The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-22

on il and drive it into the ground.
All this was done rapidly and rail-
Iroad soon built across this deep
chasm. Through this mountain for
several miles was certainly q very
Expensive piece of road. Mrs. Jar
rett said one contractor eamped
close to her house for two months
and he did not let his men molest
her property in the least. The road
made a cut fourteen feet deep in 90
| feet of Mr.. Barrons' front door, and
he too said the railroad people had
treated him clever. On towards
| Milford 1 turned into the farm OF DIR
| Palmer. He owns big farm over
There and he and mis- wife have eight
| children, and his oldest son said he
would this session graduate at the
Italy school. With Mr.. Padgitt,
near the Doctors, j spent a pleasant
night. He is I'm very poor health
and rarely ever leaves home now
He and his cheerful, good wife own
good farm, here and both came
from old.South Carolina. The eiti-
zens of the Italy country ran him
once for county commissioner and
he would make good one. G. w.
| Bassinger, of this c o m m u n V
who has been in poor health for a
long while, is improving. Mrs. s.
w. r. Williams still lives on and
owns a farm her father, II. ID.
| Aprice settled on before the war.
He built the courthouse that was
/ torn down in axahacEie when the
one we now have was built. A son,
Bud Aprice, is still living in the
west. Uncle Ben Williams had been
sick but was still cheerful. | love
| to stop and talk with him. His son
Joe was gathering some of of the
best corn ] have seen this fall. i
also stopped at Joe Williams home
and / reckon there is not two more
jolly pleasant people who enjoy life
more than they do. He now owns
several thousand acres OF fine land
and they cannot begin TO spend half
their income. MtssFs. w. II. and
j. X. Cannon have rented from Mr..
Williams about II years each. /
drove up through their crops and
/ am satisfied they both can stay
II years longer If they want to. /
thought their cotton some better
than / had seen. Mr. J II. Wood
Is another man renting from Mr..
Williams and his crop ! @ o Il
like he could stay too, II he wanted
to. Virgo Green waes picking and
his was the only cotton on Joe VIII
liams farm opened sufficient TO
plck. lie too, is u good farmer and
Il clever good MAN. Bill Williams
was going throuEh the burned rub
bish If his gin and getting ont the
rods and bolts He will uot rebuild
this season On down by ncle
Nose Williams, / fetched up at ]
w Fem 3 for dinner. be rents
another Of Joe Williams farms aud
was busy patt{ug up hay. His good
wife feeds him well for / stopped
there and dinuered with him and
know whereof ] speak J. -. Ech~
OILS also lives close hv on another
Of Joe Williams farms and said his
cotton had not been Injured 80 lnuch
by worms aud was pretty good. Jno.
Bancom last winter snapped his
farm and interest In his gtu fer 81
acres in here and IL is splendid
farm. He rode with me over part
Of it. H has lots OF pretty little
girls and hope hc may succeed
well. On down this road Hugh An
derson rents the Parker farm and
said his crop was pretty good. A.
Horn, who last fall sold his farm
close to Venus and bought north Of
Milford, has recently had four or
five of his family down with slow
fever. H. likes his farm and his
community, but has had hard time
with the fever In his family. Very
few farmers are picking In all this
section. The worms destroyed the |
crop they ought To be gathering now.
On into Milford. / was sick with |
a.II and OH Of pfY la
and went to bed in the fue hotel |
there and DIR. Bundy, who keeps 1t
kept me drinking hot mineral water
for forty-eight hours, and 1T cured
me. | honestly believe 1t is just as
good water as Mineral Wells If not
better. the doctor and his splendid |
wife keep assple1tid house and are
reasonable In their charges. Here
grip ! will pull for Milford. The
school building there is completed
and it il a beauty. Cost thirty
Thousand dollars, and the president, |
DIR. Evans, said it would open the |
last of this month full of girls from
all over the state. He is a nice gem
tleman and understands running |
college like this. The building Ii |
immense and while not so large as |
Trinity University, is just as pretty. |
A few Of the good citizens have put |
up literally. w. 7. NJ, Dixon has /
put up In all fifteen thousand dol |
lars, and Mcdaniel Bros. have put |
up six thousand dollars for the cree |
tion Of this college. From Milford |
across Mill creek east, | passed npI
Arkansaw and Hamlet lanes. Cot
ton on MI this fine land ia seriously
damaged. Cook Bros, who own fine /
farms over here said their crop was
sorry. Mr. FLUFFY and Mr., Wilhelm I
who rent on the Mcdaniel fttrm,
both said cotton was sorry indeed.
AT n. H. Harris close 10 Italy
spent tie night. He owns oonsid-
erabie land and 1t is fine black land,
but the worms he said, had cut his
crop off very much. Dir. and Mrs.
Harris have a large family of little
Harrises. Their oldest SON, fifteen /
years old, il crippled ara viii go on
cratcheB all his life. on to Italy.
/ spent a great day ~itil the yeter-
ans at Il picnic near there They
have Camp Archer organized there
WITH a good membership, and they !
and Lbofr families went ont for a so~t