Falls County News - April 11, 1907

Typed as spelled and written

Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth Year - Number 7

Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 11, 1907

FALLS COUNTY NEWS.

by Special Correspondents

GOLINDA GOSSIP.

To the Democrat:

Corn is generally in a fair condition. Some that was planted late looks pretty bad. Cotton is spotted; which part of it's up and part of it is not, and will not until it rains, if then. Small grain had about as well be set down as a failure.

Mrs. Ethel Haralson is down from Waco visiting Mrs. Sadie Wooley.

The school election was a failure as there was a horse show at Lorena that day. All the candidates for school trustees went over there and that did not leave any body to help Bro Duty to hold the election, hence there was none.

D. E. W.

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SALT BRANCH SIFTINGS.

To the Democrat:

Everything is moving along nicely in our little community. People are all busy in their crops, the prospects being exceedingly fine, the recent rain put the ground in fine shape and the farmers are "all smiles."

Our school is progressing nicely in spite of all the disadvantages.

Old time customs and pleasures are indeed a thing of the past. In the olden times we sewed on our fingers and at school we wrote on clay tablets and slates, now-a-days we have the sewing machine and fine marble boards. Think what an advanced age this is--some one has invented a liquid extract of smoke and it won't be long before you can buy your own weather in blades to suit you. I believe it won't be long before some smart genius will try to invent an apparatus to convey the rapidity of thought.

Miss Sibyl Woodland has returned home, her school at Eureka having closed.

S. D. Dunham and W. J. Owen have returned from their prospecting trip out west. They say they "like the country out there fine, but Salt Branch is good enough for them."

Joe Woodland is here on a visit and he will return to California in a few days.

Nat Lewellyn of Marlin was in our midst Sunday.

Harold Mitchell of Glade chapel spend (sic) Sunday with homefolks.

Misses Cora and Sibyl Woodland, Bertha Stevenson, Bessie and Mozelle Mitchell Sam and Grover Swinnea attended the skating rink at Kosse Friday night. They report a pleasant time. Some people greatly oppose skating and condemn it as a crime, but there is some body always ready to find fault with everything and everybody, so we have to make the best of life we can and let every fellow attend to his own business as well as he tries to look after some other fellows' business and we will at least have a better world, if money wasn't spent on skating a good amount of it would be spent for "booze," so t'is 'bout as long as broad after all.

Robert Pamplin of Alto Springs was saying "sweet nothings" to some of our girls Sunday.

Miss Mela Dunham has been the guest of Mrs. Dr. Manny at Stranger for a week.

Our school will close soon and the teachers and pupils have planed a picnic and an all day outing on Big Creek for the last day, some nice recitations will also be prepared, and some one has suggested that we seine the tank and carry along some fish.

Some of our roads are getting pretty bad--the overseers had better get busy.

Tom Swinnea has his attention attracted over this way from some cavse or other, don't know why, guess some of the girls know.

Trixsy.

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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.