The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-05-06


Element of Ellis county he taught
school at several points in the ives
tern part of the county and for
several years now he has retired to
his farm where he cultivates his
garden, reads the newspapers and
he and his good wife enjoy life.
While devOuring that good dinner
at Mr.. and Mrs. z. ID. Banks, a
description of which is given later
on in this article, he remarked to
me that when he had a certain dream
that came to him the night before,
rain was sure TO follow and sure
enough it rained next day, which
was Saturday. Not much however,
but it raiued all the same and now |
class Mr.. Banks with the sure
enough weather prophets. That is,
when his dream comes right.
From Oak I turned south by the
two-story college. This community
boasts of "A good school that has
been kept up for many years. Pref.
X. McBrayer is one of the teachers.
Guy Pierce, of WaNahachie, owns a
ranch out here on which he has
several hundred acres Of wheat and
it looks well and if rain comes soon
will make "A fine yield. The early
wheat looks well but the late wheat
looks sorry. West of the college i
strike the valley in what is known
as Oklahoma. +. NJ. Mite b IL
moved in here from Alabama last
winter and be was turning this Ok
lahoma soil with good mules. When
fellow first gets here from the
old states he will work and Mr..
Mitchell was getting his ground In
fine shape.
over across the farms in the
valley / hit Maypearl, the new
town on the l. d q. y. r. r.
A handsome depot as large as the
Central has at WaXahachie, and it
is well finished, three section houses
all nicely painted, together with
flowing deep well. are the improve
meuts put here by the railroad com
pany and the Wood Lumber Co, of
Italy, have here a splendid lumber
yard and Ed Brooks, formerly of
of Italy, is here in charge and says
he is doing splendid business.
Norris and son moved their store
and shop from over near Auburn
last fab. Mr. Kuykendall, the JUS
tice of the peace, from Ozro, also
has a store there and Mr.. Day, from
Bee Greek, is herewith a full stock
of general merchandise. DR.. Weeks
and Mrs. Dumas own the drug store
and keep the postoffice. Eyre post
office, which was close and kept by
Mrs Dumas, was moved to the new
town last fall. Bentley d Morris,
of Oak, have a butcher shop here
and Barron d Halves, from Calvert,
also have a full grocery store here
and a splendid ten-room hotel is
owned and run BY Joe Mccain and
w. II Harrison. These stores are
all charging and each of the pro-
prietors said they were doing "a SPLEEN
did business. Carpenters are kept
busy building residences and enlarg-
ing stores and building new ones.
JnO. Claunch and Isaiah Mosley sold
TO the railroad company about one
hundred acres of land for something
like fifty dollars per acre. The land
is sandy and this hundTed-acre plot
makes a pretty town site. Mr.. Mos
ley was fortunate. Only year or
two ago he bought a farm of 200
acres or more for about Slj per acre
and now the railroad has enhanced
the value OF his farm considerably.
JnO. ClaunCh owns very fine body
Of land adjoining the town and not
only these two gentlemen are bane-
lifted but every farm in this section
il enhanced in value by the coming Of
this road. Jnp. Dawson and Squire
Cal Reyonlds recently purchased
from the railroad splendid building
lots on the ridge close by the town,
paying for them something like 500,
on which they botn will erect nice
homes. Maypearl will eventually
m - tgI -
is by good country, thicklv pOpu-
lated with a good class of farmers
bound to grow. Jack Towns, a.
fine looking young man from Cor
sicana, is the operator and depot
agent here and ack Petty, another
railroad employee, is located here.
J. p. Gilmore and his partner, Mr.
Drake, will at once begin moving
their gin TO the new town. They
will swap their old machinery for
new and better machinery and will
build in Maypearl an up-to-date,
first class gin.
After taking IN the new town 4
passed out on the hill and spent the
night with Squire Cal Reynolds.
He has one of the best improved
farms out here. Water piped all
over his premises. Fine hogs and
Durham cattle eat his grass. He
keeps strict account of the sales Of
cotton and other produce from his
farm and 1t was interesting reading
To compare the prices of his pro-
ducts for several years back and
one thing / did take note of was
that he made handsome profit each
and every year. His four hundred
acres and well improved place all
paid for attest the truth of the profits
derived from this farm. His or
ehard, wheat, and garden are all
fine and he built roads around his
farm last winter while IL was too wet
To do anything else. @. w. Coli
day bought "a fine farm out here
just before the advent of the rail-
road and he discovered good brick
dirt ou IL and a company of Italy
capitalists have formed stock
company and brick yard will soon
be pat I'M close 20 the new town.
A. J. McCarley is another good citi-
zen who bought out here close 10
the new town, just before the rail-
road came and OF course his rich
valley land is enhanced in value.
He and his eight or ten boys are