Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 39
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, October 5, 1907
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FALLS COUNTY NEWS.
By Special Correspondents.

HARMONY HILL.

To The Democrat:
      
Cotton picking will soon be a thing of the past.  So far the weather has been ideal for gathering the fleecy staple.
      
       Tom Holmes and family visited friends near Marlin Sunday.

       Mrs. Emma Housby, who has been visiting her parents near Lott, returned Sunday.

       Mrs. Wm Specht has been on the sick list the past week.

       Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Cook and family have moved to Marlin for the benefit of her schools.

       J. P. Norwood's fine residence is nearing completion and it looms up on the hill.

       The Zuber brothers, who have been tenants for Jim Norwood for several years, will soon leave us.  They have rented 700 acres near Lott and will run a big thing next year.  We wish them success in their large undertaking.

       Several of our young folks gathered at the beautiful of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oakes on Sept. 21st, the affair being a musical entertainment.  Light refreshments were served.  All had a fine time and thanked Mrs. Oakes for being such a fine hostess.

       Morgan Cline, accompanied by his sister, Miss Helen, and Miss Lena High, visited at Oakdale Saturday and Sunday.

       Wedding bells will soon be ringing around Harmony Hill, so Madam Rumor says.

       The bears seem to have the cotton going their way, but remember there is a bull for every bear.

       It will soon be time for fall oats sowing.  Put in a good acreage.  You know oats are just as high as cotton, comparatively, and corn is a good price and we cannot lose our heads next year by planting the whole farm to cotton.  Diversification is the farmer's road to success.

       Well, say?  How do you lie the Semi-Weekly Democrat?  It's a hummer.  Mr. Kennedy did not even tell us in advance that he was going to send us a twice-a-week paper and all for the same money.  It was a most agreeable surprise.  Marlin is getting to be real metropolitan, but that is what it taks to push it along--a wide-awake newspaper like The Democrat.  Some say life is what you make it, but a town is what the press makes it.  The press does more for our towns and cities than anything.  Nothing succeeds like printer's ink.
                                                     "Guess Who."

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TRAVIS ITEMS.

To The Democrat:
      
Miss Leila Walton visited at Ben Arnold last week.

       Misses Chalista and Ona Erwin of New Salem visited Misses Martha and Rosa Stuckey Sunday.

       S. W. Chatham and Miss Mittie Scott attended the board meeting at Marlin Sunday.

       Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Matthews visited here Sunday, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Stuckey.

       Polk Massey is having a new addition built to his residence in south Travis, which will be an ornament to our city.

       Stephen F. Austin visited friends Sunday.

       We regret to report the death of Mrs. Jim Asbury which occurred Wednesday night.  The remains were buried at Powers Chapel Thursday afternoon.  A large number of sorrowing friends accompanied the remains to its last resting place.  All join in extending condolence to the bereaved family.

       Miss Sue Hale visited her sister, Mrs. Anding of Milam county.

       The Methodists of this place are repainting their church which adds much to the looks.

       Miss Mary Williamson, who is attending Toby's college at Waco, is here this week, a guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Rouse.
                                                                       Buster Brown.

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