Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 14
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 12, 1902
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LOCAL NEWS.

       Wm Mccomb, patent of Mccomb's cotton harvester has discovered that his machine will cut the pesky boll weevil into smidgets avoiding the further necessity of burning them.  He exhibited at this office a lot of them ground to dust with the leaves off the cotton.

       Cards have been issued announcing the marriage of Miss Lillie Lee Nunnelly to Mr. Sterl S. Ward Wednesday evening, June 18th, at 8:30 o'clock at the First Baptist church, Marlin.

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