The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year Number 8
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 2, 1904
MARLIN'S TRADE SALES DAY
MONDAY JUNE 6.
Everybody
invited to come. Bring your trading stock, swap horses, swap yarns, swap ideas,
learn what your neighbor is doing and tell him what you are doing. New products
for this season will be heartily welcome. Do not miss this, the best month.
There is much to learn. Everybody in Marlin will be a friend to you. THE
MARLIN BUSINESS LEAGUE takes this method of cultivating a closer relation
between farmer, stockman and everyone in Falls county, and will on this day
offer the following:
LIST OF PRIZES:
GARDEN AND TRUCK FARM.
Best peck Irish
potatoes,
one eight day clock with alarm.
" Bunch
radishes, one butter dish.
" bunch carrots, one set cups and saucers.
" gallon English peas, one set of plates.
" basket of wax beans, one bridle.
" basket of Tomatoes, one bottle of wine.
Second best basket of tomatoes,
one gallon of molasses.
Best beets, one
good coffee pot.
" one-half dozen squashes,
one good $1.00 shirt.
" one half dozen
cucumbers, ten yards 10c lawn.
" showing of strawberries,
one dozen fruit jars.
" bunch six
onions, five pounds good coffee
Second best bunch six onions, red or white,
pair ladies $1.50 shoes.
Best supply of
garden products,
from garden $2.50 cash.
FARM AND MEADOW
Best bale
alfalfa hay "new," $2.00 cash.
" six stalks of cotton, one pair $2.50 pants
Second best six stalks of cotton,-
one pair of $1.50 shoes.
Best six stalks
of corn,
1 bottle Paul Jones or Coon Hollow whiskey.
Second best six stalks of corn,
one sack of good flour.
POULTRY
Best trio brown
leghorns, one sack of flour,
" trio buff leghorns, one sack of flour.
" trio barred Plymouth rocks,
" twenty pounds of granulated sugar.
" trio white leghorns, one $2.50 rocker.
" trio white wyandotte, $1.50 cash.
" hen and brood chickens, must be under one month old, five pound mixed candy.
LIVE STOCK===Open all Falls Co.
Best pair
roadsters, $5.00 casn.
Most stylish single driver, one pair $3. pants
Best saddle horse,
one pair of $3.50 men's shoes.
" Best two year
old mare or horse,
one $2.50 halter.
" colt one year
old or under,
one pair $2.50 shoes.
" brood mare,
one 3.50 stetson hat.
" span of mules, one pair of $3.50 shoes.
" mule colt one year or under,
one 1.50 man's hat.
" Jack, 5.00 in
cash.
Second best Jack, 2.50 cash.
Best Stallion, 5 00 cash.
Second best Stallion, 2.50 cash.
COWS==Open For All Falls County
Best milch cow
five years old any breed,
5.00 cash.
Second best
milch cow,
one-half ton cotton seed hulls.
Best one year
old heifer,
one 2.50 rocking chair.
" one year old
bull,
one pair men's 3.50 shoes.
HOGS===Open For All Falls County.
Best berkshire
sow "high bred,"
one 2.50 man's hat.
" Poland China
sow, fifty bars clariette soap
" jersey red or red berkshire sow,
one box of fifty cigars.
" berkshire
boar,
one pair men's 2.50 shoes.
" Poland China
boar,
one pair 2.50 ladies or men's shoes.
" jersey red or
red berkshire boar,
one sack of flour.
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" display of cut
roses, one jardineere 2.00
" display of cut corations,
one jardineere 2.00.
If you don't get a prize it is
because some one else has something better than you.
MARLIN BUSINESS LEAGUE.
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Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart and her volunteers for
printing by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.