Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 7
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 17, 1902.
-----
A SPLENDID
RAIN FALLS
-----
Every Section of Falls County
Gets a Shaker
-----
Lightning Destroyed Barn at Reagan.
-----

       Falls county and in fact a large portion of the state was visited by heavy rains Saturday night and Sunday.
       Not only has a fine season fallen, but there is enough stock water to last a good while and everywhere the cisterns have been replenished and the people are feeling fine over the very flattering prospects for crops.
       The rain at all central points is reported that best that has fallen in twelve months and the farmers are jubilant.
       At Reagan, where no rain to amount to anything has fallen since last June, a heavy rain fell Saturday night accompanied, as elsewhere, by an electric storm.  The bay barn of Mrs. B. C. Clark at Rose Hill, was set fire by lightning and destroyed with several tons of hay.
       Barclay, another section that has been very dry, received a good rain as did all the county between here and there.

----------

Copyright permission granted to Theresa Carhart and her volunteers for printing
by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas