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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Mrs. Dupree
has returned from a visit to Waco.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gregg are from a visit to Fort Worth.
Mrs. Fannie Horne has returned from a visit to friends in Fort Worth.
The tax collector's office reports a very dull business in the way of
collections.
A. O. Curry has been confined to his for several days with a slight attack of
appendicitis.
Creston Clarke, one of the best actors touring the South, will be here this
season. Watch for the day and date.
Mrs. H. C. Crawford and daughter Frances, have returned from a two weeks' visit
to Howard at New Orleans.
Miss Newman, who was the guest of Miss Florence Hunnicutt, has returned to her
in Thornton.
Mrs. Phil W. Allen of Cleburne has joined her husband, Mayor Allen, in Marlin.
They will remain several days.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Smith have returned from a visit to Fort Worth, where they
attended the fine dog show.
Henry Jackson was placed behind the bars Friday night for causing trouble on the
farm of Harry Stallworth. Henry was drunk.
F. Missler, steamship agent of Galveston writes County Clerk Phillips that 400
Polish and Bulgarian laborers are en route from Europe seeking work on the farms
in Texas.
Miss Gladys Rosson of Fort Worth is visiting Marlin. Miss Rosson is the
daughter of John K. Rosson, the well known commission man who has frequently
visited Marlin.
John B. Cavitt is from a five weeks trip to Washington, St. Louis and North and
South Carolina where he went on a recuperating trip. His health improved
greatly while he was gone.
Marlin merchants have larger and better selected stocks of merchandise than they
have had in years and are selling them at prices which no other town in Central
Texas can beat.
For Sale--1
Mtchell (sic) wagon, size 2 3-7, cheap; new. Call on the truckman in care
of Charlie Newbold, two miles out on I. & G. N. Dr. Carter.
57-2t.
The Bethesda bath house is temporarily closed while painters are painting the
interior. Bethesda bathers are being cared for at the Sanitarium and later
on that institution will also be repainted inside.
The referee in bankruptcy writes S. H. Johnson that the sale of the Foster
bankrupt stock has been postponed until after the meeting of the creditors,
which will be held at Waco Dec. 16.
Farmers have learned to their good that Marlin is their friend and pays highes
(sic) prices for their produce, cotton and grain. When the roads get in
good shape Marlin will begin to look like herself again.
Nick Goodrich is back from two days on the Goodrich farm west of the river.
Says some over that way are selling their cotton, others getting ready to change
farms about the first of the year. He is shipping twelve families of
negroes from Milam county to the farm. He has employed Geo. Falconer to be
foreman of the farm another year.
Rev. Frank Boyles writes from Houston that he is moving to Crockett, his new
charge, and that he is well pleased with the change. He was pastor of a
Houston ward church and another church has been organized in the same ward,
which lead the bishop to send two new men to the work transferring Frank to an
older and larger field.
James E. Hackett, formerly assistant county attorney of Falls county, has moved
from Fort Worth to Midland, where he has formed a partnership with Hon. A. S.
Hawkins in the practice of law. Jim writes that he is well pleased with
his new location.
Hon. Bob Goree of Houston, Waco, Austin and other places, came in Thursday
afternoon on a short visit.
The suit of Wright Hardware Co. vs. A. D. W. Rambo, is on trial in county court.
The plaintiffs seek to recover judgment against defendant for account alleged to
be due for machinery sold him, the defendant claiming that the machinery was not
such as waranted (sic) to be.
Our correspondent from North Prairie asks The Democrat to explain the split log
drag and say when it should be used. The Democrat expects to secure a
diagram, or plan, for the split dog drag in a short time, which we will
reproduce in these columns. As for the time to use it, the best time is
all the time.
The Sunday School class of the First Baptist church, taught by F. P. Huchingson,
gave an oyster supper in his honor at the residence of Rev. M. T. Andrews
Thursday evening under the direction of Misses Ida DeBardeleben, Mamie Andrews,
Bessie Thomas and Mrs. Andrews, the event was a very delightful one and was a
fit farewell to a faithful instructor from the class.
County Attorney Connally has returned from Austin where he went to present the
Curry-Harter case to the supreme court. While en route to Austin and
returning he encountered two of Bro. Heffner's "slight derailments." Going
down, the coupling slipped an eccentric which delayed the train four hours and
coming back, a mail car on a passenger train just ahead went into the ditch,
which also caused a delay.
F. P. Huchingson left Friday for Tucumcarie, New Mexico, where he goes to spend
some time for recuperation, not having fully recovered from a savage attack of
the dengue fever. Mr. Huchingson has now been auditor for the Central here
for several years and by close application to business has well earned a long
needed rest. G. A. Hammons, manager for the Western Union, will fill (t)he
position during the absence of Mr. Huchingson.
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