The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1921 Page: 1 of 6
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VOLUME XXXI.
TLAS STATE LIBRARY
A h Austin, Tex..
TH
ALPINE AVA
ALPINE, BREWSTER COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1921.
NUMBER 21
MACCEDONIAN CRY.
YOU PLAN TO BEGIN SAVING TO-
MORROW
Likely You Never Will
Tomorrow is an uncertainty, and when you make a resolution to
save, ACT AT ONCE.
We are interested in the prosperity and growth of this community
and experience has proved that the community will prosper ONLY as its
INDIVIDUALS SAVE and prosper.
A BANK ACCOUNT FOR EVERY CITIZEN
A Government Savings Security for every Saver in denominations of
25c, $1.00, 5.00, 25.00, $100.00, or $1,000.00
Buy Then
THE ALPINE STATE BANK
ALPINE, TEXAS
CAPITAL, $30,000.00 SURPLUS and PROFITS, 45,000
This is a Miniature Sample of
Sheetrock.
SHEETROCK
The FIREPROOF WALLBOARD
Made from rock. Will not warp. Resists beat,
cold and sound. Saws and nails like lumber. Makes
a smooth, solid, permanent wall. Takes any decoration
—paper, paint or panels.
Approved by The Underwriters’ Laboratories. Inc.
of The National Board of Fire Underwriters.
Sizes: 3s inch thick, 32 or 48 inch wide and 6 to
10 feet long. •
Stays Put—Looks “Purty”
Alpine Lumber
Courtesy, Service and Building Material.
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DRYGOODS-GENTS FURNISHINGS
— ALPINE.TEX-
BIG SHIRT SALE
MONDAY
May 30th
Something New
Every Day
They say “It Can’t Be Done!" We Do It.
A valanche $2 per year
An appeal to citizens, civic and
business organizations of Texas
to contribute $10,000 for use in
permanent relief and rehabilita-
tion of sufferers from the torna-
do that struck northeastern Tex-
as and southwestern Arkansas on
April 15th was formerly made
today by the Southwestern Di-
vision American Red Cross Dis-
aster Relief Section at Texar-
kana. Appeals for statewide con-
tributions for permanent relief
have been withheld until this date
until a survey of the rehabilita-
tion needs for the storm areas
could be completed by the Amer-
ican Red Cross which has charge
of relief work in the entire de-
vastated region.
This survey is now complete
and shows a total of 597 fami-
lies who have lost homes and
personal property, of which 110
families are located in the Texas
counties hit.
“All emergency needs for these
people have been taken care of
by local
by Red
appropriated
from it’s
gent fund
subscription raised
Cross
a
which has
large
national
for this
sum
contin-
pur-
ities involved, a staff of rehabil-
itation and relief workers who
are directing the work on an
economical and scientific basis.”
“The larger work of recon-
struction must now be under-
taken and these citizens of Texas
put back on a self supporting
basis. Contributions locally have
been generous and the Red Cross
has added a large sum to these.
Due however, to financial
crop conditions most of
farmers and residents in
and
the
the
storm areas were in no condi-
tion before the storm to meet an
added burden and now with their
homes swept away and their
property gone, are in a critical
state and are able to do little to-
ward helping themselves.”
“Still further added funds are
needed to supplement Red Cross
and local contributions, and chan-
nels are now opened for these
contributions which will meet an
urgent need. Each contibutor
will be given an individual re-
ceipt for his donation by the
American Red Cross and any re-
quests stipulating certain sec-
tions in which the money is to be
used will be carefully carried out.
“All expenditure for relief and
rehabilitation are based on care-
ful consideration of the actual
needs of each family, made by
expert disaster workers in co-
operation with local committees
Contibutors to this fund may
rest assured that their donations
will be used to the greatest ad-
vantage.”
Donations and contributions
should be forwarded to Edward
B. Orr, director Disaster Relief,
American Red Cross, Offenhouse
Building, Texarkana.
FACING HARD TIMES.
Here is a facimile of a letter
received by an Alpine business
man from a slow creditor in an-
swer to an urgent appeal for pay-
ment:
. "i got ure letter about what i
owed you now be pashent im
goin’ to pa you as sune as i can
i cant pa you until fokes pa me
If this was jugment da an you
was no bete perpared to meet
your god than i am to meet this
acount youd show go to hell.”
Smugglers of liquor must have
got the industry down fine from
reports in the papers. A man
A man recently arrested had re-
moved the upholstery in his car
and filled it with 100 pint bottles
about the car. Inspectors search-
ing women found that they were
wearing rubber bottles and long
rubber tubes around their bodies
filled with liquor. One man had
a lot of opium in his watch charm.
—FOR SALE—160-acres farm
and ranch, 2 miles southwest of
Alpine. Good house, fenced and
other improvements. Price $5,-
000, one-third cash.—A. M. Tur-
ney Realty Co—15-tf.
RED CROSS IN HEALTH FORESTRY LEGISLATION.
CAMPAIGN ---
•-----Farm and Ranch in it's issue of
Confronted with the fact that April 30, concludes the leading
health conditions in Texas show cCitorial thus:
a decline for the year 1920 over "The conservation of our tim-
1919, which was a year of heavy ber resources should be made of
mortality rate on account of the grave public concern. Not only
influenza epidemics, increased at-should the nation increase- it’s
tention on the part of the people forest reservations but every
of the state to health matters and State in the Union should also
close co-operation with existing acquire forest lands and begin
health agencies is vitally neces-the work of reforestation. The
s'ary, according to a study of immediate necessity, however, is
conditions in the state made by stringent legislation governing
the public health department of the operation of lumber compan-
the Southwestern Division, A-
merican Red Cross at St. Louis.
ies and requiring them to cut
their marketable timber without
Statistics compiled by the Tex-destroying the smaller trees and
as State department of health
show increased general, tubercu-
losis, maternity, and infant mor-
tality rates for 1920 over 1919,
which was a year of high mor-
tality due to the influenza epi-
demic.
The general death rate in 1919
was 7.22 per 1,000 population
while for 1920 it had increased to
7.33. Similarly the tuberculosis
mortality went from: 68 per 100,-
000 population in 1919 to 70.7
per 100,000 in 1920. A sharp in-
crease in the infant death rate
was noted with a figure of 64
deaths, (including still born) per
1000 in 1919 to 85 per 1000 in 1920,
again more than 30 per cent.
The maternal mortality rate was
slightly more heavy in 1920, go-
ing from 8.8 per 1,000 births in
1919 to 9 per 1,000 in 1920.
Realizing the acute need for in-
tensive health work the Red
Cross has largely increased it’s
staff or community nurses in
Texas and now has 68 full time
nurses on duty. Since Decem-
ber 1918 the organization as part
of it’s health education work has
held 980 classes in home hygene
and care of the sick, with 8,859
mothers instructed. A force of
160 instructors was engaged in
this work. As rapidly as possible
this branch of the work will be
enlarged in an effort to improve
in co-operation the state health
department, and health conditions
in Texas.
CONSUMPTION, A GERM DI-
SEASE.
“Not many years ago the pub-
lic thought tuberculosis was an
inherited disease and was not in-
fectious. The treatment of the
disease then consisted of keep-
ing the patient in a closed room,
as fresh air was believed to be
injurious. The night air was con-
sidered much worse than day air.
Climate was commencing to be
recognized as an aid in the cure
of this disease.” says the Texas
Public Health Association.
It has been scientifically de-
monstrated that tuberculosis is
not inherited, but that the child-
ren of tuberculous parents are
frequently of low vitality and
often of poor physique. This
does not mean that they are
bound to be consumptives. They
will get consumption only if the
germ enters the body while they
are weak and of low resistance.
Tuberculosis is an infectious
disease but not contagious like
smallpox or scarlet fever. With
proper precautions one can stay
with a careful consumptive with-
out danger of contracting the di-
sease.
Climate does not have so much
to do with the cure of this disease
as was formerly thought. The
three most important methods
of combating tuberculosis are
rest, diet and fresh air. Night
air is more pure than the air
we breathe in the day time as
there is less dust.
From what has been said a-
bove, it will be seen that con-
sumption is a germ disease. It
is communicable and as such is
preventable. If it is properly
treated in it’s early stages it is
a curable disease.
—FOR SALE—Six registered
Angora bucks, 5 years old. Will
sell cheap as I cannot use them
any longer. Write A. H. Jones,
Marathon, Texas. 20-4t.
Subscribe for The Avalanche.
The First National Bank
ALPINE, Texas
CAPITAL and SURPLUS $100,000.
OFFICERS.
C. A. BROWN President.
H. L. KOKERNOT, Vice-Pres.
W. B. HANCOCK, Vice-Pres
GEO. W. BAINES Jr, Cashier
H. L. HORD, Asst. Cashier
to otherwise protect the second
growth.” The regular session of
the Legislature recently ad-
journed, had before it a bill care-
fully prepared by the leading
thinkers of Texas on the subject
of forestry. The lumber inter-
ests maintained a stiff lobby
against the measure and enlisted
the nurserymen in the opposition.
The nurserymen based their op-
position largely on their ob-
jection to the State raising trees
for planting to be distributed to
, the citizenship at actual cost of
production or at a nominal price.
The lumbermen based their ob-
jections particularly on the
proposition of a severance tax
of 12% cents per thousand feet,
the proceeds to be used in the
purchase of suitable lands on
which the State might grow new
forests for succeeding genera-
tions. The lumbermen admitted
that new forests are necessary,
but contended that the funds for
producing them should’ come
from the general revenues. The
bill did not pass at any rate and
the Governor, as yet, has given
no intimation that he will submit
the proposition to the special ses-
sion to convene in June. In the
meantime, the remnant of the
forest trees of Texas suitable
for lumber is being rapidly cut
into lumber. With quick action,
a severance tax of 25 cents or
50 cents per thousand feet would
produce a fund sufficient' to buy
considerable acreage for future
forests; but if the matter is de-
ferred for many years, some
other means for raising the funds
will have to be devised and op-
position will naturally be en-
countered from other industries
if they are ever called upon to
provide funds for the salvaging
and maintenance of the lumber
industry.
More th
E8&S M
or Money
The Purina System of Feeding
keeps the flock laying in the
fall and the winter, because it
supplies plenty of material for
whites as well as for yolks. This
enables the hen to make complete
eggs of all the yolks that develop
in her body.
When a grain ration is fed there is
not enough protein for whites. Many
yolks that form are not laid, but are
eventually absorbed back into the
system as fat.
More-Eggs Guarantee
Purina Chows, when fed
according to directions, are
guaranteed to make hens lay
more eggs than any other feed,
or the money paid for Purina
Chows will be refunded.
Sold in Checkerboard
Bags Only by
Cash Grocery Company
G. C. Reese
PURINA
HEN CHOW
(SCRATCH FEED)
IN CHECKERBOARD
BAGS
EPT.
FEB.
NOV.
JAN.
DE
Alpine Mercantile Company
Clarence Herd
The Packaway
Distributed By
Alamo Lumber C
“Own Your Own Home.
Phone 74.
P. L. HAYNES, Mgr.
O
5
Clever New Styles in Lion Hats. Men and
Young Mens Models $5.00 and $6.00.
We are also offering for the next 15 days,
Ladies and Misses Shoes, in high and low cuts
$5 and $6 value at $2.95 pair in Walk Over,
Selby and Queen Quality make.
Mitchell-Gillett Co.
Headquarters for Everything to Wear
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Koonce, A. S. The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1921, newspaper, May 26, 1921; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1708527/m1/1/?rotate=90: 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.