The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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Alpine Avalanche
VOLy XXVII.
ALPINE, BREWSTER COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY. JULY 12, 1917.
NO 27
300
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ALPINE STATE BANK n
Alpine, Tex^s.
Capital, $30,000
Surplus, $30,000
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BENJAMIN F. BERKELEY. YV. VAN SICKLE,
President Vice President
CEO. C. MILLER. \M»r.*sid ml II. W. PERClJSoN, Cashier.
iI. L 1JOUD, Asjl. (.a.-iiier
A Home Bank for Home People
'Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent.
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A. W. EVANS FOR PRESIDENCY
OF SULL ROSS NORMAL
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Reasonable Prices on
L U M BERl
Windmills, Pipe, Fencing and All kinds of
BUILDING MATERIAL.
ALPINE LUMBER CO. I
“The Material Men” * I
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I'valde I MilrrA’nvs.
; A. \V. Evans, superintendent of
, the Uvalde Public Schools, is an ap-
plicant for the presidency of the Sul
Ross State Normal School, the new
, normal established at Alpine by the
■ lastlegislature. Moreover, his appli-
cation has the endorsement of a
|l:irgc uutnber of the leading educa-
tors of the state, as wVIl as many
men prominent in other walks of lifp,
land indications are good for his re-
|reiving the appointment.
^ Mr. Evans has spent his profes-
isional life in the schools of west
Texas and has made a decided suc-
cess. As an organizer and adminis-
trator in school work he has few
equals. He keeps abreast the fore-
most of his profession and his keen
initiative has made him ^ leader in
ideas in his work. He has directed
many summer normals and institutes,
he has served a number of times on
state examining boards and h'is abil-
ity is nown and recognized among
the leading teachers of the state.
Hs many years of experience in
West' Texas and his wide acquaint-
anceship in this section peculiarly
lit him for this position. It is the
judgment of those who know his
scholarship, ability as an adinnistra-
tor and general qualifications that
lie could ovganze and direct the new
institution to an early and marked
success as no other educator could,
lie is the logical man for the place.
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CLARENCE HORD
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Phones !$t^r
Fresh Fruits and* Vegetables.
Use White Face Flour
“The best Flour I ever saw.
Never had a Kick”
R. 11. Slight & Co.
Drugs and Sundries.
Phone 3
Expert Vni£^J]izer
Casing and Tubing vulcanized. We
guarantee work to last as long as life
of tire or tilbe. > •.
Mail or express orders given prompt
Attention. : : •
w. P. HINSON,
Alpine, Texas.
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DRUG f
If il*s drugs you want, corfte to us. Our stock is^cor-
rectly labeled and you get whart your doctor prescribes.
p See our sundries too. We have a complete and
up-to-date line.
Phone98 Pa "ace Pharmacy-^
WALTER GARNETT, Prop.
agoooosuniiMiiMiUKiMM
FIRE THAT IS NOT QUENCHED
Over in the anthracite coal belt of
Pennsylvania, a small lire started in
one of the workings of an anthracite
mine sixty-eight years ago. The su-
perintendent put a force of men at
work pumping water into the tunnels
to extinguish the blaze. This was
sixty-eight years ago and yet the fire
still burns today, not fiercely but
steadily and persistently, in spite of
all efforts to drown it out.. Just how
it started no one knows. The com-
pany was working only one shift at a
time. When the miners went off
duty in the evening, everything
seemed in order, but before morning
smoke was issuing from a shaft. It
was considered only a smal fire, as
mine fires go, and the miners stayed
about town for acotiplc of months ex-
peseting to go back to wrk. But they
never went back. Nor have their clii1-
dren. The original workings have
long since burned out and a great
gully has been ormed by the caving
in of the mountain after the vein of
coal had been eaten away. Today
in the side of the hill there are open-
ings and cracks from which issue
smoke and heat. Nobody now has
has any idea when the gjreat fire will
he put out.
The Good Book speaks of the fire
that is not quenched and of the worm
that dies not. Doubtless the words
are figurative as they are used in the
text and yet the great anthracite coal
fire shows how long an earthly blaze
may burn. One think also of James’
words, “Behold how great a fire a
little flame kindleth."
THE GOVERNOR’S CHILDREN
And the public schools
The governor of Texas has had a
great deal to say about the "high-
brows” in connection with the uni-
versity muddle. Now the Courier
would like to ask why he docs not
patronize the public schools, hut
rather sends his children to a select
private school for "highbrows?” Are
the Austin public schools unfit for
his children; and, if so, why? Dpes
he object to the company or the
course of study in the Austin public
schoos? Governor, you ought to tell
the people yyhy o|d ‘ Farmer ( ') Jim"
sends his children to the “highbrow"
school rather than to the public
schools he pretends to Jove so well
-Courier.
HIGH PRAISE-HIGH source
I General Ohregon pays high tribute
| to Ambassador Fletcher, accrediting
| him with having accomplished more
tin two months in Mexico than all
I other foreign diplomats in two years.
That is high praise from a high
'source. —San Antpnto Express.
NEW FEDERAL LIQUOR LAW
The new federal law effective July
1st. 1917, is as follows;
That no letter, postal card, news;
paper, pamplet, or publication of any
kind containing any advertisement
of spirituos, vinous, malted, fer-
mented. or other intoxicating liquors
of auy kind, or containing a solicita-
tion of an order or orders ofr said
liquors. 01 a'.v o» •hem, sn: II he de-
posited in or carried by the mails of
the United States, or he delivered by
any postmaster or letter carrier,
when addressed or directed to any
person, firm, corporation, or associa-
tion, or other addressee, at any place
or point in any State or Territory of
the United States at which it is by
the law in force in the State or Ter-
ritory at that time unlawful to adver-
tise or solicit orders for suchliquors,
or any of them respectively.
Violations are punishable by a fine
of not more than $1,000 or imprison-
ment of not more than six months, or
both. It is further provided that
whoever shall order, purchase, or
cause ntoxicating liquors to be trans-'
ported in interstate commerce__into
any State or Territory the laws of
which State or Territory prohibit the
manufacture or sale therein of intox-
icating liquors for beverage purposes
shall he punished as aforesaid.
Brewster county is given in Liquor
Bulletin No. 2 of the Post Office
Department as embraced in the fer-
rite: f e*T«* ” i by the law. ^
THE PERSEVERANCE OF
THE CANADIAN LAW
The Canadian government has
spent $50,000 up to L.e pieseiit time
in an attempt to bring to justice two
Esquimaux who, in June, 1912, mur-
dered Harr) V. Radford an arctic
explorer form New York City. The
police were not notified of the mur-
der until a year after it took place.
Since 191.1 the search for the murder-
ers lias been vigorousy carried on.
One Canadian inspector returned to
Regina a few weeks ago after trav-
eling some 14,000 miles in the wildest
world, searching carefully in a land
and most desolate regio-i of the
of some 500,000 square miles for men
of whom he had only the vagu'.st
description. The unrelenting hunt
for these criminals illustrates tlie
methods of the mounted po'^r in
Canada. It is the motto of these
police, “No matter what it costs not
to abandon an unreported criminal”
OUR EMBLEM OF FREEDOM
When Freedom, from her mountain
height,
Unfurled her standard to the air.
She tore the azure robe of Night
And set the stars of glor/ there.
She mingled with its gorgeous dvrs
The niilicy haldri. of the ^kies,
And striped its pure celestial white
With streakings cf tic morning
light.
Then, from his mansion m the sun,
She called her eagle hearer down.
And gave into his mighty hand
The symbol of heryhosen land!
—Joseph Rodmvi Drake.
THE SCANDAL MONGER
After God had finished making the
rattlesnake, the toad and the vam-
pire, He had some awful substance
left, with which He made a scandel
monger A scandel monger is a two-
legged animal with a corkscrew soul,
a water sogged brain and a combi-
nation backbone made of jelly and
glue. Where hther persons have
their hearts he carries a tumor of
decayed principles. When the scan-
dal monger romrs down the street
honest men turn their hacks, the an-
geis wecp> tears in heaven and the
devil shuts the gates of hell to keep
him out.—Anon.
PECOS COUNTY ENTIRELY DRV
Returns from the Pecos county
prohibition election held Saturday
shows that prohibition carried by an
almojfr two to one majority. \ The
county heretofore had gone dry by
prerinots except th« Girvin and Shef-
field districts.
W F. Caldwell, hay, gram a d It'd
NOTED ENTOMOLOGISTS OF
CORNELL IN WEST TEXAS
A party of entomologists from Cor-
nell University, Ithaca, New York,
were in Alpine last week, and liter a
short stay here proceeded in their
cars to Fort Davis. It is expected the
party will spend some tinif in the
Big Bend country in the study of the
great variety of insects which this
country affords.
Cornell is a renowned institution
of higher learning, with many de-
partments. The faculty numbers
over 500 and the enrollment is
near 5000. The following are the
faculty members of the department
of entomology, most of whom com-
pose the party now at work in this
section;
J. II. Comstock. Emeritus Professor
of Entomology; J. G. Needham, Pro-
fessor of Entomology and Limnol-
ogy; VVm. A. Riley, Professor of In-
sect Morphology and Parasitology;
Glenn W. Herrick, Professor of Eco-
nomic Entomology; C. K. Crosby,
Extension Professor of Entomology;
O. A. Johansen, Professor of General
Biology; J. Chester Bradley, Assist-
ant Professor of Systematic Ento-
mology; G. C. Embody, ^uislapt
Professor of Aquiculturb; Anna Bots-
ford Comstock, Assistant Professor
of Nature Study; Robert &|g|l|cson.
Assistant Professor of Economic En-
tomology; E. R. King. ^s«|%t*nt
Professor of Apiculture; C. H. Had-
ley Jr., Investigator in Entomology;
Anna C. Stryke, Instructor in Ento-
mology; J. t. Lloyd, Instructor in
Limnology; C. P. Alexander, In-
strutor in Natural History; W. L.
Chandler, Instructor in Parasitology.
THE JOKE ON REPORTERS
A queer thing happened a shirt
tunc ago »* the police hr.rUuartcr*
in Saint Louis The Rev. Ccorge W.
Dickey, 47 vcirs of age and a negro,
was arrested rn a charge of prac-
ticing medicii;.* illegally. A paiish-
ioner of Dickjv claimed that he paid
$17.00 to be cured and th»t he was
still as lame as ever. When the col-
ored minister made his entry before
the desk sergeant, he sni4. “What-
ever yon do to me, hang me or not,
you can not take away the gif* ol
God.” He said that he had been hcal-
ng people for twenty-five years.
“The gift came 4o me one day from
above,” he added, “and I have healed
thousands since.” The desk sergeant
paid no attention to his protests,
but just at that time the janitor of
the building came along hobbling
with rheumatism. He had it so bad
that he was wearing a tennis shoe
and gettng about with a cane. It
chanced that there were some news-
paper reporters at headquart«rs and
they saw their opportunity (or a jest.
“Here is the man,” they said to the
colored healer, “upon whom you may
test your gift.” The janitor pro-
tested. His foot was very painful and
he llid not want to be expermefted
on. The negro preacher, however,
took off the shoe and performed a
light mawpulation of the foot At thq
end of eight minutes he put the shoe
hark on and told his patient to toss
away his cane and dance. The jani-
tor followed his instructions and to
his surprise felt no pain whatever.
The swelling had gone and he was en-
tirely well. The conclusion of all
who was present was that tha joke
was on the newspaper reporters.
There are all sorts of healing cases
on record. No religion has a monop-
oly of them nor has any system of
medicine. It is characteristic of all
these modern healers that no one has
ever yet raised a man from t^e dead.
There is a vast difference between
the power manifested in llif New
Testament times and anything re-
corded by our modern healers.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Means have re-
turned to their home here from San
Diego with the good news that their
son, Lawrence, who recently enlisted
in the navy, will recover form the the
attack of spinal meningitis from
which he suffered while on train in
southern California. Lawrence will
he detained in the naval hospital at
San Diego for front sis to eight
months and then will be allowed to
come home on a furlough--Globe
(Arif ) Record.
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The First National Bank
Alpine, Texas ,.4
CAPITAL aaJ SURPLUS
OFFICERS.
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H. L. KOKKRNOT. V-Preu. G. W. BAINES, Jr. Cashier
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PLUMBING, TINNING AND TANKS
Estimates Furnished on any Job.
Have your plumbing done by a workman who
jnderstands Sanitary Work.
Write or phone your wants.
The Wise Anto Owner
doesn't attempt hi* own repairing.
He prefers to tend his car here w here
there is every facility and every con-
venience for doing the work, pro-
perly. And the more experienced
Ike auto owner is the surer he is
to have us do his repairing because
he knows we do it right.
Borderland Auto Co.
Alpine,
Texas.
LIVE IN YOUR OWN HOME
You cun’t have a home aa long aa
yoa live in somebody's rent hanse.
We make a specialty in bnilding
Home* for the man of amall means.
Payments easy. Came to the office
and let ns explain the terms.
Alamo Lumber Co.
L. Ml* LIGHT, Mlanagor.
Alpine Hospital
This institution is open for the caff* and
treatment of medical, surgical and obstetrical
cases.
Patients are st-liberly to call the physi-
cians of their choice, as them is no special
doctor in charge under the new manag-
ment.
Trained or practical nurses can be oL-
tained here for cases at say time.
Tslophono Hoap.-al 143 or write Alplno
Hospital, Box 464 #or furthRr particulars.
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Livingston, C. W. The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1917, newspaper, July 12, 1917; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth803656/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 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).