Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 51
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, November 16, 1907
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Briefly Told.
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The butchers of San Antonio are are (sic) not paying attention to the new law
passed by the Thirtieth legislature regarding the register, $500 bon and to
report quarterly all animals slaughtered.
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The American Smelting and Refining Company of Chicago, which employs 400 men at
refining gold and silver, is filling the rush orders from the government by
operating its works day and night.
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Sheriff Poole entertained the members of the commissioners' court Wednesday with
an old fashioned 'possum and 'tater dinner. The event was an exceedingly
pleasant one to the guests who expressed one to 'the guests who expressed on to
"the guests who expressed (repeat) their thanks most generously to Mr. Poole and
his estimable wife.
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The delegates from the First Baptist church of Marlin to the Baptist General
Convention at San Antonio, have returned and are highly pleased with their trip
and the results of the convention. In the party from Marlin were C. T.
Curry, Rev. and Mrs. M. T. Andrews, Mesdames C. D. Newbold and W. C. Rogers, R.
A. Fitzgerald, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Stringer.
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Some little cotton selling in the county. Judge Moore was in Reagan
Wednesday afternoon to take up a few bales. The price, basis middling, is
9 7-8.
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A sealed verdict returned by the jury in the trial of Theorsa Sullivan, a
17-year-old girl, who stabbed her fiancee to death last August in St. Louis,
acquitted the girl.
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