The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-14
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NJ. i. Knight, VINO ives III 11s
End, has 12-year old son III with
slow fever.
The wife OF VIII Love, at Milford,
died last Thursday night and was
buried there Friday.
Will f. Wade, residing on the
Ward place east of town, is very
low with typhoid fever.
The NJ. w. NJ. Club will meet with
Mrs. r. A. keenan, Thursday after
noon at three O'Clock.
n. G. Gould of the Howard COM
munIty left Saturday night for the
Indian Territory to visit son.
Yves Mcmillan died Thursday
night on the Sims farm near Italy
after a long Illness with slow fever.
DR.. r. 2. Sweat, who has been
quite i'll for several days, spent a
good night last night and is said to
he resting easily today.
Arthur Mackoy has bought the
tools, accessories, etc, from j. f..
Light and will condEct a bicycle re-
pair department in connection with
his gun shop.
Wilbur Finley, son of o. A. Fin
ley, is attending the State Univer-
sity at Austin this year. Mr.. Fin
ley was in Saturday and had the
| Enterprise sent to him.
| :. H. Moses recently bought Jim
| Webb's farm near Forreston, paying
! s15per acre for same. Mr.. Webb has
| purchased Claude Kuykendall' S
farm of two hundred acres in the
same community.
j. T. Roberts, who lives near
| Waxabachie, returned last Friday
| from a trip to Durant, /. T. He
says corn is selling for forty cents
a bushel ia that country and that
the cotton crop is very good.
Mrs Emma Goodall and daugh-
ter. from st. Louis, are visiting
/ her brother, Rev. Joseph Keyworth,
near Oak. 1t has been twenty-six
years since Mrs. Goodall saw her
brother and her visit is pleasant to
both OF them.
/ Members Of the Light office called
ON Col. John c. Gibson yesterday
and found him restingquite comfort
ably. He has a good appetite but
don't seem to be gaining strength
rapidly He thinks, however, that
he will soon be out again.
/ Uncle Dave Duncan, who recent
! " sold his farm between India and
/ Bristol, was here Saturday and said
he would soon leave for Hobart,
OK. Mr.. Duncan is a good citizen
I and this paper wishes him success
/ In his new home.
/ The people Of Waxahachie should
give heed to the warning published
! in yesterdays Light and have their
/ homes watched by some member ct
the family or servant tomorrow.
| There are already several suspicious
looking characters in the city.
| c. d. Smith, brother to }. X.
! Smith of this city, has arrived with
his family from West Tennessee to
make Ellis county his future home.
Mr.. Smith was accompanied by two
sons-in-law and their families who
will also locate in this county.
Miss Annie Mai Porter, daughter
of Mr.. A. Porter, of Howard, was
married Sunday evening to Mr..
Floyd, who resides south of Milford
in Hill county. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. Brooks of Mil
lord. This is a splendid young
couple and this paper wishes them a
happy life.
Sam Hardesty, who lives at Red
Oak, and j. J. X. McCreary, who
lives north of Ovilla in the edge of
Dallas county, were principally
raised in Ellis county and knew
each other when they were young
men. They were in town Saturday
and met for the first time in twenty
four years, Notwithstanding the fact
they live within twelve or fourteen
miles of each other.
The genial DIR. A. q. Hicks of
Sterrett was here Saturday, taking
in the dog and pony show. The
doctor Is great lover of shows and
never misses one. j. w. Lumpkins
of Nash was also here Saturday,
but he denied knowing that the
show was in town. DR.. Hicks and
others who heard this remark said
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