Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Fifty-Third Year - Number 60
Marlin, Texas, Monday, May 18, 1953

Briefly Told

       Heavy fog was apparent here on Sunday and Monday mornings at dawn but lifted a short time later.

       Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Goodrich and family are visiting near Macon
Georgia, with her parents while the Marlinites are on a vacation trip.

       Miss Nita Shelton, former Marlinite who has made her at Phoenix, Arizona, for several years arrived here Saturday for possibly a two months visit and is stopping at the Falls Hotel.

       The Green Thumb Gardeners will meet with Mrs. Dick Peacock, 433 Chambers street at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 20th.  Mrs. Sam Dollahite will be co-hostess.

       The Marlin Country Club lake started overflowing through the spillway at l p.m. Saturday and water was continuing to flow through that spillway on Sunday afternoon.  This is possibly the second or third time that water has overflowed through the spillway of this lake since the dam broke there in the spring of 1944.

       Mrs. Jim High and daughter, Mrs. Crockett Erskine, are in Los Angeles, California, for a two weeks visit in the of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Getz.  Mrs. Getz is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim High.

       Colonel Travis Hetherington, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hetherington of Reagan, and Lieutenant George B. Wilson, son of Mr. and mrs. G. B. Wilson of Marlin, arrived by plane in Waco Saturday for a brief visit, Saturday and Sunday with their parents in the respective towns and the two Air Force officers returned to Washington, D. C., on Monday.

       Mrs. Arthur Kyle and children, Art, George and Kay, of Ozona, are here visiting Mrs. Kyle's father, George Haug, and her sister, Mrs. Catherine Cahal.

       The Civil Service Commission has announced examinations for filling vacancies in positions for recreation leader and recreation supervisor in 10 VA Hospitals in Texas including Marlin.  Applications and information on the examination may be obtained from the local VA
Hospital or post office.

       Grace Kuretsch of Marlin has been elected to the position of Junior Senator on the Student Senate at Southwest Texas State Teachers College at San Marcos for next year.  Selections were made by balloting and officers will be formerly installed in September.  They have the job of heading the student government on the campus.

       Airman Tommy R. Cox of the U. S. Navy, son of Mrs. Jean Cox of Marlin is here on leave from his duties.  He has been in navy service for about a year and has seen s(missing) duty in the Guam and Japan area.
He is now assigned to specialist schooling t Norman, Oklahoma.

       Dates for the fair at Riesel this year have been announced for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 16-18th.  A homecoming program for former Rieselites is planned as a part of the fair event.

       Lieutenant and Mrs. Bruce Bi(missing)ler and little daughter, Beverly o(f) Fort Hood were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bryant McDonald Sunday.

       The Marlin Band Mothers Club meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 19th, at 7:30 p.m. in the band hall at the school.

       Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Mires returned Sunday after a two week's visit with their daughter, Miss Evelyn Mires, at Laredo.  L. J. Mires went down for the weekend and to accompany them home.

       The overflow of water over the spillway of the New City Lake continued to draw large groups of spectators on Sunday at the bridge on the Marlin-McClanahan road.  A thin sheet of overflow water continued over the spillway on Monday morning.

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