Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 41
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, October 12, 1907
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Reception at Elks' Hall.
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       The informal reception and dance at Elks' hall Tuesday evening is the social event of the first half of the present week.  Music was furnished by a local stringed orchestra and the hours fled only too swiftly, as they always do on these occasions, delightful to the participants.
       Those present at the reception were:  Misses Heffner, Fink, Paul, Ransome, Cooke, Davis, DeBardeleben; Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Smith, E. F. Smith, L. B. Chilton, N. W. Goodrich, J. C. Peyton, C. C. Irvine, C. W. Adams, C. L. Fannin, B. M. Torbett, M. E. Chambers, J. W. Powers, Frank Oltorf and C. U. Spawn.

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