The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-05-04
FROM THE FIELD.
BY INNOCENCE ABROAD.

BY INNOCENCE ABhOAD.
In my trip last week the printer
made me say Mr.. Powell was mer~
chandising at Henry when it should
have been Pannell. When | am
away, like | was when last weeks
paper went to press, the printers
sometimes gets the names of people
j meet on my trips mixed up.
know almost every man in Ellis
county, and while | cannot some
times call his name when l first get
TO him, you can bet your bottom
dollar before / leave him know his
name, who he is, what he is, where
he is, what he has got, what he is
going TO have and can give good
guess, if / were so disposed, as to
where he will land in the next world,
but my business is only to tell of
fellow as 1 find him circulating here
on this mundane sphere and do love
to tell the good points of a man or
woman. We all have them and this
good side of our nature is the one
we should cultivate.
To the new town in the western
part of the county, | went last week
and out three miles west OF Naxa-
hachie, Drew High with two spans
of fine mules was putting his land in
good shape. He owns splendid,
well improved farm out here. On
west / strike ID. Hopper blowing his
crop on the Coleman farm and Mr..
Matthews, who for several years
rented on the Coleman farm, sold
out and moved of two years ago,
but he never rested till he got back
and now he and his family are happy.
On west / begin to strike the wheat
fields and they are sadly in need OF
rain. At Mrs Sam G. Curry's /
stopped. She and her son and
daughter own a splendid farm out
here. Her daughter recently mar
ried Mr.. Keys and now she and her
son hold down the farm alone, with
her part of it rented. Her son al
though a cripple, is like ali this big
family of Curry's, good rustleT.
Uncle Wat Curry, who has been
blind for twenty-five years, and has
son Henry, own IA good farm out
here and have one hundred acres In
wheat and a part of it, close by his
house, looked well, Uncle Wat is
one of the most cheerful men / ever
met. He came from our good OLD
state Of Arkansas; raised "A largr
fanny, and most of them, except
Alex Curry, live here in Ellis c..
and they are all good citizens. he
contracted neuralgia in the army
which settled in his eyes and finally
put them out. Henry, bis son Is IA
good rustler and was out the morn
ing 1 stopped there buying cattle.
>. Bishop owns well improved
farm next, he is now agent for a
FyrY two Il q
of his time, and his wife said he
was succeeding well. He and his
brother, X. l. Bishop, MARI d sis
lrrs and they live In the home to-
gether. One carries on the farm
aud the other sells fruit trees. Rev.
Morris lives next, he owns six or
seven hundred acres out here and Is
an old settler In this section of the
county.
On 10 Oak, DR.. Fields and his
brother own a general merchandise
store there and have splendid
trade. The doctor lost his wife sew
eral years ago and last winter went
back to his old home in Mississippi
and married splendid lady who
was a half sister TO has first wife.
The doctor remarked that that old
gentleman In Mississippi had been
good to him, giving him two of his
daughters. Two blacksmith shops
at Oak and J. NJ. Harwell also has
a store and keeps the post office.
DIR. Fields has fine practice in all
the surrounding country and showed
me letter from Cleburne in which
he was urged To 90 there, but said
be expected to stay here witt his
friends. Uncle Asa Bynum runs
away when 1 go To Oak, twice now
| have missed him. He has "a fine
farm out here that makes his living
and he is happy contented man.
Bud Watson aud his brother j. NJ &.
own 800 or 600 acres out here that
extends over into the valley a
fine farm several hundred I'm pasture
on which Craze some fine cattle.
Bud Watson is the man who, unfor-
tunately, several years ago, had To
kill man out here on his farm and
was promptly cleared by twelve
jurors.
Continued next week.