The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-26

| left my horse with Mr.. Upchurch
at South Italy. He is a horseman
and knows how to take care of a
three thousand dollar thoroughbred,
and when / got back to Italy We'd
nesday he was bowling his neck like
| a goose, but he don't run away like
that other scoundrel of a mustang
tried to do. l loaned that mustang
, to frejghter in Waxahachie and
| he lacked to have worked the stuff
ing out of him. He had the adyan-
tage of me one time and tried to use
it. Every dog has his day in this
world and this freighter got 1t all
back on tn at mustang for me. He
will drive gentle now, but he ruined
himself with me. Some people by
not paying their debts and acting
badly get themselves into hard
| shapes like this mu stang did.
| Italy has felt the effects of the
railroad building through it this
summer. Trade has been good there
and a great deal of property has
changed hands. They now have a
regular passenger train from Italy
| to Waco on the new road.
| Hamilton IL Lusk own the Italy
News-H erald and they are making
| a good paper out of it and making
money. We have good list of
readers at Italy but the circulation
OF county paper like ours does not
conflict with home paper and each
and every newspaper man in Ellis
county is my friend. i have never
tried to injure any of them or their
business. On the contrary / had
several newspaper men in the coun-
ty to tell me they were glad t. see
me come to their town. A newspa-
per man earns every dollar he gets.
The papers of this county are above
the average of other county papers
in Texas. .---~~
After getting my dinner at Uncle
Jacob Young's, and he and his wife
feed me well when / am there, with
big cloud rising [ pulled over to-
wards Avalon and at John Prices
home, who has rented the Watson
farm for twelve or fifteen years, /
stopped. Mrs. Price said to put my
horse in the barn and my buggy un-
der the shed. Soon he drove in and
the rain descended and after 1t was
over led me to see his jack and
horse lot. He owns two splendid
young animals. His horse is a four
year-old of the Rather Brooks stock
and he is a beauty, and Mr.. Price
raised him. His jack Is also a
young animal that he has partly
raised. Price is a good rustler, has
lot of hogs and owns fine farm
in Victoria county, and he says IT Is
making fine crop this year. The
boil weevil, he says, seems to be
emigrating north. On toward Ava
Ion on Chambers creek, Mr.. Champ,
who formerly lived at Byron, bought
over 200 acres and is shaping up
comfortable home on it. Some of
the Chambers creek valley cotton
along here is said to be sorry In
deed. Across the creek A. J. Sy-
pert rents from Mr.. ] . NJ. Lloyd. He
paid me for his paper and said his
cotton was nothing to brag on. A
man who runs truck garden on
the creek here raises and supplies
great many vegetables to Italy and
Avalon, and he has been at it for
several years. / do love to see a
man raise something he can eat and
sell, and this man is prospecting. Mr..
! J. NJ. Lloyd owns 900 acres over
/ here on the creek and it is fine. II.
! w. BRYANT has rented part of his
/ land for eight years. He, too, pays
\
! his debts, and when / got there fork
| ed me over the money for his paper
and said he was making living for
/ his wife an children. On up this
road, renting from Mrs. Davis is X.
b. Morris, and / was hungry and
sleepy when j got there, and he and
/ his good wife let me spend the night
with them. He is IA clever. good cit
izen Said he was making enough
cotton to pay bis debts and buy his
corn. They have fine three-year-
old boy and they are both proud of
him. On into Avalon, and it is quite
a little city. 1t had rained the even
ing before, and large number of
farmers from the surrounding eoun-
try gather there on rainy days and
Saturdays. Time Of the year now TO
pay for newspapers and these Ava
Ion subscribers did not forget that
fact and paid me, almost every one
of them / met who kakes our paper.
We love to work hard 20 get up a
good paper for our subscribers who