Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 52
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 20, 1907
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FALLS COUNTY NEWS
(As Told by Exchanges)
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Rosebud
Round Ups.
(The
News)
W. H. Sartain, a practical mill man of Henrietta, has purchased the Rosebud
Milling Company's plant; in this trade, the company acquires 4000 acres of good
land in Bee county, which they propose to cut into small tracts for sale to
actual settlers.
Frank Davis has sold his interest in the
Rosebud Lumber Company to J. T. Davis, and will probably engage in some other
line of business.
There are about 3000 bales of cotton being
held in this section. When it is turned loose there will be something
doing in all lines.
Hon. Wm. Graham of Houston spoke to an
appreciative audience of Farmers' Union and others, exhorting the objects and
aims of the union, urging the farmers to hold their cotton for a higher price,
but advised them not to hold a single bale of cotton at the expense of merchants
and bankers, but sell a portion of their cotton at prevailing prices to
liquidate their indebtedness and then hold the balance indefinitely.
A petition, now being circulated, will be
presented to the Masonic lodge of this city to have their hall building removed
from the public square.
While returning home, the horse which Jim
Clark, carrier R. F.D.R. No. 1 was riding, stumbled and fell, throwing him to
the ground with such great force as to break his collar bone.
Mrs. A. Schlottman of Giddings is visiting
her son, J. E. Schlottman, and daughter, Mrs. C. R. Stratman. She
accompanied by her niece and grand daughter.
A badger fight was had for the benefit of
Travis and Ferrell Hughes, of Alabama, young tenderfoots, put up by the young
bloods of Rosebud, but in pulling the badger an accident occurred and all bets
were declared off. Travis left for his Alabama home, declaring that he would not
live in any country where such dangerous beasts were allowed to run at large.
Having been successful in our new school
building proposition we should now turn our attention to an adequate water
system for Rosebud. As matters now stand our people have no protection
whatever against fire.
T. C. Lehman has purchased the Will
Williams residence in North Rosebud.
Roe Owen has the editors' thanks for a lot
of fine sausage this week. Among our numerous friends Roe seems to have
been the only one that killed hogs during the present cold spell.
D. M. Trammell and family, who have been
residing in Houston for some time, returned last week and will make their future
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Monroe left this week
for Grandview, Texas, where Mr. Monroe will engage in the drug business.
Attorney General Davidson has filed suit
against one hundred and twenty milling companies of Texas for violation of the
anti-trust laws. The Rosebud Milling Company is one of the defendants.
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LOTT LOCAL MELANGE.
(Clarion.)
Lott Lodge 281, K. of P., gave reception in their castle to the ladies, which
was a matter of surprise to the gentle sex, as they had only been invited to
"open session" of the lodge.
Conn Wrenn went to Cameron Friday to accept
a position as convict guard.
The pupils and teachers of the school in
general have banded themselves together for the purpose of having a literary
society.
A dog belonging to Jim Deer went suddenly
mad and attacked a small son of Mr. Deer's. They were in a cotton field
near the house but owing to the efforts of larger children and by the boy
keeping his cotton sack between him and the animal, he escaped uninjured, though
severly frightened.
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