Typed as spelled - Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT

Sixtieth Year - Number 127

Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, August 31, 1960

EXPRESSION OF THANKS SAID TO THOSE GIVING GRAVE MARKER FOR 'SHORTY'

Carl Allen, local representative for the Deitz Memorial firm, is being thanked, along with his firm for their interest to provide and erect a tombstone and footmarker at the grave of John W. (Shorty) Cairns in Calvary Cemetery.

Mr. Cairns was better known here as "Shorty". He was born in New York on February 14, 1896. He was the victim of an explosion in a St. Louis foundry during the period of World War I. He was crippled, hand and foot, and other misfortunes were heaped upon the little Irishman, but when he came to Marlin in the 1920s he made friends and stayed here until the time of his death on August 17, 1960.

The friends that Shorty made were many and they are the ones who are grateful to those who took the interest to donate and install the tombstone that marks his last resting place.

Copyright permission granted to Theresa Carhart and her volunteers for posting by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Tx.