Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 35
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, September 21, 1907
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
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George C. Slater is the
new night clerk at the Fannin hotel.
Mrs. and Mrs. J. C. Holloway have returned
from a visit to Dallas.
The I. & G. N. is placing a lot of gravel
on Falls street along its track.
Sheriff Poole and Judge Dashiel have
returned from a businesss trip to Austin.
Miss Annie Stallworth left Tuesday night
for Cameron where she has a position as stenographer with a law firm.
Dorsey Dillard is in the city spending a
few days with friends and relatives. He is now traveling for a Sherman
company.
B. M. Torbett left Wednesday afternoon for
Fort Worth on a business trip.
Mrs. J. E. Davis and daughter, Miss Willie
of Reagan, are visiting Mrs. B. C. Clark.
Henry D. Harrison, the popular sugar and
'lasses drummer of New Orleans, is in the city for a few days.
M. W. Wilson, who has been day operator at
the I. & G. N. depot for some time, has been transferred to Italy.
Miss Kate Pringle left Wednesday night for
Lockhart where she has a position as a teacher in the public schools.
W. E. Munro, one of Kosse's enterprising
young business men, came over Wednesday afternoon on visit to W. W. Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Davis, who have been
visiting Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Kunze, have returned to St Louis, accompanied by
Mrs. Davis' sister who will spend two months in that city.
Work on the lake dam for the extension
waterworks system is moving along well now. This rain will be a benefit to
the dam and also render the work of construction easier.
Mrs. V. C. Billingsley has received the
announcement card of Virginia Clifton Hall, Sept. 13, 1907, daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. O. C. Hall of 5221 Kimbark Ave., Chicago, and granddaughter of Mrs. Isabel
H. Easley.
J. W. Watson, who recently bought the
Fannin House is having quite a large amount of repairiing done on the property.
New flooring is being put on the back galleries, new screens put in and other
work is being done.
The post office has received notice from
the department to count every piece of mail that is received in the office from
Oct. 13 to Oct. 19 inclusive. This will be somewhat of a job, but the
Marlin force will do the work in the proper shape.
Bathhouse and hotel keepers are
experiencing their dull season just now. About Sept 1 the visitors began
to depart for their homes to look after their crop and fall business and few
have been coming in. The dearth of visitors will not last long, however,
as Marlin hot water is a magnet that cannot be resisted by those who know what
it is when it is possible to get away from business.
The Marlin Gun Club have received their new
trap and other apparatus such as was destroyed recently by fire at their range
south of town. The new trap is a good one, will do the same service that
three did, formerly owned by the club. The experts will have a practice
Friday.
The rain of Tuesday night and Wednesday was
pretty general throughout the county and was just the kind that was needed--slow
and unaccompanied by wind. It has put the ground in excellent shape for
the sowing of turnips, laid the dust and cooled the atmosphere, but has provided
no stock water.
Wednesday night two men were taken from the
top of the south bound H. & T. C. sleeper at Marlin and placed in jail at
Bremond by Constable Pool. As the offense was discovered in Falls county,
the Bremond constable telephoned Sheriff Poole, who dispatched Constable
Hemphill to Bremond to bring them here on the afternoon train.
Dr. J. E. Manny of Stranger is moving with
his family to Tucumicari, New Mexico, where they will reside in the future.
Dr. Manny has been a citizen and practicing physician of this county a number of
years and is held in high esteem by those who know him best. He is worthy
of the trust and confidence of his neighbors in New Mexico.
Paul Pieper, the well known citizen from
Barclay, is spending a few days in the city. Mr. Pieper says the cotton in
that section will yield about half a crop and that the people are now nearly or
about half through gathering. He will not begin the construction of his
new residence to take place of the one recently burned, until the cotton crop is
out.
A cablegram from Bergen, Norway, announces
the death Sept 4th of Edward Grieg, age 64. The sudden death of this great
composer will be a blow to the entire musical world. It means the loss of
one of the most gifted and noble-minded musicians and one whose originality
placed him among the greatest of all modern composers for all time.
The Democrat could name dozens of instances
where lost articles and stock have been recovered by the use of these columns.
Two instances of recent occurrence are mentioned. J. A. Kirkpatrick of
Reagan found a cow that had been gone about four months, with a five line ad in
the weekly Democrat. Mrs. Georgia Jones of Perry recovered a $75 gold
watch lost in Marlin with an ad that cost only $1.25. People who lose
anything are missing a splendid opportunity to recover the same unless they use
The Democrat. It rarely ever fails to bring the desired results.
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