The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 1914 Page: 4 of 14
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Marathon Lumber Company I
Marathon, Texas. 3
HAS ITS ROOTS IN COFFIN
Magnineent Poplar Tree Flourishes
Over Grave of Man Buried
Near Nashville.
DEVISED A "WIFELESS FLAT" I ************** ******+*
Unhappy Bachelor, Driven to Ex-
tremes. Made Desperate Though
Futile Clutches at Comfort.
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Headquarters for Pensylvania Casing and Inner :
Tubes; also carry a stock of Mansfield Cable Structure :
; Casing and Good service Inner Tubes. A good supply ;
; always on hand. Your Business Solicited. 1
; ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY.
• Marathon Lumber Company :
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Alpine Transfer y
Passengers and baggage hauled to and from
all trains at any hour
I Phone 168 1
Our big floats are ready to haul anything. Let 1
us figure with you. I
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- Land and Cattle
It is seldom, perhaps, that nature
erects a monument to a person’s
memory, yet in a small cemetery a
few miles cast of Nashville, in
Brown county, may be found an ob-
ject bearing that distinction, accord-
ing to the Toronto World.
More than 75 years ago a man
named Allcorn became a resident of
Brown county, and for several years
lived near Salt Creek, in the eastern
part of the county. While residing
there Allcorn met with an accident
which resulted in his death, and he
was buried in the cemetery near his
home.
The coffin was hewed out of a part
of a poplar tree and made into two
sections. A few years later a small
sprout began to shoot from the crude
coffin, and not long afterward a
small poplar tree began to spread its
branches over the grave.
Within a few years it had grown
to large proportions, and during the
long period since it first appeared
above the ground the tiny poplar
sprout has grown into a tree that
measures several feet in circumfer-
ence and towers above all others in
the vicinity.
Its branches spread far out in all
directions, and many perhaps who
pass nearby are attracted by the tow-
ering poplar, though they may be
unfamiliar with its history.
A bachelor of Cincinnati has in-
vented and built for himself a “wife-
less fiat.”
This masculine dream of home
comfort consists of a single room be-
hind whose various and properly
labeled doors are concealed in tab-
loid form, as it were, the other neces-
sary rooms of a well-appointed apart-
ment. |
When bedtime comes the ingenious !
flat dweller opens the proper door,
swings his bed from its upright po- !
sition in its closet and goes to sleep
in his bedroom. Next morning the
bed is swung back and closed into
its special closet, another door
opened and a dressing table is drawn
out for use. The toilet over and all
trace of it shut out of sight again,
another door opens up a miniature
kitchen and pantry, and then another
offers a table to be pulled out and
breakfasted upon — and so on
through the day.
The owner of the flat says that he
spent three years planning and per-
fecting this ideal dwelling place and
that he now spends a pleasant wife-
less and servantless existence in a
four-room apartment devised from
what was once but a single 9x12
I Jno. A. Hardy, M. D. +
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1 Office Phone 95. Res. Phone, 44 t
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$ Residence Phone 161 1
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DR. R. E. TAYLOR,
Physician.
Alpine, - - - - Texas.
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Dentists
W. S. BECHTOL
Dental Surgeon
room,
zine.
Southern Woman’s Maga-
Phone
Office in Darling Bldg.
ALPINE,
124
Texas
NASTY
Cattle bought and sold on Commission
Special attention given to the sale
of Ranch Property
If you need a house I
can fit you out
SPRING LOCK MADE TROUBLE
Exceedingly Uncomfortable Hour
Passed by Housewife Acciden-
tally Barred Out of House.
Lawyers
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f J. G. Brooke |
t Lawyer 1
W. F. MeGAUGHY,
Office in Lackey Bldg.
Alpine, Texas.
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READ THIS
Eoussts
We Want Your Trade, You
Want Our Groceries
FRESH EVAPORATED FRUITS. DRIED FRUITS
COFFEE
We Handle the Best Grades. Try our Ambassador
and Statesman Brands
We handle Fancy and Staple Groceries of all Kinds
A door key is a nuisance, but so is
a spring lock! Ask any man who
keeps late hours, and is at times for-
getful in his habits.
Even housewives have had reason
to agree with this opinion.
One morning a woman followed
her husband to the front steps and
the door slammed when the night
lock was on and the key was inside,
and her husband had caught the car.
She was canning pears and had
put them on the stove to cook while
she was getting breakfast. They
were still cooking and would soon
be burning. The baby was crying
for his breakfast. She could not get
in. None of the neighbors could get
in. Somebody telephoned to her
husband, and perhaps it was not
more than an hour before he got
home with his key. An hour is a
long time, and the pears and the
baby were in a terrible state. It
would have been better if there had
been a burglar in the house. He
could have turned out the gas and
have fed the baby, and he might
have opened the door.
A good, old-fashioned latch string,
always out, would relieve us of so
much responsibility and would be
ever so much safer.
C3 we Sueae
Mr. Naggitt—I don’t feel like my-
self tonight.
Mrs. Naggitt—Then we ought to
have a pleasant evening.
CHANGE IN PROFESSION.
SUBMISSION.
That the versatile woman is able
to earn a living at many contrasting
occupations is proved by the appoint-
ment of a famous horsewoman as
librarian in the 3,000-volume library
of a huge hotel in Manhattan.
Mrs. Emily Beach, who is said to
have broken over 1,000 horses in her
time and to have educated her or-
phaned daughter by riding blooded
horses in the horse shows and teach-
ing the little daughters of the rich
how to ride, has taken charge of this
new library, and is reveling in the
quiet and the unlimited opportuni-
ties for reading.
MODEL PRISONER.
Guy Crawford & Co.
Phone 116
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Alpine Avalanche
The Advertising Medium of
Brewster County and West Texaso
Gives all the latest news.
Advertising Rates
50 cents per column inch.
Locals 5 cents per line.
Subscription $1.50 a year.
Our Motto:
The first consideration in this
office is to do things right.
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Call and see us.
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“You are going out in that gown ?
I hope you will put something more
on!”
“Yes, dear. I am going to put on
my gloves.”—Paris Le Rire.
HIS FAME BUT MOMENTARY
Boy Whose Name Was to Live In His-
tory Had His Period of
Disillusion.
From the time he was six, Walter
Scott read ravenously; and it was
through his wide reading that, when
only fifteen, he became, for a few mo-
ments, the center of a group of learn-
ed men. It was when the poet
Burns visited Edinburgh and had
shown great interest in a picture of
a soldier lying dead in the snow
with a dog keeping patient watch be-
side him. Beneath the picture were
some beautiful lines, but neither
Burns nor any of those learned men
knew their author, until young Wal-
ter Scott, who happened to be pres-
ent, whispered that they were by
Langhorne. Then Burns turned to
him with glowing eyes and said: “It
is no common course of reading that
has taught you this,” adding to his
friends, “This lad will be heard of
yet.”
How proud the lad felt! How
wistfully joyful in the warmth of the
great poet’s praise; and then how
suddenly forgotten when, only a few
days later, Burns passed him in the
street without a glance! Scott’s
moment of fame had vanished.—St.
Nicholas._____
NEW FOOD FOR THE WORLD.
"You remember Dibbert, the ter-
ror of the neighborhood ?"
"Sure. He shot his wife, set fire
to a church and poisoned a horse.”
"That’s the one. Well, he’s going
to get out of prison in a few days.”
“Well, well! He hasn’t been there
more’n a year. On what grounds are
they letting him go ?"
“Good behavior.”
COULDN’T DO IT.
"Now, if you’ll meet me at my of-
fice tonight I’ll put you on to a big
deal.”
"Sorry, old man, but I’m follow-
ing a continued story in the movies.
I must be there tonight or I’ll miss
an important installment.”—Louis-
ville Courier-Journal.
INCLINED TO BE CHARITABLE.
"Your stenographer takes notes
very rapidly, but he doesn’t seem
able to remember what they mean.”
"Well," replied Senator Sorghum,
"I make speeches very rapidly, and
in a few months I can’t remember
what they mean.”
BELLIGERENCY.
"Is that man still devoting his ef-
forts to universal peace ?"
"Not exactly- He is still fighting
the Demon Rum.”
Neat Work.
Prompt Delivery.
pine Publishing
Company.
1
Germany has now 26 establish-
ments engaged in the production of
dry yeast. It keeps indefinitely and
is a nutritious food not only for
•cattle, but also for human beings,
after the removal of the unpleas-
antly bitter hop resin that it con-
tains. The industry has developed
i within the last three years, heretofore
the thousands of tons of yeast pro-
duced annually by the German brew-
eries being almost without value, ex-
cept for the small amount used by
the breweries themselves to hasten
the fermentation of the wort.
GOOD REASON.
“Why do you call your play, ‘The
Great Trunk Mystery.’ ”
"Because I want it to draw packed
houses."
STARTLING.
“That business Jobbins went into
may prove a hanging matter.”
"Good heavens! What is it?”
"He manufactures rope.”
ITS QUALITY.
"This garden walk of yours is
somewhat athletic."
"What do you mean ?”
"It has such a swinging gate."
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If you are going to BUILD or REPAIR anything.
See ALAMO LUMBER CO.
We have a Nice Line of Lumber, Shingles,
Ceder Post, Painted and Galvanized Barbed and
Cable Wire, Staple, Nails. Builders Hardware-
Brick-Lime-Cement-Paints and Oils. We Build Homes
on Installment Plan-or for Cash.
Call and See Us.
"The Lumbermen”
Alamo Lumber Company
RAY TURNER, Local Manager.
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The Man You Want to See For
BRICK WORK
is the man whose prices are standard and
whose work is guaranteed. The man is
JIM
ARTHUR
Forest Koen
Contractor and Builder
Estimates on all classes of work furnished.
Plans and Specifications a Specialty.
Bell House
Alpine, Texas.
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Office in the Darling Bldg. i 40.
Office Phone No. 154, a 0
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’ A. M. TURNEY
Attorney-at-Law :
Will practice in Dist. and Higher Courts ,
office in courthouse.
$ Alpine,
Texas.
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I Wigfall Van Sickle, |
I Att’y. and Counselor at Law. ,
I ALPINE, TEXAS |
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Abstracters
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JOHN WEYERTS
ALPINE, TEXAS
| Contractor and Builder
1 WIND MILL WORK A SPECIALTY
1 Agent for Fuller & Johnson Farm Engines. :
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TEXAS GROCERY
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Land Agent and Abstracter t
Will redeem lands, render and *
pay taxes for non-residents. Am -
prepared to make correct Ab-
stracts of Title of any Lands or §
Town Lots in Brewster County. 1
Alpine, - - Texas. 1
Our Alpine House is Now Ready for
Business. Goods Shipped Same Day
Order is Received......
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W. G. YOUNG, Alpine, Tex
Marfa, Texas.
Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
$500 Reward!
I left jaw I left thigh
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I left loin on purchase cattle
H on both jaws
I will pay the above Reward
for the arrest and conviction of
anyone illegally handling cattle in
the above brands.
W. T. Henderson,
Alpine, Texas.
-LODGE DIRECTORY-
K. of P. Lodge No. 423 meets every
Friday night.
JAS. A. Burke,
J. A. WEYERTS, K. of R. & S
C. C.
SUNSET ROUTE
Standard
and Tourist Sleepers
Sunset Limited
NEW ORLEANS AND
SAN FRANCISCO
Daily
Electric Lighted Sleepers
and Diners
Oil Burning Locomotives
Steel Coaches
Electric Block Signals
Heavy Rails
Rock Ballast
The Route of Safe Travel,
For further information ask the
Loca Agent
on
Farms and Ranches
Vendors Lien Notes Bought and Extended.
E. B. CHANDLER,
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San Antonio, Texas .
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G. KURT LANGE
Alpine, Texas
Maker of Famous Cowboy Boots and Shoes
ONLY IMPORTED GOODS USED
Mail Orders Given
Prompt Attention
Shop Next To
Slight’s Drug Store
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- Measday & Co., Proprietors I
I Excellent Meats from Healthy Animals. A Clean 1
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and Honest Service. Barbecue Every Saturday.
Near Holland Hotel
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Trans-Pecos Abstract Co.
I ALPINE, TEXAS
J W. M. Sanford, Manager
I Abstracts Furnished On Short Notice
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Paul
Vog
Blacksmith and Wheelwright.
An up-to-date and thoroughly equipped shop. All kinds of work done
promptly and satisfactorily.
Dealer in WAGONS, HARROWS, Plows, PLANTERS and all FARM IMPLE.
MINTS. Agent for McCQRMICK MOWERS AND RAKES
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Yates, W. J. The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 1914, newspaper, July 2, 1914; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1708300/m1/4/: 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.