Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 28
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, September 11. 1902
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HAPPENINGS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
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FIND A REVOLUTIONARY RELIC.
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Part of Chain Stretched by Washington Across the Hudson.
Two young men from New York, who are summering at Greenwood lake, while rambling
over the Ramapo mountains last week, came across an old relic of the revolution
which they prize highly. These young men, E. L. Greene and T. McCabe, had
strolled on the Sterling mountains, which a few years ago afforded a favorite
picnic resort for Rockland county people, when they came across an iron link
wedged tightly between two rocks. This was near the old forge where the
iron chain was made which was stretched across the Hudson river at West Point to
prevent the British ships from reaching Albany, and the link found last week
probably belonged to that chain. The iron mine in the Sterling mountains
was the first opened in the United States, and a remnant of the furnace
constructed there many years before the revolution may still be seen.--Albany
Argus.
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Now Mrs. Frederick Scovel.
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Miss Vivian Sartoris Married at Coburg, Ont., on August 23.
Miss Vivian Sartoris is now the bride of
Frederick Roosevelt Scovel, cousin of the president. The wedding took
place in Coburg, Ont., Aug. 23.
Miss Vivian, who recently was reported to
have renounced society in order that she might devote all her attention to art,
is the oldest daughter of Nellie Grant Sartoris. She was engaged to be
married to Archibald Balfour, a London barrister, but the engagement was
suddenly broken in June, 1902, after Miss Sartoris' trouseau had been prepared.
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