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- Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY
DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year Number 63
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, July 15, 1931
OLD SETTLERS and VETERANS
of FALLS COUNTY CONVENE
Program Opening Thursday
Continues Through Friday at
Tomlinson Hill.
The 1931 reunion of the Old Settlers and Confederate Veterans Association of
Falls County will be called to order at 10 o'clock Thursday morning at Tomlinson
Hill by A. P. Tomlinson, president. J. C. Asbury, chaplain, will give the
invocation, and W. E. Hodges, secretary, will read the minutes. The
welcome address will be made by Terry Dickens with response by Mrs. Roy Levy of
Chilton. Music by the Rosebud and Lott municipal bands led by Prof. Wilson
will be followed by short talks on pioneer days by D. W. Stallworth and Judge S.
R. Scott of Waco. Music led by W. C. Kirkpatrick and five-minute talks by
old settlers and veterans with special music by Miss Eleanor Kirkpatrick are
other features of the morning program.
Following a basket dinner at the noon hour,
the program will be resumed by Sanford Garrett and Sanford Hancock, an address
by J. E. Stanford of Bryan, who will be introduced by Frank Oltorf, special
music by Miss Odessa Kelly, Sebe Mitchell and the C. L. Maxwell and Rayburn
quartets; a report of the mortuary committee, and taps by Judge W. S. Hunnicutt
with memorial address by Rev. S. D. Dollahite, special music, poetry and
philosophy by Dr. J. W. Torbett, Sacred Harp singing and the band.
A school day program in charge of Miss Lois
Souther, county superintendent, is slated Friday.
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