Typed and spelled as
written:
Kay Cunningham
The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year Number 9
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 28, 1904
LETTER FROM WEST FALLS
Editor, DEMOCRAT:--Well Mr. Editor as I am alone this evening and
feel rather lonesome, I will drop you a few lines. I have been
around some in the last few days and find some places, especially in
bottom, that is pretty badly done up with the frost, but take it as
a whole farmers are in fine shape and if we have no more frost crops
will soon come out all right there will be lots of winter cotton to
plant over. Mr. Editor it looks so foolish to see men that have
farmed for years and know cotton to be a warm weather plant, and
then go to planting it in mid winter. There was one farmer over here
so I am told that started to planting on the last day of January and
planted one hundred acres; of course he has to plant over. If we
don't get more rain soon oats and wheat will be very short in this
part of the county and as to fruit I fear the crop will not be as
good as was first anticipated, some trees seem to be very full while
others have very few on them.
I see that some of the correspondents to your paper think like
myself, that two terms in office are enough, I think as he old
saying is, that there is as good fish in the sea as was ever caught
out, so I say pass the thing around, and that is the sentiment of
most of the people in this part of the county; While they all agree
that the present set of officers are as fine a set of men as any
county in the state could produce. A few words as, to the picnic at
Durango: There was not an extra large crowd but all seemed to enjoy
themselves splendidly; had a fine dinner, candidates were all there
with their most pleasant smiles on and all told the good people of
their troubles and all seemed to be in dead earnest about wanting to
serve the good people for the next two years. Well, I will close
this epistle as it is growing most too long. Yours truly,
Lott Texas.
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