Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 27
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, September 4, 1902
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MATTERS AT MART.
The prospects for cotton seem to be cut short. Weevils have made their
appearance in most places and there is cotton as high as a man's head without
any cotton. The weevil stings the form and it falls off. Corn only
made about one-third of a crop.
The roof is now being put on the new
three-story school building which will soon be ready for school to open.
The board sold the schools at par to the state which netted them $10,000.
There has been at present about 250 cars of
stone and sand for the railroad shops. The walls are beginning to show up
now.
Mart has received about 1800 bales of
street cotton up to date and expects the receipts to reach 2500 bales by
Saturday night. Buyers have been paying from 7.95 to 8.15 this week for
cotton.
Owens Bros. have rebuilt where they burned
out.
The town has put on a night watchman to
look after the town during the cotton season.
Owing to the inadequate facilities of the
International and Great Northern for handling cotton here it has forced them to
receive about 400 bales of cotton on the ground, the wharf being full.
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