Submitted by

Barbara (Caddell) Fox

The Daily Democrat
Marlin, Texas
Wednesday, March 15, 1905
page 2

BIG CREEK CULLINGS.

     To The Democrat:

     Mrs. Bertha Neeley has been very sick with the measles. 

     A young man by the name of Standifer, who lives on J. C. Criswell’s place, has had a bad case of the small pox.
    
     Wellman Hickerson has been doing some carpenter work and it helps the looks of our little community very much.

     Yes, old Brindy goes behind the bars and the landlord will not be bothered with these six bit yearlings breaking in his fields.

     The death angel has visited our community again and taken for its victim the little 13 year old son of Mrs. N. J. Cooper, who died Monday morning at 5:30 of pneumonia, and was interred in the Criswell cemetery Monday at 4 o’clock.

     I hear that old Falls county is about to build a bridge across the river, so let the good work go on, but the writer thinks she would be doing a very good business to repair some old ones in this part of the county as our overseer has condemned the one across the Criswell lake and “Pa” said from what men told him last June that he thought we would soon have some new bridges and our road graded for the first time.  But let me tell you, it is the same old road and we will pay a liberal reward for that runaway, M. J. Poole, who disappeared from this community six years ago.

School Boy.