The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1926 Page: 2 of 6
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1926.
THE ALPINE (TEX AS ) AVALANCHE
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, Year
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The First National Bank
Alpine, Texas
CAPITAL and SURPLUS $125,000.
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APRESIABLES MEXICANOS
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E. B. CHANDLER & COMPANY
San Antonio, Texas
102 East Crockett St.
few miles this side of El Paso.—Rio
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FOR SALE: The greatest home bargain in Alpine. Five rooms,
Bath room. Hardwood floors. Extra large porches. Large ce-
mented basement. Five lots, very rich ground. Bearing fruit
trees, vines, etc. Beautiful shade trees. Large steel tank for ir-
rigation. Water piped all over the place. Very convenient to
High School and Sul Ross College. The owner needs the money
and his loss is your gain. Price cut from $4500 to $3250. Cash
payment only $1450, and balance in 3 annual payments.
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BIG LAKE IN CITY CLASS
Big Lake is making great strides
toward becoming a city. With her
newly purchased Fordson with grad-
ing equipment attached, her streets
will be kept in excellent condition of
which any place would be proud; the
Daily we are adding to our already enor=
mous stock of Drugs, Toilet Articles,
Stationery and everything carried in
the most modern Drug Store.
THE ALPINE AVALANCHE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE ALPINE PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice in Alpine, Texas, under the
Act of Congress of March 3, 1879
COMMISSIONERS HOLD
REGULAR SESSION
CITY MEAT MARKET
Locke, Russell & Locke, Props.
JINX SEEMS TO HAVE HIT
WEST TEXAS AUTOISTS
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_____________________________________Manager-Editor
Local Editor and Advertising Manager
H. L. KOKERNOT, President
GEO W. BAINES, JR., Active Vice President and Cashier
West Texas Survey
Indicates Progress
having been hit by an Orient freight News (Barstow).
ALPINE DRUG STORE
The Rexa 11 Store
Ranch Loans A Specialty
Liberal Options—No Delays
Eyesight Specialist
Years’ Experience
Dr. LOUIS J. BAKER
Optometrist
Modern Equipped Optical Office
ALPINE, TEXAS
Official city and county paper and only newspaper published in Brewster
County. In thirty-fifth year. Devoted to the upbuilding of Alpine and
Alpine territory, and the dissemination of local and State news. Should
any statement reflecting on the character of any person or persons appear in
these columns, please report it", in order that correction may be made.
Resolutions, Cards of Thanks, and Reading Notices are charged for at the
rate of 5c per line per insertion. Special rate on notices to run one month
or more.
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man. He is sending more young
Much more are Texas points be-
WE HAVE OPENED
MEAT MARKET
in the building formerly occupied by Rus-
sell's Plumbing Shop, and will carry noth-
ing but the choicest in Meats. Call and
see us.
eration, adding 33,000 miles of road.
That doesn’t sound so big when it is
realized Texas alone has 21,000
miles of designated highways.—E
Paso Times.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Avalanche is authorized to
to a
road situation.
Texas bus op-
I ment, will give the town a more ur-
| ban look; and the recently organized
I fire department with their firefight-
; ing equipment will greatly safeguard
our interests and promote other
! forms of business.
To the progressive citizens of Big
Lake we give the credit of her ad-
vancement in the last .few years.
The News joins the populace of Big
Lake in- thanking those whose untir-
ing efforts have brought about many
of these improvements our town is
now enjoying.—Big Lake News.
At the morning service those
present will ’be asked to study the
announce the following candidates proposed City Hall, which will house
for office, subject to action of Dem-the City officials and Fire Depart-
The state’s electric
ocratic primaries, July 24th, 1926:
For Commissioner, Prect. 2:
J. A. ANDERSON
BEVERLY GREENWOOD
F. L. CLARK
Very little business came before
the regular monthly meeting of
county commissioners held at the
court house Monday, January 11th,
according to Judge Jas. A. Burke,
chairman. All members were pres-
ent—Clarence Hord, J. A. Anderson,
| D. C. Bourland and W. D. Burcham.
| Several accounts against the coun-
! ty were approved and allowed and
| some minor details attended to.
I An important action taken at this
| meeting was the appointment of A.
ROYAL SOCIETY EMBROIDERY
PACKAGES, Pillow Tops, Kitchen
Towels and Fancy White Aprons, at,
1926 CALENDERS
The Rooney Mercantile Co. calen-
dar is one of a historical series being-
put out by this firm and represents
the “Old Swimming Pool,” as it ap-
peared on the Rooney homestead
three miles north of Fort Stockton in
1894. The water for the pool came
from the Fort Stockton springs and
it was in this pool that boys and
girls of the Rooney family learned
to swim.
The figures in the picture are
James Rooney, as a young man,
Frank Rooney, formerly County and
District Clerk of Pecos County, and
the hand the “handy” man around
the farm.—Fort Stockton Pioneer.
business gets into a rut, the news-
papers' will help you out if you will
use the ‘advertising columns. Great
is the power of the press.—Ex.
TO PULL YOUR AUTO
OUT OF THE MUD TRY THIS
When your auto gets stuck in the
mud and the rear wheels merely spin
around and your friends advise you
to call for help get a bunch of
newspapers, slip them under the rear
wheels, turn on the juice and see
the car come out of the mire. News-
paper is a great uplifter. When your
deemed. Many shall not see them I B. Williams to .fill the unexpired
were two occupants glorious
7:30, Wednesday evening,
second chapter of Hebrews is
lesson. You are invited to
Word of God upon the
“Three Unknown Things
New Testament.” They
FOUND TEXAS IS ALL EIGHT
“I’m a fool, I’ve been to Florida,”
was a conspicuous sign, in large let-
ters, on the back of a car traveling
through Pecos, Sunday afternoon. On
the side was another sign reading.
“Back to Ma Ferguson," displaying
in no uncertain terms the owner’s
opinion of the new paradise for real
estate men.
Following the first Longhorn car,
was another with this testimony on
the rear, “So am I, I went to Los
Angeles.”
Travel is a great thing, it teaches
this hour of prayer and study with
us. At the Sunday evening ser-
vice we invite you to study with us
ally in West Texas. Three-fourths of ing connected up with good roads,
electric power generation in the in which New Mexico also is step-
state is already interconnected, ac- ping along, much of the whole net-
cording to utilities news, but that work centering on El Paso, both
in the past has meant such cities seeming to want to catch up with
as Beaumont and Port Arthur, Hous- their neighbor on the west, Arizona,
ton and Galveston and Fort Worth Federal aid road completed in the
Every "WARNER BROS." CORSET,
values from $2.50 to $5.00, at $2.00
Ladies’ FULL-FASHIONED LISLE
HOSE, in Black only, the well-
known “BURSON MAKE,” at, the
Pair ____________________________________________35c
hear this humble servant of Jesus
Christ in his powerful appeal to the
hearts of men. There is no clap-
trap preaching coming to us. No
death bed stories to play upon the
emotions of the weak. No abuse of
the sinner, no obscene language
to appeal to the low. God, Christ
and His Church are exalted before
the conscience of man. Dr. Tindall
Apostle John. Prayer meeting
feeling.—Ward County
milk delivery.” Another accident, the seeker of new worlds the true
reported by the Pioneer, was that of worth of his own heath and hearth-
"a young lady driving a Ford coupe stone. There is nothing wrong with
which struck the west bound Orient going to other seaports, and landing
motor train, escaping with no serious places. In fact it is broadening, and
injuries altho the car was badly conducive to ridding people of
damaged, provincial narrowness. But when it
The Big Lake News of a recent is all over and the weary traveler
ELECTRIC CO. MATERIAL
ARRIVES IN FABENS
With the arrival of the first car-
load of insulators in this town this
week the work of constructing the
power line into Hudspeth county by
,El Paso Electric Company became a
reality. Hundreds of feet of hard
drawn copper wire also arrived in
the same shipment.
As 66,000 volts will be carried
over the line to Fabens and 22,000
the balance of the way, a complete
new line of poles is necessary. These,
The jinx seems to have been hung
on automobile drivers in this section
if one may judge from not only local
mishaps, but also from reports
coming in from other sources. Fort
Stockton Pioneer reports in last
week’s issue several accidents
having occurred in and around Fort
Stockton. A car skidded and over-
turned near Saragosa. The car con-
tained nine occupants—women and
children; all escaped injury. The
Pioneer also relates how another car
tried to beat an Orient train to a
crossing—“and lost— not only the
race, but a goodly part of his Ford
car in which he was making an early
neither hear them. Bible school at
9:45 a. m. Come and study the life
of the Christ as recorded by the
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Now that we have a warm build-
ing at all times despite the cold
weather, let no one stay away for
fear of a cold house. That is the
warmest thing about our services
now.
Sunday School, 9:45.
Preaching Service, Morning, 11:00
Prayer Service Wednesday Eve-
ning, 7:30. gug
W. M. U. and Bible Study, Wed-
nesday 3:30.
B. Y. P. U’s Senior, Junior and
Intermediate Sunday 6:30.
Preaching Service, Evening 7:30.
Let every member of the church
remember that he has a part to play.
You are missed if you are not here.
The Church is the biggest asset to
any community. Come to church
and help yourself and your com-
munity.
CORNELIUS BOWLES, Pastor.
pany. These include Canyon city,
state school center, and Happy.
Other extensions are: From Mem-
phis, prosperous cotton center on
the Burlington, in the Panhandle, to
Clarendon, further up the railroad in
Donley county; from Archer City
to Holliday, in Archer county, south
of Wichita Falls.
A modern street lighting system
is being installed in Santa Ana, Cole-
man county, south of Sweetwater,
Pampa already has natural gas dis-
tribution,a nd Childress is arrang-
ing for it. These are in the Pan-
handle. Amarillo and Shamrock
have had natural gas for some time.
Texas is fortunate in being able
to use more natural gas as fuel to
make electricity than any other
state and much of it is in the Ama-
“The Divine Master Builder
His Building.”
Another week has passed
our meeting draws nearer,
sure every lover of truth
ADDING NEW EQUIPMENT
No doubt our readers will note
an improvement in the print this
week. We got new rollers. Also
we have bought a good deal of
other printing material since tak-
ing over the Eagle. With the new
printing material we have added
and expect to add yet, we will be
able to get out a good little paper.
—Mountain Eagle. (Sierra Blanca.)
men into the ministry than any
living man today. Like a father he
is standing back of them until they
are placed in some field of labor.
We ask you to pray for a great
spiritual awakening in our midst.
S. R. McCLURE, Pastor.
LUSTER KNITTING YARN in many
different Shades, the well-known
“Minerva Yarn, regular selling
price, 35c, our price____________________19c
Ladies’ SILK and FULL FASHION-
ED CHIFFON HOSE, while they
last, at, the pair___________________$1.00
EXTRA LARGE SIZE TURKISH
BATH TOWELS, Exceptional Value,
• at Best. The driver, a lady, was in-'
jured but not seriously.
The week started auspiciously in
Alpine with a crash between two
cars at the corner of Fifth and Col-
lege Avenue Sunday afternoon. One
car had the steering apparatus con-
siderably bent up altho no further
damage was sustined, either by cars
or occupants. Another near-serious
accident occurred early Monday
morning when a Sanitary Dairy
delivery truck and an Alpine Trans-
fer service car collided on College
avenue at the Methodist church cor-
ner; an account of which appears
elsewhere in this paper. Monday
afternoon, a car being driven b,
Paul Stack “went wild” in front of
tie Hinson Vulcanizing Shop and
did considerable damage before
“subdued,” knocking down a gaso-
line pump and breaking it up pretty
much.
term of W. M. Harmon, deceased, as
county surveyor. Williams had
formerly been serving as deputy dur-
ing the Harmon administration and
was formerly a member of thefirm
of Graddy & Williams who own the
plantation on the river in southern
Brewster county. No other business
was transacted, Judge Burke stated,
but several important items are ex-
pected to come up at the meeting in
February.
All kinds of envelopes, writing pa-
per, noteheads, billheads, statements,
etc., at The Avalanche office. tf.
Tengo el gusto de manifestaries
que desco me ayuden cou su boto en
la (Eleciou) para Comisionado de
camino de Precinto numero 2.
Prometiendoles guesi yo cojo esta
obsina pondre toda mi habilida para
Uds. y todos por igual. Antisipondo-
les mas exprisbas grasis por de
fina atencion que tienen quedo a
las ordenes de Uds. esperando me
ayuden.
a mong the unrevealed secrets that
God has mentioned and ask his
saints to wait until he shall tell
them and show them to the re-
Interconnected power develop-
ment in Texas is growing, especi-
Right now prosperous little cen- June totaled 9445 miles, inspected
ters in West Texas are being con- and accepted, and 4578 miles not
nected up with their larger sisters inspected and accepted when the
by electric transmission lines, in year closed. This marks a grand
many cases by Texas Utilities com- total of 14,000 miles.
so large; it has 11,267 farms that
are 1,000 acres or more in size, and
is able still to lead other states in
the number of range cattle, sheep,
goats and probably horses, mules
and hogs.
Texas’s wideareas include win-
ter gardens and some blizzard
points, river bottoms, even swamps,
and rugged mountain grandeurs, to
see which native and national tour-
ists have to head toward El Paso.
Due east, the section is fairly fa-
vored with good roads, and those
southeast are improving.
From Granite Mountain in Burnet
county, southeast of San Angelo,
granite is going to New York for the
$15,000,000 Edison Building, it is
said, and there is enough granite
there to construct 400 other such
building and hardly be missed.
From Marble mountain, near Mar-
fa and Alpine, Los Angeles interest
are making high grade and medium
marble available for the whole coun-
try, and even for export. The indus-
595,000 kilowatt hours, or 3,853000 polishing plants in El Paso, to use
every day. also Van Horn and Almorgordo N,
In this production, which was 16 Mexico stone.
percent above the same month last West Texas will not always be
year, natural gas used as fuel to-without park sites and game pre-
taled 172,442,000 cubic feet. In addi-, serves, it is believed, adequate signs
tion to this power transfusion, Tex- appearing in the Big Bend, even fur-
as is able to precipitate 186,571,000 ther down in the Alto Frio section,
gallons of gasoline a year from nat-in the Davis Mountains, Culberson
ural gas; much of this also being county is spending $100,000, local
done in Amarillo. | and state, on a road to theGuadalu-
Besides the gas $1,500,000,000 pes.
worth of crude oil has been ex- Interstate transportation must not
subject,
of the
are all
TO THE VOTERS OF PRECINCT 2:
I desire to announce my candidacy
for the office of commissioner of
precinct 2, Brewster county, Tex-
as, subject to action of the Demo-
cratic primaries July 24th, 1926.
I have been a resident of Brew-
ster county for many years and am
thoroughly acquainted with the
conditions and needs of this section.
I feel that I am competent to fill
this position and will serve the
people to the best of my ability if
elected.
BEVERLY GREENWOOD.
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Moody, T. R. The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1926, newspaper, January 14, 1926; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1651579/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.