The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-11-15
THE LONE
STAR STATE.
Miss Eleanor B. Hendrick Writes
A Letter From There.
THE NEWS ALWAYSWELCOME

ALLEN, TEXAS, Oct. 25th '90-THE
BREcKENRlDGE News II have been
thinking for sometime that l would
write 70 the BREcKENRlDGE News, but
first one thing and then another has
happened to prevent. However, to-
dav 1t is pouring down rain and can do
absolutely nothing else, 30 / think now
Is my chance.
We all are very much delighted with
Texas, and have been from the first day
we came. l think without a doubt, |
Texas is the best state in the Union.
Collin county is considered one Of the
finest counties in the state, and one
would think 80 after riding over the
country, for it is certainly a picture Of
lOveliness, just as far as your eye can
see. 1t is black land, laying almost per
ieCtly level. Occasionally you see a
creek, and on either side OF this creek |
there are beautiful trees.
The roads are perfectly fine. I went |
driving Sunday morning with father and |
we drove quite a distance in only a short !
time. There is more driving here than |
any one could ever imagine; the roads
are full all the time Of people travelling
in covered wagons, going to the Terri
tory, Mexico and Oklahoma 1 have
meyer seen a rock since l have been
here. often wonder how on earth l
managed to travel over those rocky roads
in Meade county. Everybody here, the
rich and the poor, have some kind OF a
vehicle, and most Of them haYe two,
and they are used too. There is more
pleasure derived from driving than any
thing else. You can see 80 much, and
then it does not take you forever to go
nowhere.
We have bought farm in Collin
county, five miles from Mckinney, the
county seat of Collin, one mile from
Allen and seven miles from Plano, and
we live only 20 miles from Dallas. We
have very pretty home, beauti-
fully situated. We paid $50 per acre for
land, and it is as find as there is in the
state. Crops this year were very good,
an immense corn crop which has been
nearly all gathered, a very good cotton
crop with fancy prices, while both the
wheat and Oat crops we're good. The
wheat, nearly all been put in for next
year, is up and looking well. We have
not been very dry, only a few
weeks, and then did not suffer We had
good rain last week and it is raining
very hard to-day.
We have had the pleasure OF a visit
with and from Mr.. and Mrs John Reesor.
They have lovely home, own several
hundred acres Of land, and are among
the most prominent farmers in Collin
county. They live eight miles from US.
My uncle, Robert Hendrick, lives two
miles from us. He owns a nice little
farm, is building beautiful house now,
aud they are getting along nicely. Ern-
est Ditto has a grocery store in McKin-
ney, has a fine business and is doing
splendidly.
We we're in Dallas last week to attend
the State Fair. 1t was grand, the finest
thing / ever saw, but the races were not
30 good as you haYe in Kentucky. Faith
or saw Mr., hewitt and Charlie. They
are very much pleased, but like us, oc-
casionally get "home sick" and wish for
cold Kentucky but none of us want to
go back to live.
The people here, or at least we have,
the most enormous appetites. We seldom
get enough to eat, can't cook enough.
We eat till We get ashamed and then
stop, but are always delighted when the
next meal time comes. We do not have
the fruit that you have, something we
miss quite a great deal, but chickens are
raised almost the year round, and gar
dening stuff plentiful, and we have vege-
tables earlier aud later than you. The
weather is most delightfully."- pleasant,
girls are wearing their thin clothes still,
in fact WOODEN dresses would be very un-
comfortable. We have not as yet had
frost
We all have 30 much better heath
here. Iuever weighed as much in my
life as do now, aud mothers health is
very much better. You will please
change the BRLCKENRDGE News from
Mckinney to Allen The News is al
ways a welcome visitor. all Of az want il
at once. think have wdtt.n quite a
plenty, and with best wishes,