The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-08-01

land, 800 of which is in cultivation
There are ten or fifteen immense tive
and three story brick buildings, be-
sides thirty or forty handsome
homes for the use of the President
and the teachers in the institution,
This college is filed to overfiowine
every year with young men and OLD
men who come from every section
of the state. There are short cours'
es in horticulture, dairying and
other special lines that older men
can take with advantage and they
do it from all sections of great big
Texas.
For the general discussions the
congress met in a large building
called the chapel and after these
! general meetings each section, such
as the dairy men, fruit growers
/ truck growers and others would
meet to discuss matters pertaining
! to their particular vocattons. Our
! Ellis county delegation stuck to the
cotton growers section, except
| Messrs. G.. l.. Kidd and }. r. May
/ hew, our nursCrymen, who went
with the fruit growers meeting
/ every time. One man from Lime
! stone county, Green Butler, went to
! the Farmers Congress last year,
| and then went home and put his or
chard in shape, planted blackberries
and tomatoes and he said to me as
we iourneyed there this year that he
/ had sold 1925 worth of truck from
| his garden and orchard this year al
ready; had paid some debts and put
| 1878 in the bank TO his credit, and
he said his trip last year to the CON
gress was largely responsible for his
success and, SAID be, 81 will never
miss another meeting down there II
/ can help it,"
| About the time the congress adj
! iourned | stepped aboard the Cen
| trail cars and at 5:25 was in Hous-
| ton. Our crowd left the congress
as best suited them. Their tickets
/ brought them back on any train,
/ and soon after reaching the college
! / tore off the loud streamers from
our car folded them up nicely, and
| will, if the good Master spares us,
| till next summer, pin and tie these
! decorations to another car; and
| from the way our people were
pleased with their trip we wiz have
a much larger crowd next year.
I Some of my wife's relations in
! Houston struck oil at Beaumont and
when | stepped offthe cars atthe big
| depot in Houston, they were there
! to meet me, and in a nice carriage
! drawn by pretty horses, a scrub
newspaper man hailing from Ark
ansaw, was wheeled over the splen-
did big city of Houston, felt good
and enjoyed it. Well, my recollec-
ton is | did to the fullest extent,
/ and / wish every one of our readers
/ could have taken a birds eye view
| of an up country Arkansawyer TAX
| ing in the sights of big city. Two
! young ladies among our relatives
! there are expert musicians, have a
! splendid piano in their home and
| this unframed ear of mine was de-
! lighted with their splendid music.
! The second evening in Houston
! there was an excursion to LaPorte,
! on the bay, a distance of thirty
miles from Houston, and only fifty
cents for the round trip. My wife
was not able to make the trip, but
permitted me TO 90 with my cousins
and 500 other Houston citizens.
! Houston now claims population
| of about - 900, and it is quite warm
/ there and to these pent up city peo-
| pie an excursion of this kind to the
| seashore where they can get snifi
Of the gulf breeze and take bath
! in salt water, is quite a treat. Out
! excursion reached the bay shore
/ about shutdown and these excursion
| lists had as many baskets of good
grub as an Ellis county picnic
W auld, and the first thing after get
! ting to the waters edge was to
spread that good grub out, and
while the gulf breezes famed us we
devoured il. Then sudden desire
seized me to take plunge and to
! the bath house / went and told the
! keeper thereof to 1--WE me the larg-
est and biggest bath suit he had. j
soon donned that and then into the
midst of 300 or 400 other men and
women, who were splashing the
salt waves, | plunged. | am dandy
with one of these bathing suits on
| and would like to have my picture
taken, big feet and all. An old
dignified lady or gentleman when
they put on a bathing suit begin at
once to cut capers. This salt breeze
with a bathing suit on seems to
have the effect on them of mesquite
grass on a broken down mustang.
/
LaPorte / wallowed in the salt wa
ter and at IL O'Clock that night we
landed back in Houston refreshed
and reiuyenated. / visited the Off
ces of the Houston Post and Hous-
Chronicle, both big papers of that
magnificent city, and / hope j may
| live to make the ENTERPRISE big
like they are.
The first night at College Station
an address of welcome was deliver
ed TO the visitors by the superinten-
dent of the farm, and Mr.. Buie, my
partner in the ENTERPRISE, re-
! sponded TO the address of welcome
! and j did not know before that he
was an orator; but he is and IL has
taken me five years to find 1t out.
He did his part well and our whole
delegation was proud of him and
| his speech. Mr.. Buie said among
other things in his response that
| the address Of welcome had been so
free and open that he felt Ike he
could tote In stove wood, draw wa
ter for the cook, feed the hogs and
! ~ /.