Local Happenings - April 18, 1907

Typed as spelled and written

Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth Year - Number 8

Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 18, 1907

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

The criminal docket in county court has been set for the week beginning April 29.

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

J. W. Hamilton of Rosebud is here for the baths and treatment for rheumatism.

James A. Loughridge, formerly a citizen of this city, was here Sunday from Waco.

J. W. Jones of Mooreville was in the city on business. He reports dry weather in that section.

J. W. Hamilton of Rosebud, who is here for the baths, is improving nicely from an attack of rheumatism.

Miss Cockrell, representing the Belton female college, was in the city this week and received some substantial assistance.

Rev. B. C. Pfiffner, pastor of the Catholic church, is spending the week in Lott in the interest of the church at that place.

W. P. A. Sloan has returned from Austin where he has been for several weeks under treatment. His health is very much improved.

The Falls county court bill died in the Senate. On account of the grand rush at the close of the regular session it was lost in the shufle.(sic)

Marlin is called slow by some good people, but she is sane and safe. She will get there just the same and when she gets there she will stay there.

The case of Jim Nelson, convicted in district court for one of the street carnvial murders, has been submitted to the court of appeals.

G. H. Hammons has returned from a visit to his old at Travis. He reports a "Dry streak" in that section and a blue front on the farmers' faces.

Representative C. J. Bartlett came up from Austin Saturday to spend Sunday at home. He says times have been strenuous in Austin the past two weeks.

The baseball and basket ball games between Mart and Marlin teams that are to be played the latter part of this week promise to be lively affairs.

C. D. Campbell, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants bank at Mart, was in the city Sunday afternoon to meet his wife who was returning from a visit to South Texas.

R. Tatsch is laying a concrete sidewak in front of his building, occupied by Ed Nicholson, on Commerce street. Good for the public. Good for Tatsch. Let others follow suit.

J. R. Wells of Mart arrived Sunday afternoon to take another boiling out course for some time. He is a guest at the of his daughter, Mrs. Jeff Funderburk, on Harrison street.

The Central Texas Presbytery meets in Marlin at the Presbyterian church on Wednesday, April 24. It is expected that it will be well attended by divines and laymen of that church.

Charley Lloyd of Reagan, who sold out his farm near that place and tried hard to leave the good old county of Falls, has found that he cannot do it. He has purchased land near Travis.

John B. Cavitt, who recently moved to Falls county and settled on the Cavitt ranch, says that Falls county climate is more salubrious than that of Robertson county, and that he is enjoying the change to the limit.

The child of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kirkpatrick died at Chilton, Monday morning, after an illness of twenty one days. It was sixteen months of age.

Permits to wed:

T S Upchurch, Lula May Roberts;

B F Allen, Delia Hale;

Charlie Hamlin, Charity Warren;

H K Shehan, Katie Luttrell;

Lonie Duder, Gertrude Smith:

Louis Hooker, Lena Carroll;

Allie Mays, Emma Mays.

Frank and Shirely Cotton, who went to San Francisco several weeks ago, write that they have engaged in the contracting and building business in that city and that they are doing a splendid business.

G. R. Strange of Reisel was a visitor in the city Sunday. Mr. Strange says that the corn and cotton around Reisel are beginning to suffer for rain and that the small grain will be a partial failure.

Col. R. S. Hunnicutt has returned from South Texas where he has been engaged in town building with J. E. Garrett for several weeks. They have built two good ones, says the colonel, and have the foundation laid for the third one.

B. M. Goodman of Lott has removed to Waco and will make this place his home. He has bought the Joe Girard place on North Fourth and has also invested in business property on the south side of the square.--Waco Times-Herald.

Allen-Curry Lumber Co. are arranging to put in their grist mill at their new yard at the corner of Winter and Capps streets. When this addition shall be completed and some other changes which they contemplate, are made they will have one of the most compact and conveniently arranged yards to be found in the state.

For Sale:--Fine improved Rowdon cotton seed for sale. For further information apply to H. W. Ward, Reagan, Tex.

I. L. Wood, agent for the I. & G. N-at, Otto, is taking the hot baths for rheumatism. Mr. Wood was relieved of a severe attack of the same trouble some years since by the hot baths and the treatment here and has no doubt he will again be cured.

City Marshall (Sic) Sullivan of Caldwell is in the city for a boiling out course. He has made several such visits to Marlin with results highly satisfactory to himself. Mr. Sullivan has served faithfully the people of Caldwell in his official capacity for many years.

County Superintendent Eddins was feeling "very good, thank you" Thursday afternoon upon receipt of a telegram from Austin that the superintendent's educational bill had been passed. The bill adds $300 per year to the salary of the county superintendents.

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.(sic)

The amount of $153 has been forwarded by Capt. W. B. Murphy to Mrs. J. B. Beatty, custodian for the U. D. C. at Houston, as their share of the proceeds of the Van Amburg shows that exhibited in Marlin Friday and Friday night. This fund is to go toward maintaining a Confederate widows at Austin.

Archie Gee, a white man, was placed in jail Wednesday evening on a charge of being drunk in a public place. Gee stated next morning that jail life didn't agree with him; that as soon as the doors closed behind him he was seized with a congestive chill and that he was not able to stand trial. He was given further time to permit his temperature to become normal before putting him through the mill.

James M. Foster of Safford Ariz and John R. Foster of Crockett are visiting their brothers, B. F. and T. J. in Marlin. James M. was a citizen of Marlin for several years, but has been in the west for the past seven or eight years. He is at the head of an extensive mercantile business in Safford.

Brown Leghorn eggs, 15 for 50 cents, also Jersey cow with young calf for sale. Call on or addresss. O. H. Mils, Reagan, Tex.

Marlin Music Company, has made a record of the peculiar and original music that is made by Whistling Dick Sims, the old negro who has amused thousands of people with his whistler and bones. The old darkey was visibly effected when he heard his "echo" in the phonograph, though he does not yet understand how he was thus lured in the fathomless realms of the unknown.

A dispatch from Austin states that the adjutant general is looking for locations to establish two target ranges for the practice of members of the Texas national grounds. These ranges are maintained, in part, by the federal government and part by the state. The adjutant general's attention should be called to Marlin as a most desirable place for one of these ranges.

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