Typed as spelled - Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year -
Number 44
Marlin, Texas, Monday,
June 22, 1931
FALLS COUNTY NEWS
(The Lott Post)
M. J. Fields of Bryan was a recent visitor of his father,
Judge M.C.
Fields. He was
graduated in agricultural education, receiving his master of science degree in A. and M. College at
College Station the past term.
Miss Onah Jacks, county demonstration agent, will meet all
ladies who are interested in such work on Wednesday, June 24, at 2:30 p.m. at
the Woodman building in Lott.
(The Chilton News)
J.E. Brown of Waco, who was driving a truck for the Bollinger
Produce Co. of that place, was critically injured when he crashed into a railing
on the embankment crossing Deer creek a mile below town. It is said that he stated that he had
lost a lot of sheep and must have dozed off.
The top rail of the fence was driving through the truck, striking him in
the lower part of the body. The
truck was almost demolished in the crash from the embankment.
Mrs. A. E. Lockerd, who has been confined to her bed for the
past six
weeks, was given a family reunion Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gates and four children, Roy Cooley,
Carson and Chas.Eakin and Miss Amanda Eakin, were stricken with ptomaine poison
last Friday. Although living in
adjoining houses, the source of the poison has not beendetermined. Probably the worst affected was Chas.
Eakin, who was in Waco when stricken.
He was unable to be brought Sunday night, but is still confined to his home.
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