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IN BREWSTER CO. 36 YEARS
VOLUME XXXVII
SWORN CIRCULATION 875
NUMBER 30
Hundreds of people are in attend-
Mr. T. Y. Casey, Littlefield,
visitors here through the summer.
“Selling” the Davis Mountains
to
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well
MICKIE SAYS-
George W. Truett, pastor First Bap-|Mrs. Goen Taylor, Fort Worth,
tist Church, Dallas, is preaching at others.
located piece of property situated as
it is on the Alpine-El Paso Mexican
Border Highway, and the deal is one
of the many that have been transact-
ed here the past few weeks affecting
the transfer of business property.
merce, Tuesday afternoon, commit-
tees were appointed to plan for the
annual scenic drive and entertain-
and
and
‘SELL’ DAVIS
MTNS URGED
Bulk
from
from J. D. Jackson.
This is a very valuable and
CALL MEET ON
MEX HIWAY
TWENTY-ONE TOWNS WILL SEND
DELEGATES TO HIGHWAY
CONVENTION, DEL RIO
Teachers Institute
In Alpine This Year
Leading Preachers of the Nation Heard
\ Each Day By Vast Throngs
HUNDREDS IN ATTENDANCE
AT PAISANO ENCAMPMENT
PROPERTY
ON STH ST.
PURCHASED
Govt. Man Principal
Speaker, C. C. Meet
START DRILLING ON
02 RANCH
PERSONAL STATIONERY VYI
NOUR NAME AND ADDRESS ON
I IS VERY FASHIONABLE NOW,
AND QUITE CONVENIENT AS WELL.
DROP IN AMD LET US SHOW
NOU SOME NICE WORK THAT VE
HAVE BEEN DOING IN THIS
LINE
BUYS BUSINESS LOTS
ON COLLEGE AVENUE
HILL IS PROMOTED; WILL
BE STATIONED AT PRESIDIO
RED CROSS MEET
IN ALPINE TOMORROW
DEAL IS CLOSED FOR BUSINESS
LOT AT $160 FRONT
FOOT
Jenkins Building
8-Room Addition
Announce Teach-
ers 1927-28 Term
PROMINENT HOTEL MAN
IN ALPINE FOR A VISIT
Port Davis Will
Have Newspaper
PROMINENT VISITOR IS IMPRESS-
ED WITH BEAUTIES OF
THE HIGHLANDS
Kansans Buy Funk
Boarding House
8033
— is
Entire Highland
Section Gets Ben-
eficial Moisture
Plan For Annual
Scenic Drive,
S. R. Students
Weekly Market
Letter
Courtesy Cassidy - Southwest-t
ern Commission Co.
to with a great deal of pleasure by tendance and conducting classes dai- pioneer preacher of the Davis Moun-
ly which are bring attended by many tains country, is in charge of the
THE ALPINE AVALANCHE
“A BOOSTER FOR BREWSTER"
ment which is given Sul Ross stu- i ance at Paisano Baptist Encampment
dents each summer by the people of 1 11 miles west of Alpine, where four
A meeting of the officers and
directors of the Brewster Coun-
ty Chapter, American Red
Cross, has been called for to-
morrow by Clay Holland, the
chairman. Mrs. Cora R. Good-
win, field representative, will
be here and matters of import-
ance will be discussed. The
meeting will be held in the lob-
by of the Holland Hotel, it
was announced.
A contract will be signed in a day
or two by the Mid-Kansas Oil Com-
pany to sink three test wells on the
02 ranch south of Alpine, it was
stated here yesterday. It is report-
ed that as soon as abstracts on the
property are completed and approved
operations will begin immediately.
The Mid-Kansas Company has also
leased 20,000 acres on the W. H. Ko-
kernot ranch, adjoining the 02, it is
reported. The 02 ranch is owned by
Hon. W. W. Turney of El Paso.
It is said that the first of the test
wells will be sunk some 15 or 16
miles southeast of the old Wilson
well in Green Valley and will prob-
ably be located on or near survey 68,
block 213, T&StL Ry.
The Mid-Kansas people brought in
practically all of the shallow produc-
tion in the Ira Yates field in Pecos
county recently. It is thought that
actual drilling will begin early in
September.
------! people. Some of the prominent
H v A T TI my Cava : state and district workers at Paisano
K H THAT this year are: Mrs. J. E. Leigh,
NZURL A A D 1 Dallas, state secretary, W. M. U.;
rev A Are A T. A1T TAT Mrs' J‘ H. Weatherby, Stamford,
lilt 1 J 1981 W Y ; state mission study chairman; Mrs
X U GU 2U VI W George W. Truett, Dallas, represent-
lative training school W, M. U.; Mrs.
MID-KANSAS COMPANY WILL T. W. Lanier, El Paso, district pres-
At a meeting of the board of di-
rectors, Alpine Chamber of Com-
at the high time of the year,
of grass heifers are selling
Ten or twelve counties have been
invited to participate in the consoli-
dated teachers’ institute which will
be held in Alpine this year, accord-
ing to J. H. Head, superintendent of
the Alpine schools, who will conduct
the institute. Last year the insti-
tute was held in Pecos. The date
this year will be September 5 to 10,
Mr. Head said.
session this year and A. C. Easter-
ling, Del Rio, is in charge of the of-
fice. Practically all of the directors
of the association are present at the
encampment this year and pastors of
nearly every Baptist church within a
radius of 200 miles are attending
the ten-day session, including Al-
pine, Marfa, Sierra Blanca, Clint,
Pecos, Fort Stockton, Del Rio, Mid-
land, Uvalde, Odessa, Big Spring, Big
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Jenkins are
having an eight-room addition built
to their home on east College Ave-
nue, R. S. Tyler having the contract.
Four of the rooms will be built as a
second story and four added down-
stairs, according to Mr. Jenkins, and
the contract calls for completion of
the work by September 25.
Jess Hill, for two years a member
of the Border Patrol, U. S. Im migra-
tion Service here, has been promoted
from the rank of patrol inspector to
senior patrol inspector and will be
stationed at Presidio on the border
where he will be in charge. Mr. Hill,
and family moved to the border town
this week.
G. C. Dennis, one of the oldest men
in the patrol service, will remain
here, it was stated, and another man
will be probably be moved here to
fill the vacancy caused by Hill’s
transfer.
Mr., and Mrs. Jack Larabee of
Clarendon arrived yesterday for a
visit with their friends, Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Slagle, at the Holland Hotel.
Mr. Larabee was for several years
assistant manager of the famous
Pennsylvania Hotel, New York. He
is now manager of the Antro Hotel
at Clarendon.
The boarding house owned by Mr.,
and Mrs. W. H. Funk, west of the
high school campus, was sold a few
days ago to E. A. and David Chaffin,
who are here from southeastern
Kansas. The two brothers will move
their families here soon and will op-
erate the boarding house which they
have just bought, they said. Mrs.
Funk, who has been in charge of this
popular boarding house for some
time, was compelled to retire from
the business on account of her health
it was stated.
The deal for the Funk property
was handled by E. A. Peffley of the
Highland Realty Company, who in-
terested the Chaffin brothers in the
proposition.
of the leading Baptist preachers of
the nation are speaking daily. Dr.
$6.50 to $8.25; common kind $5 to
$5.50. .
Stocker steers continue very
scarce, and prices are about steady
with last week’s slight decline. We
sold three cars of choice, white-face,
ident, W. M. U.; Mrs. W. C. Carson,
Sierra Blanca, association president
W. M. U.; Carey Gardner, educa-
tional director, First Baptist Church,
dehorned stocker yearlings yesterday
at $8.40, averaging 538 pounds, the
top for the week. Bulk of the horn-
ed, white-face yearlings selling from
$7.75 to $8, with older steers, same
quality, around $7.50 to $8; red
stocker yearlings, $6.50 to $7.25,
with 2s and up at about the same
prices, and the common and Jersey
kinds selling from $5 to $6.
Calves are 25c higher today, best
heavy and medium weight calves
selling from $8.50 to $8.75, a few
extra choice ones selling up to $9.
Bulk of the good veals quotable from
$9.50 to $11.
El Paso, in charge of B. Y. P. U.
work; Rev. G. E. Kennedy, pastor
Uvalde, in charge of Sunday School
work. Rev. Kennedy is assisted by
According to reports received here
practically the entire Highland sec-
tion has received beneficial rains the
last few days, averaging from one-
half to more than an inch of precipi-
tation in nearly all parts of the dis-
tricts.
Autoists coming in from Pecos yes-
terday were compelled to wait all
night before being able to get thro
Limpia Canyon on account of the
high waters. From one-half to one
inch of rain fell all the way from
here to Hovey yesterday, according
to S. L. Stone, rancher in the Hovey
section. Good rains have fallen
south and west of Marfa, it is re-
ported.
Ranchers are jubilant as, the rains
are plenty early to help make good
winter grass and with prospects of
more moisture in evidence now. The
ranges were suffering badly for lack
of moisture and some ranchers were
feeding, it is said. The rains of the
last few days will make sufficient
grass within a short time that feed-
ing will be unnecessary further.
the evening hour, 8:30; Dr. I. E.
Gates,, pastor First Baptist Church,
San Antonio, occupies the pulpit at
11:15 in the morning; Dr. S. J. Por-
ter of Washington, D. C., preaches'
at 3 in the afternoon and Dr. J. B.
Tidwell,, head of the Bible Depart-
ment at Baylor University, lectures
on "The Life of Christ” at 8 o’clock
every morning. This is the strong-
est combination of preachers that
has ever been assembled in the South
at any religious gathering, in the
opinion of leading church people of
this section.
In addition to the above, promi-
nent workers in the Sunday school,
B. Y. P. U., W. M. U., and other de-
partments of church work are in at-
Hugh Hammond Bennett, inspect-
or in charge, Southern Division, bu-
reau of soils, U. S. Department of Ag-
riculture, was the principal speaker
at Monday’s chamber of commerce
luncheon. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett will
be in Alpine and vicinity for some
time. A number of other members
of the soil survey party now located
in Alpine, were also present at the
luncheon.
Mrs. Harbart E. Anderson, of San
Francisco, who with her husband,
has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Anderson here, was the guest of Mrs.
Edna H. Maxey, manager Hassen
Company. F. S. Brooks of El Paso,
traveling freight agent for the Rock
Island railroad, was also Mrs. Max-
ey’s guest.
Building of the model cottage for
Sul Ross students was discussed by
H. W. Morelock and Shirley Scales.
Steps for the completion of this cot-
tage will be taken this week, it was
stated.
H. W. Morelock spoke on the sub-
ject of “Selling Sul Ross College and
the Davis Mountains to the People
of Texas.”
Plans for the scenic drive and en-
tertainment for visiting students
were discussed and a meeting called
for Tuesday to complete arrange-
ments for this annual event.
Mrs. G. W. Martin, member of a
committee to secure places in Alpine
homes for girls who wish to attend
Sul Ross reported that a few places
had been found and that the commit-
tee was still working.
Mrs. N. S. Murphy presided at the
luncheon; N. S. Rose and D. M. Ben-
nett were appointed to conduct the
next meeting two weeks from last
Monday.
ALPINE, BREWSTER COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1927
me
Ft. Worth, July 24.—Cattle re-
ceipts are the lightest this week
they have been for several weeks. All
kinds of fat cows and heifers are
fully 25c higher than the close of
last week; canners, cutters and stock
cows, steady to strong. Choice fat
cows selling from $6.25 to $6.75,
with a few extra fancy cows up to
$7; medium to good cows, $5.50 to
$6; common kinds, $5 to $5.50; cut-
ters $4.50 to $4.75; canners, $3.75
to $4, with very few under $4. While
grass heifers have shared the ad-
vance in price, they are not as much
in demand as fat cows. Extra good
baby beef continues very scarce and
W. C. Allen sold this week to C. T.
St. Clair the three lots on College
Avenue, opposite State Highway
Shop, which he recently obtained
Schools Represented
Several of the leading denomina-
tional schools of the state are repre-
sented at the encampment. Dr. E.
Godbold, president Howard Payne
College, Brownwood, is attending the
session; and Simmons University, of
Abilene, Baylor University, Baylor
College, San Marcos Academy,, are all
represented.
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Keel are in at-
tendance representing the Texas Bap-
tist Book Store, Dallas; and Dr. H.
F. Vermillion, superintendent South-
ern Baptist Sanatorium, El Paso;
Dr. E C. Routh, editor Baptist Stan-
dard, are at the ncampment.
President L. R. Millican of the
Paisano Baptist Assembly, beloved
(By Barry Scobee)
Fort Davis, Texas, July 28.—The
newspaper plant here has been
bought by L. B. Mayes and G. F. Ki-
nard of Shreveport, La. They are
young men who, having seen Fort
Davis before, wished to come here to
live. They are printers and experi-
enced newspaper men.
The plant has been idle for nearly
two years. Various men have had it
leased and run it for a while, the pa-
per for many years being known as
the Post. In 1917 it was bought by
J. W. Merrill, B. B. McCutcheon, and
J. W. Espy, who sold it to the new
owners. This correspondent had
charge of the Post for about eight
or ten months in 1917 and the early
part of 1918. Since then others who
have run it include W. A. Yarbro
and Frank Ritchey, and for a while
Mr.. Kilpatrick, editor of the Marfa
New Era.
Meessrs. Mayes and Kinard have
changed the nan.e to The Davis
Mountaineer, and have moved the
plant to the room in the rear of the
postoffice and bank. Mr. Mayes will
be the editor. They expected to have
a paper out in one or two weeks from
now. Wishes for a genuine success
is extended them. There’s no reason
why they should not receive the
town’s and county’s substantial sup-
port.
All the teachers for the coming
session of Alpine public schools
have been chosen, according to J. H.
Head, superintendent. Horace Oliver
was re-elected principal of the high
school, Mrs. Myrtle Voules will su-
pervise the intermediate department
and Miss Clemma Billingsly the pri-
mary department. With these ex-
ceptions practically an entire new
staff of teachers will greet the pu-
pils at the beginning of the 1927-28
term. Miss Gertrude McDaniel was
also reelected for the coming year.
She will leach the sixth grade.
In the Mexican school Mrs. Roy
Lassiter was re-elected principal and
Miss Althea Yates will be an assist-
ant again this year.
Following is a complete list of
teachers as announced by Mr. Head;
J. H. Head, superintendent.
Horace Oliver, principal.
James C. Darbandt, Georgetown;
A. B. Southwestern, English and ath-
letics
Miss Jacobia Burch, Decatur; A.
B. University of Texas, Latin and
Spanish.
Miss Ruth Fleetwood, Terrell; A.
B., S. M. U.. Music and fifth grade.
Miss Mabel Fuchs, Stillwater, Ok.;
B. S., University of Oklahoma, do-
mestic science.
Grade teachers are as follows:
Miss Early Caldwell, Austin; sev-
enth grade.
Miss Gertrade McDaniel, San An-
tonio, sixth grade.
Miss Ruth Fleetwood, fifth grade.
Mrs. Myrtle Voules, intermediate
department supervisor, fourth grade.
Miss Fern Pugh, Sherman, third
grade.
Mrs. J. H. Head, second grade.
Miss Clemma Billingsly, supervis-
or primary department, first grade.
Mrs. Roy Lassiter, Alpine princi-
pal Mexican school.
Miss Althea Yates, Alpine, and
Miss Hattie Eldridge, uanah, Texas,
assistants.
A deal which has been pending
for two or three weeks awaiting per-
fecting of title was closed a few days
ago whereby W. N. Pugh of Fry,
Texas, bought the business lot across
the street from the postoffice on
Fifth street from W. A. Buchanan.
This property has a front of 21.9
feet and runs back to the alley and
is the lot mentioned in an item in
this paper two weeks ago. The item
stated that the price paid per foot
for this building location was the
highest of record in Alpine, accord-
ing to real estate men here, figuring
about $160 per front foot.
The property was bought by W.
A. Buchanan about eight years ago
and the lot and small building locat-
ed thereon represented an original
investment of about $700, according
to Mr. Buchanan. During the eight
years Mr. Buchanan owned the prop-
erty he collected in rent the sum of
$2240 and then sold out to Mr. Pugh
for $3500. This is said to be one of
the best turnovers that has been
known in the history of Alpine real
estate.
Will Erect Buildings
Mr. Pugh, who is the father of
George and Jean Pugh, who bought
the Texas Tailor Shop from W. L.
Youngblood about two weeks ago,
will move his family here from Fry
in the near future, it was stated
this week, and will make Alpine his
home. Pugh Brothers said this week
that a modern building would be
erected on the newly acquired prop-
erty shortly, the building to house
the Texas Tailor Shop plant.
the people of Texas was a theme for
discussion at Monday’s Chamber of
Commerce luncheon, the subject be-
ing discussed by H. W. Morelock, one
of the most enthusiastic boosters of
this section; and also coming in for
considerable mention at the hands of
a prominent visitor.
The prominent visitor was Hugh
Hammond Bennett of Washington,
D. C., who with his family, is spend-
ing the summer in Alpine. Mr. Ben-
nett is inspector in charge of the
Southern division, bureau of soils, U.
S. Department of Agriculture, and
is here making a visit to and work-
ing in conjunction with the soil sur-
vey party located here which is en-
gaged in making a survey of the
Trans-Pecos region soils.
Mr. Bennett extolled the beauties
of the Davis Mountains region and
said that he was surprised that so
little is being done to advertise
their attractions to the world. He
also spoke of the possibilities of the
section, saying that there are many
possibilities here which the people
have not thought about. He urged
the development of the underground
water in this district and also spoke
of the great value the information
gained from the soil survey which is
being made here would be to the
people of this region in the future.
“This information will not be filed
away and forgotten,” he said, “but
will be published to the world.”
Boosts Winter Climate
The subject assigned to Morelock
for discussion was ‘Selling Sul Ross,’
but he chose to speak on the theme
mentioned in the opening sentence
of this article. He brought out the
fact that hundreds of visitors are in
Alpine and surrounding territory to
spend the summer and urged that,
not only should Sul Ross College be
sold to these visitors but that the
entire Davis Mountains country be
boosted to them both as a summer
resort and a winter resort. “Every
citizen in Alpine should make it his
business to sell Sul Ross to the many
visitors here this summer,” More-
lock urged. “Let’s sell the Davis
Mountains to the people of Texas.”
Morelock also stated that the win-
ter climate here is as attractive as
that existing during the summer and
urged that this feature should not be
overlooked.
Chambers of Commerce represent-
ing twenty-one towns, including Al-
pine, lying between El Paso and San
Antonio, have been invited to a
meeting of the Mexican Border
Highway Association at the St.
Charles Hotel, Del Rio, on July 30,
according to announcement made by
D. J. Guinan, Sanderson, chairman
of the organization committee.
Following this meeting they will
be the guests of the Del Rio Chamber
of Commerce at a banquet.
“If we are to secure the number
of tourists to which we are entitled,
or even keep traffic at a satisfactory
level along the Mexican Border
Highway, some definite step must be
taken towards establishing a cen-
tral bureau which will specialize in
advertising the highway; distribute
maps; visit the various towns to pro-
mote a more friendly contact; pro-
mote cordial relations with news-
papers at strategic points, and do the
thousand and one other things es-
sential to maintaining and advanc-
ing our interests,” Mr. Guinan says
in the announcement.
“With the good roads and public-
ity work now going on in other sec-
tions the fact must be recognized
that the towns along the Mexican
Border to even preserve their pres-
ent volume of travel must keep
“right on their toes.” And the pres-
ent volume of travel is only a small
portion of the share they are justly
entitled to.”
Alpine. The drive this year will be
held on August 8, it was decided,
but no definite arrangements as to
the route to be taken on the drive
were made.
A part of the day’s entertainment
for the students will be a barbecue
which will be given at noon on that
day, but the place for holding this
event is also yet to be decided.
Committees were appointed at the
meeting to work out details in con-
nection with the program as follows:
Location and arrangements, J. D.
Jackson, chairman; H. W. Morelock,
II. W. Ferguson.
Car committee: Mrs. G. W.
Baines, chairman; Mrs. N. S. Mur-
phy, Mrs. J. E. Casner.
Cars for transportation of stu-
dents on this annual affair are fur-
nished by Alpine citizens and the oc-i
casion is one that is looked forward !
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