Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year -  Number 176
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 25, 1931

CITIZENS OF PRECINCT NO. 8
FORM TAX PAYERS LEAGUE

McLennan County Leader Delivers
Speech at Meeting at
Blevins

(To) The Democrat:

Monday Night, November 23, the (missing) (missing)ns of justice precinct No. 8 (missing) includes Blevins, Cego, Long (Branch), Shields, Beulah, and Eddy (missing)--the Blevins school house for
(missing)ose of forming a Tax Payers (missing).

(Missing) Strauss president of the Mc(missing) county organization also (pre)sident of the state organization addressed the meeting.  He outlined the aims of the organization, which are a sound and economic administration of state, county and local government.  Immediately after Prof. Strauss' address the group then formed the first Tax Payers League in Falls county.

The following officers were elected:  K. W. Barth, president; J. F. Wilkerson, vice president; R. H. Jones, secretary; R. C. Litteral, treasurer.

Soliciting committees were apointed from each school district to get new members.  The first Monday night in each month was set aside as the regular meeting night, and it is hoped at the meeting night of Dec. 7 that a number of people from other parts of the county will meet with the precinct tax league.

The following enrolled as members: L. L. Stewart, R. C. Litteral, G. Huber, Frank Sutter, A. W. Gum, T. L. Wilkerson, W. B. Jackson, E. C. Scott, J. E. Bowers, O. E. Miller, W. J. Miller, Richard Fiend, Walter Barth, E. E. Krause, W. I. Allen, J. T. Jennings, W. A. Beanke (sic), Adolph E. Miller, C. W. Stephenson, R. H. Jones, K. W. Barth, D. C. Beauchamp, B. R. Parm (sic), C. F. Clark, R. I. Jacques, F. G. Jackson, Alfred Roming, C. C. Huber, A. Krause, B. O. Herrington, C. Marstellar, J. M. Rainwater, P. E. Krause, C. D. Stone, Wayne Bateman, W. C. Tisdale, Mrs. W. C. Tisdale, J. W. Adams, August Roming, J. W. Wooley, H. E. Mirick, Jim McCoy, Ed. F. Hinze, Ed Whitner, Ed Behnke, J. (missing) Krause, J. W. Frosh, J. (missing) Wilk(missing), (missing) Cypert, Gordon (missing) - (several names missing here) L. Stone, Paul
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