Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 16
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 13, 1907
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Marlin Girl Wins High Honors.
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       It is a source of pleasure to her many friends in Marlin to learn that Miss Nettie Bykowski will this year be valedictorian of the graduating class at the seminary of Miss Metcalf at Tarrytown-on-the Hudson, New York.
       The honor comes as a reward (most of this paragrah missing)....
class and is quite a distinction, as there were many other bright young ladies striving for the same object.
       Marlin has indeed cause to feel a pride that one of her young ladies is thus to be honored, and doubly so as that honor is gained by merit and that alone, over competitors from all parts of the union.
       The school will be out on June 10 when Miss Nettie will be joined by her brother, Harry, who is a student at Columbia university, New York, and they will visit the Jamestown exposition, Detroit and New Orleans before returning home.

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