Typed as spelled and written
by Lena Stone Criswell

(Note: The front page is intact.Other pages in pieces but are of the
same date as nearly as I can tell-lsc)

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 104
Marlin, Texas, Tuesday, September 1, 1931

LIMESTONE DECLINES to
GRANT OTTO TERRITORY

County Board Had Been Asked to
Acquiesce in Plan to En-
large District
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       Limestone county's school board has declined to acquiesce to a petition from the Falls county board that the Otto school district be permitted to add to its area about 2200 acres of more than 3000 acres of the Ben Hur school district located in Falls county.
       The land affected formerly was in the county line Oklahoma district which was consolidated with the Ben Hur district several months ago.
       The Limestone board's position was represented as being that a large school has been erected in the Ben Hur district and the entire district is needed to support the school in taxation.

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