The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1893-12-17
IN TEXAS.
ANOTHER CHAPTER ON Tun GAR
DEN SPOT or TEXAS.
Visit TO Montgomery County ReVives
"Reminiscences of the EARLY DAYS.
Some OF the Articles ManufRc-
tured and Raised There.
''Reelincs upon these living flowers. here

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We're high about Pomona: Here Is cream
IDepenng to richness from n snowy CLEAN
lSweeter than that Nurse Aualthea sk,mmt
! For the boy Jupiter. and here undmm'd
7 lty any touch a bunch OF blooming plums
Ready to melt between an infants gums,
Although the language was not In the
exact poetic words here set forth, yet the
welcome was as hearty and the display OF
fruit and wine and milk and butter was
the equal % tho description. and thls wei
come was rendered our last visit TO Mont
! sVIhefy county by Captain Chopper God
bless his memory and Few other citizens
| Texas.
A great many "reminiscences OF the good
old times float across my mental vision at
! ule mention Of the name. Here Il was In
the center OF a tract of country as rich
rs any on earth, that Z. j. WINS and
/ brother first cast anchor. Here they gath
/ cred IN the shckels that enabled them to
aunen their bark ON the commeroial sea
OF Salyeston Here resided old pr. stew
| art who, With his old tin fog horn ln Ills
! hand, was always abroad thirsting for
! knowledge. He was nearly as deaf az "a
stone. yet his Unsuitable thirst for news
caused him TO use an ear trumpet into
which you could talk as YOU talk into u
telephone today. That's why | called II "a
I tog norm. In those days IN old Nlontsom-
/ cry they had beef ana ponc. which, " YOU
dld not IKE, You could let L alone and
/ turn 70 head cheese ana sausage and
stewed backbone, and they raised turkeys
ana chickens, to roost In the trees, which
under all circumstances, is the best and
heathlest way 10 raise them IN this area
dia, and they are going on in the same
old-tashioned way 10 this day.
At Medlay they used TO raise scupper-
hohg grapes and punches OF Coucorus OF
fabulous weight and make Wine OF the
most delicate angelica. In old Montgom-
cry they make just as much corn and cot
ton ana sweet potatoes 10 the aero AS they
make on any land under the sun and
lney nave been making syrup from the
I'M LII ~ 40 tnest hli'uy Years ana thGy
sun ask the stranger guest Will he take
long sweetening or short. They are very
rel g1ously inclined In old Montgomery ]
went to an entertainment there once and
Arthur, the preacher. They asked me TO
say grace or blessing. The table was
gruantng under the weight of the many
turkeys ana Sucking pigs, hams OF vcn-
son stuffed with sausage. and hams Of
huGon stunned with celery greens and such
ana VARIES and strawberry short cake
and tho center cakes rose up. pyramid on
pyramid, Ike miniature towers of Babel
The magnitude Of the repast and the stu
reYerenty puckered their mouths and
dropped their eycidS ! Just mustered
courage to comply by saying Lord, bless
us an, and make us able TO clear the
table and / can consctentiously say the
crisp mir NJ the country had Shnrpened an
our, appeutes. and tho decd was accom-
They hunt deer and bear in old Mont
gomery with packs of hounds, In romantic
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