Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell


THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year     Number 63
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, July 15, 1931

OLD SETTLERS and VETERANS
of FALLS COUNTY CONVENE

Program Opening Thursday
Continues Through Friday at
Tomlinson Hill.

       The 1931 reunion of the Old Settlers and Confederate Veterans Association of Falls County will be called to order at 10 o'clock Thursday morning at Tomlinson Hill by A. P. Tomlinson, president.  J. C. Asbury, chaplain, will give the invocation, and W. E. Hodges, secretary, will read the minutes.  The welcome address will be made by Terry Dickens with response by Mrs. Roy Levy of Chilton.  Music by the Rosebud and Lott municipal bands led by Prof. Wilson will be followed by short talks on pioneer days by D. W. Stallworth and Judge S. R. Scott of Waco.  Music led by W. C. Kirkpatrick and five-minute talks by old settlers and veterans with special music by Miss Eleanor Kirkpatrick are other features of the morning program.
       Following a basket dinner at the noon hour, the program will be resumed by Sanford Garrett and Sanford Hancock, an address by J. E. Stanford of Bryan, who will be introduced by Frank Oltorf, special music by Miss Odessa Kelly, Sebe Mitchell and the C. L. Maxwell and Rayburn quartets; a report of the mortuary committee, and taps by Judge W. S. Hunnicutt with memorial address by Rev. S. D. Dollahite, special music, poetry and philosophy by Dr. J. W. Torbett, Sacred Harp singing and the band.
       A school day program in charge of Miss Lois Souther, county superintendent, is slated Friday.

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