Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number  (Missing)
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, May 8, 1902
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DECORATION
            POSTPONED.
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Will Be Held On Wednesday
May Twenty-First.
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Hon. J. J. Swann Orator of the Day.
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       There was no decoration exercises in Marlin Wednesday as was previously intended.
       The confederate veterans had set the day apart as the time for decorating the graves of their confederate dead but on account of the rain and other causes the Confederates, at a meeting held Monday afternoon decided to postpone the services until Wednesday May 21st.  On that day the services will be held at the city cemetery the procession starting from the court house at 4 p.m. and march to the graves of their deceased comrades.
       Senator J. J. Swann will be orator of the day.

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