Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, January 31, 1917

Briefly Told

       A marriage license was issued Friday at the county clerk's office to Gus Luedke and Annie Loewe.

       Quotations on the Marlin exchange showed a rise of about seven or eight points on the closing call of cotton prices Friday.

       Two pleas of guilty in gentlemen's furnishings at Taylor, has returned to his after spending several days here to take the hot baths.

       A marriage license was issued Thursday to Antone Ribitski and Venr Canik.  Ralph Lawrence and Mrs. Eddie Bingham also secured a permit to wed.

       Mrs. Mabel Williams, wife of Bob Williams, who was killed by Mrs. Gertrude Kahmann here recently, has moved to Bryan to reside with her brother, L. H. White.

       Inquiry at the sheriff's office Friday morning failed to evolve any new developments in the Chilton and Eddy burglary cases which took place Wednesday night.

       Great surprise and pleasure at the rapid growth of Marlin since he left here 16 years ago, was expressed Saturday by Judge Ernest Herring of Aspermont, who was in Marlin a few hours en route to Calvert on legal business.

       Arguments in the case of Mrs. Mary Anders vs. W. J. DeBardelenb et al, slated to start in district court this morning were deferred, due to the failure of one of the attorneys in the case to arrive.  Judge Munroe granted two divorces to negroes.

       Special venires for four criminal cases docketed for trial in district court when such cases are called in Marlin commencing February 5, were drawn by District Clerk Jas. D. Barton, with the assistance of Deputy Sheriff George Woodland Thursday.

       Already patrons of the Marlin post office are wearing the newness of the federal building.  The effacement of a cracked glass in one of the doors at the main entrance has been augmented by a broken glass in one of the boxes.  This mail receptacle now confronts people who go that way, with a tin face.

       Rev. Walter G. Harbin of Houston Heights, field secretary of Sunday school work in the Methodist church, will address the congregation at the Methodist church of Marlin Sunday morning.  Mr. Harbin is also slated to make a talk at the Sunday school exercises.  Everybody is urged to attend.

       Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Loring of Minneapolis, Minn., and Misses Ruth and Mary Davis of Hillsboro left Marlin Friday for Waco, where Mr. Loring is engaged as teacher of piano in Baylor University.  Mr. Loring, assisted by Miss Ruth Davis, presented a lecture-rectal (sic) on North American Indian music in Marlin Thursday evening.

       Planting several pecan trees on his Marlin property has prompted D. Adam to make the suggestin that more pecan trees planted here would make prettier groves than hackberries as well as proving a wise investment.  Mr. Adam states that vacant lots, the public school campus and other similar sites would make ideal locations for pecan groves, and in following the suggestion of the late Governor Hogg, make Marlin a vertable pecan grove in a few years.  The suggestion is well worthy of consideration.

       "Robin Hood" at the Orpheum Friday evening proved a fair entertainment for the audience that witnessed the show.  It was both funny and tuneful, too, particularly the latter, for the singing was good. "O, Promise Me," sung by Cora Tracy, portraying the character of Alan-a-dale, drew much applause from the audience.  Although an interpolation and not a part of De Koven's original "Robin Hood," "O Promise Me" afforded the best opportunity for an outburst of applause during the evening.

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