The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year Number 20
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, July 14, 1904
REAGAN NEWS NOTES.
The election was the quietest even
known in Reagan. Look like Sunday. No influence. So much for the
Terrell law. The people as a whole are elated over the way the election is
managed.
After the close of the polls the citizens met in
convention and elected the following delegates to the county convention: E. Land
J. A. Kirkpatrick, J. V. Cobb, Alex Williamson, C. W. Lloyd, J. H. Cluck, M. W.
Cabaniss, J. T. Owens, T. G. Fountain, W. G. Tubb, E. W. Robbins, P. S.
Russel, F. M. Davis, D. L. Wardlaw.
The Baptists have just closed a glorious meeting
conducted by the pastor, Bro. D. C. Hardin of Waco, assisted by Bro. Pender of
Paris, Texas; ten or fifteen joined the church, eight baptized last Friday night
at the church by Bro. Hardin, who made a good talk and one I think all members
of his church enjoyed.
Our town is quiet, as it always is at this time of the
year.
Your reporter made a trip out to the Rotan farm near
Reagan, managed by Mr. J. J. Rinewalt. To say he has a fine prospect does
not express it. However, prospects do not make crops. His cotton now is
clear of weevils or signs. Mr. Rinewalt showed us where he had put poison
on the cotton some time ago, and we saw no signs of the weevil, although at the
time he poisoned, it was full. We noticed one thing that we had not seen
for years, corn curing in ear before the fodder burns up. We have noticed crops
on this place since 1895 and the prospects for crops now is the best that has
been there during this time, although we hear a great many complaining that the
weevil is going for their cotton. Mr. J. H. Cluck says he is done with the
tenant after this year. He will work what cotton he plants by hired help
and only what he can poison, says the tenants won't poison, seem to be afraid to
use it, or pretend to any way; says he don't think, he knows, for when he used
the poison the bugs were there, after poisoning they were there, but dead.
With consolation to all candidates, I am yours, etc.
D.
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