Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 10
Marlin, Texas,Thursday, May 2, 1907
FALLS COUNTY NEWS.
By Special Correspondents
HARMONY HILL.
To The Democrat:
On account of the recent cold weather some
of our farmers had to replant their cotton.
J. E. Powell has purchased another fine
farm joining him on the south.
Miss Pollie Yates, who has been visiting in
Mart returned to her near Eckhert Park.
Misses Christian McPherson and Pauline
Bryant were plesant callers at Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Cook's Sunday.
Oscar Huseby is suffering a relapse of the
measles. We hope for a speedy recovery.
John Glaze of Temple visited his sister,
Mrs. H. A. Rowley, Saturday and Sunday.
Our young folks enjoyed an old fashioned
singing at the of J. E. Powell Sunday night.
There is Sunday school at Harmony Hill
every Sunday at 3 p.m. Everybody come and bring the children.
Miss Eva Bryant of Otto was the guest of
Miss Emma Powell Sunday.
Corn is looking fine in this neighborhood.
Several of the young people gathered at Oak
Dale farm Saturday night, the occasion being a musical entertainment.
Everyone reports a jolly time.
A Eckert of the Stamp community, purchased
a large tract of woodland 1 2-3 miles south of Perry, on the H. & T. C. R.R. at
the water tank, which he is having put in shape for a beautiful park. It
is an ideal place for a park. We bespeak for Mr. Eckert a fine success in
his resort.
Oats are looking some better since the
recent rains. There will be some harvest yet for our grain man.
There was telephone representative
out in our vicinity a few days ago trying to get up a rural telephone exchange.
Some of our farmers subscribed for phones; so it will not be long before we
farmers can call you Marlin people up by phone and tell you about our fat hogs,
eggs, chickens and butter, and anything else we have to sell you in exchange for
your goods. Many of the people out east of Perry are connected by phone.
Some of them are using the barb wire fence for lines with good success. This
puts the country folks in touch with the outside world, and life on the old farm
is not such a drudgery these days. In time with the rural free delivery
and the telephone, the hayseed of yesterday will be the up-to-date, farmer of
to-day. The rural telephone for the farmer certainly will be a grand
thing. He don't have to hitch up the old mare and drive way to town to
find out what pork is worth or the market for any kind of produce he might have
for sale; just simply ring 'em up from his own home, for the doctor help.
It is a good step in the right direction. Give us more phones, keep step
in this progressive 20th century.
G. W.
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