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Lena Stone
Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth year - Number 56
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, December 4, 1907
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Miss Nema
Carver of Rockdale is visiting Miss Lillie Price.
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S. S.
Goodman and wife of Eddy are visitors to Marlin.
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Mrs.
Ballew of Brady is visiting her mother, Mrs. C. D. Newbold.
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Mrs. B. F.
Hawkins has returned to her in Waco after a visit to relatives in Marlin.
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Mrs. M. L.
Rimes and daughter of San Angelo are visiting in Marlin and are guests at the
Majestic.
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Mrs. Dick
Clark has returned to her in Dallas after a visit to her parents, Col. and Mrs.
A. E. Watson.
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Rev. C. B.
Williams, of Baylor University at Waco, preached at the First Baptist church
Sunday and Sunday night.
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Mesdames
Hanna and Gibson of Calvert were chaperones to party of young people from that
town to attend the opera Monday night.
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Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Gregg are attending the Fort Worth Dog Show, having entered their
fine collie, Claemour Claude, in the prize contest.
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Judge Z.
I. Harlan conducted lay services at the Methodist church Sunday in the absence
of the pastor, Rev. Hotchkiss, who is at the conference in Houston.
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A
Christmas racing event is being discussed and it may assume a definite shape in
a few days. With favorable weather it could be made a success, the
projectors believe.
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For
Sale--156 1/2 acres of the best black land, for miles southeast of Eddy; church
and school house one-fourth miles. A fine farm at a bargain. See
Eddins & Taylor, the land men, over Marlin National Bank. 223.
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Mr. and
Mrs. E. C. Smith are visitors to the Fort Worth Dog Show, where they have
entered "Red Snapper." Earle says that he will be satisfied with second
prize if he can't land the first.
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Parties
wanting to sell good farm property should not fail to see J. W. Hoke, the land
man over Marlin National Bank. List your property with him. 25 tf.
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W. W.
Hunnicutt went to Waco Monday afternoon to attend the Grand Royal Arch Chapter
and Grand Masonic lodge. He is a member of the committee on work in the chapter
and will be there this and next week.
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Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Hoke have returned from Houston, where they went to attend the
meeting of the Texas Conference. The attendance and interest was the best
that that has been held in several years and the reports of the various charges
were satisfactory.
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The
workmen are putting up the new awning around the front of the Frank Peacock's
building on the square and Live Oak street. The awning will be similar to
that of Rush, Gardner & Bartlett Company and is a further evidence of progress.
How nice it would be if all other owners of buildings would follow suit.
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John
Humphrey, the celebrated horseman, is from Beaumont where he went with a pair of
harness horses belonging to Frank Peacock. The harness races were declared
off by the Beaumont people on account of so much rain and therefore they were
deprived of the privilege of seeing how Marlin horses can move.
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H. O.
Melvin, whose postoffice address is Perry's Landing, says that he found a lady's
purse in Houston during the carnival, containing a small sum of money, some hair
pens, a necklace and a return trip ticket from Houston to Marlin. He
thinks the purse belongs to some Marlin lady. If so, she can receive same
by writing to Mr. Melvin and identifying the property.
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