Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 55
Marlin, Texas, Monday, July 6, 1931
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Around About Marlin
And Falls County
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The citizens of Rosebud celebrated National Independence Day not only for what
happened 195 years ago, but for the thing that ARE today.
They celebrated by exhibiting agricultural products and livestock produced right
here in Falls county--in modern times. The occasion was the American
Legion Fair held there Friday and Saturday of last week.
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Three buildings, one exclusively for live stock, another for gricultural (sic),
poultry, and miscellaneous exhibits, and another for canning and needlework
exhibits, were appropriately arranged for the displays. An open space
adjoining, so arranged that passing from one building to the other you pass
through the open space, completed the fair grounds. Within this open space
were concessions and individual exhibits, including new automobiles, farm
implements, and a number of home-talent carnival features. The fair was
entirely owned and operated.
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The consesus (sic) of opinion of the hundreds of people who visited the fair is,
that it was a credit to Rosebud and vicinity. The exhibits of corn,
cotton, higera, oats, melons, and other crops, many not matured, of course,
forecasts a good yield this year. That there is increased interest in
dairying was revealed by the special interest shown in the dairy live-stock
exhibits. A number of dairy cattle were shown, many of which are
registered stock recently brought into the county.
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Among the Marlin people who attended the fair were Dan Clinton, county
agricultural agent, Miss Onah Jacks, county demonstration agent, J. M. Wilson,
instructor of vocational agriculture in the Marlin schools, B. C. Segrest, post
commander of the Marlin post of the American Legion, and members of the
committee (A. O. Edwards, Raymond Barnett, J. A. Hardin, L. J. Dupuy and R. E.
Alburtis), selected to make investigations and report to the next meeting of the
Legion concerning holding a fair in Marlin.
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W. M. Beck, soil surveyor of the Department of Agriculture, arranged a display
of many different types of soils found in Falls county and was personally in
charge of the exhibit. Because of the varieties and colors the display
attracted special interest. The soils will be brought to Marlin and shown
at the Chamber of Commerce building this week.
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Long to Be Remembered.
July 4, 1931, will probably be remembered a long time by Harvey A. Carey,
apparently about 35, who ran off the highway into a ditch north of town about
five o'clock Saturday afternoon, in his roadster, the car turning over.
His car was badly damaged. He was carried to Riesel where he received
treatment for injuries, which are said to be slight. Later Mr. Carey came
to Marlin and his car was brought here for repairs.
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The two young
men driving at a high rate of speed were unable to make the turn as they came
out of the Mart road into highway No. 6 north of
Riesel about ten o'clock Saturday night. The car plunged into the ditch,
through the railroad wire fence which was torn up for several hundred feet, and
finally landed upside down near the railroad tracks. There it caught fire
and burned. The car was a complete wreck before catching fire. The
occupants, according to reports, miraculously escaped and returned to Mart for
treatment fo minor injuries.
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A large sedan is reported to have gone into the ditch south of Reagan Sunday
night. No one was hurt. The car, occupied by three women and a man
and driven by one of the women, is said to have gone into the ditch in
preference to striking another car. The car was not damaged and proceeded
north when pulled from the ditch several feet deep.
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Mud-Cats Illfated.
Murdering mud-catfish was a pastime indulged in by a group of negroes west of
Marlin July 4. The old slough (at one time believed to be the river
channel) possessed pools of water which the dry weather had about taken up.
Fish caught in the evaporating pools were destined to some kind of fate and
instead or it proving that which befalls all "fish out of water" it was
different. Armed with spades, pitchforks and sticks, members of the black
race rolled up their trousers, waded into the shallow water and deep mud and
quickly provided themselves with a good supply of fish for dinner and supper and
probably meals next day.
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Passing through Marlin last week, Mrs. Virginia Brandt, union evangelist known
extensively throughout the South and who received her education at T.C.U., Fort
Worth, and other universities, together with her daughter and business manager,
H. E. Berg, were en route to Oklahoma City to hold a meeting beginning July 5,
they said. They had just completed two weeks services in Houston.
They were traveling in a specially built truck with complete living quarters in
which they reside continuously.
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Permission granted to Theresa Carhart and her volunteers for printing
by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.