The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1921 Page: 3 of 6
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How Is Your Dollar
Spent?
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850 DISASTER DEATH
TOLL FOB ONE YEAR
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PEACE CRY, BUT NO PEACE
2 cents goes for telephone service
The average family dollar is spent about like
this so statistics say:
Food................
Rent................
Clothing.............
Insurance, Savings, Etc.
Fuel and Light........
House Furnishings....
35 cents
20
16
‘7
6
4
(.
Education and Amusements 4
Sickness......
Incidentals....
TELEPHONE.
3
3
2
Almost the smallest item in the family budget
is the monthly telephone bill. But could you do
without the telephone?
Alpine Telephone Exchange
Long Distance Connections
A1 pine
Tra nisfer
Passengers and baggage hauled to and from
all trains at any hour
Phone 168
Our big floats are ready to handle anything. Let
us figure with you.
ALWAYS GLAD
TO
SEE YOU
Drugs, Stationery, Cigars, Tobacco and Toilet Articles
PRESCRIPTIONS a SPECIALTY
ALPINE DRUG STORE
THE REXALL STORE
I he Reputation of our work
Is your protection
Smoote Auto Company
Where The Best Work Is Done
Our work is guaranteed indefinitely
“Small adjustments and service has always
been "gratis" with us.
Our Motto—“A Satisfied Customer At Any Cost."
LET US BE YOUR AUTO DOCTOR AND
YOUR TROUBLES WILL BE SMALL.
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Clarence Hord's
MA R KE T
Fresh and Cured Meats
Barbecued Meat on Saturdays Only
Phone 219—Prompt Delivery
sue
mode
53
Let Us Be
our
Business Partner
Your partner has a knowledge of your
business and you look to him for advice and
counsel on important matters. You are en-
titled to all the help he can give you.
Do you get a partner’s help on your printed
matter? Do you get the most from the special-
. ized knowledge which we have regarding
printing and paper, and above all the service
which a combination of the two can render?
Our job department has every modern equip-
ment for doing work on rush orders. For
letterheads, billheads, and all kinds of forms,
we carry in stock, recommend and use
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The Utility Business 'Paper
Red Cross Gives $1,871,000 Re-
lief When 65,000 Families
Are Made Homeless.
Forty-three disasters, resulting In
the death in the United States of 850
persons and the injury of 2,500 called
for emergency relief measures and
: the expendit ure of $1,871,000 by the
American Red Cross during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1921, says an
announcement based upon the forth-
: coming annual report of the Red Cross.
| These disasters caused property dam-
. age estimated at $30,000,000, affected
sixty-seven communities and rendered
65,000 families homeless.
| The year’s disasters were of vary-
| ing types, including several which pre-
! viously had never been thought of
Benjamin Franlkin writing
about war said, “There never has
been a good war nor a bad
peace.” War ceased nearly three
years ago in Europe, but actual
peace has vet to be achieved.
Actual peace of the world will
by a slow process- for the germ
of war still has a foothold in
human character. It will take
many years, probably genera-
tions, to eradicate it. We took a
J. A. Hargus shipped a car of
calves to New Orleans last:
week.
T. B. Fuller of El Centro, Cal.
was here Friday transacting
business.
Combs Cattle Co. sold a car of
cows to the Peyton Packing Co. L
of El Paso.
RITCHEY BROS.
Marathon, Texas
General Merchandise
"A Little Of Everything”
step toward the goal at
treaty of Versailles, and it
hoped that another step can
taken at the Washington
the
is
be
con-
A. S. Gage sold a car of calves
to R. A. Serna, which were ship-
ped to San Antonio.
J. W. Murphy of El Paso was
here last week buying cattle for |
i as falling within that classiflca-
| tion. The Red Cross furnished
I relief in seventeen fires of magnitude,
five floods, seven tornadoes or acy-
! clones, one devastating storm, three
| explosions, including the one In Wall
street: one building accident, two
typhoid epidemics, the most serious be-
ing that at Salem, Ohio, which af-
| fected 1) per cent of the population;
one smallpox epidemle, in the republic
of Haiti: one train wreck, the race riot
at Tulsa, Okla.: the famine in China,
emergency relief in famine among the
Indians of Alaska, the grasshopper
plague in North Dakota and an earth-
quake in Italy,
Pueblo Most Serious
By far the most severe of the dis-
asters in the United States during the
period covered by the Red Cross re-
port was the Pueblo flood early in
June, 1921. The rehabilitation prob-
lem confronting the Red Cross In
Pueblo was one of the most difficult
In recent years. When the first news
of the horror was flashed throughout
the country, the American Red Cross
National Headquarters responded with
a grant of $105,000 for relief work.
Governor Shoup of Colorado, appre-
ciating the long and successful experi-
ence of the Red Cross in organizing
disaster relief work, placed the en-
tire responsibility for the administra-
tion of relief in its hands.
In response to appeals from Presi-
dent Harding, Governor Shoup and
other governors of western states and
through local chapters of the Red
Cross and other community organiza-
tions, public-spirited citizens brought
the total contributed for Pueblo’s re-
habilitation to more than $325,000,
The terrible havoc wrought by the
flood waters is a matter of record.
More than 2,300 homes were affected
and 7.351 persons were left homeless.
Estimates of $500,000 as an absolute
minimum for rehabilitation were made
by Red Cross officials in charge of the
relief work.
Fast Work in Wall Street
The Wall street explosion was nota-
ble in that relief workers of the Red
Cross were on the scene twenty min-
utes after the disaster occurred. The
race riot at Tulsa also was unique in
disaster relief annals in that outside
of a small emergency relief fund con-
tributed by the Red Cross, the only
relief measures outside the city con-
sisted of the service of social work-
ers, nurses and a trained executive
whose object was to assist local forces
in directing their,own efforts.
In decided contrast with the pre-
vious year, only one tornado assumed
the proportions of a major disaster.
This occurred on April 15, in the bor-
der sections of Texas and Arkansas
with the city of Texarkana as the
center. The significant feature of this
disaster relief work was the fact that
it covered so much rural territory as
to make necessary a large number of
relief workers.
The famine in China, necessitating
relief expenditures totalling more than
$1,000,000 by the American Red Cross
was by far the most serious of the
foreign disasters in which the Red
Cross gave aid.
Builds Up Its Machinery
In connection with the administra-
tion of disaster relief measures, an In-
creasing effectiveness on the part of
the Red Cross to deal with emergen-
cies was manifested during the past
year. In 328 Chapters of the Ameri-
can Red Cross there have been formed
special committees to survey the re-
sources of their respective communi-
ties and to be prepared in case of
disaster. In others of the 3,402 active
Chapters, a network of communication
has been formed through which instan-
taneous relief may be dispatched to
any part of the United States.
That Its work in this field may be
continued with ever greater effective-
ness, the American Red Cross is ap-
pealing for widespread renewal of
membership during its Annual Roll
Call, to be conducted this year from
November 11 to 24.
ference. That the war spirit is
inborn in us cannot be doubted.
Full peace on Earth has never
been accomplished, although it
is the ideal of the Christian
religion. This is because of our
own perverse natures. They will
have to be remoddled before
actual world peace comes. No
great warrior nation has ever
survived very long.
Yet it is not so
horrors of war but
much the
the
the tares and the misery
debts,
that
follows in its wake, that make
countless millions mourn and
cause generations yet unborn to
inherit the misery we entail on
them through war.
A TAX BILL IN SIGHT.
The block of Senators, Democ-
rats and Republicans from the
agricultural states of the West
and South are winning in their
fight for tax revision along lines
that will not bear too, heavily on
industry and too lightly on big
incomes. The reactionary re-
publicans promised a big reduct-
ion on income surtaxes. The tax
bill proposed cutting from a
maximum of 65 per cent to 32
per cent. The compromise will
probably be around 50 per cent
In 1919 President Wilson
urged upon the republican
congress a revision of war taxes.
Nothing was done. To date
nothing has been done, though
since that time the republicans
have been in control of Congress.
However the tax bill will become
a law in the course of a month
or so, no doubt.
Mr. Wilson wanted to see
industry relieved of many of the
taxes, imposed under the neces-
sities of war. The need is still
more insistent now. Fair
promises were made the last
campaign, and they remain to be
fulfilled. Undoubtedly there will
be a relief to business in the tax
bill now in the making.
As we have pointed out in
these columns, if the Disarma-
ment conference only succeeds in
reducing war preparations rel-
atively there will be nothing
gained. Japan is willing to dis-
arm in proportion to what this
country and Great Britain does.
The British will agree to the
same plan. The fact is that while
none want war to come again,
yet the distrust of each other is
so great that neither is willing to
see the other get an advantage.
A relative disarmament accom-
plishes nothing so far as war
possibilities is concerned. What
matters it when two nations go
gunning for each other whether
they have two guns or one?
Realativity is the greatest
danger the conference will have
to face. Some or all of the
nations will insist on getting
that joker in the agreement.
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Marathon News Items
the Peyton Packing Co.
Mrs. Winston Armstead
parted Sunday to join
husband in Nogalas. Ariz.
de-
her
Mr. and Mrs. Ware Hord of
Marfa were the week-end guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Ferron Ritchey-.
T. M. Shely shipped four cars
of steers to El Paso, which
were sold to the Peyton Packing
Co.
Rev. Coventon and family of
Buena Vista arrived Saturday
and will occupy the Methodist -
parsonage for the ensuing year.
Dr. A. Ahlman of Sweeney, !
Texas has purchased the Spruce 1
Drug Store. His family will ar-
rive later and expect to reside
here.
Sgt. M. 0. Giles of El Paso
visited his wife here for a few
days and later left for Marfa
where he will undergo an
operation for appendicitis.
Rye Chambers accompanied
by his mother, Mrs. John
Chambers and Mrs. J. 0. Wedin
motored to Alpine last week and |
was the guest of Mrs. Francis
Rooney.
Among those who attended
the funeral of Mrs. Newton in
Alpine were: Mr. and Mrs. L. C.
Ritchey; Mrs. Earl Young; Mrs.
L. D. Simpson; Mrs. Fred Clark;
Miss Flo Clark and Miss Marie
Simpson.
Visitors Welcome at
Sam’s Lunch Room
Short Orders A Specialty
North of Depot
CASPAR PARPAN, Proprietor
Stop at the
CHAMBERS HOTEL
When in Marathon
Clean Rooms,
Good Beds
Mrs. J. M. Chambers, Prop.
STARR MEAT MARKET
Fresh Meats
and
Vegetables
Your Patronage Solicited
Marathon, Texas
When You Stop In Marathon
The Davis Auto Company
Will be pleased to have you call.
Accessories and Repairs For Ford Cars.
A. R. DAVIS, Manager
W. A. WEAKLEY, Justice of the Peace
Real Estate and Insurance
Oil, Leases, Ranch Lands
Brewster County’s Live Wire in Real Estate.
Marathon, Texas.
When Visiting Our Town and in need of Auto Repair
Work call at
Marathon Repair Shop
First-Class Workmanship
GEORGE McSPADDEN, Proprietor
THE MARATHON STATE BANK
MARATHON, TEXAS
Your account solicited
OFFICERS
L. L. Hess, President
Fred Clark, Cashier
W. K. Bates, Vice-President
J. J. Roberts, Vice-President
Earl Clark, Asst-Cashier
When Visiting Marathon
W. J. McIntyre & Sons
(unincorporated)
Will be glad to see you
■ We carry a General Line of Merchandise
Remember Your Home Yard
Oil Field Rig Timbers,
Building Material and Supplies
Everything carried in a First-Class Lumber Yard
ALPINE LUMBER COMPANY
Marathon, Texas
J. W. GILLETT, Manager
ESTATE Wm. FRENCH STORE
(Lucile French, Administratrix)
General Merchandise
Get your supplies for oil camps or ranches
We Need Your Patronage—And Ask For It.
Taste is a matter of
LIFE SAVING CORPS
ENROLLMENT 10,000
Growth of Red Cross Life Saving
Corps throughout the country con-
tinued unabated during the last fiscal
year, a summary of the year’s
achievements by that Red Cross Serv-
i ice shows. There are now 160 Corps
j with a total membership of more than
10,000 members, of which 1,276 are
sufficiently skilled in the work to act
as examiners. Among the outstanding
achievements of the Red Cross in this
field during the last year was the or-
ganization at the United States Naval
■ Academy, Annapolis, of what is per-
| haps the largest life saving corps in
I the world.
Guy S. Combs returned to San
Antonio Monday
Chas Totty and Clay Roberts
visited Alpine Friday.
Verge Runyon of Alpine is
a visitor here this week.
tobacco quality
TRESSPASS NOTICE
: Persons taking wood, water
or grass from, or hunting
fishing on the Nevill Ranch
or
or
lands, will be prosecuted to the
extent of the law.—Mrs. Kate
Nevill, owner. —37-tf.
Let Us Serve You asaPartner AVALANCHE $200
a year.
Miss Edna Kendrick left
Monday for a visit in El Paso.
Mrs. Jim Shoemake is in from
the ranch visiting relatives.
A. S. Gage was here looking
after ranch interest last week.
.E T. Allen of El Paso is the
guest of Mrs. John Chambers.
L. F. Buttrill sold four cars of
steers to the Peyton Packing Co.
Miss Katheline W bite of
Marfa spent Sunday in our city.
Ed Decie shipped two cars
of steers to Fort Worth Thurs-
day.
We state it as our honest belief
that the tobaccos used in Chester-
field are of finer quality (and
hence of better taste) than in any
other cigarette at the price.
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.
Chesterfield
CIGARETTE S
of Turkish and Domestic tobaccos—blended
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Koonce, A. S. The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1921, newspaper, October 27, 1921; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1708547/m1/3/?q=waco+tornado: 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.