Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 52
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 20, 1907
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GENERAL NEWS.
Some of the best towns in the state are losing the prestage they once enjoyed
because of bad roads. It costs the farmer just so much to haul at (sic)
load to and from market over a bad road.--Central Texan.
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In the time when the roads are bad is the time to lay plans for their
improvement. When the weather clears up is the time to fix them. The
split log drag saves time and makes good roads. Try it.
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William J. Bryan has ended the protracted suspension of hte public by saying
that he will not ask or seek the nomination for president but that he is willing
to serve and that the people have a right to decide who will run for president.
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A fine piece of work--the figure of a Confederate bugler calling hsi comrades to
arms, which is of solid bronze, eight feet high, standing on a granite
pedestal--has been placed in position in the public square at Corsicana to serve
as a monument.
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The farmers of Lamar county are fully aroused beyond any doubt that it is up to
them to make change in plans for the future. They have combined themselves
to plant less cotton, more corn, more wheat, extra crop of peanuts, and if
cotton is to be resorted to, the long staple will be the variety to be used.
A good example for any county in the state.
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The merchants of Belton have adopted the following plan to keep the money in
circulation: At the end of each day's sales the merchants turn over the
cash taken in during the day to some one of the cotton buyers, taking a check on
the bank. The cotton buyer uses this money to pay for (cotton), thus
keeping the money in business channels.--Rosebud News.
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The Cyclone editor has said and written so much in the effort to create an
interest in the building of small factories and establishment of needed
enterprizes in Kosse, and without apparent result.--Kosse Cyclone.
Don't forget that it took Christopher
Columbus only twenty years of bitter disappointment and despondency to find
himself perpetually famous. Don't give up your commendable effort yet.
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Judge Joseph E. Cockrell of Dallas, who was a prime mover in the organization of
the Texas Harvester Company, after the International Harvester Company had been
forced out of the state, is out in a statement stoutly dennying (sic) that the
new company is in any way connected with the old company, or that any officer
(or) stockholder of the Texas Company ever held any stock in the (I)nternational
Company or that (the) latter company holds any (s)tock in the new company.
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