Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 23
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, August 7, 1902
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COTTON NEWS.

       The following items are taken from the Lott Clarion of date August 1st:

       "Mr. Wallace Moore brought into the Clarion office a cotton boll that measured 5 1-2 inches in circumference and weighed 2 oz. and says he has grown bolls enough on his cotton to make a bale to the acre.
       Mr. Lit Chapman was in town Wednesday, and says that his cotton will not make a bale of cotton to ten acres, unless some change comes about, but he expects the change to come about.
       Mr. J. E. Porter was in Lott Wednesday, and informed the writer hereof, that if the boll weevil and other pests would stay out of his cotton, he would make one and a half bales of cotton to the acre.

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