Local Happenings 1 - December 4, 1907

Typed as spelled and written

Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth year - Number 56

Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, December 4, 1907

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

W. T. Price has purchased the store of J. N. Adams at Odds and has taken charge of same.

Sheriff Poole has returned from Terrell where he took John Henry Saunders to the asylum.

Mrs. J. P. Laney has returned to in Lockhart, after a visit to her mother, Mrs. Z. H. McMillan.

Guy Montelin of Austin is now the night clerk at the Arlington, filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Hicks.

Oscar Anding is here from Cleburne on a visit to relatives. He is with the Santa Fe store office at Cleburne. His older brother, Clyde, is with the Wells-Fargo Express Company at the same place.

The inventory of the Foster bankrupt property, made by S. H. Johnson under appointment of the court, shows a valuation of $20,000, including exemptions. The stock will be sold at public outcry on December 5.

Cousins & Schuh are shipping out another lot of pecans, this time to Florida. They have shipped about a dozen tons this season which have gone to points all over the United States. The crop in this county, is as forecasted, unusually large.

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A. B. Moore, a well known printer of Fort Worth, is in the city for the benefit of his health. Mr. Moore recently disposed of his business in Fort Worth and is now devoting his time to regaining his health. He is doing nicely.

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W. E. Ellis and daughter, Miss Lou Ellen Ellis of Waller are visitors to Marlin for the benefit of Miss Ellis' health. They were joined early in the week by J. W. Golledge of Ardmore, grandfather of Miss Ellis, and on Friday afternoon by Miss Dee Ellis, an aunt, of Houston. The party is stopping at the Fannin.

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The few people from the country who can get here, conveniently, report the roads in worse condition than they have been in five years. In some places they are well nigh impassable and in all sections they are very heavy on the teams. In one case that comes to notice, a horse died as the result of 'heavy pulling in the mud.

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Conductor Charles Dean of the Central was long on newly wedded couples as passengers Thursday, and he declares that at least a barrel of rice was strewn in the seats and aisles and on the platforms of his passenger coaches. Going south he had Mr. and Mrs. Phillips; returning on the run he "picked up" Mr. and Mrs. LaFon at Reagan, and at Perry Mr. and Mrs. Stolte. The captain enjoys the distinction of having the first "haul" on these thanksgiving couples.

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The Arlington hotel treated its guests, regular and special, to a sumptuous dinner on Thanksgiving day, which was quite in keeping with the season. A prominent feature on the souvenir menu was 'possum and tater', which was especially enjoyed by the diners as something quite out of the ordinary. A large number of people were guests at this dinner and are quite liberal int heir praise of the excellent quality of the meal and the manner in which, it was served.

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