The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year   Number 8
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 2, 1904


MARLIN'S TRADE SALES DAY
MONDAY JUNE 6.

Everybody invited to come. Bring your trading stock, swap horses, swap yarns, swap ideas, learn what your neighbor is doing and tell him what you are doing. New products for this season will be heartily welcome. Do not miss this, the best month. There is much to learn. Everybody in Marlin will be a friend to you. THE MARLIN BUSINESS LEAGUE takes this method of cultivating a closer relation between farmer, stockman and everyone in Falls county, and will on this day offer the following:

LIST OF PRIZES:
GARDEN AND TRUCK FARM.

Best peck Irish potatoes,

one eight day clock with alarm.

" Bunch radishes, one butter dish.
" bunch carrots, one set cups and saucers.
" gallon English peas, one set of plates.
" basket of wax beans, one bridle.
" basket of Tomatoes, one bottle of wine.
Second best basket of tomatoes,

one gallon of molasses.

Best beets, one good coffee pot.
" one-half dozen squashes,

one good $1.00 shirt.

" one half dozen cucumbers, ten yards 10c lawn.
" showing of strawberries,

one dozen fruit jars.

" bunch six onions, five pounds good coffee
Second best bunch six onions, red or white,

pair ladies $1.50 shoes.

Best supply of garden products,

from garden $2.50 cash.

 
FARM AND MEADOW

Best bale alfalfa hay "new," $2.00 cash.
" six stalks of cotton, one pair $2.50 pants
Second best six stalks of cotton,-

one pair of $1.50 shoes.

Best six stalks of corn,
1 bottle Paul Jones or Coon Hollow whiskey.
Second best six stalks of corn,

one sack of good flour.

 
POULTRY

Best trio brown leghorns, one sack of flour,
" trio buff leghorns, one sack of flour.
" trio barred Plymouth rocks,
" twenty pounds of granulated sugar.
" trio white leghorns, one $2.50 rocker.
" trio white wyandotte, $1.50 cash.
" hen and brood chickens, must be under one month old, five pound mixed candy.

LIVE STOCK===Open all Falls Co.

Best pair roadsters, $5.00 casn.
Most stylish single driver, one pair $3. pants
Best saddle horse,

one pair of $3.50 men's shoes.

" Best two year old mare or horse,

one $2.50 halter.

" colt one year old or under,

one pair $2.50 shoes.

" brood mare, one 3.50 stetson hat.
" span of mules, one pair of $3.50 shoes.
" mule colt one year or under,

one 1.50 man's hat.

" Jack, 5.00 in cash.
Second best Jack, 2.50 cash.
Best Stallion, 5 00 cash.
Second best Stallion, 2.50 cash.

COWS==Open For All Falls County

Best milch cow five years old any breed,

5.00 cash.

Second best milch cow,

one-half ton cotton seed hulls.

Best one year old heifer,

one 2.50 rocking chair.

" one year old bull,

one pair men's 3.50 shoes.

HOGS===Open For All Falls County.

Best berkshire sow "high bred,"

one 2.50 man's hat.

" Poland China sow, fifty bars clariette soap
" jersey red or red berkshire sow,

one box of fifty cigars.

" berkshire boar,

one pair men's 2.50 shoes.

" Poland China boar,

one pair 2.50 ladies or men's shoes.

" jersey red or red berkshire boar,

one sack of flour.
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" display of cut roses, one jardineere 2.00
" display of cut corations,

one jardineere 2.00.

     If you don't get a prize it is because some one else has something better than you.

MARLIN BUSINESS LEAGUE.

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