Local Happenings - April 25, 1907

Typed as spelled and written

Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth Year - Number 9

Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 25, 1907

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

Mrs. W. J. Brewer of Rosebud is visiting Mrs. T. J. Kempner.

Newton Holloway has returned to Fort Worth after a short visit to Marlin.

Mrs. W. F. Fannin has returned from a visit to her sister at Rockdale.

Mrs. J. M. Neal and daughter of Reagan are visiting friends in Marlin.

5000 cotton choppers are a few. See ad of Marlin National Bank on front page.

J. H. Huffman of Greenville is a visitor to Marlin for the baths. He is at W. B. Murphy's.

Mrs. S. L. Golding has returned to her in Lott after a visit to Mrs. L. Ginsburg.

County Clerk Phillips has sold his fine young mare for $325.00 to E. A. Smith of Willis.

J. M. Watters of Reeves, Texas, is here on business in connection with the Watters estate.

Rev. M. T. Andrews has returned from New Boston where he conducted a revival meeting.

Lost.--New $6.50 white Stetson hat on Rockdam road, $2.50 reward--leave at T. B. Elsberry.

Mrs. Dot Murphy McKnight of Brinkley, Ark., is visiting her parents, Captain and Mrs. W. B. Murphy.

Calvin Bratton and wife were visiting at Alto Springs Sunday. A fine rain fell in that section and the farmers are very jubilant.

Mrs. Guy Elam has returned from a visit to Ennis. Mr. Elam accompanied her and is taking a week's vacation from railroading.

Mrs. Vaulkus, who was a guest of Mrs. W. D. Kyser, has returned to Fort Worth. She was accompanied by Mrs. W. E. Hunnicutt.

Sam Hawkins, penitentiary inspector for the state, is here from Denton inspecting the state convict camp on the Sanger farm.

L. N. Stanley has returned from Waco where he attended the senate of the Practorian lodge. The senate meets in 1909 at Houston.

Pasturage for horses, mules and cattle. Plenty of grass and water. Charges reasonable. Apply to J. E. Powell, 3 miles north of town.

S. N. Donohoo sold that camel hide for $20.00. The purchaser is J. M. Foster of Safford, Ariz., and he will ship the hide to Los Angeles to be dressed.

John G. Oltorf has returned from a business trip to Ft Worth. The climate is pretty warm up that way, account the prohibition contest now on.

Read Democrat advs. If you ever had any idea of patronizing foreign mail order houses you will "change your mind" if it is real bargains you are after.

Theo. Pieper is erecting himself a new planing mill on the location of his old one. The new one will be much better adapted to this purposes than the old one.

J. C. Fountain has returned from a visit to Burkeburnett, a new town in the Panhandle near Witchita Falls. Click says that country looks good to a stranger.

Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Kyser have returned from Waco where they went to see their son, Ernest, who is in the hospital there. He is doing nicely since the operation was performed Saturday.

R. O. Malone of Corsicana is visiting his wife, who is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Barton. He is suffering from a broken ankle, sustained in a fall from a telephone pole.

Albert Levy, the hustler, was out of of town on business Monday night, hence his absence from the business league meeting. Albert is always in for helping Marlin and regrets that he could not be present at the meeting.

If any one wants to help the famine sufferers in China, hand your contribution to Rev. O. T. Hotchkiss or J. W. Hoke, and it will go on its good work. Amounts contributed will be published in the Democrat.

Cards are out announcing the marriage of Miss Annie Lucile Jones to Mr. Horace N. Hill at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jones on Thursday evening, April 25, 1907.

Polk Hedrick, city marshal of Corsicana, was here Monday afternoon on his way to Lott to see his aged mother, who is quite ill. Mr. Hedrick is a son of J. T. Hedrick, who lived for many years in West Falls.

M. M. Hagens of Kerrville is visiting relatives at Marlin and Reagan. Mr. Hagens formerly resided in this county and went west in 1891. He says the Kerrville country has been very dry until the rain of last week.

The special election held in the Chilton independent district Saturday resulted in the tax being voted by the brutal majority of 114 to 14. The tax is for maintenance of the school and is 20 cents on the $100.

J. W. Hoke, the hustling land man can be found over the post office any old time ready to show you bargains in real estate 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.

Sheriff Poole received a message from Lott Monday stating that Mrs. Poole was quite ill at the residence of her sister near that place. Mesdames Poole and Watkins went to Lott Friday afternoon and were out in the bad weather for some time.

B. J. Linthicum is having a concrete sidewalk put down in front of Cheeves & Linthicum and Gunnell stores. If the owners of three brick buildings on the west side of Commerce will now get busy that street will look just a hundred per cent better and pedestrians will not be in constant fear of bodily injury from stepping in a crack and falling.

Marlin merchants do a mail order business of no small proportions. People who visit their stores see stocks of goods that are not excelled if equalled by few towns or the smaller cities and they find the prices so reasonable that they cannot resist the temptation to send orders by mail after they return home.

James E. Tomlinson is from a two weeks' visit to Shields Key at Garden City. Jim brought with him two wolf hides and says they are very numerous in that part of the state. He asserts that Shields ran one down the other day and penned him in the lot and knocked him in the head with an axe.

A child of Ed Yates came very near dying from the effects of swallowing some kerosene oil. The oil had been poured into a cup for the purpose of sprinkling the water in the cistern, when the child picked up the cup and drank a portion of the contents. It has been in a precarious condition, but is improving.

A tank car containing Beaumont crude oil was bursted at the H. & T. C. freight depot Wednesday afternoon and 12.-378 gallons of oil spilled on the tracks and ground nearby. The car was consigned to Waco from Beaumont and the accident occurred while the freight train was switching. Another car "bumped" into the oil car in such a way as to break the connecting pipes. Quite a number of people secured various quantities of the waste oil and the track was lubricated for more than a hundred yards.

What can a league committee do to promote trade? ask some one. If you will take a drive along the public roads leading out of Marlin you will find there is enough to do to keep a public road committee busy for several months. The roads in Falls county, as a whole, are better than in many counties, but there is always room for improvement. This a better county than many and therefore deserves and should have better roads. There are bad places that should be filled, bridges that should be repaired and whole sections of roads that should be graded and graveled. These matters should be kept before the commissioners court until the work is done.

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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.