Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 25
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, August 21, 1902
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LOCALS.
The court house is undergoing some repairs to the interior walls and ceilings.
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LOST--Fawn colored Jersey milch cow. Will reward the finder.
Edgar Smith
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Miss Mamie Smith has
returned to her in Waco after a visit to friends in Marlin.
Cotton pickers are in demand in the rural
precincts and all hands who desire work can find it there at remunerative
prices.
Permits to marry were granted James Duke
and Miss Maggie Upchurch, C C. Bonner and Miss Eunice Atkinson Saturday last.
D. R. Emerson of this city has been
appointed republican chairman of this congressional district by State Chairman
Cecil A. Lyon of Sherman.
The News learns that Mrs. Sue Read of
Marlin, has decided to make her here in the future. She will occupy the
ranch house this winter and in the spring will build a fine dwelling on her
property near College Heights. -- Rosebud News.
A negro passenger on Conductor Dean's train
made a gun play at a fellow passenger Wednesday afternoon and when the conductor
demanded a surrender of the gun the proprietor thereof made a hasty exit from
the rear end of the coach while the train was in motion at the rate of forty
miles an hour. Nothing has ever been seen or heard of him since, not even
the sign he is supposed to have made when he struck tera firma.
Miss Ida, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wiley Davis of Marlin, while on a visit to her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. M.
Briggs near here, was stricken with appendicits. An operation was found
necessary, which was performed by Drs. B. C. Blalock and B. S. Ezell, and we are
glad to report that the patient is doing as well as could be expected
considering the seriousness of the case.--Kosse Cyclone.
Another victim has been added to the fire
fiend. Little Nellie Gray was curling her hair with curling irons when her
dress caught fire in some way, and she ran screaming into the yard. Her
mother ran after her and caught her in the yard and extinguished the flames, but
not before the little girl was so badly burned that she died. The mother's
clothing caught fire and she was severly burned in extinguishing the flames.
The little girl's father is a physician at Rogers.
A peculiar injunction suit has been filed
in the courts in which B. L. Hutchison seeks to enjoin George Birdsall from
covering up a skylight in a building. The applicant is a grocer and his
store is under Birdsall's photograph gallery. There is a large sky light
over the grocery store and the photographer desires to place carpet on the floor
which would cut out the light in the grocery store. The temporary
injunction was granted and the photographer has to show why the injunction
should not be perpetuated. The case is to be heard before Judge Surratt at
Waco, where the parties reside.
While Otey McKnight and A. O. Bowdon were
out hunting their horse became frightened and in trying to control him the
bridle bits were broken and the horse ran away. In jumping from the
vehicle Bowdon sprained his right foot quite seriously and is on crutches.
McKnight was not hurt.
Quite a number of Marlin people attended
the barbecue at Kosse and all report having a great time. A number of the
local shootists went over to participate in the gun contest. Everyone
speaks very highly of the hospitality of the people of Kosse and Limestone
county.
Prof. A. L. Solis, leader of the orchestra
employed by the Marlin Business League, has composed a march which will bear the
name of Bartlett's Park March, dedicated to the Ladies' Wednesday Social Club of
Marlin.
Dr. S. D. Davidson of Reagan, spent a part
of Monday in the city. The Doctor says that the weevils and the worms are
doing cotton considerable damage around Reagan.
Messrs. Kyser and Sutherland of this city
have purchased one thousand head of feedrs from a firm in Henrietta, paying
therefor $34 per head. This is said, by men who know, to be one of the
finest lot of feeders ever put on the market.
Hon. T. O. Martin, cashier of the Rosebud
National Bank, was in the city Monday. He says that the black land
town is doing very well, thank you.
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