Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 39
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, October 5, 1907
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FALLS COUNTY NEWS.
By Special Correspondents.
HARMONY
HILL.
To The Democrat:
Cotton picking will soon be a thing of the past.
So far the weather has been ideal for gathering the fleecy staple.
Tom Holmes and family visited friends near
Marlin Sunday.
Mrs. Emma Housby, who has been visiting her
parents near Lott, returned Sunday.
Mrs. Wm Specht has been on the sick list
the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Cook and family have
moved to Marlin for the benefit of her schools.
J. P. Norwood's fine residence is nearing
completion and it looms up on the hill.
The Zuber brothers, who have been tenants
for Jim Norwood for several years, will soon leave us. They have rented
700 acres near Lott and will run a big thing next year. We wish them
success in their large undertaking.
Several of our young folks gathered at the
beautiful of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oakes on Sept. 21st, the affair being a musical
entertainment. Light refreshments were served. All had a fine time
and thanked Mrs. Oakes for being such a fine hostess.
Morgan Cline, accompanied by his sister,
Miss Helen, and Miss Lena High, visited at Oakdale Saturday and Sunday.
Wedding bells will soon be ringing around
Harmony Hill, so Madam Rumor says.
The bears seem to have the cotton going
their way, but remember there is a bull for every bear.
It will soon be time for fall oats sowing.
Put in a good acreage. You know oats are just as high as cotton,
comparatively, and corn is a good price and we cannot lose our heads next year
by planting the whole farm to cotton. Diversification is the farmer's road
to success.
Well, say? How do you lie the
Semi-Weekly Democrat? It's a hummer. Mr. Kennedy did not even tell
us in advance that he was going to send us a twice-a-week paper and all for the
same money. It was a most agreeable surprise. Marlin is getting to
be real metropolitan, but that is what it taks to push it along--a wide-awake
newspaper like The Democrat. Some say life is what you make it, but a town
is what the press makes it. The press does more for our towns and cities
than anything. Nothing succeeds like printer's ink.
"Guess Who."
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TRAVIS ITEMS.
To The Democrat:
Miss Leila Walton visited at Ben Arnold last week.
Misses Chalista and Ona Erwin of New Salem
visited Misses Martha and Rosa Stuckey Sunday.
S. W. Chatham and Miss Mittie Scott
attended the board meeting at Marlin Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Matthews visited here
Sunday, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Stuckey.
Polk Massey is having a new addition built
to his residence in south Travis, which will be an ornament to our city.
Stephen F. Austin visited friends Sunday.
We regret to report the death of Mrs. Jim
Asbury which occurred Wednesday night. The remains were buried at Powers
Chapel Thursday afternoon. A large number of sorrowing friends accompanied
the remains to its last resting place. All join in extending condolence to
the bereaved family.
Miss Sue Hale visited her sister, Mrs.
Anding of Milam county.
The Methodists of this place are repainting
their church which adds much to the looks.
Miss Mary Williamson, who is attending
Toby's college at Waco, is here this week, a guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Rouse.
Buster Brown.
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