Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, January 31, 1917

Briefly Told

       Mr. and Mrs. Ed Singer are now residing at Maybell Inn.

       Nothing was done in district court Monday morning Judge Munroe took up the scheduled docket for Monday at two o'clock.

       Three pleas of guilty to charges of drunkenness in justice court and one similar plea in corporation court resulted in fines of $1 and costs in each instance Monday morning.

       Roy W. Hearne, a wealthy retired business man of Dallas, who was found dead in a gas filled room in his Friday, was reared south of Marlin near Bremond.  He was a graduate of Baylor University at Waco.

       Prior to January 16, Falls county had ginned 64,472 bales of cotton against 44,571 at a similar time last year, according to the ninth report received Monday from the census bureau by H. Ed Greer county ginning agent.

       Reporting a successful trip, made so by bagging much game and good time, Frank Stallworth, city marshal; W. W. Turner, and Ernest Fannin, have returned from Rockport, where they spent the past week on the gulf coast.

       No stop was called and no halt made in the work of pile driving on the lock and dam on the Brazos river eleven miles below Waco during the bad weather of the recent past.  It was found necessary to drive additional piling to stop a leak in the dam.

       Jesse Barham, a young white man held upon two serious charges, for one of which he made a bond of $400 Friday afternoon, though rearrested that night, made bond for $500 on the second charge Sunday night and secured his release from jail pending the action of the grand jury.

       "I am hearing 'nearly' everything and seeing everything," says Dr. N. D. Buie of Marlin in a card from New York, where he is now taking a course in the New York Post Graduate Medical School, located at the corner of Second avenue and Twentieth street.

       Cotton prices rose 10 to 12 points in quotations on the Marlin exchange Monday.  Galveston spots were quoted at 17:65 with Houston at 17:30-31 with May at 17:51-52.  New Orleans March closed at 16:89-91 with May at 17:04-06.

       The funeral off (sic) H. Miller, aged 73 years, was held Saturday in the German cemetery at Riesel.  Deceased lived four miles north of Riesel previous to his death.  He was born in Wesefellen, Germany, coming to Texas in 1880.  He is survived by four sons and four daughters, besides 47 grandchildren and 19 great grand children.

       C. W. Rush, president of the Rush, Gardner 7 Bartlett Hardware Company of Marlin, who attended the Texas Hardware Men's convention at Dallas last week, has returned.  He reports a fine meeting with a large number of delegates present.  The proceedings were of interest to dealers in this particular line of merchandise.

       Miss Jeffie Pringle has resigned her position in the Marlin schools and gone to Brownwood, where she has accepted a position as teacher of history in the high school of that city.  Miss Pringle is regarded as one of the most efficient teachers that has ever been connected with the Marlin school, and her departure is genuinely regretted.

       The condition of Mrs. A. B. Johnson, who underwent an operation at a Temple sanitarium last week, is reapidly improving, according to Mr. Johnson, who visited his wife Sunday.  Mr. Johnson was accompanied to Temple by Master Jack Singer.  Odessa, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, who has been with her mother, returned with them to resume her studies in the Marlin schools.

       The Third Court of civil appeals has issued an order citing Judge Richard I. Munroe, who is holding district court in Marlin, to appear in Austin on February 7, to show causes why a writ of mandamus issued by him in Marlin last week should not be set aside.  The mandamus granted by Judge Munroe clothed E. W. Gaffney, who claimed to be a stockholder in the Amicable Life Insurance Company, with power to inspect the concern's books.

       The pulpit at the First Methodist church was filled by Rev. Walter G. Harbin, field agent for Sunday school work, who delivered some enlightening discourses upon this phase of activity among the Methodist churches.  At the First Baptist church, Rev. C. G. Howard pronounced his "model service" Sunday morning as a decided success, when the Sunday school services were continued directly into the morning sermon.  Other churches of the city were well attended by Marlin residents and visitors, who greatly enjoyed the various programs for the day.

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