The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1921 Page: 6 of 6
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THE ALPINE AVALANCHE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
By The Alpine Publishing Company
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Official county and city *
paper and only newspaper *
printed in Brewster county. *
In 32nd, year *
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One great trouble with legis-
latures, and the usual cause for
so much useless legislation and
such enormous appropriations is
the methods of members of these
bodies.
There are so many selfish in-
terests to be, satisfied, too many
pet schemes to be put through
and too many useless reforms
advocated. Every member advoc-
Musings Of Elder Moses
OUR COUNTY GOVERNMENT
POEM OF TODAY.
J. D. Jackson, President
W. E. Caldwell, Vice President
C. W. Livingston, Secretary
John Young, J. W. Phelps, Directors.
A. S. Koonce, Managing Editor
ates some new law-some
public institution'and will
support similar demands
other parts of the state in
change for support for his
new
only
from
ex-
pet
Subscription price, Per Year.
Six months,-
Three months.
-$2.00
$1.25
_ .75
Advertising rates on application
Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice in Alpine, Texas
under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879
THURSDAY OCT, 27, 1921
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputa-
tion of any person, firm or corporation which may appear in the
colums of the Avalanche, will be gladly corrected on being brought
o the attention of the managment.
When you find a cuontry
whose best building is the school
house you can safely conclude
it is a good place to live in.
--o—--•
The government owes the
railroads and the railroads owe
the government 459 million dol-
lars. The railroads are saying to
the government—"Pay us now
and we will pay you when we
get ready.”
“killing the goose that laid the
golden egg.” The railroads, also
are following the same plan as
the packers-educating the people
to depend more and more on the
auto and the auto truck.
But the railroads will never see
what their shortsighted policy
is bringing them to until it is too
late.
scheme. As a result there is con-
stant increase in the cost of the
state government. There is but
one hope to remedy this state
of affairs-for the citizens to
order their representatives to
keep before their minds the in-
terests of the state as a whole,
and to vote against every pet
scheme to dip into the public
treasury without regard to local
consequences. Every bill calling
for an appropriation of money
should he closely examined. If
this be done trading votes will end
and the state saved many thou-
sands of dollors. It is time the
taxpayers interests were con-
sidered instead of the promotion
of pet schemes. One of the
greatest sources of vicious and
useless' legislation is in trading-
votes.
You say the world looks gloomy,
The skies are grim and gray;
The night has lost its quiet—
You fear the coming day ;
The world is what you make it,
The sky is gray or blue,
just as your soul may paint it;
It isn’t the world—it’s you
Clear up the clouded vision,
Clear out the foggy mind;
T he clouds are always passing.
And each is silver-lined.
The world is what you make it.
Then make it bright and true,
And when you say it’s gloomy,
It isn’t the world—it’s you.
with a corkscrew dangling at
his watch chain. .
James Cornell, Judge, 83rd
Judicial District, Sonora, Texas.
N. W. Graham, District Attorney,
83rd Judicial District, Ozona Texas.
REESE'S MARKET AND GROCERY
Fresh and Cured Meats
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Hard roads are comig into
vogue in eastern states and are
slowly working their way into
the west. This all means increas-
ing use of the auto truck and
less business for the railroads
instead of increasing rates many
of the smaller lines in
country within five years
have to be junked.
the
will
It is consoling to know
that
Henry Ford’s railroad is not to
be affected by the strike, even
should there be one, As he has
not only failed to lower wages
but has actually raised the wages
of his railroad employees. It is
also a fact that Henry Ford’s
other industries are not union-
ized for the reason that he pays
Public utility companies are
everywhere asking increased
rates, while at the same time
cutting wages and buying the
material they use at greatly re-
duced rates. But the salaries that
were made at war time rates of
all the officials have not been re-
duced. Here is where the pruning
knife should be employed before
they ask for higher rates. The
people are getting wise to the
fact that there needs to be co-
operation in bringing down ex-
penses and increasing rates on
railroads.
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---LOST—GREEN gold lav-
alliere crescent pin, small
diamond in crescent, ruby drop.
Specially valued as being last
gift of father. Finder please re-
turn to Gladys Arthur for
ward, 41-tf.
SHERIFF’S SALE
re-
THE STATE OF TEXAS •
County of Brewster
Notice is hereby given that by
virtue of a certain execution issued
out of the Honorable District Court
of Brewster County, on the 19th.
day of September, 1921, by W. H.
Lease, Clerk of said Court for the
sum of Sixteen Thousand ($16,000.00)
Dollars and costs of suit, under a
Judgment, in favor of A. M. Turney
in a certain cause in said Court
his employees more than
union scale for labor.
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Very likely the packers
the
are
correct in saying the consump-
tion of meat has greatly fallen
off. Prices were kept up so long
and so unjustifiagle that the
people have learned to do on less,
and now even if prices are low-
ered greatly the people have
been etucated to the fact that
they can get along just as well
without eating so much meat as
formerly. Again it is a case of
Possibly the railroad labor
organizations that have deter-
mined on a nation-wide strike
have lost sight of the millions of
unemployed in this country.
They may argue that such men
are not capable, but did you ever
know of an emergency that
Americans were not able to
meet? The American mind quick-
ly absorbs sufficient knowledge
to meet emergencies, and he can
quickly adapt himself to new
work. The people and the
peoples government are organiz-
ing for the contest. Let it come;
Somebody is going to learn a
lesson. The railroad laborers
that decide on a strike will have
learned the lesson too late.
No. 1016 and styled A. M. Turney
vs. B. W. Landrum, placed in my
hands for service, I, E. E. Townsend
as Sheriff of Brewster County,
Texas, did , on the 21st. day of
September 1921, levy on certain
Real Estate, situated in Brewster
County, Texas, described as follows,
to-wit:
Section No. 9, Block No. 213,
Texas & St. Louis Ry. Company,
Grantee; Section No. 29, East one-
half of Section No. 19 and Section
No. 31 all in Block No. 214, Texas &
St. Louis Ry. Company Grantee.
Also Section No. 5 in Block No.
215, Texas & St. Louis Ry. Company
Grantee, containing 2880 acres and
situated in what is known as
Green Valley Section of
County, Texas near
Creek and levied upon
the
Brewster
Terlingua
as • the
Alpine Mercantile Co.
Staple and Fancy Groceries and Feed
property of B. W. Landrum and
that on the first Tuesday in
November, 1921, the same being the
1st, day of said month, at the Court
House door, of Brewster County, in
the City of Alpine Texas, between
the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m., by
virtue of said levy and said
execution I will sell said above
described Real Estate at public
vendue, for cash, to the highest
bidder, all of the right title and in-
terest of the said B. W. Landrum in
and to said property.
And in compliance with law, I
give this notice by publication, in
the English language, once a week
for three consecutive weeks im-
mediately preceding said day of
sale, in the Alpine Avalanche, a
newspaper published in Brewster
County.
Witness my hand, this 21st day of
September 1921.
E. E. Townsend
Sheriff Brewster County, Texas
40-4t.
G. W. Martin
. T. Darsey
QUALITY and SERVICE
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A Tonic
For Women
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We would suppose from the
reports of the prohibition officers
that the whole country is on an
alcoholiday.
***
North Dakota has elected a
man to the state senate by the
name of Wog. Wonder if he is
any relation to Polly-Wog.
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M. S. Burke, County Judge, Super-
intendent of Schools,
• E. E. Townsend, Sheriff & Tax
Collector,
M. T. Chastain, County Treasurer,
J. W. Phelps, Tax Assessor,
I. L. Martin, Jr., County Attorney,
W. M. Harmon, County Surveyor,
W. H. Lease, County & District
Clerk,
Clarence Hord , County
sioner. Precinct No. 1,
H. T. Fletcher, County
sioner, Precinct No. 2,
D. C. Bourland , County
sioner, Precinct No. 3,
Staple Line of Groceries
MY PRICES ALWAYS RIGHT.
Commis-
Commis-
Commis-
Boots Made to Order
Repairing Neatly De :
YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED
G. K. LANGE
W. W. Cartledge, -County Commis-
g c a sioner, Precinct No. 4,
Some very funny statements C. W. Livingston, Justice of Peace,
Precinct No. 1,
W. A. Weakley, Justice of Peace,
Precinct No. 2,
.R. L. Cartledge, Justice of Peace,
Precinct No. 3,
OIL LANDS
FOR LEASE—Ten acre tracts and up near
all drilling wells.
FOR SALE—Lands in fee in Brewster, Pre-
sidio, Culberson and Terrell counties. Hav-
ing lived in Brewster county for a long time
can advise where best to buy.
WANTED—Lands at reasonable prices to
lease and sell.
A. M. TURNEY REALTY COMPANY
Room 8 Lackey Bldg. Alpine, Texas
ALPINE STEAM LAUNDRY
Has added New appliances—New machinery
and is prepared to do all classes of
Laundering, Cleaning and Pressing
"All Your Work in One Package”
A “I was hardly able to drag, I
i was so weakened,” writes Mrs.
X W. F. Ray, of Easley, S. C.
( “The doctor treated me for about
two months, still I didn’t get
be any better. I had a large fam-
ily and felt I surely must do
A something to enable me to take ,
{ care of my little ones. I had -
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CARDUI
% The Woman’s Tonic
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( tinues Mrs. Ray ... “I took I
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P gained my strength and have ■
he had no more trouble with wo- %
A manly weakness. I have ten L
0 children and am able to do all i
X my housework and a lot out- P
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Take Cardui today. It may g
V be just what you need. A
A. At all druggists. M
E.S
That Normalcy we were
promised long ago seems to had
had a puncture or something. It
certainly was not equipped with
a self-starter.
***
When the worms are scarce
what does a hen do? Does she
get discouraged and quit scratch-
ing? No she scratches a little
harder. If a hen knows enough
to scratch harder when worms
are scarce why don’t business
men scratch harder when busi-
ness is scarce, I would like to
know ?
***
When you hunt for somebody
to take care of the cat and the
chickens while you go off on
your vacation, you will find out
who your real friends are.
***
The reason why the Soviets in
Russia can’t maintain a stable
government is that they hav’nt
any horse sense.
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This is the time of the year
when the small boy’s fancy light-
ly turns to thoughts of who in
thunder invented arthmetic.
***
There is quite a difference be-
tween Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon and the people. Mellon
wants a tax on checks and the
people want a check on taxes.
***
Why didn’t that unemploy-
ment conference take up the un-
employment in some of the
government offices in Washing-
ton ?
get into all the papers-except the
Avalanche. In detailing his sad
bereavement in a letter to the
local paper the son said—"Father
went to bed feeling well and the
next morning woke up dead.”
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Did you ever read any light
fiction? If you did’nt; just read
your Electric Light bill.
***
You can’t travel very far on a
bad excuse.
***
1 know lots of people who go
around every day hunting some
temptations to avoid. Why not
use the time more profitably by
going straight ahead,
***
I notice a great many receipes
in the papers telling how to cool
a steak, but they don’t tell us
how to get one.
***
I notice that in these divorce-
ful days you never can be sure of
a movie actress’ name until she
is dead.
***
They tell us we should say
limb insead of leg. Well, how
about Boot-limbers?
COURT CALENDAR
Justice Court Precinct No. 1 meets
on the Fourth Monday in each
month
County Court meets every Third
Monday in February, May, August
and November.
Commissioners’ Court meets every
Second Monday in February, May,
August and November.
Probate Court meets Wednesday
of the first week of County Court.
District Court, 63rd Judicial Dis
trict, meets the Sixth Monday after
the First Monday in January and
July.
CITY COMMISSION
Benj. F. Berkeley, Mayor
F. E. Gillett, Geo. W. Baines,Jr.
Commissioners.
Nay Bowles, City Marshal.
The City Commisson meets the
First Monday in each month at
the Masonic Building.
“Read The Avalanche and
Watch Alpine Grow.”
Concrete for Permanence
B. E. Braden
For Concrete
SUTTON & MONTAGUE
Attorneys-at-Law
Office in Lackey Building
Alpine,
Texas.
GEO. H. CANDLIN, M. D.
Physican and Surgeon
Lackey Building.
Special Attention given Pediatrics
and Obstetrics.
Phones: Office 21 Res. 107
J. M. GALLEGO
■ Transfer and Hauling
Phone 87
Alpine,
Texss
***
Of course it is all right for a
young woman to smoke
cigarettes if it will improve her
mouth. There may be some
mouths that need heroic
remedies.
**$
The chief objection I have to
the present fashion in women’s
dress is there is too much
latitude in the dresses and not
enough longitude.
***
Here is a warning to my
friends who are husbands. A
Chiciago man thought he would
play a joke on his wife by put-
ting a mouse in her bed. The.
Judge gave her a divorce.
***
Congressman Dyer of Missouri
has introduced a bill in Congress
that makes it a penitentiary of-
fense to be involved in mob action
whereby loss of life is occasioned.
It provides that any member of
a mob that puts anyone to death
shall be imprisoned from five
years to life. The Federal courts
would have jurisdiction. A
county in which a lynching is
committed will have to forfeit
$10,000 to the family of the
person lynched.
***
The number of marriages this
year in this country will be over
one million. The war has This
will set a world record. Sociolo-
gists attribute this marrying
wave to the war of course.
***
"Fatty" Arbuckle’s chief
counsel found he had too much to
do to look after his defendent’s
case when Arbuckle refused to
pay him $50,000 to continue in
the case.
This beautiful account of
fire in a neighboring town
a
is
certainly interesting. "Within
two hours all inflammable
material within reach of the
flames had been consumed. The
blaze was then under cotrol of
the firefighters.”
***
The best way in my judgment
to make the world better, and the
best place to begin reforms is in
the old home town.
***
Del Rio is taking its oil boom
very seriously. A few days ago
the first standard rig for the
field arrived and it was loaded on
trucks and paraded through the
streets. I have a faint recollec-
tion. it occurs to me, of having
seen something of the kind
once before.
***
There certainly do raise some
wonderful cows about Fort
Worth, as this ad in the local
paper indicates. “For Sale—Cow
that gives five quarts of milk a
day, also two grindstones and a
set of harness.”
***
The Fort Worth papers are
now full of advertisements of
new oil companies promising
fortunes and big dividends in
just a little while. Yes, and the
Kaiser was to eat dinner in
Paris Christmas day.
Old Judge Slocum says an op-
tomist is one who goes around
***
One of our subscribers writes
us to know where he can get
some wild nuts of different sorts.
He might try soviet head-
quarters in Russia.
***
The newspapers are speaking
of the "Fatty" Arbuckle episode
as an incident in "high life.” Just
what they would call low life in
a booze jamboree we would like
to know.
***
Lots of people spend all their
lives letting down buckets into
empty wells.
WHY NORMALCY IS SLOW
COMING
The United States Department
of Agriculture has been compil-
ing some figures on prices past
and present. On July 15, last it
finds that the prices of 52.
articles bought by producers was
150 per cent higher than the
same articles were in July 1913.
Also, on July 15 of this year
they find that producers were
getting for their crops and meat
animals only 6 per cent more
than in the same month of 1913.
Here is one of the great
reasons why normal conditions
are slow to arrive. The producer
finds he cannot buy only a
proportional amount of goods
and supplies that his profits now
bear in relatin to his profits in
1913. How can we expect
times to get back to a
normal basis unless there is a
more uniform basis of prices,
MIDDLEBROOK & TURNEY
Physicians and Surgeons
Office in
Lackey Building
Phone 180—161
W. VAN SICKLE
Attorney and
Counselor at Law
ALPINE,
TEXAS
Good bread is your best and
cheapest food, eat more of it.
American Beauty
is Good Bread made only by
Lewis Steam Bakery
Bring Your Sick Auto to the
Big Bend Auto Electric Shop
Prepared to do all kinds
of Auto Repairing
We Repair Anything
Welding a Specialty
New Equipment-Experienced Workmen
Siiop North of Court House
Prices That Are Fair.
SULLIVAN & McKINNEY, Prop’s.
— D RUG S<=
fit’s drugs you want, come to us. Our stock is cor-
rectly labeled and you get what your doctor prescribes.
See our sundries too. We have a complete and
up-to-date line.
Phone 98 ===Palace Pharmacy==
WALTER GARNETT, Prop.
Mortgage Loans
on Improved Farms and Ranches
E. B. CHANDLER & CO.
102 East Crockett St.
San Antonio, Texas
SAM
DICK
“We Know How”
PEARCE BROTHERS
Practical Rig Builders, Contractors
Materials, Tools
Alpine and Pecos, Texas
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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/m1/6/?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.