Falls County News - April 18, 1907

Typed as spelled and written

Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth Year - Number 8

Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 18, 1907

FALLS COUNTY NEWS.

By Special Correspondents.

BLEVINS BUDGET.

To The Democrat:

The farmers are progressing nicely with their farm work. The ground is very dry, and needing rain very bad. But the corn looks well; the cotton is about all planted but the ground is too dry for cotton and millet. Oats is about a failure here. The hot, dry winds have almost parched the gardens; they are very sorry for the time of year.

D. L. Bowers and wife of Lorena visited Grand-pa and Grand-ma Bowers here Tuesday.

Parker White's baby has been very low with measels (sic) and pneumonia, but glad to say is some better now. We have had quite an epidemic of measles here, but there is only a few cases now.

Mrs. Hattie Murphy, of Lorena is visiting her brother Parker White.

Campbell Miles of South McAllester, I. T., is visiting his mother, Mrs. Annie Miles.

The Methodist Quarterly Conference begun Friday night, and closed Sunday. There was a large crowd present, and dinner on the grounds Saturday and Sunday.

Death has again visited this community and taken away Mr. Charlie Campbell, better known as Uncle Charlie, and I will give a short history of his past life. He has resided in Falls, county fifty years. He was a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars, he was an honored citizen, and a great old man, he has been very feeble for a number of years but his health has been fine for a man of his age. He was 107 years, 2 month and 28 days old when he died, and was well known to a great many Falls county people. He joined the M. E. Church about 18 years ago. He leaves a wife and daughter. Uncle Charlie was burried (sic) in the Blevins cemetery Saturday, at 4 o'clock, followed by a large crowd of friends. There was nearly 500 people present to attend the funeral. Bro G. G. Gibson of Durango conducted the funeral service. We suppose Uncle Charlie to be the oldest man in the county.

The people of this community have set the first Saturday in May to clean up the Blevins cemetery. Every one invited to attend that are interested, come and decorate the graves of their loved ones, bring dinner and spend the day.

Sunshine.

HARMONY HILL.

To The Democrat:

Farmers are busy plowing cotton. Frank Oaks has 30 acres of cotton chopped out and plowed. Mr. Oaks is a rustler.

George Polster and family, visited Wm. Specht and family Sunday.

John Roscoe who has been trying his fortune in Bosque county for several months past, returned the other day and says Falls county is the best of all.

Oscar Huseby is about recovering from an attack of measels.(sic)

Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Rowley called at the of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oaks Sunday afternoon.

Some of our farmers are trying dry farming. This will be watched with interest.

Some of our farmers are plowing up their oats and putting the land to cotton. But this only deters the cotton farmer, and will have a tendency to give us cheaper cotton this fall. We hope to get around the 9 and 10 cent mark. This price guarantees good times for the merchant as well as farmer. For cotton is king.

But there is corn, its a good price and has been for years; and our farmers should not loose sight of this fact. So is all kinds of cereal stuff. And there is the hog pen, it should be looked after. There's money in hogs. Horses, and mules are a fine price. There is no reason why our farmers should not be contented and happy. Everything is a good price that you have to sell.

G. W.

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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.