Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 31
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, September 7, 1907
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
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Miss Marian Clarkson and mother are visiting in Waco.
Miss Mamie Jones of Calvert is visiting
Miss Callie Rogers.
Miss Nellie White of Bremond is visiting
Miss Irene Murphy in this city.
Miss Bessie Morgan of Bremond is visiting
Miss Annie Singer in the city.
E. B. Holloway has resumed his work on the
road after a few days stay in the city.
Mrs. Purifoy has returned to Hearne after a
visit to Mrs. Ewell Rogers in this city.
Guy Elam, conductor on H. l& T.C. is
spending a vacation with homefolks in this city.
Mrs. F. A. Cooley of Rosebud is visiting
friends and relatives in the city during the Fair.
Mrs. Dr. Cook and daughter, Mrs. Laverge
Payne, are spending six weeks in Colorado.
Miss Alice Cousins has gone to Sherman
where she will attend Kidd-Key college the coming session.
Mrs. A. B. Watkins and Royal R. Watkins of
Athens are visitors in the the (sic) city, guests at the Arlington.
Hon. A.F. Brigance of Navasota came up
Wednesday to visit Col. T.S. Clark and to take in the fair.
Miss Eva Nettles left Wednesday for Cuero
where she will assume her duties as teacher in the public schools.
Hon. Dabney White of Tyler, who is spending
the summer in the city, has returned from a visit to Northwest Texas.
There are quite a number of cases of dengue
in Marlin. When one has this fever he will know it without being told what
it is.
The Juvenile Band is furnishing the music
for the fair and racing association and are keeping up their well earned
reputation.
Miss Pauline Battle left Tuesday for
Sherman where she will attend Kidd-Key college. She was accompanied to
Dallas by Miss Rosalice Battle.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Haug and little daughter,
Catherine Lucile, have returned on Clark street after spending the summer with
Mr. and Mrs. L. Fink on Live Oak street.
C. E. Bolles of Glasgow, Ky., who is the
teacher of Latin in the Marlin public schools for the next term, is in the city
ready to assume his duties on next Monday.
Supt. W. F. Doughty is from Chicago where
he spent two months at the University of Chicago. He is getting things in
shape for the opening of the term next Monday.
Wm. Gasser, foreman of the saw mill of the
Brazos Hardwood Co., was quite painfully injured Tuesday afternoon. He got
a hand in the machinery and two fingers were severely injured.
Miss Nellie White who has been visiting
Miss Irene Murphy, has returned to her home, Bremond.
Miss Bessie Morgan has returned to Bremond,
after a visit to Miss Annie Singer in this city.
Miss Minnie Sanders of Cleburne has arrived
in the city to take up her work as a teacher in the schools.
Dr. and Mrs. Johnson, who have been
visiting relatives in the city, have returned to Ravira, I. T., accompanied by
Miss Hunnicutt.
The country school examiners are in
session. There are four white applicants and seventeen negro applicants.
There are four white applicants and seventeen negro applicants. The board
is composed of Miss Frank of Marlin, W. T. Goode of Chilton and G. A. Pringle of
Rosebud.
C. A. Maroney, manager of the oil mill at
Mart, was here Wednesday on business. He says that the cotton is opening
rapidly in that section and that the season will be very short.
H. N. Beckwith, left Wednesday for
Ballinger where the family has recently moved. Mrs. Beckwith and daughter
left last week and the car of household goods were shipped Wednesday.
Mrs. E. F. Kavanaugh has returned from an
extended trip to New York, St. Louis, Miagara, Kansas City and the Jamestown
exposition.
Mr. Kavanaugh, who accompanied her, stopped off in Gainesville.
Note the report of the condition of the
Marlin National Bank as published in The Democrat. This bank continues a
steady and solid growth that is very flattering to its management. Its
aggregate business is now nearly $300,000, and its individual deposits are, in
round numbers, $170,000.
Fannie Sims, a negro woman wanted in
Palestine to answer a charge of theft under $50, was arrested today by Policeman
J. B. Gray and Constable J. R. Fitzgerald of that city. The Palestine
officer was very much pleased at getting his prisoner as he had little hopes of
being so successful when he left home.
Capt. and Mrs. James L. Lenoir have moved
back to Marlin and into their residence on Craik street. Mrs. Lenoir says:
"We traveled through four states and saw much fine country, drank where there
was plenty of fine cool water but noone so hot or so healthy as Marlin's.
We prefer to live here to any place we visited."
Your attention is directed to the
announcement of the Marlin public schools in this issue. The school will
open next Monday and everything is now in readiness for the opening.
Marlin has the reputation, and justly so, of having one of the best schools in
Texas and there could be no better said of any town than that it has good
schools.
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