Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 34
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, September 18, 1907
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
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Miss Mary Dickson is visiting friends at Highbank.
Mrs. Neal Brown of Colorado City is
visiting her sister, Mrs. J. P. Gardere.
Linton J. Davis has returned to Quanah
after a visit to friends and relatives in the city and at Mooreville.
District Clerk Bradshaw has returned from a
visit to Limestone county, Waco, Mart, Otto and Chilton.
George Overstreet, a negro youth, was
adjudged of unsound mind by a jury in county court Saturday.
For Sale--500 acres of good black dirt.
Cheap at $30 per acre. See J. W. Hoke, the land man, over Marlin National
Bank.
Rev. R. A. Fitzgerald and son Elmer have
returned from a week's trip to the Panhandle country.
J. P. Raines and Mrs. Mazie R. Jones of
Nashville are here on a visit, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Battle.
They have extensive landed interests in this and Bell county.
J. Frank Clark has returned from an
extensive trip through New Mexico and the Panhandle country and will visit
relatives in the city before returning to school in Houston.
Mrs. John M. Jolly favors The Democrat with
some very fine pears which she grew in her yard in this city. Six of these
pears weigh five pounds and are of fine flavor.
Samuel Granat, who has been in the city
several days in the interest of the Southern Sign company and who obtained a
contract from the city to furnish street signs has returned to San Antonio.
Hon. R. W. L. H. Kennon, publisher of the
Rockdale Reporter and Lord Chief Justice of the Rockdale precinct, is spending a
few days in the city, taking the baths and imbibing Marlin's famed hot water.
L. D. Prewett of Elgin is another man who
will long sing the praises of Marlin and its hot water. He came here with
a stiff case of rheumatism only a few days ago and is now on the road to a rapid
recovery.
J. R. Wells and Mrs. John Gratner of Battle
are here on a visit to relatives. This is Mr. Wells' third course of
Marlin hot water baths this season and he says he is ready to meet Fitzsimmons
in the prize ring.
Marlin has received 1700 bales of cotton up
to date. The two gins are running on good time and are turning out the
cotton in a hurry. Much of the cotton is being hauled to be held for
higher prices.
A. E. Achard, the "Getz" man of St. Louis,
has just completed an engagement with The Arlington hotel in this city. He
is one of more than a hundred men who travel around over the United States under
contract to rid hotels and other public buildings of cockroaches and rats.
It is up to the esteemed Rosebud News to
make good on its statement that it is understood that Marlin parties guaranteed
$500 to Foote to bring "Pay Girl" down here to beat the Rosebud horses.
Come on, Bro. Warrock, with the source of your information. Give us names,
please.
The owners of the Sanger farm will not work
the same another year, with convict labor. The squad now employed will be
turned back to the state about Jan 1, account the price which the men are held
at by penitentiary board.
Farms for rent near Marlin Good
improvements. Apply to B. H. Rice.
Sheriff Poole landed in limbo three negroes
Thursday evening on gaming charges. Their names are John Brown, John
Barrett and Charley Scott. They were arrested on the Bud Jones farm south
of town.
Strayed.--One dun stallion pony, weighing
about 850 lbs; no brand. Also one bay pony mare, blaze face, heavy set.
Branded, but don't know brand. Will pay a suitable reward for any
information leading to their recovery. J. W. Phillips, Travis,
Texas.
G. W. Black, a well known farmer who
resides six miles west of Thornton, has sold his 640 acre farm and pasture to J.
D. Clewis and is preparing to take a visit to his old in Tenneesee.(sic)
Mr. Black has resided on this farm for 23 years and has often been a visitor to
Marlin. He received $25.00 per acre for his land.
Cousins & Schuh, at Ed Nicholson's old
stand, buy cottonseed and pecans and pay top prices. See them before you
sell.
In the railroad damage case of James Storey
vs the S. A. & A. P. and the T. & P. railway companies, on trial in county court
the jury gave the plaintiff a verdict for the sum of $200. The case was
quite stubbornly contested, the fight being a three cornered one in which the
plaintiff was endeavoring to secure a judgment against one or both the roads and
each road was endeavoring to show that if there any liability it should rest
against the other road.
Why not stop at the farmers wagon yard?
Shade for your buggies, good stalls for your horses, telephone connection all
over Marlin, ice water to drink. Your trade highly appreciated. The
main reason your trade is wanted so badly is that the feed is only 5 cents per
head and it takes a whole lot of them to come into dollars. Why not come
to the farmers wagon yard, respectfully, B. F. Crouch, yard manager.
County Superintendent Eddins states that
about all the schools in the county have secured teachers and the contracts
signed and in his office. Only a few schools remain now without
instructors and it is thought that these vacancies will be filled soon. In
all instances Falls county teachers been shown preference with other conditions
equal. It has been found that Falls county teachers are more capable than
outsiders to teach Falls county pupils and it is just and appropriate that they
should be given the positions.
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