The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-12-10
FROM THE FIELD.

The Good Master has been kind
TO Ellis county farmers this year.
The drouth that we thought was
running the cotton crop last summer
was the very thing we needed. Just
about enough corn has been raised
In Ellis county this year to supply
it and the cotton yield was album
dant and then the price we sold 1t at
has eau sed the money to jingle IN
the pockets of not only the farmer
who produced it but also the coin
has ratified in the TANKS of every
man and boy in Ellie county who
raised his hand in any direction to
try to make an honest dollar.
The Enterprise had due it from its
subscribers on the first day of last
October when we sent out our
statements, nearly five thousand
dollars. / have been riding over Ell
lis county for seven years writing
the name of every man down on my
book that wonld let me and sending
him the paper on time. Some of
these subscribers / haye not seen
since | took their names seven,
six. five, and three years ago till
this fall and now almost every man
of them il paying me. When we
sent out the statements last fall
some of our subscribers were as
tonished and ashamed of themselves
for not paying Tor their papers
sooner, and they at once began to
get move on themselves and up to
date we have collected three
thousand dollars on subscription
and we are going to collect the
whole of that five thousand before
we get through. This amount of
money will give US cash dollars to
throw at the birds, but, | guess we
Will not dispose OF any of 1t that
way, but will make Improvements
in the Enterprise and make it better
in every way. We have the cash dol
lars and don't you forget it and |
am not going to blow any of them
ii when 20 70 Washington city
next summer either for / am going
to have Jack Beall feed me and put
up for the drinks, if / should need
any thing like that when | getthere.
The first of January will soon be
here and if you have not paid for
the Enterprise ahead of that time
| it will be stopped and | want to say
right here the Enterprise never did
! any thing in the long - years It has
run IN Waxahachie that pleased the
! people better than this move of
putting it cash in advance and hun
dreds of new subscribers are coming
! in on this proposition that we stop
/ it when the time is OuI and Of course
we are going to do what or sub
sCribers want us TO do.
Ny last trip was through Palmer
to Clemma where | spent the night
with W. u. Moye, who owns as fine
farm of thicket land as there is IN
Ellis county and also has a very
fine fruit orchard and several acres
of A Italia and says he will sow
more soon Mr. Maye will go with
Us next summer to the Farmers
Congress at College station to learn
more about keeping bees, fruit cut-
ture and farming generally. / went
from Clemma to Ferris where | met
more of our subscribers who paid
for their papers. 1t IL no trouble now
To collect provided YOU can see the
man vino owes you. our subscribers
are scattered all over the face OF the
earth, in Ellis and adjoining coun-
ties, and ! DO hope those ! do 4
see will send the money in by the
first OF J january. The roads FRO 81
Ferris TO India are the toughest ]
ever travelled, but there has been
good crops made through this sec
tjOn that have made the people feel
good once more. The gin at ludla
owned by MI. Wilkerson Ias cut
this season over two Thousand bales
and sull had lots OF cotton yet TO
come in Mr.. l. +. Flanery who
farms on the Rice place between
India and Ferris said he planted
cotton seed from Missouri sent To
him from there by cousin and
they grew well and matured three
weeks earlier than native cotton.
Mr. Flanery said he had already
secured enough seed from there To
plant his whole crop next season
and from ali the Information we can