Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 7
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 17, 1902.
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LOCALS
Editor A. A. Bogan of the Taylor Herald,
has returned to his after a ten days visit to Marlin. He was quite well
pleased with Marlin and will return again in a few weeks.
Miss Cecil Singer, who has been visiting in
the city for some time, has returned to her in Houston, accompanied by Miss
Annie Jones, who will visit there.
W. A. Patrick has returned from the
Amarillo country whee he went with C. O. Leuschner, B. Denke and Monroe Coleman
to investigate the land and prices out there. Mr. Leuschner bought 640 acres
within a mile of Amarillo for $8.00 per acre. Mr. Denke nor Mr. Coleman
purchased.
The rains of Saturday night and Sunday put
about six feet of water in the Marlin Oil Mill and the Oltorf lakes. These
with that caught in the cisterns will relieve the immediate wants of the people
most in need of water.
There is considerable interest being
manifested by Falls county veterans in the reunion at Dallas and the chances are
that the attendance from here will be quite large.
W. R. Peters of Lott was in city Wednesday
en route from Corsicana, where he went to take some orphan children to the State
Orphan Home.
R. King and F. M. Standifer of Denison, are
in the city.
We have just returned from St. Louis were
we have completed a thorough course in "Guerin's College of Photography," and
are now ready to give the public the benefit of the latest and most scientific
methods. Call and see us. Satisfaction guaranteed. Studio over
post office.
John J. Ward,
Marlin, Texas
Tom Travis and Will Bass of this city, who
left here Friday for Alvin for the purpose of picking strawberries, were injured
on a Santa Fe train near Somerville Saturday morning. The news reached L.
Wellenbach, a brother in law of the Travis boy, in a telephone message Saturday
afternoon, but no particulars were given. Mr. Wellenbach left Saturday
night for Somerville and yesterday wired that young Travis' injuries were not
dangerous, and that young Bass was only slightly injured.
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permission granted to Theresa Carhart and her volunteers for printing
by The
Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas
