Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell


THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 12
Marlin, Texas, Friday, May 15, 1931

Briefly Told
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       Retail Merchants Association tonight at Chamber of Commerce headquarters on Winter street.

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       "Crops are in need of some hot weather," said E. W. Robbins of Reagan, who was a Marlin visitor today.

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       Mrs. W. D. Thomas is visiting her daughter, Mrs. F. P. Huchingson, in Mexia, who is recovering from injuries received in an automobile accident recently.

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       S. H. Collins of Fort Worth recovered a lost car as a result of an "ad" inserted in The Democrat by Constable B. B. Cooley, who took the car up near Marlin where it had been abandoned.

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       There will be a meeting of the Retail Merchants Association in Chamber of Commerce room at 8 o'clock tonight.  An invitation is extended to all merchants and business and professional people to attend this meeting.

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       A flue fire at a on Island street occupied by A. Shaw resulted in an alarm being turned in to the Marlin fire department at 11:40 a.m. today.  The blaze was curbed before any damage of consequence resulted.

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       W. W. Stirman, Marlin representative of an insurance company the last three years, has been promoted to district superintendency of the concern at Waco and will take up his duties there immediately.  His family will join him at Waco at the close of school.

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       G. S. Buchanan, secretary of the Marlin Chamber of Commerce, and E. E. Fannin and L. B. Chambers went to Mexia this afternoon for a meeting of representatives from points in the East Texas Chamber of Commerce district, of which Falls county is a part.

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