Typed as spelled and written

by Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth Year - Number 60

Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, December 18, 1907

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BIG WOODMAN RECEPTION.

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Marlin Choppers Celebrate Around

the Festal Board.

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    Artesia camp Woodmen of the World have scored another great success in the manner of entertaining themselves and special friends.  Thursday night was the time and the Woodman camp hall the place. The means were a most elegantly prepared and intensely appetizing supper, served under the gracious direction of the members of the Woodman circle who never do things by halves.  Upon this occasion they exceeded former efforts, if such were possible.

    The time honored and somewhat weather beaten custom of speech-making was discarded and each and every member assembled around the festal board much as he would at his own and partook of the endless variety of physical refreshments so ample and so tempting.

    The occasion that suggested this banquet was the annual rally and election of officers and the attendance, considering the frowns of Boreas, was quite flattering.

    The officers elected were the following:

    W. E. Hunnicutt, consul commander.

    A. W. Eddins, advisor lieutenant.

    Geo. Collier, escort.

    Jno. J. Spencer, banker.

    M. V. Bradshaw, clerk.

    Wiley Davis, watchman.

    Ernest Elliott, sentry.

    Dr. C. L. Monk, physician.

    J. B. Gray, manager.

    A vote of thanks was unanimously extended to B. F. Foster, retiring clerk, for his indefatiguable (sic), enthusiastic and unrelenting efforts at all times for the promotion of the cause and principles of Woodcraft, and wishing for him prosperity wherever he may cast his lot.

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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.