Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 11
Marlin, Texas,Thursday, May 9, 1907

Damage by Hailstorm was Heavy.
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       The hailstorm of last week in the northeastern part of this county was much worse than at first report.  J. A. Gill, who is in from his farm near Otto states that about 600 acres of his crops are well nigh ruined and that some of his neighbors faired equally as bad.
       At his residence the stones were very large and dozens of birds were killed.
       Nat Adams from the Odds country says the hail there and at Big Hill and Thornton was the heaviest ever seen, even by the oldest inhabitant.
       The path was from one to two miles wide and lay from the north west to the southeast.  Thousands acres of cotton in Falls and Limestone counties are ruined.

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