Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 44
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, October 23, 1907
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News Condensations.
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Hamlin is to have a
trades and display Nov. 4 and 5.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is
canvlescening. (sic)
A nut growers' association has been
organized at Coleman.
Frost has been reported from a number of
sections in Texas.
J. P. Newcomb, a well known Texas
character, is dead at San Antonio.
Gov. Campbell has become a professional
fair opener--next the Abilene fair Tuesday, Oct. 22.
The spinners of Europe are touring in Texas
with an attempt to meet face to face with farmers.
The construction of good roads under the
expenditure of the $300,000 bond issue is under way in Jefferson county.
Sheriff Egg of Jackson county has been
acquitted of the charge of killing a brother of Felix Powell.
The dough mixers of San Antonio are
endeavoring to get together and boost higher prices.
Shorty Burch, in county court at Lufkin,
was fined, for toting a pistol, $200 and costs and given 12 months in jail.
At Tyler a brakeman ate an apple that fell
out of one of the crates in transit to northern markets and was fined and
deprived of his job. The slogan now is: "Beware of the forbidden
fruit."
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