Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 29
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, August 31, 1907
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
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Miss Mary Waite of Waco is the guest of Miss Lucile Rogers.
Miss Lorena Baker is visiting in
Nacogdoches.
City Collector Burkhead, has been quite ill
for several days with fever.
Mrs. B. F. Foster has returned from a visit
to relatives in southwest Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Mitchell of Bryan are
guests at Mrs. Mary Robinson's.
Miss Ruby Price has returned to Reagan
after a visit to relatives in Marlin.
E. B. Blease of Dallas is a visitor to
Marlin, combining business with pleasure.
Mrs. Hale has returned to her in Dallas
after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. A. Lamb.
E.L.R. Wheelock and wife of Austin are
visiting Mrs. E. H. Wheelock in this city.
Misses Dove Davis of Reagan and Viola
Willman of Houston are visiting friends in the city.
Mrs. Kate Martin has returned to her in
Bryan after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Martin.
Miss Maggie Strack has arrived from Austin
on a visit to Mesdames John and Theo. Portele.
Mrs. Arthur Connally, who was a guest of
Mrs. Tom Connally, has returned to her in Clarendon.
Mrs. T. O. Fountain and children have
returned to their in Ennis after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fountain.
H. A. Hodges, manager of the Cameron Lumber
company of Chilton, was here Wednesday afternoon on business.
Mrs. A. C. Schimming is visiting in Rosebud
and Ben Arnold. Albert has been elected outer guard of the Widower's Club.
Companions Parks and Bryant of Mexia came
over Wednesday and at night conferred the council degrees on a team of
candidates of Marlin chapter.
I. N. Conyers consigned two cars of hogs to
Cuba Tuesday. Mr. Conyers reports the demand for export to be greater than
the supply just now.
C. H. Oakes of Perry has purchased the T.
G. Marburger residence property, consisting of a house and four lots in
Threadgill addition. Consideration, $2,000.
Mrs. Geo. M. Massengale has returned to her
in Oklahoma City after a visit to relatives on Blue Ridge and in the city.
D. R. Emerson, W. E. Hunnicutt, N. J.
Lewellyn, M. V. Bradshaw, S. J. Barton and others are from Rosebud where they
attended the fair and racing event.
Permits to wed:
W.M. McDowell, Sara Fisher;
W G Robbins, Pauline Kirkpatrick;
D P Moore, Mildred Robinson;
Albert Conway, Della Robinson.
C. D. Whitely, a leading merchant of Mart
is in the city. He has about recovered from a severe attack of rheumatism
as a result of taking the baths and treatment here.
Conductor W. T. Turner of the H. & T. C.,
who has been in the city for several days, has returned to his run out of
Houston. While here he bought two very fine drivers.
Dr. J. C. Shaw has returned from Blue
Shoals on the Brazos where he spent a day with a party of his Reagan friends
camping out. The doctor had a good time, he says, and prescribes a similar
trip for others in quest of a good time.
Nick Goodrich did not attend the Elks
banquet at Dallas, account the accident that befell his father. The judge
is resting very well, though his injury is quite painful.
A committee from the fair management will
take up the matter of decorations with the merchants and hopes that all the
business houses may be decorated for the fair next week.
Conductor Bob Perkins of the I. & G. N.,
accompanied by his wife and mother, is here from Mart. Bob was recently
painfully injured in an accident while on duty, but has about recovered.
The Huber building on Live Oak street that
is leased by B. D. LaPrelle for his electric theater is being renovated and the
entrances repainted for the occupancy of the theater on and after Sept. 1.
John Marks of Beaumont is among the late
arrivals in the city. He is suffering from an acute attack of rheumatism
which he has had for two years. He decided to get well and is here for
that purpose.
Mrs. R. B. Dickey who has been visiting in
the city for several days returned to her in Waco Wednesday afternoon
accompanied by Miss Alice Goodrich and Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Nettles.
J. O. Heffner of Bonham is visiting his
brother, F. S. Heffner. He is agent for the T. & P. railway company at
Bonham. Says that country has had plenty of rain and the farmers are busy
fighting boll weevils.
Allie Noble, the Heffner mare, which won so
handsomely in the 2:20 trot at the Rosebud fair Wednesday afternoon, was driven
by Luke P. Russell and that was his first race to drive. He is the owner
of Hal Noble, a full brother of Allie, and his friends already see in him a good
horseman.
A lady from Galveston has recovered her
gold watch advertised in The Democrat. She lost if in the Arlington
electric theater and it was found by a boy. The boy didn't see the "ad,"
but some one, who saw the "ad", saw the watch, and it was restored to its owner.
The total cost of the ad three days was only 75 cents.
The H. & T. C. recently had their civil
engineer to make a survey of the ditch along their track between Coleman and
Live Oak streets and south, with a view of acting upon the city's very urgent
and often repeated requests and demands that the ditch be so constructed as to
carry off the water. This particular ditch has long been a source of much
controversy between the city and the railroad and the public and all parties
concerned will no doubt be relieved when it is finally disposed of.
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