Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 50
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 13, 1907
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
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Corn is selling for 60 to 65 cents per bushel in Marlin.
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Mrs. S. D. Magee of Jonah and Mrs. W. M. Burris of Weir are visitors to Marlin.
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Mrs. D. L. Wardlaw and Miss Sallie Wardlaw of Reagan were visitors to Marlin
Friday.
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Sheriff Poole received a requisition from Hill county for a Mexican wanted for
bigamy and who is believed to reside near Gurley. The sheriff will
endeavor to deliver the umbra to the Hill county authorities.
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Local cotton receipts continue exceedingly light. Very few farmers are
selling any at all and many of those who do sell, dispose of but a portion of
their crop to "tide over" with. The determination to hold seems as strong
as ever.
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Quite a lively game of football was played Friday afternoon by the Marlin high
school team. The gate receipts were not very large as only ten cents
admission was charged. The game was quite interesting and showed that the
Marlin team can do some good playing for amateurs.
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Account delay is a portion of the material the handsome new and uptodate (sic)
awning of Rush, Gardner & Bartlett Company is not yet quite completed, but it is
practically complete. This is quite an improvement to their building and
is a mark of progress and enterprise.
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In addition to the matchless architecture of her stately public school building.
it (sic) is not unreasonable for Marlin to boast of the largest 15-year-old
school boy in the state. The beam of the Fairbanks scale tinkles at the
figure of 265 with hat, coat and shoes on. The challenge is out to the
state to make a better showing.
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Dr. A. P. Barton of Lohn, near Brady, is visiting friends at Mooreville and was
here Saturday renewing acquaintances and friendships. Dr. Barton moved to
West Texas in 1906 and purchased quite a lot of land out there. He says
the cotton crop is very light, but that the small grain crop of fall planting is
very fine.
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Manager of M. L. Levy of the Arlington opera house is sending out invitations to
the lecture on Ibsen Mrs. Sarah Dunbar, which will be delivered at the opera
house Monday afternoon, Nov. 11, at four o'clock. The lecture is said to
be a very fine one and Mrs. Dunbar will no doubt have a large audience.
The admission will be free.
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Miss Cora Shipp has received from a friend at Alvin, a bunch of oranges grown
near that place, in which are fifteen well developed oranges on one twig ten
inches long. The fifteen oranges weight eight pounds and the flavor is
very delicious. Texas can grow as fine oranges as any state in the south
and the Alvin country is especially adapted to them.
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