The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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The Alpine avalanche
VOLUME XXVII.
ALPINE, BREWSTER COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2P,
ALPINE STATE BANK
Alpine, Texas.
Capital, $31,Nt
Surplus, $30,000
BENJAMIN F BERKELEY
President
GEO. C. MILLER, V-PresMent
W. VAN SICKLE^
Vies President
H. W. FERGUSON, Carrier.
TI. L ITORD, Asit. Cashier
A Home Bank for Home People
PI Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent,
ifcinoss--ami |Q|JI
Qome
Across
THE Y. M. C. A. tN WAR WORK
Supplements military framing, de-
vdogteg character, spirit amt ideals
and brings out the onarale in aoor
lighting farce.
Brewster Cooonty moist help flaaace
the organ faatiaa. Do year part hy
buying a ticket to the
SPECIAL MOVIE FEATURES
at .
STAR THEATER TONIGHT
Thursday. Nov. 29, 7:4
Notice!
Everything strictly CASH.
DorTt embarass yourself by
asking for Credit.
WESTERN MOTOR CO.
N. L. CASNER, Mgr.
iz^aaEsirasasLJ
THE REFUGEES
Marfa New Fra.
That was rather a hard looking
bunch of woe - begone, ragged and
hungry soldiers, who were brought
from Presidio to Marfa the first of
the week. There were about 500
of these Mexicans — some of them
women—who had turned their faces
the direction of Los Fstados
Unidos and beat it across the Rio
Bravo, when Pancho Villa turned
his fire crackers loose m Ujinaga.
They show the result of their long
revolution in our wayward sister re-
public and demonstrate again the
folty of war.
Uncle Sam seems to be the shief
custodian of everybody’s ills just
now and of course had to provide
food and shelter and clothing for all
these folks who know that they are
perfectly safe under the Stars and
Stripes. It is indeed unfortunate
that we have such a task on hand
across the sea. that we cannot bring
peace again to the waring elements
below the border. For five or six
years they have been the source of
much annoyance to our country,
many Americans have been killed
down there, border towns have been
iubjected to murderous raids and
then, when one side pressed hard
upon the heels of another, we have
had to play the good Samaritan,
>pen our jirgis to the fleeing braves,
who usually come this way with
nothing but their appetites and a few
welt-developed cases of smallpox.
But somebody has to do the big
and noble thing and as great as the
task is that humanity seems to have
placed upon the American people,
we thank God that we are strong
enough and wilting enough to meet
the test and answer the qyr.
TESTS OF ALLEGIANCE
LIVE IN YOUR OWN HOME
You can’t have a home as hog as
you live in somebody’s rest hoove.
We rank- a specialty b WMhg
Homes for the man of smaR means.
Payments easy. Come to the oSce
and let us explain the to I—----
Alamo Lumber Co.
L. M. LIGHT, Manager.
EFFECT OF PROHIBITION
IN THE CITY OF DALLAS
I ~x:u,
The Dallas News points out the
good effect of prohibition in reduc-
ing drunkenness and crime, and in
increasing business in the following
items :
“Since prohibition became effective
in Dallas connty. the police depart-
ment has handled ,n average of less
than three arrests a day for drunken-
ness, as compared to an average of
more than fifteen a day when the
saloons were in operation, accord-
ing to the city court docket. The
decrease is 80 per cent, based on
these figures.
Beginning with the Monday fottow-
Fnemy aliens resident in the
United States are treated with a
measure of consideration that enemy
aliens in no other country receive.
And this applies emphatically to Ger-
many. There no longer exists any
reason for continuing such consider-
ation. The time has come for people
of the race that has adopted ruth-
lessness as its motto and is method
of action to be treated with the sus-
picion and placed under the limita;
tions their acts and attitude demand.
It is worse than folly to have the
condition continue of incendiarism,
of plotting and of contemptuous dis-
regard of American patriotism. Ev-
ery alien enemy should be compelled
to subscribe to an oath of allegiance
that, while not conferring citizen-
ship. would place the one taking the
oath under obligation to support the
country during the war, with the se-
verest penalty the law can impose
to follow any act of treachery. Only
thus can the presence of alien ene-
mies he made tolerable to the coun-
try. Particularly in the W'est is
there need for the absolute suppres-
sion of the most desperate and dan-
gerous element in the country. Few
of the alien enemies are other than
individual enemies of the cui.ntry
bent upon doing alt the damage they
can to the people who house and har-
bor them. They should be compelled
to subscribe to an oath, the infrac-
tion of which would be visited with
grim punishment. Let Congress
strengthen the espoinage act when it
shall convene, so as to stamp on* the
activities of the alien enemies.—Bal-
timore American.
The CmmUm Verse of
“AMERICA”
God save onr nnhlr mg
Bring them safe hnm again.
Gad save aar at«.
Make then victsrlsas.
Patient and rhirshsns
They are sa dear ta as,
God save aar ms
THE SOLDIER AND THE SLACKER
(By a Terrell County Volunteer.)
We give you our service, yon shut
off our beers;
But the stacker can drink ’till it runs
out his ear*.
We quit a good job to keep yon from
harm.
And the slacker goes hy with a girl
on each arm;
And taughs at the soldier, poor t*n-
S pacify
Daisy
Broad
Cakes and
Pies
Madein Alpitte
Superior Because Made that Way
CANDY KITCHEN
CANDIES and ICECREAM
•wls «
Mtf
ALPINE STUDIO
ALPINE BOTTLING
The GenuLrv 1 ottled Coco Colo,
and Pure Soda Water.
Purity Brand Fruit Punches
tng the closing of the saloons on
October 211, and until the night of
October 31, twenty-six arrests were
made for this offense. For the same
period in September there were 138
arrests on the same charge.
Two men charged with drunken-
ness were fined $5 each in the city
court yesterday.
Night Desk Sergeant Trammett
of the central police station said last
night that the potice department had
not had a single call for the apprehen-
sion of altegeii wife heater since local
option became effective in Dallas
count. He declared that prior to^that
lime the department answered from
three to a dozen caffs nightly.
Other police officers who have
made it a point to investigate the
matter, declare that the att-night
restaurants uniformly report larger
sates at night since tocal option be-
came effective. In some instances
sales have increased 50 per cent, pro-
prietors assert. Many of the smaller
merchants interviewed hy them also
M*«rt that their business ba> im-
proved, some saying that it is even
better than it was daring the lirst
week of the State Fair, when there
were thousands of visitors ia the city.”
Always
fortunate cuss—
Girts go with the slacker, whiy os-
tracise ITS ?
The slacker rides ’round in a Ford of
his own.
And charges a quarter to haul us to
town 1
We are doing our duty—his liver is
white—
Yet ve leave the streets at nine ev-
ery night.
White he sticks around as tong as he
cares
And laughs at the soldier. whenever
he dares.
We know that it is a thing that
must he.
But honest to goodness we fait to
see.
When the soldier drinks nothing but
water and pop.
Why the drinks of the slackers can’t
also be stopped.
If the stacker can dance, it seems
rather hard
That from all decent dances uni-
forms are barred.
We have shouldered our rifles and
taken our place.
And wilt go to our death with a stnile
on our face;
But this is an honest appeat unto
you-
Until we cross over, please give its
HOW MONEY GOES
ROUND IN A CIRCLE
“Thorn won't bn nay Many MR
the country K thoy hoop « ook
Tor theoo loans.'
How many times do you haw at—
a remark made about tho Ufcavty
Loan? Perhaps you any boon ei
thought something of the aart your-
self.
To a man not uaad In Innate tho
thought is a very natural one.
Let us think this thing out.
In the first place, practically all
>f the money subscribed to the Lib-
erty Loans stays right hare hi the
country, and s good deal of It stays
•tght in the locality from which It Is
.vr:(finally subscribed. So thin talk
about '’draining the country.” and
about there "being no money left ta
;Ue country," is sheer nonsense.
Let us see how this works out.
\Ye «U1 suppose that you are a
farmer, or cotton grower, that you
have purchased a Liberty iiond aud
you are paying bv installments spread
:v. r several months. Now. until t:i«
government arrually need* yot:r mon-
ey it leaves it on deposit at some
local bank which is acting as a gov-
ornruent depository—maybe yonr own
Uank.
Now. by the time you luive p» d
the LAST installment .11 your Uoutl.
it is quite likely that the mousy paid
fn as vour RUST installment ha*
been used Oy live government .o pay
for your own cotton or gram; aud
you will be returning this ver» same
money to the bank to be placed once
agntn to your account, or to apply
on your purchase of another IJbertv
Bond.
“But." you say. 'bow about these
millions aud millions of dollar* limn-
ed u> our allies.* Poes not th's
money go out of tho country?” it
does not Practically all df the
money which goes to our allies is
lent with the dear understanilin.t
th:.t it is to be used for the purchase
of goods in tliis country. Tons you
will see that seldom do we actually
loan our allies any money at all, but
we loan them goods which you pro
Jure and for wfcich you are paid
IN .SUBSCRIBING TO THBT LIBER-
TY LOAN YOU ARE PRACTICALLY
PITTING CAPITAL INTO YOUR
OWN BUSINESS
Fears have bean expressed by
ome that the government of this
rountry will place such enormous tax
ition on the public that It wilt be
almost equivalent to taking their
"apital and their savtngs from tham.
The government of thl* country dm
*ires above all things that you keep
vour capital and keep it working It
wants your cotton aad It wants your
PnortstuSTs and is not fbotlsh enough
to take away the capital which yon
•teed to run your business. This would
be “hilling the goose that lays the
tolrtsn egg.” The government wants,
von to get richer so that you may
be In a position to lend some r»t
your increased wealth to curry' on
he war.
For Ita own good, the government
'• trytog to make you richer wealth-
er then over yon were
Have yon any “Web coming?”
The First National Bank
Alpine, Texas
CAPITAL aad SUKPLUS
OFFICERS.
C A. BROWN President
H. L. KOKERNOT, V-Pres. G. W. RAINES;.) aanier
U. S. Depository for Postal Savings
AB kinds of Printing except bod
-at Avalanche afleri
hOOOOOOH
DRUG8^-
if it’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 compact - ar.d
up-to-date line.
Pbon* 98 -±= Palace Pharmacy
WALTER GARNETT. Prop.
Itww
>0000004
W. A. BUCHANAN
PLUMBING, TINNING AND TANKS
Estimates Furnished on any Job.
Have your plumbing done by a workman who
understands Sanitary Work.
Write oi
CLARENCE HORD
Staple aad Fancy Groceries
Phones 1S8>I88
Fresh Frails and Vegetables.
Use White Face Flour
••The best Flour I over saw.
Never bed e Kick1*
ease*
St2n
Just Received
A fine line of Men’s
and Boys’ Suits inthe
newest Fall Styles
and Prices to Suit
Alpine Mercantile Co.
“THE BIG STORE
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Livingston, C. W. The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 1917, newspaper, November 29, 1917; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth803444/m1/1/?q=RIO%20VISTA: accessed May 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend).