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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