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THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 9
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 25, 1907
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Mrs. W. J.
Brewer of Rosebud is visiting Mrs. T. J. Kempner.
Newton
Holloway has returned to Fort Worth after a short visit to Marlin.
Mrs. W. F.
Fannin has returned from a visit to her sister at Rockdale.
Mrs. J. M.
Neal and daughter of Reagan are visiting friends in Marlin.
5000
cotton choppers are a few. See ad of Marlin National Bank on front page.
J. H.
Huffman of Greenville is a visitor to Marlin for the baths. He is at W.
B. Murphy's.
Mrs. S. L.
Golding has returned to her in Lott after a visit to Mrs. L. Ginsburg.
County
Clerk Phillips has sold his fine young mare for $325.00 to E. A. Smith of
Willis.
J. M.
Watters of Reeves, Texas, is here on business in connection with the Watters
estate.
Rev. M. T.
Andrews has returned from New Boston where he conducted a revival meeting.
Lost.--New
$6.50 white Stetson hat on Rockdam road, $2.50 reward--leave at T. B. Elsberry.
Mrs. Dot
Murphy McKnight of Brinkley, Ark., is visiting her parents, Captain and Mrs. W.
B. Murphy.
Calvin
Bratton and wife were visiting at Alto Springs Sunday. A fine rain fell in
that section and the farmers are very jubilant.
Mrs. Guy
Elam has returned from a visit to Ennis. Mr. Elam accompanied her and is
taking a week's vacation from railroading.
Mrs.
Vaulkus, who was a guest of Mrs. W. D. Kyser, has returned to Fort Worth.
She was accompanied by Mrs. W. E. Hunnicutt.
Sam
Hawkins, penitentiary inspector for the state, is here from Denton inspecting
the state convict camp on the Sanger farm.
L. N.
Stanley has returned from Waco where he attended the senate of the Practorian
lodge. The senate meets in 1909 at Houston.
Pasturage
for horses, mules and cattle. Plenty of grass and water. Charges
reasonable. Apply to J. E. Powell, 3 miles north of town.
S. N.
Donohoo sold that camel hide for $20.00. The purchaser is J. M. Foster of
Safford, Ariz., and he will ship the hide to Los Angeles to be dressed.
John G.
Oltorf has returned from a business trip to Ft Worth. The climate is
pretty warm up that way, account the prohibition contest now on.
Read
Democrat advs. If you ever had any idea of patronizing foreign mail order houses
you will "change your mind" if it is real bargains you are after.
Theo.
Pieper is erecting himself a new planing mill on the location of his old one.
The new one will be much better adapted to this purposes than the old one.
J. C.
Fountain has returned from a visit to Burkeburnett, a new town in the Panhandle
near Witchita Falls. Click says that country looks good to a stranger.
Mr. and
Mrs. W. D. Kyser have returned from Waco where they went to see their son,
Ernest, who is in the hospital there. He is doing nicely since the
operation was performed Saturday.
R. O.
Malone of Corsicana is visiting his wife, who is the guest of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. T. K. Barton. He is suffering from a broken ankle, sustained in a
fall from a telephone pole.
Albert
Levy, the hustler, was out of of town on business Monday night, hence his
absence from the business league meeting. Albert is always in for helping
Marlin and regrets that he could not be present at the meeting.
If any one
wants to help the famine sufferers in China, hand your contribution to Rev. O.
T. Hotchkiss or J. W. Hoke, and it will go on its good work. Amounts
contributed will be published in the Democrat.
Cards are
out announcing the marriage of Miss Annie Lucile Jones to Mr. Horace N. Hill at
the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jones on Thursday
evening, April 25, 1907.
Polk
Hedrick, city marshal of Corsicana, was here Monday afternoon on his way to Lott
to see his aged mother, who is quite ill. Mr. Hedrick is a son of J. T.
Hedrick, who lived for many years in West Falls.
M. M.
Hagens of Kerrville is visiting relatives at Marlin and Reagan. Mr. Hagens
formerly resided in this county and went west in 1891. He says the
Kerrville country has been very dry until the rain of last week.
The
special election held in the Chilton independent district Saturday resulted in
the tax being voted by the brutal majority of 114 to 14. The tax is for
maintenance of the school and is 20 cents on the $100.
J. W.
Hoke, the hustling land man can be found over the post office any old time ready
to show you bargains in real estate or to list your property for sale. He
also represents a number of the best insurance companies and can place your
business in this line, safely and satisfactorially.
Sheriff
Poole received a message from Lott Monday stating that Mrs. Poole was quite ill
at the residence of her sister near that place. Mesdames Poole and Watkins
went to Lott Friday afternoon and were out in the bad weather for some time.
B. J.
Linthicum is having a concrete sidewalk put down in front of Cheeves & Linthicum
and Gunnell stores. If the owners of three brick buildings on the west
side of Commerce will now get busy that street will look just a hundred per cent
better and pedestrians will not be in constant fear of bodily injury from
stepping in a crack and falling.
Marlin
merchants do a mail order business of no small proportions. People who
visit their stores see stocks of goods that are not excelled if equalled by few
towns or the smaller cities and they find the prices so reasonable that they
cannot resist the temptation to send orders by mail after they return home.
James E.
Tomlinson is from a two weeks' visit to Shields Key at Garden City. Jim
brought with him two wolf hides and says they are very numerous in that part of
the state. He asserts that Shields ran one down the other day and penned
him in the lot and knocked him in the head with an axe.
A child of
Ed Yates came very near dying from the effects of swallowing some kerosene oil.
The oil had been poured into a cup for the purpose of sprinkling the water in
the cistern, when the child picked up the cup and drank a portion of the
contents. It has been in a precarious condition, but is improving.
A tank car
containing Beaumont crude oil was bursted at the H. & T. C. freight depot
Wednesday afternoon and 12.-378 gallons of oil spilled on the tracks and ground
nearby. The car was consigned to Waco from Beaumont and the accident
occurred while the freight train was switching. Another car "bumped" into
the oil car in such a way as to break the connecting pipes. Quite a number
of people secured various quantities of the waste oil and the track was
lubricated for more than a hundred yards.
What can
a league committee do to promote trade? ask some one. If you will
take a drive along the public roads leading out of Marlin you will find there is
enough to do to keep a public road committee busy for several months. The
roads in Falls county, as a whole, are better than in many counties, but there
is always room for improvement. This a better county than many and
therefore deserves and should have better roads. There are bad places that
should be filled, bridges that should be repaired and whole sections of roads
that should be graded and graveled. These matters should be kept before
the commissioners court until the work is done.
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