The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

with abundance of water, not inn
proved, worth from $50 to 800 per
acre 1t Is q fine climate, no sick
ness hardly at all; cool and pleasant
all the year round, and they say the
winters are not very severe here.
A man can work on his farm most
any day in the year. Some snow ia
the spring.
This Is all a revelation to a Texas
man and | enjoyed the day. Living
is cheap up here, much cheaper than
| had expected to find it. We have
made this trip with much less cost
that / expected and / think many of
our good citizens who suffer with
various and sundry diseases during
our long hot summers would be
greatly benefited to spend a little
! money up here in this delightful eli
mate where the heat never gets OPP
pressive. From Greeley back to
Boulder, sixty miles, is all a farml
ing country. The rains don't coun-
up here. 1t showers some in the
summer, but farming does not
amount to anything outside of the
bitches. There are some magnifi-
cent towns between Greeley and
Boulder; but they do say around
Greeley the finest and best Irish pO-
tatoes on earth grow. Nearly all
school teachers in Texas are inter
ested in Boulder and on our return
trip we stopped off there two days.
1t is a beautiful city of 5000 inhabi-
tants and is built right up against
the.Rocky Mountains. Fine streams
of water run in bitches down each
and every street in it. 1t is the
county seat of Boulder county. Our
first stroll or ride on the street cars
was TO the Chautauqua grounds.
Right up the mountain side to a
bench several hundred feet higher
than the city are the beautiful Chau-
tauqua grounds. Lots of nice homes
have been built up here by those
who come from Colorado and other
states to attend the Chautauqua.
1t lasts six weeks here and had Just
closed though a greatmauy families
still remain till il gets cooler at
their homes. The grounds are just
beautiful, though the main audito-
rum is not nearly SO fine as ours at
Waxahachie while it is possibly a
little larger. This one is not floored
but has saw-dust for "a floor, like
our old one did. The scenery from
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mense. The Rocky Mountains and
the valley below. My wife went up
there without her cloak and was too
cool To be comfortable. HillsboTo,
DeuisOn, Houston, FIT, Worth, Par
is and possibly some other cities Of
Texas have erected cottages up here
with their names on them aud the
school teachers aud others from
these cities who come here in the
summer occupy them and il is GER
taiuly a delightful spot for a Texan
TO spend the summer, and SO en-
tTanced are they with il they do not
leave it until compelled to in the
fall. Here | met "A professor in the
State University who went 10 school
with Lea Cannon and Prof. Grid
die and others of u county whu
attended the State University. OF
my trip up the mountain on a rail
road train, where we went from COO
1900 feet above the sea level, where
we saw a man with a hsndfg! of
snow, / will tell You IN my next
letter.
Miss Emma Orme, daughter OF
Mr.L.A. Orme, of Italy, who teaches
in Navarro county, was voted this
summer at their summer normal
the most popular teacher 10 Nayar-
70 county and the normal gave her
"A free trip to Boulder. We met her
On her way home and she was de-
.lIchted with Colorado. Squire Har-
RS, of WaxahaChie, is still here and
Will remain until October l. Elk
County Commissioner Johnston is
still here and improving and he and
/ will stop of at Hereford nex week
to see our Ellis county friends
located there. DR.. Watson, of Wax
ahachie, stayed two weeks and | went
home. My wife and j have met
many of cur friends from different
sections of Texas here. There has
not been q nov storm in the noun
tains now for several days, although
it is delightful here.
We are counting the days when
we start hOmeward. After all no
place like home where our friends
are. INNOCENCE.
A WOMAN'S COMPLEXION.