Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 27
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, August 24, 1907
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
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Miss Lucile Hackett of Chilton is the guest of Miss May Jones.
Mrs. W. S. Snell has returned from a visit
to Hearne and Calvert.
Mrs. Wiley Davis is visiting friends and
relatives in Fort Worth.
Miss Cassie Higgins of Reagan is visiting
Miss Linda Finks in this city.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Allen have returned from
a week's visit to Galveston.
Mrs. Singer and daughter, Miss Annie have
returned from a visit to Denton.
Hon. Julian Lewellyn has returned to Conroe
after a visit to relatives in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Tutsch have returned from a
three month's visit to Fredericksburg.
Hawthorne Kyser, is visiting his uncle, E.
E. Kyser, on the Davis ranch near Rosebud.
Mesdames C. A. and C. D. Cox left Sunday on
a visit to relatives and friends in Hubbard City.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Threadgill have returned to
Fort Worth after a visit to Mr. Threadgill's in Wadesboro, N. D.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hackett have returned to
Fort Worth after a visit to relatives in the city and at Chilton.
Mrs. J. W. Pace of Alamagorda, New Mexico,
is visiting her father, A. G. Chamberlain, and family on Blue Ridge.
Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Fountain of Ennis are
visiting in the city, guests at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fountain.
W. W. Turner left Sunday afternoon for
Denver, Colorado, to spend the three days shoot in the Great Western Handicap.
Reagan's first bale of the 1907 crop was
raised by R. T. Moore and sold to the Reagan Mercantile Co.., at 14 cents per
pound.
Deputy Watkins returned Monday afternoon
from Highbank with Ed Cooper, a negro, who is wanted on a charge of gaming.
Ben E. Clark of Blevins, one of the grand
jurors, is suffering with an injured leg that he let come into close proximity
with a mule's hoof.
Dave Baker of Navasota came in Saturday and
expects to stay until his health is improved. He met an accident on his
farm and his physician naturally recommended Marlin.
Dr. G. P. Reeves, J. C. Holloway and Joe
Bailey of Lott are serving district court as jury commissioners. They are
drawing the jurors for next term of the court.
George Winkelmann of Rosebud, formerly
county commissioner of that precinct, is in the city taking the baths for
rheumatism. He says that the cotton in that section will be about half the
yield of 1906.
C. B. Monday and wife have returned from a
week's stay at Palacios and points in east Texas. They report a most
delightful time except when they started they got on a slow train which spent
about as much time standing as running.
A negro named George Massey was arrested
Saturday afternoon by Sheriff Poole for running down a child on the square.
The negro was on a wheel, which struck the child with such force as to cause its
nose to bleed. The name of the child has not been learned.
The demand for cotton pickers is opening up
briskly. The cotton east of Marlin in the Otto and Odds sections, where it
has been dry for three months, is opening very rapidly. The yield will be
light in those sections.
The case of Tom Howard vs Sam Davis,
sheriff of Coryell county was continued in district court Monday. Tom
Howard, the plaintiff, alleges that he was held by Sheriff Davis in the jail at
Gatesville at Gatesville illegally and has entered suit for damages for false
imprisonment.
Sheriff Poole returned Wednesday night from
Rosebud with Lee Lawrence in custody who is wanted on a charge of disposing of
mortgaged property. Lawrence claims that the mule, the property mortgaged,
ran away while other parties interested in the transaction allege that the
animal was driven off.
The fair management is providing ample
stalls for the racers during the fair and racing event in September. There
will be plenty of water on the grounds and everything else that is needed for
the comfort of man and beast. One hundred horses are expected.
Miss Eva Lee Nettles has returned from
Chautauqua, New York, where she took special instruction in advanced studies.
Misses Harriett Somervell and Evelyn Rice, who accompanied her remain for a
visit in New York and Philadelphia, respectively, before returning to Marlin.
A. Y. Curtis has returned from New York
where he went on a four weeks purchasing trip. He says the crime wave now
passing over New York is fully as revolting as it has been pictured in the
public prints. It exists mostly in the Italian colonies and the officers
are well nigh powerless to stop it owing to the mysterious methods employed.
One plea of guilty was entered in Justice
court Wednesday. Curtis Marshal plead guilty to jumping a freight train
and was fined $5.00 and trimmings. The negro was seen to board the train
at Highbank and the officers in Marlin were notified to catch him upon his
arrival in this city, and he was taken in by Deputy Cooley and George B.
Collier.
John G. Oltorf and H. B. Keesee, who are
traveling for the Ivory soap people, are taking a week's vacation. John
says that he will probably move to Dallas about Sept. 1, regretting very much to
leave Marlin. His territory is in north Texas, principally in Dallas and
Fort Worth and it is therefore much more convenient to have his in Dallas.
City Marshal Stallworth deserves the
highest appreciation of the citizens of Marlin for his vigilant and relentless
effort to suppress the nefarious practice of feloniously burning property.
There is no crime in the category that is more reprehensive than that of arson
and the guilty fully deserve the limit of the law. It is to be hoped that
this foul crime will never again blot the fiar name of our city. And this
can, in a measure, at least, be accomplished if the citizens will sustain the
efforts of the officers.
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