Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 39
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, October 5, 1907
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
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       Mrs. A. E. Watson has returned from a visit to Waco.

       Mrs. G. M. Herring and children are visiting at Reagan.

       Julian Frazier of Haskell is here on a visit to his father, Judge Frazier.

       Sheriff Tilley of McLennan county was here this afternoon on business.

       Mrs. L. W. Goodrich has returned from a visit to Mrs. R. B. Dickey at Waco.

       E. F. Kavanaugh, is here from Gainesville where he also has a dry goods business.

       Dorsey Dillard is spending a few days in the city, recuperating from an attack of fever.

       Judge Alex Frazier who was dangerously ill with dengue is now considerably improved.

       Howard C. Crawford of New Orleans is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Crawford.

       Miss Sallie McKinney and Mrs. C. E. Hair of Stranger were visitors to Marlin Wednesday.

       Miss Cobb, who was the guest of Miss Constance Harlan, has returned to her in Corsicana.

       Miss Prendergast has returned to her in Galveston after several months' visit to Marlin.

       Leon Alexander, of the firm of Alexander & Epstein, has returned from a purchasing trip to Dallas.

       Mr. and Mrs. J. Schwarz and daughter of Fort Worth and guests of L. R. Alexander and wife.

       Five hundred pounds of blank print paper is required every week to supply the circulation of The Democrat.

       J. B. Storey of Lott was here Wednesday afternoon to meet a relative, Dr. Allison and wife of Dallas, who are visiting him.

       Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Barganier and daughter, Miss Correlle, have returned to their at Ft  Deposit, Ala., after a three months' visit to the Barganier brothers near Marlin.

       Oscar and Frank Huseby have sold their 100 acre farm north of town to R. M. Powell of Lott, consideration $5000.  The deal was made through the agency of Eddins & Taylor.

       The "Sweetest Girl in Dixie" Company gave a catchy performance at The Arlington opera house Wednesday night.  The play is well staged by a clever company.  Price considered, it is a show well worthy of the liberal patronage it is receiving.

       S. E. Jacobson of 226 East 115th street, New York City, writes that he can't possibly live longer than two weeks without The Democrat and that he had missed an issue and was in a precarious condition at the time he wrote; as Mr. Jacobson is too good a citizen to be lost, we shall see that he does not miss any more issues, if we have to send them by special delivery.

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