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Lena Stone
Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 7
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 11, 1907
FALLS COUNTY NEWS.
by Special Correspondents
GOLINDA GOSSIP.
To the Democrat:
Corn is
generally in a fair condition. Some that was planted late looks pretty
bad. Cotton is spotted; which part of it's up and part of it is not, and
will not until it rains, if then. Small grain had about as well be set
down as a failure.
Mrs. Ethel
Haralson is down from Waco visiting Mrs. Sadie Wooley.
The school
election was a failure as there was a horse show at Lorena that day. All
the candidates for school trustees went over there and that did not leave any
body to help Bro Duty to hold the election, hence there was none.
D. E. W.
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SALT BRANCH SIFTINGS.
To the Democrat:
Everything
is moving along nicely in our little community. People are all busy in
their crops, the prospects being exceedingly fine, the recent rain put the
ground in fine shape and the farmers are "all smiles."
Our school
is progressing nicely in spite of all the disadvantages.
Old time
customs and pleasures are indeed a thing of the past. In the olden times
we sewed on our fingers and at school we wrote on clay tablets and slates,
now-a-days we have the sewing machine and fine marble boards. Think what
an advanced age this is--some one has invented a liquid extract of smoke and it
won't be long before you can buy your own weather in blades to suit you. I
believe it won't be long before some smart genius will try to invent an
apparatus to convey the rapidity of thought.
Miss Sibyl
Woodland has returned home, her school at Eureka having closed.
S. D.
Dunham and W. J. Owen have returned from their prospecting trip out west.
They say they "like the country out there fine, but Salt Branch is good enough
for them."
Joe
Woodland is here on a visit and he will return to California in a few days.
Nat
Lewellyn of Marlin was in our midst Sunday.
Harold
Mitchell of Glade chapel spend (sic) Sunday with homefolks.
Misses
Cora and Sibyl Woodland, Bertha Stevenson, Bessie and Mozelle Mitchell Sam and
Grover Swinnea attended the skating rink at Kosse Friday night. They
report a pleasant time. Some people greatly oppose skating and condemn it
as a crime, but there is some body always ready to find fault with everything
and everybody, so we have to make the best of life we can and let every fellow
attend to his own business as well as he tries to look after some other fellows'
business and we will at least have a better world, if money wasn't spent on
skating a good amount of it would be spent for "booze," so t'is 'bout as long as
broad after all.
Robert
Pamplin of Alto Springs was saying "sweet nothings" to some of our girls Sunday.
Miss Mela
Dunham has been the guest of Mrs. Dr. Manny at Stranger for a week.
Our school
will close soon and the teachers and pupils have planed a picnic and an all day
outing on Big Creek for the last day, some nice recitations will also be
prepared, and some one has suggested that we seine the tank and carry along some
fish.
Some of
our roads are getting pretty bad--the overseers had better get busy.
Tom
Swinnea has his attention attracted over this way from some cavse or other,
don't know why, guess some of the girls know.
Trixsy.
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