Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 11
Marlin, Texas,Thursday, May 9, 1907
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
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For good corn see T. J. Kemper.
For Sale--Fine 300 acre black land farm.
See J. W. Hoke.
J. W. Smith of Bruceville is spending the
week in Madisonville.
For Sale--Young mules and two good milch
cows. Fred Woodland, Reagan, Texas.
J. W. Salyers and wife of Houston are
visiting J. H. Robertson and family.
Read the invitation of The Marlin National
Bank in this issue of The Democrat. First page.
Mrs. L. T. Price and daugher of Kosse are
visitors to Marlin this week.
Miss Marie Paul of McGregor has accepted a
position in the millinery department of Curtis & Co.
Arnold Thomas and wife have returned to
their in Abilene after several weeks visit to Marlin.
T. D. Harlan of Blue Ridge was in the city
Monday afternoon enroute to Stamford to visit 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 Alice Barnes has returned from the Sam
Houston Normal Institute, having returned on account of illness.
W. A. Powell has been appointed census
taker for the Marlin school district and will begin the work in a few days.
An all-day singing and dinner on the ground
at Reagan on Sunday was attended by a number of people from Marlin.
Will Murphy, who is a locomative engineer
between Galveston and Houston is visiting his parents, Capt and Mrs. W. B.
Murphy.
Miss Marian Peyton has returned from Reagan
where she ws a teacher in the public schools, which closed Friday night.
Jim Jones, a negro, was arrested at Waco
and brought to Marlin by Sheriff Poole on the charge of shooting hogs belonging
to another.
C. T. hunter received three cars of cattle
from Burton this week. He purchased them from J. M. Craig, who came here
to make the delivery.
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.
Where is the man who is old enough to
remember when people wore overcoats while they "laid by" corn? It has
happened so this spring--or winter, which?
Mrs. P. E. Arrington, after a visit of six
weeks to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Fink, has gone to Dallas where Philmar is
with an electrical supply house.
For Sale.--One eight room and one three
room house, with lot 300x165 feet. Southwest of public square on Bridge
street. Title is perfect. By owner, J. F. Reynolds, Marlin, Tex.
C D. Edwards and Mrs. E. J. Hauk; Isaac
McLennan and Miss Mattie Waters were granted permits to enter the matimonial
state by County Clerk Phillips.
Contract for the hire of the county
convicts will be awarded by the county commissioners court which meets next
Monday. All prospective bidders will take notice.
A Child, about one year old, of W. F.
Fannin, Sr., living near Stranger, died Thursday morning. The remains were
interred in the Stranger cemetary at four o'clock Thursday afternoon.
Reports from Jacksonville say that tomatoes
are doing remarkablly well and that should unforeseen hindrance not happen the
shipments to the north will begin on or before May 20.
Machinery for the sawmill has arrived and
will be put in position by Mr. R. F. Pool at once. The new machines are to
take the place of those that were wrecked in the explosion some weeks ago.
There are some prospects of a fair
association being organized in Marlin, which shall be a county institution.
This would fill the long felt want and be the means of encouraging improved
stock and improved methods of agriculture.
The farmers union of Grady has invited the
public to a meeting to be held there on the third Saturday night this month to
arrange for a picnic to be given under the auspices of the union. A big
time is guaranted to all who will participate in the picnic.
Rev. and Mrs. O. T. Hotchkiss have returned
from houston, Mrs. Hotchkiss having remained there since the death of her
mother. Rev. Hotchkiss went down to attend the meeting of the Women's
Mission Board and to return with Mrs. Hotchkiss.
Take your eggs, Chickens, Ducks, Geese and
Guineas to D. L. Wardlaw, Reagan, Texas. He pays the highest prices for same.
When you have Cotton or Cotton Seed for sale, see him before selling. He
busy anything the farmer has to sell.
These late rains, following an unusually
warm winter makes it imperatively necessary tthat some drastic measures be
adopted to fight the pesky mosquito. A Fine, large crops is coming on and
their bills are exceedingly sharp this year.
The business league directors held a
meeting Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock and mapped out a plan for the finance
committee and they are now seeing those who are expected to subscribe the money
to prosecute the objects of the league.
Our invitation in last week's Democrat
caused so much favorable comment from our farmer friends that we let it in this
week's issue--you will find it on the first page--lower right hand corner.
If you did not read it look up it this week and do so.
The Marlin National Bank.
In the trustee election held Saturday T. E.
Battle, A. Y. Curtis, L. P. Robertson and J. E. Brown were elected. Three
first named were present incumbents and the last named is the new man. His
majority over C. G. Cooley was four votes. Only 58 ballots were cast in
the entire city.
J. W. Hoke, the hustling land man can be
found over the post office any old time ready to show you bargains in real esate
or to list your property for sale. He also represents a number of the best
insurance companies and can place your business in this line, safely and
satisfactorially.
An impending war was averted at the I. & G.
N. depot Friday by the timely interference of Agent Heffner. The
combatants were negroes and their obstreperous conduct had reached the limit.
Mr. Heffner broke up the party in a ljiffy and the dove of peace again hovers in
that vicinty.
Tex (sic) Assessor Barnett says that the
people generally are rendering their property at higher values than formerly and
that he thinks much of the complaint against the new order of tax matters will
pass away as soon as the public is convinced that higher values mean lower
rates.
R. Tatsch has received notice of the death
of his father, aged 85 years, which occurred at Fredericksbnurg Thursday night.
Mr. Tatsch could not get there in time for the funeral, but left Sunday for
Fredericksburg where he will remain for several months.
Strayed or Stolen:--One red cow, branded
BIL (b inverted) on left side. Yearling following, not marked or branded.
Will pay $2.50 for information leading to her recovery.
L. B. Bitschnow,
Perry, Texas.
Charley Lloyd of Reagan and J. W. Storey of Travis were in the city Friday
closing up a deal in which the former buys a tract of land from the latter near
Travis. Mr. Lloyd will probably move to his new purchase in the near
future. "Just could not leave Falls county," he says.
The latest sample of Texas law making whcih
requires that all sheets on beds in hotels be at least nine feet long for the
special accommodation of the tall men of the state, has the aspect of special
legislation for the benefit of a particular class. It would seem to be up
to the landloards (sic) and boarding house keepers to recoup themselves by
charging for lodgings by the foot.--Boston Herald.
Henry Wren and wife will
leave Saturday for California to spend the summer.
A. D. Barrow of Iredell is among the
visitors. He was formerly in the lumber business at Travis and is quite
well known in this county.
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