Typed as spelled and written

by Lena Stone Criswell

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth Year - Number 58

Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, December 11, 1907

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS

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    O. J. Miller of Waco is in the city on business.

 

    C. G. McCall, a well known business man of Burlington, is here on business.

 

    Eb Holloway, who is traveling for a St. Louis firm, has resumed his run on the road after a visit to relatives in Marlin.

 

    Rev. M. T. Andrews is shipping his household goods to Lampasas, Ge abd family will go about the better part of the week.

 

    A. L. Winston, traveling salesman for the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, was here Monday afternoon from Waco.

 

    Rev. E. L. Shettles came up from Bryan Monday afternoon on business connected with his work as presiding eldere of this district.

 

    Mrs. B. H. Rice and children went to Austin Tuesday where they will reside. Judge Rice having returned to the capitol Monday.

 

    Misses Adline and Annie Beaty of Waco came down Saturday afternoon on a visit to G. W. Beaty, local agent for the Waters-Pierce Oil Co.

 

    Mrs. Minnie Bringhurst, who was the guest of Mrs. T. S. Sims returned to her in Houston.

 

    D. S. Eddins, president of the Exchange National bank of Waco, wa down Sunday for a short visit.  Mr. Eddins says that financial matters are brightening up some and that he thinks that it will be but a short time until normal conditions will again prevail.

 

    B. F. Foster, Jr., left Sunday for Safford, Arizona, to accept a position.  The family expect to follow in a few weeks.

 

    The examination for teachers' certification, completed Saturday afternoon, resulted in four whites and six negroes being granted certificates.

 

    District Clerk Bradshaw has returned from Dallas, where he went as a witness in the murder case against W. O. Brown, who formerly resided this county.

 

    F. J. Turner, superintendent of the Reagan schools, was here Saturday.  The schools are moving along nicely and the attendance is good.  Business dull and roads exceedingly muddy. 

 

    J. O. Copeland, a well known farmer living near the Bell county line, was here Saturday on business matters.  Mr. Copeland has been trading with Temple, as most of his neighbors do.  He sold some cotton there recently, and was given cashiers' checks, one of which he exhibited to The Democrat.  Says he and his neighbors will do more of their business with Marlin in the future.

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