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Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 15
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 6, 1907
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
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James E. Hackett of Ft. Worth was a visitor to Marlin Sunday.
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Mrs. R. N. Sparks of Amarillo is visiting her parents in this city.
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Miss Sallie Hutton of Georgetown, is visiting Dr. and mrs. J. C. Shaw.
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Miss Mira Turk left Sunday on a visit to friends and relatives in Alabama.
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Mrs. Frank Goodrich and son, Frank, Jr., are visiting relatives in the city.
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Misses Eugenia and Emma Miller of Waco are visiting their cousin, Miss May
Sanders.
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Miss Florence Williamson of Corsicana is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jack Williamson
in this city.
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Frank Shaw, who has been attending the medical college at Galveston, has
returned and is with the Rice Drug Co.
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Zenas W. Bartlett went to Caldwell Saturday night to spend Sunday with his
family who are visiting Dr. A. H. Foster and his wife.
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Antony Neely plead guilty in county court to theft under $50 and was fined $10.
He was sent to join Cox & Magee's army at Chilton.
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Mrs. C. B. Monday and Miss Annie Cook, who were expected to arrive in Marlin
Saturday afternoon, write that they are water bound in Lake Charles, La.
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Oats, Bran, Hay, corn chops, corn meal, ear corn, cottonseed meal and hulls can
always be found at our feed store. Nash, Robinson & Co.
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For quick results in real estate see J. W. Hoke, the land man, over the post
office in the Donoho building, Marlin, Texas.
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Mrs. H. B. Keesee and daughter, Miss Lucy, left Sunday for Houston to be at the
graduating exercises of the Houston high schools. Geo. A. Hill, Jr.,
nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Keesee, is the valedictorian of the class.
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The oil company is preparing to do some extensive improvements to the mill.
The roof, that has been used for fifteen years, will be replaced by a new one
and a cement floor will be laid in the seed house.
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Anderson Rice departed Sunday night for New York. He went by the way of
St. Louis and will visit the Jamestown Exposition before returning home.
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Mrs. W. T. Lenoir left Saturday night for Birmingham, Ala. She will be
accompanied from New Orleans by her daughter who has been visiting relatives in
Mississippi and Louisiana.
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J. W. Gregg is just now recovering from the effects of a severe fall that he
sustained several days ago while in the act of mounting his horse. The animal
made a sudden turn and Mr. Gregg was thrown violently across the railroad track.
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Miss Mamie Bartlett left Sunday for Boston where she will take instruction in
music. She went by the way of New Orleans and will attend the Jamestown
exposition at Norfolk, and visit in New York, while away.
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The directors of the public library have donated all the books belonging to same
to the Public Schools Library and they will be at once moved to the school
building. All who may have books belonging to the library will please
return same to Supt. Doughty at once. He is very anxious to get them in
their proper places immediately.
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Rev. O. T. Hotchkiss took up a collection for the famine suffers in China, at
the Methodist church Sunday, and expects to send the money Wednesday. If
any of our readers want to help in this very worthy cause, they can leave the
amount they wish to give at either of the banks and it will be sent with what
has already been raised.
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G. W. Buchanan, the alert
street representative of the Wells Fargo express company in Marlin, left to-day
for a month's vacation, which he will spend with his father in Tennessee.
"Buck" has been with the company now for four years and this is his first lay
off. Cecil McComb is holding down the job while he is away, having been
checked in by Auditor Harris Saturday afternoon.
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ARTICLE NO. 2 – SAME PAPER
Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 15
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 6, 1907
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
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Miss Annie Belle Cooley
is visiting friends in McKinney.
J. W. Hixson has returned from a visit to
his former in Iowa.
Signet and plain rings at M. E. Chambers &
Co., the jewelers.
W. W. Holland and wife of Bremond were
visitors to Marlin Monday.
Your watch will be properly cared for at M.
E. Chambers, & Co.
Mrs. J. M. Jolly and Miss Blanche Cotton
are attending the Chautaqua at Wootan Wells.
Mr. K. Sewall and wife have returned from
Bobbin where they visited relatives.
Mrs. Tom Spencer has returned to Stamford
after a visit of several weeks with relatives.
I am continually in the market for hogs,
all sizes at market value Any day to bring them to town.
I. N. Conyers.
Miss Eva Nettles and Mrs. B. C. Nettles are
attending the missionary conference at Pittsburg, Texas.
Mesdames O. L. Cobb of Beaumont and T. E.
Newman of Mississippi are guests of Mrs. R. S. Hunnicutt.
Our stock of lumber is complete and our
prices are low as you can get. Estimates carefully figured - Nash,
Robinson & Co.
W. C. Crane, who was principal of the Lott
schools for two years has been elected superintendent of the Franklin schools.
An ice cream supper will be given at Otto
Friday night, next, for the benefit of the Baptist church at that place.
Plenty of ice cream and cake. All come.
A special bargain in a seventeen jewel
Elgin or Waltham movement, twenty year case at M. E. Chambers & Co., the
jewelers.
The transfer of books to the public library
to the public school library adds about 700 volumes to the latter and with new
ones recently added by the school library brings the total to about 2000
volumes.
Gordon Gaither, N. J. Bradley and
Postmaster Eakin of Chilton were here Tuesday on business. Chilton is
growing nicely, they say, and is soon to have two brick buildings. One of
these will be built and occupied by teh bank and the other by Gordon Gaither.
John R. Southwell and W. C. Williamson of
Lott were visitors to Marlin this week. They are both "old timers" in this
county, although neither is yet an old man. They came to this county 41
years ago and have been so well pleased with it that they have never desired to
live anywhere else.
T. J. Herron, cashier of the Marlin
National Bank, left for Fort Worth to join the Texas bankers on their sixth
annual tour. They go this year east and touch fifteen states and several
provinces in Canada. The first stop will be Kansas City; thence to
Chicago, Detroit, Niagara Falls, down St. Lawrence River to Montreal, Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Jamestown, St Louis and home.
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ARTICLE NO. 3 – SAME PAPER
Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 15
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 6, 1907
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Local Happenings.
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J. H. Barnett and wife
are visiting friends and relatives in Mansfield.
Mrs. W. A. Brown of Oklahoma City is
visiting her mother, Mrs. R. L. Singer.
Mrs. W. S. Wall has returned to Houston
after a visit to her sister, Mrs. J. C. Shaw.
Mrs. M. Barry and daughter, Miss Susie,
left Friday for a visit to Church Barry in St. Louis.
J. Frank Clark has gone to Houston to
finish some work in the Texas dental college.
Miss Minnie Smith has returned from
Huntsville where she attended the Sam Houston normal.
Con Isaacs, who has been in the city
several weeks for his health, returned to Rockdale Thursday afternoon.
Wm Hodde of Brenham was in the city
Thursday afternoon in company with T. W. Hander of Perry.
The total census for the Marlin school
district in 1906 was 733, and in 1907 it is 797, showing an increase of 64.
Misses Mary Todd Hair and Beatrice McCoy,
who have been attending Sam Houston normal, have returned home.
Mrs. T. J. Erskine and children left
Thursday for New Mexico to join her husband where they will reside in the
future.
Cam L. Fannin has returned from a week's
visit to Mineral Wells and Marshall. Cam reports a very pleasant vacation.
L. N. Stanley has returned from a three
weeks' stay in Fort Worth and Dallas during which time he attended the supreme
council of the Praetorians.
P. E. Arrington, formerly of this city, has
been placed the (sic) charge of the telephone exchange at Dublin and has moved
to that place.
Stop at the Farmers Wagon yard. Sheds for
your buggy; good stalls for your horses. Ice water to drink. Free
telephone all over Marlin. Electric light at night. All kinds of feed.
Miss Una Elam, who has been teaching in San
Antonio public schools, has returned home, the school having closed for the
term.
Marlin dry goods men have received notice
that the spool cotton trust has advanced the price and they will therefore have
to advance the retail price accordingly.
The rain at this time will not doubt cost
the farmers a great deal in the loss to grain crops. There are farms where
the entire acreage is in hazard and many will lose much of their grain.
Frank Oakes was in from the Oakes farm at
Perry Friday and reports the heaviest rain of the year there Thursday night.
There was considerable wind that blew the corn down badly. No damage to
houses.
The court of criminal appeals has reversed
and remanded the case of Oscar Clark, the Rosebud negro convicted on the charge
of killing another negro at Rosebud and appealed from this county.
The business league has closed contract
with S. A. Ezell to furnish music for the season in Marlin. The contract
calls for six musicians at a weekly pay of 93. They will be here to begin
on June 2.
John B. and Norman Cavitt of Cavitt's ranch
returned Thursday from Milford where they went to attend the closing exercises
of the Presbyterian college, situated at that place. John B. is a member
of the board of trustees of the institution and takes great interest in its
success.
Permits to wed: Lou Willie Allen to
Will Randle; Zadie B Farmer to L J Harrell; Annie Witzel to Joe Mynor; W N
Herndon to Robert Johnston; S A Young to E D Washington; Vallie Beavors to
Voiusus Bozeman.
Since making up his first statement of the
scholastic census, Mr. W. A. Powell, the census taker, has discovered some
errors and omissions which being added, bring the total up to 809, an increase
of 76 over 1907.
W. M. Gunnell returned Thursday afternoon
from Baltimore where he was called on account of the illness of D. S. Maffett.
He reports that Mr. Maffett is improving, but rather slowly. Mrs. Gunnell
remained in Baltimore for a while with her sister.
Sheriff Poole arrested Monk Johnson, a well
known negro on a warrant from Milam county, but the discovery was made that Monk
owed an old time fine here and will be held to work it out before he is sent to
Cameron.
Quite a numbe of visitors seeking health
are in the city from Beeville. Among those present are Thos Welder and
family, A.C. Marsden and family, Jas Goodman and wife, Mrs. Henry McMurray, Will
McMurry and Hugh O'Reilly.
Claud C. Beard left Monday for a visit to
the old in Pineapple, Alabama. Robert Crawford accompanies him as far as
New Orleans where he visits his brother, Howard. At Reagan they were
joined by Col. T. G. Fountain who also goes on a visit to his old in Alabama,
which he has not seen in quite a good many years.
The Democrat is in receipt of a
comprehensive review of the operations of Houston's commission form of
government from a business standpoint. The booklet was written by James E.
Niday, assistant city attorney, who was a teacher in Falls county public schools
for several years and who became a lawyer after moving to Houston. He is
making quite a reputation for himself in his new field.
Reporting the commencement exercises of teh
Hearne public schools the Hearne Democrat says: "One of the most striking
features of the evening's entertainment was an address by Hon. Tom Connally of
Marlin, who had been invited to be present and to participate in the exercises.
Mr. Connally is a young man of rare ability as an orator and a master of the
English language. His address was clear, concise and instructive and was
fraught with much wholesome advice."
Col. W. W. Seeley of Waco, who organized
Marlin B.P.O.E., writes C. B. Monday that he is very anxious to see a good
delegation of Marlin Elks attend the state association at Beaumont on June 10,
11 and 12. The Waco delegation will go down Sunday night, June, 9 on a
special sleeper and reservations can be made for as many as desire to go from
here. Elks who wish to attend one of the best meetings in the history of
the association, should notify Secretary J. W. Powers at once.
Quite recently, two carrier pigeons,
numbers 38 and 42, belonging to Wm. Selkirk of Galveston met a tragic death in
Marlin. The birds were released at 4 o'clock a. m. up on the Texas Central
railway and while on their way to Galveston that afternoon had alighted on a
roof in Marlin where they were both killed at one shot by a small boy who did
not know that they were carriers. The birds had small metal tags on their
feet bearing the name and of the owner and the tags have been forwarded to him.
Mr. Selkirk writes that the birds were among his best and fastest. The
boy very much regrets the occurrence.
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