Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 27
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, September 4, 1902
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LOCALS.
The street fair committee
has engaged the local musicians to furnish music during the street fair and
merchants carnival. The bands will use the brass band instruments for playing.
Beaumont oil is coming into general use for
feul. Several of the gins in the county have put in oil burners and are
using the oil instead of wood and coal.
The steam laundry has been closed down for
the past three days owing to trouble they are having with the water and
machinery. Messrs. Carnahan & Gentle, the proprietors, hope to have the
plant running again soon however.
A. O. Bowden will repair your watch, Clock
or jewelry. Herron's drug store, Marlin, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Miller, of Rosebud, are
visiting friends in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Gilbert left Monday
afternoon for a month's visit to Austin, Houston and other places.
Furniture, stoves, wallpapers, crockery,
glassware and tinware at lowest prices.
- W. W. Hammer & Co.
Mr. Harris, who lives near Wilderville,
brought to Marlin a petrified portion of the jaw or tooth of a prehistoric
animal. The tooth or teeth were well preserved, the enamel being intact
though the general condition of the piece shows evidences of having remained for
ages imbedded in mother earth. It was found by Mr. Harris in a sand bar of
the Brazos river below the Blue Shoals. It is about seven inches long and
weighs several pounds.
The sending out of literature advertising
the Marlin street fair and merchants' carnival still continues. Mr. J. R.
Taylor, chairman and two clerk (sic) have been quite busy for several days and
are not through yet.
Mr. Joe Reagan and family, who have spent
three weeks in the city, have returned to their in Hope, Arkansas. Mr.
Reagan's health was poor when he came here but was greatly improved.
The committee in charge of the work of
securing meats for the Confederate barbecue have secured half a dozen beeves and
a number of mutton, shoats, etc. It is desired to arrange for the feeding
of about 4000 people on Confederate day as it is estimated that that many will
be present. While it is gotten up for the veterans, it will of course, be
open to all. A contribution to the support of this feature of the Carnival
week will be specially meritorious in that it will be lending a hand to the
entertainment of a large number of desirable visitors.
L. H. Foster has returned from Weatherford
where he has been residing the past several months. He will be with
Cheeves & Linthicum this fall.
The Waco Baptist Association recently in
session at Rosebud advanced the salary of their missionary, Rev. C. Smith, to
$100. His work is meeting with success.
The Committee on the Confederate Barbecue
is at work soliciting donations to the barbecue on September 16. They are
meeting with fair success and should be assisted by all. This can be made
the best day of the week of festivities and all should lend their energy in that
direction.
Geo. W. Ogden, mayor of Otto, was in the
city Wednesday night on business. The Mayor is in a dilemma. He has
been duly elected but has not qualified as yet. He does not desire the
office though the emoluments thereof are great and yet he is afraid that if he
refuses to serve that he will be expelled from his party.
Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Robeson are preparing to
start on an overland trip over western Texas and will start within the next few
days. A light tourist wagon has been fitted up with all the conveniences
of camp life. They will be gone several months.
Frank Peacock, proprietor of the saloon on
the corner, has a word to say in the Democrat. This saloon is
open day and night and is a nice place to spend an hour. Pool hall near
saloon. Polite and courteous attenton to all.
NOTICE WOODMEN.
All Woodmen are
urged to be out Thursday night. Business of much importance. Come,
all of you soverigns.
W S Conley, B F
Foster,
C. C. Clerk
There's hundreds of health resorts on this
old earth but there's none exactly like Marlin.
Mr and Mrs Julian Lewellyn and Julian, Jr.,
of Conroe, are visiting Mr. Lewellyn's mother here.
Misses Fatie and Etta Knowles, of Chilton,
were visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Powell.
Prof. Z. A. McMillan formerly of this
county, but now a resident of Stamford was in the city Saturday.
Mrs. Stanley Mosely who has been visiting
the Storeys west of the river returned to her in Mexia Saturday.
Mart has been experiencing a cotton crush
for several days. The wharf at that place proved inadequate to hold the
cotton and on account of the scarcity of labor the road was handicapped in
moving it. About 400 bales was stored on the ground along side the track
and a special freight with 35 employes (sic) was sent up Saturday night to raise
the embargo.
James R. Taylor, chairman of the street
fair and carnival committee is quite busy these days sending out advertising
matter for the Marlin street fair. Already about 40,000 pieces have been
sent out and a great many letters have been written. The prospects are
that it will bring together one of the largest crowds that ever assembled in
Central Texas.
The remains of Mrs. Geo. Riwer were
interred Wednesday. Deceased lived with her husband and five children
between Otto and Mettina. Death was caused from a tumor.
J. F. Pringle has purchased the dray and
float line interests of J. L. Jones and will conduct same in the future with Mr.
Smith.
C. T. Hunter has lately returned from
Southwest Texas. He says that the cotton in some sections will not average
a bale to forty acres.
Judge and Mrs. S. R. Scott will spend a
month in Denver and other Colorado resorts.
The picnic and barbecue of the street fair
and carnival week given the veterans will be at the Oltorf Lake and park.
This is an ideal place for such an event.
Permits to wed:--Harry Talton, Selvia
Murray; Frank Becy, Evy Rau; Jim Williams, Naomi Williams; Jerry Coleman, Elvira
Smith; J. F. Bowen, Eula Wesson, H E Lacy, Susie Minnick.
W. T. Fannin, who has returned from Blue
Ridge, says that the corn out there will make less than in twenty six years and
that the cotton is sorry enough. In some fields no attempt will be made to
gather the corn at all as it will not yield a bushel to the acre.
See our goods, get our prices and save
money.
W. W. Hammer & Co.
Lott claims to have struck a vein in
medicinal water that proves very effective in the treatment of diseases.
The well is owned by Dr. M. Hayes and the Clarion says that "it has cured cases
where the hot water at Marlin has been a total failure." A bath house is
to be erected and public baths given from the water.
Material is now being shipped to Mart for
the construction of the division offices and headquarters. Division
Superintendent Harris thinks that the offices will be ready for occupancy about
Nov 1 when he and his crew will move to the new town. Mart in addition to
being the headquarters for the Division Superintendent, willb be the passenger
division for the Fort Worth extension as well as the location of the round house
and machine shops, the building of which is now under way. It is stated
that all this will put about 200 railroad men in Mart.
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