The Marlin Democrat
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, March 10, 1904

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LETTER FROM
FRANK B. KIMBLER. 
Chilton, Texas.
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     No county in Texas has been so misrepresented or injured more by exaggerated reports sent out since the appearance of the boll weevil. In fact it must appear to the eastern homeseeker, who hears and reads these reports that Falls county has been reduced to a howling
wilderness by these boley bugs, beyond hope of redemption.
     Why it is that men who have lived and labored almost a life time in this county building-good homes Will thoughtlessly aid the cronic kicker in depreciating their property, I cannot understand.
     Falls, county is all right - cotton or no cotton. We will soon be raising enough of other, crops to establish good markets and then the man that sold Falls county land at the depressed prices, will see his mistake. The people are slowly but surely and substantially changing their former methods of farming and better times will follow.
     With land that will produce more onions per acre; than any man can gather and haul to market in a month and 500 bushels of Irish potatoes, no use to be alarmed about the boley bug, but keep old Jude going and quit helping the north Texas land agent make the Iowa seeker believe that Falls county is a part of south Texas. The same grade of land that is selling in this county for $25 per acre is selling in north Texas for $40 to $60 per acre. Why the difference? When a man steps off the train up there, he is told by everyone that he is in the best part of Texas. If he says anything about going further south they cry, "boley bugs, mosquitoes, bull gnats, horned frogs, hot wind, gulf fog, chills, fever, quinine in your coffee," and haul him out in the country, if they havn't a fellow more convenient to prove it by, who one time planted 10 acres of cotton in Falls county, layed it by in May, bought goods on credit to the amount or $500, then run off from Falls county on account of them boley devil bugs, (now in hardest country on earth.)
I see in the DEMOCRAT that R. J. Garrett has bought a carload of hog wire. Three cheers for Mr. Garrett, that beats two car loads of Boll Weevil Exterminator and you don't have to get Mr. Wilson to tell you how to use it.
     Mr. Editor, give these local correspondents space in your paper and encourage them to write. I heard more talk about that carload of hog wire than any one thing mentioned in last - week's paper, politics not excepted. (There is no limit here as to our capacity for handling t good correspondence. - Ed )
     Notwithstanding the unusual number of candidates announcing for some offices I am afraid that quite a number will be I forcibly reminded of the timely advice of the DEMOCRAT of recent date and learn to beware of the wiles of the political trickster. In the multitude of candidates there is confusion and of all men are they not the most
miserable until the vote is counted? I extend my sympathy and I here is health to them all.

FRANK B. KIMBLER. 
Chilton, Texas.

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