
Livingston is seeking re-election to
J. B. Keefer_____________________
W. T. Merriwether _________
MIrs. Anna D Richardson
Otis Turner ____________________
Chas. Williams _____________
For County Chairman, Democratic
Executive Committee:
J. D. JACKSON
Commissioner Precinct No. 2:
J. A. ANDERSON
BEVERLEY GREENWOOD
F. E. WEYERTS
Justice of Peace Precinct No. 2:
Watson-Anderson Gro. Co._______
Jno. Young Land Co. _____________
0. H. Graham ________________________
Highland Realty Co. _______________
Owl Cafe _______________________________
A. B. Sandifer __________________________
Rev. Buren Sparks ________________
L. B. Starns _________________________
Alpine Transfer _____-_____________
Alpine Drug Store ________________
Alpine Lumber Co. _________________
Alpine Beauty Shoppe __________-
Big Bend Grocery _________________
W. A. Buchanan _____________________
Alpine Saddle Shop _________________
T. J. Cartwright ______________________
C. D. Wood _____________________________
Jimmie Yates _________________________
J. M. Pouncey_________.______________
R. S. Miller ____-________________________
T. J. Miller __________________________
Morrison’s Variety Store _________
Alpine Studio ______._________________
Mr. & Mrs. E. S. Cross______________
Alpine Publishing Co. _____________
Alpine Kandy Kitchen _________
Alpine Jewelry Co. __________________
Dr. L. J. Baker __________________
W. R. Duncan _________________________
A. J. Tippit —________________i______
Murphy Johnson ____________________
0. W. Bennett & Son ______________
Mr. & Mrs. H. W. Tobin ________
Let's Go! '
CARLSBAD
CAVERN
Speedy Taxi
’8 Phone 297
Constable Precincts 1 and 2:
HERBERT B. PRUETT
MILAM HARRISON
For Committeeman Precinct No. 1:
TRIPS
Anywhere
Any Time
Speedy Taxi
78 Phone 297
Commissioner Precinct No. 3:
W. G. GULIHUR
T. M. SHELY
Justice of Peace Precinct No. 3:
L. K. DOZIER
B. H. MOOREFIELD
Constable Precinct No. 3:
OTTO LOCHAUSEN
SYL ADAMS
follows :
A. F. Robinson ___________
J. D. Jackson ________________
State National Bank ____
First National Bank -
L. Forcheimer ______________
Clay Holland --___________
E. C. Moseley ______________
Dr. J. E. Wright __________
Hord & Williams ________
C. Hord ______________________
McMurry Plumbing Co.
Gillett-Brown Co. _________
Alpine Motor Co. ____-
Hudson Bakery -------------
Casner Motor Co. ___________
J. H. Head ____________________
Alpine Merc. Co. -----------
C. T. St. Clair __________
The committee appointed by the
chamber of commerce to raise funds
to pay off outstanding indebtedness
is meeting with a hearty response, it
was stated at the chamber of com-
cent rains. The surrounding moun-
tains are a beautiful green and the
air is more bracing and invigorating
than ever before as a result of the
rainfall the past week.
The session proper will not get
EXPECT BIG
ATTENDANCE
AT PAISANO
Little Theatre To :
Offer Noted Play
Here August 6th
shown in the county clerk’s, county judge’s and tax assessor’s’ races than
— vocate the taking over by the state
"SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE” IS
ENTERTAINMENT OFFER-
ING OF GREAT MERIT
More Than Half
Of C. C. Fund
Already Pledged
HEARTY RESPONSE IS MET BY
COMMITTEE IN DRIVE TO
PAY OFF DEBT
Land Office:
J. T. ROBINSON
E. I. FLINT
ANDREW J. BRITTON
OTIS TERRELL
For State Railroad Commissioner:
JEFFERSON SMITH
LON A. SMITH
For Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court:
THOS. B. GREENWOOD
For Judge of the Court of Criminal
Appeals:
W. C. MORROW
LEE P. PIERSON
For District Attorney:
W. M. DAVIS
ROY R. PRIEST
W. VAN SICKLE
For State Senator:
BENJ. F. BERKELEY
For Congress:
WED E. REID
C. B. HUDSPETH
For State Representative:
ROGER H. THURMOND
For Court of Civil Appeals:
E. F. HIGGINS
For Sheriff:
W. N. GOURLEY
For County Clerk:
WORTH FRAZER
MAMIE LEASE LIVINGSTON
For County Judge:
M. L. SHELTON
C. D. WOOD
For Tax Assessor:
E. H. TODD
THOS. J. MILLER
For County Treasurer:
M. T. CHASTAIN
For County Attorney:
A. M. TURNEY
For County Surveyor:
C. E. MARTIN
Commissioner Precinct No. I:
CLARENCE HORD
Justice of Peace Precinct No. 1:
SIX INCHES OF PRECIPITATION
RECORDED IN ALPINE
PAST WEEK
BILL, VET BRASS-POUNDER
ON S. P., WAXETH POETIC
Eve’n So!
Professor: "Can you give me an ex-
ample of a commercial appliance us-
ed in ancient times?”
Student: "Yes, sir, the loose leaf
system used in the Garden of Eden.”
Copy of Official Ballot
I am a Democrat and pledge myself
to support the nominees of the party.
For United States Senator:
EARLE B. MAYFIELD
TOM CONNALLY
MINNIE FISHER CUNNINGHAM
JEFF McLEMORE
THOMAS L. BLANTON
ALVIN OWSLEY
For Governor:
EDITH E. WILLIAMS
LOUIS J. WARDLAW
WILLIAM E. HAWKINS
DAN MOODY
For Lieutenant Governor:
ADDED INTEREST IS
SHOWN ON ELECTION EVE
Pouncey No. 1.
Clayton W. Williams, for several
years chief engineer for the Texon
Oil Company but now operating inde-
pendently, is contracting and financ-
ing the development in the new ter-
vitory, it was stated.
Mr. Williams, who is a very suc-
cessful geologist and a member of the
operating trio, spent several weeks
working out this entire district, dur-
ing which time he was accompanied
by several prominent geologists, all
of whom were greatly impressed with
the district. Indications are said to be
very favorable that the well on the
new location will be a producer.
County and Precinct Candidates Make
Whirlwind Finish In
Campaign
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Perkins Attends
C.C. Road Meet
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to use the entire amount in paying pearance than this year since the re-
off obligations incurred in building
With election day at hand interest of Brewster county voters seems to
center on the various county and precinct candidates with a promise that
some warm contests will be recorded when the polls close in the five vot-
ing precincts tomorrow night.
Ballots have been printed and distributed to the election officials and
it is expected that the vote tomorrow will exceed that registered at any
primary election ever held in the county. Naturally, more interest is being
To Drill New
Test Well In
Brewster County
VAST THRONG GATHERING TO
HEAR LEADING PREACHERS
OF THE NATION
tice of this, and if you do not know
J. T. Robinson, ask your husband,
father or brother who he is.
Friends of J. T. Robinson
DRILLING TO BEGIN IN EARLY
AUGUST IN TERLINGUA
CREEK DISTRICT
merce offices yesterday ofternoon, women voters particularly take no-
J. D. PARNELL
BARRY MILLER
THOS. B. LOVE
H. L. DARWIN
JOHN D. McCALL
For Attorney General:
CLAUDE POLLARD
For State Comptroller of Public Ac-
counts:
S. H. TERRELL
J. D. JONES
For State Treasurer:
W. GREGORY HATCHER
GROVER CLEVELAND HARRIS
For State Superintendent of Public
Instruction:
W. F. GARNER
S. M. N. MARRS
H. P. DAVIS
W. E. JAMES
For Commissioner of Agriculture:
GEO. B. TERRELL
For Commissioner of the General
Patronize Avalanche advertisers;
with the result that more than half
of the $6700 needed has already been
subscribed and more than 50 per
cent of this amount actually paid in.
The actual amount subscribed up
Bill Hestes, who earns his ham
Bill Hestes, who earns his ham-
and as third trick operator for the
poet. Bill sent the Avalanche a po-
em, original or otherwise, dealing
with the candidacy of Al Smith for
president, which is a masterpiece.
However, owing to the fact that the
Avalanche is striving to maintain
a strict neutrality in the Hoover-
Smith battle, we refrain from pub-
lishing Bill’s poem. It’s good and if
any of the Avalanche readers care to
read it, drop around and we’ll give
you an eye-full.
There are three candidates for the
office of commissioner in precinct No.
2, which includes South Alpine. J. A.
Anderson, who now holds the office,
has as opponents Beverley Greenwood
and F. E. Weyerts, both of Alpine.
Herbert Pruett and Milam Harri-
son are candidates for the constable’s
job in precincts one and two.
Lively Contests at Marathon
A lively interest is being shown by
the people in the Marathon section
in local contests there, according
to reports received here, where W. G.
Gulihur and T. M. Shely, both well
known ranchers, seek the office of
commissioner of precinct no. 3. L. K.
Dozier and B. H. Moorefield are
running for justice of the peace in
that precinct and there are two can-
didates for constable, Otto Lochau-
sen and Syl Adams. W. D. Burcham,
present commissioner of precinct No.
4, is opposed by Joe M. Graham.
W. M. Davis, Roy R. Priest and W.
Van Sickle are waging an aggressive
campaign in the district attorney’s
race, a contest that promises to be
a warm affair. The candidates for
state offices do not seem to be get-
ting a great deal of attention at the
hands of Brewster county voters as
little discussion relative to these rac-
es is being heard here.
Col. John Perkins, a member of the
roads committee of the West Texas
Chamber of Commerce, attended a
meeting in Austin this week at which
time representatives of the West Tex-
as body met with delegates from the
South Texas and East Texas cham-
bers of commerce to discuss the for-
mulation of a road-building program
for the state, which will, when per-
fected, be submitted to the legisla-
ture for approval.
While no official action was taken
by the representatives at the Austin
meet which has been given out for
publication, it is understood that
Many people are already on the
ground for the opening of the 7th
annual session of Paisano Baptist
Encampment, 11 miles west of Al-
pine, and it is expected that Sunday’s
attendance will be one of the great-
est ever witnessed at the assembly
grounds. In Drs. Truett, Gates and
Burroughs it is believed that the en-
campment has one of the greatest
combinations of preachers ever as-
sembled in the South at any religious
gathering.
In addition tothese, prominent
workers in the Sunday school, B. Y.
P. U., W. M. U., and other depart-
ments of the church work are in at-
tendance and conducting classes dai-
ly which are being attended by many
people.
Several of the leading denomina-
tional schools of the state are repre-
sented at the encampment, among
these being Howard Payne College,
Brownwood; Simmons University, Ab-
ilene; Baylor University, Baylor Col-
lege and San Marcos Academy.
CARD OF THANKS
We are deeply grateful to
well under way until Sunday al-
though a big attendanec at the eve-
ning services is anticipated both to-
day and tomorrow. „
One of the best known of the up-
to-dat plays, "Seven Keys to Bald-
pate,” will be presented by the Al-
pine Players on Tuesday, August 6
This play has been feautred in
book form, in the movies and on the
New York stage. It is a nationally
known play and in bringing it to Al-
pine the Little Theatre deserves the
support of a full house. No entertain-
ment offering of greater merit has
been brought to Alpine.
To date the Little Theatre in Al-
pine has been intensely active. The
organization came into existence just
seven weeks ago. During that time
seven evenings of entertainment have
been presented in Alpine and neigh-
boring towns. Seven different plays
have been produced and also sixteen
different specialty acts. The impos-
ing figure of fifty different indivi-
duals have been used in these enter-
tainments. Certainly this speaks well
of the possibilities of Little Theatre
work in Alpine. The character of
the work done has been very fine.
The presentation of “Kempy” was
especially a credit to the organiza-
tion. When a group of busy people
do such a fine piece of work as was
done in this play it is time for a com
munity to sit up and take notice
that something very worthwhile is
going on.
of all building of state highways as
well as the upkeep of same and reim-
bursement to counties for funds
spent on highways already completed
which have since been taken over
by the state and designated as state
highways.
A bond issue of $350,000,000 has
been proposed by a member of the
State Highway Commission for the
development of state highways in
Texas. It is likewise proposed that
funds for the building of highways
and the maintenance of such be rais-
ed by the assessment of a five cents
per gallon tax on gasoline. It is esti-
mated that approximately $42,000,-
000 annually may be derived from
such a tax together with the automo-
bile registration fee, which is con-
sidered ample for the purpose. The
annual upkeep on state highways is
estimated at twelve million dollars.
In order to relieve the state of a
burdensome obligation in reimburs-
ing counties for funds spent in build-
ing roads now designated as state
highways it has been suggested that
instead of the counties retaining one-
half the automobile registration fee,
as heretofore, that they be allowed
President L. R. Millican is in
charge of the encampment and prac-
tically all of the directors are ex-
pected to be present at least a part
of the time while the encampment is
in session. Pastors of nearly every
Baptist church within a radius of
200 miles or more have signified
their intentions of attending the ses-
sion this year, many of them having
already arirved.
The encampment grounds have
TO THE VOTERS OF WEST TEXAS
We, the friends of J. T. Robinson,
candidate for reelection to the office
of Land Commissioner, wish to call
to the attention of the voters of this
section of the country, the valuable
services which he has rendered
through the years to the land own-
ers of Texas, during his administra-
tion and to the great fight recently
made and won by him in the Supreme
Court of Texas, to save for the land
owners the Oil and Gas in their lands,
and to request and urge all voters to
work for his reelection. His know-
ledg and information of the needs of
Texas, make him the most competent
man for this position.
There are many new voters and
particularly women voters who are
not acquainted with these facts, and
we now call them to your attention
in order that you may vote for the
best interest of Texas. Please let the
many warm friends who were so
kind and helpful to us during the
illness and following the death of
our loved one, Adelia Massey. The
beautiful floral offerings were ap-
preciated no less than the loving
words and deeds.
One of the most unique and clever
evenings entertainments to be offer-
ed in Alpine for many days was pre-
sented by the Alpine Players at the
high school auditorium last Tues-
day evening.
The numbers moved along with a
swiftness that was pleasing indeed
and each act presented something dif-
ferent in the way of entertainment.
There were nine numbers on the eve-
ning’s program and eight different
varieties of entertainment. All were
cleverly done and many of them
would be a credit to any circus or
professional stage. The audience was
carried along in a state of high good
humor and intense interest through-
out the program. There was not a
dull moment during the entire two
hours of entertainment. Two plays,
a quartette, tumbling, clowning, vau-
deville sketches, magic, impersona-
tions, and a saxophone solo made up
the bill.
Morelock are the members of the
committee. A large number of per-
ple have not yet been seen by the
committee.
The list of pledges to date is as
All of the contests have been
practically free from mud-slinging
and the candidates are apparently
conducting their campaigns on a high
plane as is usually the case in this
county.
There were 1450 ballots ordered
printed by the county Democratic Ex-
ecutive committee and it is expected
that there will be not less than
1,000 votes cast in the election to-
morrow. These ballots were divided
as follows:
Precinct No. 1, North Alpine, 550.
Precinct No. 2, South Alpine, 250.
Precinct No. 3, Marathon, 400.
Precinct No. 4, Terlingua, 150.
Precinct No. 5, Glenn Springs, 100.
Presiding officers for each vot-
ing precinct have been named as fol-
lows: Precinct No. 1 ,Clay Holland;
No. 2, Oscar Roberts; No. 3, B. J.
Bourland; No. 4, G. E. Babb; No. 5,
Steve Bennett.
Except in cases where the count
is unusually close it is expected that
winners in all of the county and pre-
cinct races will be known early to-
morrow evening.
Reports indicate that the rainfall
which started in this section last
Friday covered an area several hun-
dred miles square. It is estimated
that a total precipitation of six inch-
es has fallen in Alpine and immedi-
ate vicinity since that time. Prac-
tically every section of the High-
lands has been visited by excellent
rains, according to reports received
here with a promise that the good
work has just begun. A heavy rain
fell last Sunday over the country be-
tween Marfa and the river and daily
rains have been reported in the Hov-
ey and Marathon districts for the
past week. South of Alpine the rain
has not been so heavy but enough
has fallen in practically all of that
district to insure good range.
While local rains have been fall-
ing in some parts, of the Highland
territory for the past two or three
weeks, this is the first general rain
that has fallen this year and ranch-
ers are jubilant as a result of the
needed moisture.
Rain at Fort Davis
Fort Davis, July 25—Special—
Last minute news before the mail
goes out Wednesday morning, 7:27
a. m.: a fine general rain is falling
apparently all over the Davis Moun-
tains. It began between 5 and 6
o’clock; maybe earlier.
the office of district and county
clerk being opposed by Worth Fra-
zer.
In the county judge’s race, C. D.
Wood, who was appointed to fill the
anexpired term of Jas. A. Burke a
short time, is being opposed by M. L.
Shelton. Thomas J. Miller, present
incumbent, and E. H. Todd of Mara-
thon are both candidates for the of-
fice of tax assessor. Much interest
is being shown in these contests and
some very active campaigning has
been done by the contestants and
their supporters.
A drilling block has been worked
out by C. H. Graham, J. M. Pouncey
and Jos. A. Williams of Alpine in a
new sector about 65 miles south of
Alpine on what is known as the Ken-
drick structure in the Terlingua
Creek district and a test well will
be spudded in on a location already
made about August 10, according to
Mr. Pouncey.
This drilling block is in what may
be termed the extreme southern end
of the already famous Green Valley
district, according to Mr. Pouncey,
being about 16 miles south of the
old Wilson discovery well, where oil
was first found in Brewster county
in 1920.
Location has been made and the
well will be known as the J. M.
Marathon Gets Rains
Marathon, July 25—Special—
Splendid rains have fallen here dur-
ing the past week. Reports indicate
the rain fell over a wide section.
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