Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year   Number 85
Marlin, Texas, Monday, August 10, 1931

MARLIN FIREMAN GET
TWO ALARMS DURING WEEKEND

Grocery Store Suffers Some Damage
and Negro Cemetery
Grass Ignited.

       Marlin firemen answered two alarms Saturday night and Sunday.
       The first one came in at 11:15 o'clock Saturday night as the result of grass at the negro cemetery becoming ignited.  Firemen extinguished the flames with wet sacks.
       The second alarm came in at 12:15 p.m. Sunday, when smoke was seen in the J. A. Fowler grocery store on Live Oak street by a party standing outside.  Investigation disclosed some stock on a balcony in the rear of the building had become ignited.  The blaze was curbed before much damage resulted.

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