Typed as spelled and
written - Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First year - Number 135
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, October 7, 1931

Briefly Told

Miss Virginia Earl Smith underwent an operation for appendicitis at a Marlin hospital this morning.

There will be weekly prayer meeting tonight at the First Presbyterian church at 7:15 o'clock instead of 7:30 o'clock.

Sam Townsend of Houston is visiting his neice (sic), Mrs. C. W. Rush and family.  Mr. Townsend stopped in Marlin on his way from a trip to Fort Worth.

The Marlin Library Study Club meets Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the lecture room of the Majestic-Annex hotel.  An executive committee meeting is called for three p.m. Thursday.

Burning grass on a vacant lot on the south side of Agnes avenue at the Carter street intersection resulted in an alarm being turned in to the Marlin fire department at 10:18 o'clock Tuesday night.  "One fence post slightly damaged" was the fire department's report.

Adoption of the budget for the 1931-32 session of the Marlin public schools and allowing of monthly accounts was the only business transacted at the regular October session of the board of trustees of the Marlin independent school district Tuesday night.

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