The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-08-29
TO MOUNTAIN PEAK AND VENUS.

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an Arkansaw man anyway. Last
! Thursday evening | started in the
! direction of mountain Peak and out
| beyond Uncle SHORTS, after | had
nearly passed by the home of w. ID.
B0vd, / noticed a lot of buggies
| there and lots of people in his front
! ward and at once turned my pony
| mot the one that buck jumped with
me- round i'm the road and pulled
! into his front yard, and Mr.. Al
! Curry and several others began
/ laughing and said ] could smell a
wedding from my office in WaXa-
! hachie. | did not know but what
| there was a funeral there, and | was
not going by Bro. BOyd's without
! investigating this big crowd and he
met me, made me get out OF my
/ buggy and hitched my horse for me
and said his daughter Miss Ethel
| would, in a few moments, marry
| Mr.. Henry Hawkes.. There was a
nice crowd of neighbors and friends
present and pretty soon the bride
groom with his best man appeared
on the scene and they were married.
Rev. o. f. Sen abaugh, Presiding
Elder of the Waxahachie district,
per o r III d the ceremony. Miss
Ethel is a pretty, sweet girl and
Mr.. Hawkes. is an Industrious,
splendid young man and after / con
graduated them along with their
many friends | slipped out, hit my
buggy and as / passed out ! got a
glimpse of the table and / thought
it the prettiest | had ever looked
upon and the good to eat | knew
was there was all very tempting to
me but for one time / left good
supper and pushed on toward Mount
Peak and at night pulled up at the
home of II. w. KilgOre. His good
wife said L could stay there all
night and round at his barn 1 found
him feeding his stock. He has been
fortunate and has made some corn.
He had fat hogs, big sorghum
patches and / found that home all
o. K. Mr.. Kilgore is a practical
successful farmer and "A member of
the Primitive Baptist church and
consistent one, and his credit is
good anywhere in Ellis county for
all he wants. And another thing he
is one Primitive Baptist who in this
election will vote for prohibition.
His close neighbor Mr.. Odom is one
of the best gardeners and farmers
out here and his garden is now full
of old winter cOllaTds and | engaged
all he had to spare when the frost
falls on them, then they are tooth
some and good. Mr.. n. d. Clark
another of Mr.. Kilgore's neighbOrs
settled out here before the war,
away back in the fifties, and he and
! his good wife still live on that same
! place. one son has a position in
| Capitol at Austin. lie is good
/ citizen and he and his wife, though
getting along in years, still enjoy
| good health. H. l.. Hargis rents
Joe Singleton's home place and
| lives where Joe used to live when
| he was an honest farmer. The cot
| ton on this mountoin land was
pretty good. The boil worms had
not worked on it so hard. l.. j.
| Richardson and bis son were still
| hoeing the grass from their cotton
| and it was pretty good. The fact is
| / believe Mr.. Richardson is a pretty
good farmer. J. 2. Ballew also
rents on Joe Singleton's farm and
he and h s better half had just re-
turned from a visit to their old
home in Alabama. Mr.. Ballew will
manage the big Mountain Peak
gin this fall. r. X. Erwin and Joe
Singleton bought this out this sum-
mer and the Midlothian Oil Mill
bought the gin in the valley south
of the Peak. There Is an everlast-
ing hustle in this country for cotton
seed now. On to the Peak; two |
stores and good churches there and |
here found two spokes broken in |
my buggy by that mean ranch horse |
and Mr.. II. G. Parker, one of the |
best smiths in the county put in |
two new ones for me. DIR. Van |
Cleave is doing splendid practice
out here. People like him and he |
likes the people. | crawled into his /
buggy and rode with him down two |
miles south to Mr.. ]. ID. Godfreys
who has had fever. Found him
cheerful and better. 1t pleases
doctor for his patients to get well
and pleases his patients better than
it does the doctor. DIR. Vancleave
has recently bought farm and he
is fixing to stay at the Peak. Re
Gently the gin people put down a
deep we'll there that affords enough
water for all the country. With I'D.
Wakefield, who bought the Robnett
farm close by the Peak, | ate dim
ner. He and his brother were pick
ing cotton. Said his cotton on the
mountain was pretty good. Mrs.
Wakefield fe IDS her husband well
and he is an industrious man. She
was a Burleson and they are good
people all over Texas. w. Il.
Prince owns another good mountain
farm close by the Peak his wife is
in poor health and ha wants to sell
out. | next turn back north
of the Peak and stop at Mountain
Jim Smiths. He was away and his
good wife said they too settled
where they now hive before the war
and he has staid on that mountain
so long they call him Mountain Jim,
an honest good man, and she is a
cheerful, jolly old lady. Jack
Beall's father, Joe Singleton's
father and Mr.. Clark and Noun
tain Jim were the first settlers
in this western section of Ellis
county. Mr.. NJ c A Ipin ais
owns a good farm close by and /
stopped there. He said the boll
worms has injured his crop serious
~. He and his Industrious sons
are good farmers. q. H. King owns
II a n 4 L.