Typed as spelled and written

Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth Year - Number 8

Marlin, Texas, Thursday,  April 18, 1907

STOCK SHOULD BE LEFT IN SAFE PLACE.

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To The Public:

    There has hardly been a week since I have been sheriff that more or less inquiries are being made for lost or stolen horses or mules that have been driven or ridden to Marlin and left standing hitched around the court house or some other place in town and when the owner is ready to go the animal has broken the hitch rope, slipped the bridle and wandered off or possibly been stolen.  In most all cases they have got loose.  This does not only give me trouble and expense looking for the stock but gives the loser much trouble and expense.

    This could and should be avoided, as the town is full of wagon yards and the small price of five cents the stock could be put in a safe place and have shade and water and the owner would know where they were when ready to go home. "A stich (sic) in time saves nine," and the price of safekeeping is small.  When I go to a town I drive direct to a wagon yard or livery stable and put up my horse.

                                                                     M. J. Poole.

                                                                            Sheriff.

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