Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number (Missing)
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, August 6, 1931

Briefly Told

The workers Council of the First Baptist Sunday school meets at the church at eight o'clock Friday night.  All officers and teachers are requested to attend.

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The Marlin Rotary Club will meet in regular session at the Hilton hotel at 12:10 p.m. Friday.  A. H. Snead, secretary, says an interesting program is being arranged.

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Sanford Eskridge has returned from Dallas where he was an instructor in the Southwest Band Conservatory.  He has as his guest, Earl Ray of Wink, who also attended the band school.

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The Falls county sheriff's department was requested today to help locate a car a negro man said he loaned to two negro girls Wednesday afternoon to go get some milk, since when he claimed he had not seen them.

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Burning grass at the T. D. Harlan on Watson street resulted in an alarm being turned in to the Marlin fire department at 2:40 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.  The blaze was curbed before any damage resulted.

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M. W. Beck, who is making a government soil survey of Falls county, and family have returned from a visit with relatives at San Saba.  "The Chief" --Hugh Beck--while in San Saba, hooked one fish so big that naturally it got away," he said.

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A model T Ford coupe left parked on a Marlin street Wednesday and Wednesday night was "taken up" today by Deputy Sheriff Hay, who took it to the Falls county courthouse.  It bore a license issued in Brazos county, whose authorities will be notifed.

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J. G. Horenberger, general agent for insurance companies, who is spending a few days in Marlin, is most favorably impressed with the evidences of improvement he sees here.  "I knew of no town that has improved so much in recent years," he is quoted as saying.

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A committee to take up the matter of building a fence around the property acquired by the Marlin independent school district at the corner of Ward and Anders streets and bleachers for the athletic field was named at the regular August session of the school board this week.  L. A. Robinson is chairman.

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A car belonging to Mrs. Artie Moore of Marlin, which was missed at noon Tuesday from its parking place downtown, was reported seen about 10:30 o'clock that morning at the Elkhorn filling station just north of Bremond, numbers being taken when the driver attempted to trade the extra casing for some gasoline, Sheriff Reese states.

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