Typed as spelled and written
by Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number (Missing)
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, December 25,
1907
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Miss Annie Belle Cooley is visiting friends at McKinney.
J. W. Hixson has returned from a visit to his former in Iowa.
Signet and plain rings at M. E. Chambers & Co., the jewelers.
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Mrs. J. M. Jolly and Miss Blanche Cotton are attending the Chautaqua at Wootan
Wells.
Mr. K. Sewall and wife have returned from Bobbin where they visited relatives.
Mrs. Tom Spencer has returned to Stamford after a visit of several weeks with
relatives.
I am continually in the market for hogs, all sizes at market value any day to
bring them to town.
I. N. Conyers.
(Missing) Eva Nettles and Mrs. B. (missing) are attending the mis (missing)
conference at Pittsburg, (missing).
Mesdames O. L. Cobb of Beaumont and T. E. Newman of MIssissippi are guests of
Mrs. R. S. Hunnicutt.
W. C. Crane, who was principal of the Lott schools for two years has been
elected superintendent of the Franklin schools.
An ice cream supper will be given at Otto Friday night, next, (missing) the
benefit of the Baptist church at that place. Plenty of ice cream and cake.
All come.
A special bargain in a seventeen jewel Elgin or Waltham movement, twenty year
case at M. E. Chambers & Co., the jewelers.
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The transfer of books to the public library to the public school library adds
about 700 volumes to the latter and with new ones recently added by the school
library brings the total to about 2000 volumes.
Gordon Gaither, J. J. Bradley and Postmaster Eakin of Chilton were here Tuesday
on business. Chilton is growing nicely, they say, and is soon to have two
brick buildings. One of these will be built and occupied by the bank and
the other by Gordon Gaither.
John R. Southwell and W. C. Williamson of Lott were visitors to Marlin this
week. They are both "old timers" in this county, although neither is yet
an old man. They came to this county 41 years ago and have been so well
pleased with it that they have never desired to live anywhere else.
T. J. Herron, cashier of the Marlin National Bank, left for Fort Worth to join
the Texas bankers on their sixth annual tour. They go this year east and
touch fifteen states and several provinces in Canada. The first stop will
be Kansas City; thence to Chicago, Detroit, Niagara Falls, down St. Lawrence
River to Montreal, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Jamestown, St.
Louis and home.
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