The Marlin Democrat & The Daily Democrat 1907 Newspaper Clippings Contributed by Theresa Carhart   The Daily Democrat [Marlin, Tex. - with permission] Saturday Dec. 7, 1907 The voters in Ellis County are getting busy and buying poll tax receipts right along. County Collector Spencer is hopeful of breaking all previous records this year and feels quite confident that the total number will exceed 9000. Up to the close of business Nov. 30 he had issued 1473 receipts. One day recently 119 citizens of the county secured the necessary credentials permitting them to vote in next year's election. The Daily Democrat, Marlin, Texas Friday, October 18, 1907, Page 3 column 3 Ennis, Tex. Oct. 18. G. C. McClain, a farmer of this vicinity, was in town purchasing supplies, and in conversation with a friend stated that he and his wife were married twenty-five twenty-five [sic] years and have had seventeen children, eleven boys and six girls. Fifteen are living, and of that number three are married. Mr. McClain is forty-seven years of age and his wife is forty  [19 June 1999] The Marlin Democrat Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1907, page 1, column 1 Ennis. Tex. Nov. 26. Mrs. Maude Winkler, wife of Conductor Winkler of the H. T. C. railroad, died here today from the effects of a self-administered dose of carbolic acid. She left a note to a friend containing funeral directions. Mrs. Winkler had been in poor health for a long time and physicians had decided that she would have to undergo a surgical operation, the dread of which is believed to have been partly responsible for the deed.   [23 June 1999]   Copyright © 1999-2016, Ellis County TXGenWeb. All Rights Reserved. This page was last modified: Monday, 10-Sep-2018 10:23:09 MDT