Typed as spelled and written

by Lena Stone Criswell

 

 

 

 

 

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth Year - Number (Missing)

Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, December 25, 1907

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS

 

    Miss Annie Belle Cooley is visiting friends at McKinney.

 

    J. W. Hixson has returned from a visit to his former in Iowa.

 

    Signet and plain rings at M. E. Chambers & Co., the jewelers.

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    Mrs. J. M. Jolly and Miss Blanche Cotton are attending the Chautaqua at Wootan Wells.

 

    Mr. K. Sewall and wife have returned from Bobbin where they visited relatives.

 

    Mrs. Tom Spencer has returned to Stamford after a visit of several weeks with relatives.

 

    I am continually in the market for hogs, all sizes at market value any day to bring them to town.

                                                                                       I. N. Conyers.

 

    (Missing) Eva Nettles and Mrs. B. (missing) are attending the mis (missing) conference at Pittsburg, (missing).

 

    Mesdames O. L. Cobb of Beaumont and T. E. Newman of MIssissippi are guests of Mrs. R. S. Hunnicutt.

 

    W. C. Crane, who was principal of the Lott schools for two years has been elected superintendent of the Franklin schools.

 

    An ice cream supper will be given at Otto Friday night, next, (missing) the benefit of the Baptist church at that place.  Plenty of ice cream and cake.  All come.

 

    A special bargain in a seventeen jewel Elgin or Waltham movement, twenty year case at M. E. Chambers & Co., the jewelers.                       15- tf.

 

    The transfer of books to the public library to the public school library adds about 700 volumes to the latter and with new ones recently added by the school library brings the total to about 2000 volumes.

 

    Gordon Gaither, J. J. Bradley and Postmaster Eakin of Chilton were here Tuesday on business.  Chilton is growing nicely, they say, and is soon to have two brick buildings.  One of these will be built and occupied by the bank and the other by Gordon Gaither.

 

    John R. Southwell and W. C. Williamson of Lott were visitors to Marlin this week.  They are both "old timers" in this county, although neither is yet an old man.  They came to this county 41 years ago and have been so well pleased with it that they have never desired to live anywhere else.

 

    T. J. Herron, cashier of the Marlin National Bank, left for Fort Worth to join the Texas bankers on their sixth annual tour.  They go this year east and touch fifteen states and several provinces in Canada.  The first stop will be Kansas City; thence to Chicago, Detroit, Niagara Falls, down St. Lawrence River to Montreal, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Jamestown, St. Louis and home.

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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.