The Daily Democrat
Thirtieth year - Number 304
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, April 22, 1931
LIGHTNING STRIKES HOUSE
TENANT SAYS LOST SUIT
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Wants Permission of the Mayor to Solicit
Subscriptions
to Recompense the Damage
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Lightning struck the house he is living in on a farm south of town
Monday night, shocked his family, destroyed a suit of clothes for him,
knocked a hole in a bed sheet and his son's cap, reported Riley Newton, negro
farmer, today.
He said he had seen a notary public and was advised by him to get a
permission to solicit aid from the colored people to buy himself another suit
of clothes.
He said he would not ask anything for the hole in the cap nor the hole
in the sheet. He would "just let them go."
He said the lightning came through the beaver board ceiling and down
the paper on the wall, and jumped off on the bedstead. The sheet was hanging
over the head of the bed and the cap was under it, he explained.
The mayor told him if the landlord would request that a permission be
issued for him to solicit aid the request would be considered.
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