The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year   Number 10
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, May 5, 1904

OPERA HOUSE PROPOSITION

     Some weeks ago when it seemed that an opera house for Marlin was all but a certainty the DEMOCRAT was requested to treat the matter as an ordinary business enterprise, publishing no specific information of the details of the proposition, until it had assumed some tangible form so as to insure the success of the enterprise, when something definite could be given out. For that reason nothing has appeared in these columns recently on this all important subject.
     However, it now develops that, although the gentlemen at the head of the enterprise have secured some liberal subscriptions to the capital stock, there yet remains unsubscribed nearly half of the amount required to erect such a building as is desired and Marlin should have. As the time when this matter should be closed up is rapidly drawing near, if next season's business is considered, it behooves the citizens
of Marlin to be up and doing.
     We take it that the importance of this enterprise, from a stand-point of providing entertainment for the visitors as well as folks, as a financial stimulus to the town and in the way of providing a public meeting place for conventions that might be induced to come this way, is so patent to all that further argument would be superflous.
     We only desire to bespeak, for the three gentlemen who will take this matter up again, a generous response and a liberal subscription of stock. Remember, that while it may not pay as well as Standard Oil, though it should pay a reasonable dividend, it will pay a heavy per cent in the way of adding to the general pros perity of the community and that includes each and all.

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