Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 53
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, November 23, 1907
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
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Geo. E. Sanders went to Jewett on business Thursday.
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C. P. Ferguson of St. louis is among the late arrivals.
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Mrs. Minnie Bringhurst of houston is a guest of Mrs. T. S. Sims.
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A. L. Hargrove of Waco is among the visitors to Marlin.
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Dr. J. W. Cook has returned from a visit to the San Antonio fair.
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I. J. Nathan has returned from the Icemen's convention at Dallas.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Fannin and Dr. N. D. Buie are visiting the San Antonio fair.
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Mrs. H. C. Crawford and daughter, Francis, left Thursday for New Orleans to
visit Howard.
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Miss Annie Mae Cook has returned from Waco, where she was the guest of Miss
Alice Eddins.
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J. Warren Swann of Manila, P.I., who is visiting relatives in Texas, came in
Wednesday afternoon from Groesbeeck and went out to Chilton.
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J. Markowitz, a prominent business man of Galveston, is in the city. He
has recently spent much of his time in the Panhandle where he has interests.
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C. C. Morris went to Rosebud Thursday to take up his position with the Rosebud
Lumber Co. Claud has acquired an interest in the business and is the
manager of the same. He will move his family over in a month or so.
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During the rain of Tuesday afternoon lighting struck the telephone at Bruce
Gerald's house and put the phone entirely out of commission. A portion of
the flue on top of the house was also torn away and some other damage done to
the building.
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The report of the commissioner of agriculture on the Texas cotton ginning record
for the month of October shows that 3,927 bales were ginned in Falls county.
The largest number ginned, 19,480, was in this county and the smallest, 6, was
in Kinney county.
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At The Fannin: H. T. Rogers, Miles; A. T. Gardner, Tulsa, I.T., A. D.
Walling, Malone; C. O. Leuschner, Otto; J. H. Symonds, Otto; John Reed, W. L.
Barron, Mart; J. S. Johnson, Texas; C. C. Kelly, Reagan; W. M. Dillard, Bremond.
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The H. & T. C. announces a new rate that that will interest most everyone that
travels any or is contemplating a trip. The rate to any point where return
ticket is desired, is the regular fare for the round trip, less ten per cent, of
same. The limit on these tickets is ten days.
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Rain or shine the subscribers are rolling in. The people appreciate an up
to date paper such as The Democrat is giving them. Our Twice-a-Week
Democrat contains more good reading matter than any other weekly or twce (sic) a
week paper in Central Texas with the exception of one at Waco and the people of
the county are more than pleased with it.
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