Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 53
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, November 23, 1907
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FALLS COUNTY NEWS.
(By Special Correspondents.)
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GOLINDA GOSSIP.

To The Democrat:
      
We have had rain until we can't rest; we can't get anywhere hardly.

       This rain is helping out the local cotton bulk as the bears cannot haul any cotton to market.

       The farmers are all standing firm with their cotton with their cotton while the roads are so bad and some of them will be firm when the roads get good.  A 79er.

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Travis Tips

To The Democrat:
      
One of the heaviest rains we have seen in quite a while fell here Saturday night and has continued a slow drizzle nearly ever since.  It is necessary for all haulers to drive from four to six mules to their vehicles on account of the desperate (missing) on the public roads.

       Miss Wlma Glass is now attending school, spent Sunday with homefolks, returning to school again Monday.

       Miss A(missing) Tardy has returned from a three weeks' visit to friends near Lott.

       Rev. Moore of Chilton was in our city a short time Monday.

       Norby Davis was thrown from his buggy Sunday afternoon in some manner, receiving slight injuries about the back of his neck and right leg.

       Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Stuckey visited Marlin Friday and report a most enjoyable trip.

       The condition of little Floyd Byars is improving slowly.

       On account of the inclement weather, we failed to have Sunday school at either of the churches here last Sunday but if the weather will permit, there will be Sunday school at both churches.  Bro. Izenhower will also preach to the Baptist people of this place on next Sunday.

       Mrs. Lizzie Hammons is preparing to move to Marlin next week.  Our best wishes go with Mrs. Hammons to her new home.

       Andrew Glass made a business trip to Marlin last Friday.

       "Guess who," "Nothing" and "Never-too-Late", come very week with our communication.  What is more interesting than a good county paper?  Now let's assist our editor in this work.
                                                                               Buster Brown.

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CHILTON CULLINGS.

To The Democrat:
      
It has been raining most of the time since last Saturday morning.  Deer Creek has been out of banks.  Several of the farms on the creek were overflowed.  We learn that J.B. Landrum had several acres of corn overflowed.
       Flem DeGraffenreidt went to Waco on Monday.
       Mr. Roundtree, who has been sick so long, died Sunday evening and was buried in Chilton cemetery Monday.
       Contractor J. G. Bradley has about completed Walter Maxey's and he will soon be a citizen of Chilton.
       Will Hunnicutt has leased his shopand mill and wood saw to Walter Maxey.  With the assistance of Uncle John Wright they will do general work.

       Tom DeGraffenreidt had business in Waco Monday.

       Jim Wooley, the great goat man at the Woodman lodge, was in town Monday inquiring after new timber.

       Wilson Flowers, who has been confined to his room for some time, is able to be at this store.

       All services at Chilton were rained out Sunday.

       We would like to loan our rooster to our neighbor at Dot.

       Gib Jackson went to Durango Sunday to see his mother.  He has been visiting his aunt, Mrs. A. O. Gaines.

       Our paper, the Chilton News, published by Hon. Forest Gaiether, is still growing and every one looks for it to get the news.

       As The Democrat is considered to have the largest circulation of any paper in the state to the size of town and inhabitants of the county, it requires a correspondent in every community.  With Kennedy and Linotype and press run by electricity.  The Democrat is a hummer.
                                                                   Simon Reuben.

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