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THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 8
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 18, 1907
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
The
criminal docket in county court has been set for the week beginning April 29.
5000
cotton choppers and a few, See ad of Marlin National Bank on front page.
J. W.
Hamilton of Rosebud is here for the baths and treatment for rheumatism.
James A.
Loughridge, formerly a citizen of this city, was here Sunday from Waco.
J. W.
Jones of Mooreville was in the city on business. He reports dry weather in
that section.
J. W.
Hamilton of Rosebud, who is here for the baths, is improving nicely from an
attack of rheumatism.
Miss
Cockrell, representing the Belton female college, was in the city this week and
received some substantial assistance.
Rev. B. C.
Pfiffner, pastor of the Catholic church, is spending the week in Lott in the
interest of the church at that place.
W. P. A.
Sloan has returned from Austin where he has been for several weeks under
treatment. His health is very much improved.
The Falls
county court bill died in the Senate. On account of the grand rush at the
close of the regular session it was lost in the shufle.(sic)
Marlin is
called slow by some good people, but she is sane and safe. She will get
there just the same and when she gets there she will stay there.
The case
of Jim Nelson, convicted in district court for one of the street carnvial
murders, has been submitted to the court of appeals.
G. H.
Hammons has returned from a visit to his old at Travis. He reports a "Dry
streak" in that section and a blue front on the farmers' faces.
Representative C. J. Bartlett came up from Austin Saturday to spend Sunday at
home. He says times have been strenuous in Austin the past two weeks.
The
baseball and basket ball games between Mart and Marlin teams that are to be
played the latter part of this week promise to be lively affairs.
C. D.
Campbell, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants bank at Mart, was in the city
Sunday afternoon to meet his wife who was returning from a visit to South Texas.
R. Tatsch
is laying a concrete sidewak in front of his building, occupied by Ed Nicholson,
on Commerce street. Good for the public. Good for Tatsch. Let
others follow suit.
J. R.
Wells of Mart arrived Sunday afternoon to take another boiling out course for
some time. He is a guest at the of his daughter, Mrs. Jeff Funderburk, on
Harrison street.
The
Central Texas Presbytery meets in Marlin at the Presbyterian church on
Wednesday, April 24. It is expected that it will be well attended by
divines and laymen of that church.
Charley
Lloyd of Reagan, who sold out his farm near that place and tried hard to leave
the good old county of Falls, has found that he cannot do it. He has
purchased land near Travis.
John B.
Cavitt, who recently moved to Falls county and settled on the Cavitt ranch, says
that Falls county climate is more salubrious than that of Robertson county, and
that he is enjoying the change to the limit.
The child
of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kirkpatrick died at Chilton, Monday morning, after an
illness of twenty one days. It was sixteen months of age.
Permits to
wed:
T S
Upchurch, Lula May Roberts;
B F Allen,
Delia Hale;
Charlie
Hamlin, Charity Warren;
H K
Shehan, Katie Luttrell;
Lonie
Duder, Gertrude Smith:
Louis
Hooker, Lena Carroll;
Allie
Mays, Emma Mays.
Frank and
Shirely Cotton, who went to San Francisco several weeks ago, write that they
have engaged in the contracting and building business in that city and that they
are doing a splendid business.
G. R.
Strange of Reisel was a visitor in the city Sunday. Mr. Strange says that
the corn and cotton around Reisel are beginning to suffer for rain and that the
small grain will be a partial failure.
Col. R. S.
Hunnicutt has returned from South Texas where he has been engaged in town
building with J. E. Garrett for several weeks. They have built two good
ones, says the colonel, and have the foundation laid for the third one.
B. M.
Goodman of Lott has removed to Waco and will make this place his home. He
has bought the Joe Girard place on North Fourth and has also invested in
business property on the south side of the square.--Waco Times-Herald.
Allen-Curry Lumber Co. are arranging to put in their grist mill at their new
yard at the corner of Winter and Capps streets. When this addition shall
be completed and some other changes which they contemplate, are made they will
have one of the most compact and conveniently arranged yards to be found in the
state.
For
Sale:--Fine improved Rowdon cotton seed for sale. For further information
apply to H. W. Ward, Reagan, Tex.
I. L.
Wood, agent for the I. & G. N-at, Otto, is taking the hot baths for rheumatism.
Mr. Wood was relieved of a severe attack of the same trouble some years since by
the hot baths and the treatment here and has no doubt he will again be cured.
City
Marshall (Sic) Sullivan of Caldwell is in the city for a boiling out course.
He has made several such visits to Marlin with results highly satisfactory to
himself. Mr. Sullivan has served faithfully the people of Caldwell in his
official capacity for many years.
County
Superintendent Eddins was feeling "very good, thank you" Thursday afternoon upon
receipt of a telegram from Austin that the superintendent's educational bill had
been passed. The bill adds $300 per year to the salary of the county
superintendents.
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.(sic)
The amount
of $153 has been forwarded by Capt. W. B. Murphy to Mrs. J. B. Beatty, custodian
for the U. D. C. at Houston, as their share of the proceeds of the Van Amburg
shows that exhibited in Marlin Friday and Friday night. This fund is to go
toward maintaining a Confederate widows at Austin.
Archie
Gee, a white man, was placed in jail Wednesday evening on a charge of being
drunk in a public place. Gee stated next morning that jail life didn't
agree with him; that as soon as the doors closed behind him he was seized with a
congestive chill and that he was not able to stand trial. He was given
further time to permit his temperature to become normal before putting him
through the mill.
James M.
Foster of Safford Ariz and John R. Foster of Crockett are visiting their
brothers, B. F. and T. J. in Marlin. James M. was a citizen of Marlin for
several years, but has been in the west for the past seven or eight years.
He is at the head of an extensive mercantile business in Safford.
Brown
Leghorn eggs, 15 for 50 cents, also Jersey cow with young calf for sale.
Call on or addresss. O. H. Mils, Reagan, Tex.
Marlin
Music Company, has made a record of the peculiar and original music that is made
by Whistling Dick Sims, the old negro who has amused thousands of people with
his whistler and bones. The old darkey was visibly effected when he heard
his "echo" in the phonograph, though he does not yet understand how he was thus
lured in the fathomless realms of the unknown.
A dispatch
from Austin states that the adjutant general is looking for locations to
establish two target ranges for the practice of members of the Texas national
grounds. These ranges are maintained, in part, by the federal government
and part by the state. The adjutant general's attention should be called
to Marlin as a most desirable place for one of these ranges.
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