Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 11
Marlin, Texas,Thursday, May 9, 1907
Damage by Hailstorm was Heavy.
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The hailstorm of last week in the northeastern part of this county was much
worse than at first report. J. A. Gill, who is in from his farm near Otto
states that about 600 acres of his crops are well nigh ruined and that some of
his neighbors faired equally as bad.
At his residence the stones were very large
and dozens of birds were killed.
Nat Adams from the Odds country says the
hail there and at Big Hill and Thornton was the heaviest ever seen, even by the
oldest inhabitant.
The path was from one to two miles wide and
lay from the north west to the southeast. Thousands acres of cotton in
Falls and Limestone counties are ruined.
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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas