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.

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