The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-04-14

for IL too, but .hsn he stays with
that farm and makes Ellie county
good citizen. Last fall bis son mar
ried and Dan built him nice home
on his farm and now be too viii
make Ellis County 10 good citizen.
/ stopped and talked TO Mrs Gray.
She ID q cheerful, jolly lady and
bosses Dan the very best she can.
A pretty wheat Geld indicated that
biscuits would come on the table
next. year three times a day If Mrs.
Gray wants them that often. In
south Alabama during the war when
was boy, biscuits Sunday
morning for breakfast was all we
ever smelled or tasted and then we
children did not get half we could
eat and l then thought If the time
ever come when could get all the
biscuits at every meal that / could
eat l wonld be the happiest mortal
on earth and have not yet caught
up with the shortage / was forced to
endure when boy. AT Nat Grimes
close by, his good wife and daughter
attended to that appetite of mine
and of my mustangs for diuner.
He owns 100 acres out here and he
never let's up working and his i'm
provements in the way of good
house to live in and barns for his
horses, most of which he did himself,
ali stand as q proof of his and his
family's industry. Miss Alma
their grown daughter, returned the
first of February frem visit to her
married sister at Hobart. Oklah oma.
She at once rounded up several
milch cows, went to looking after
the hennery and all the products
from both these sources she sold
at the Waxahachie cotton mills
making three or four trips a week
herself, with the result she has al
ready placed In the bank to her
credit fifty odd dollars. School
teaching is not the only livelihood
a young lady can make money at.
Miss Alma's sister taught for many
years in this county, but she does
not like teaching and the above
statement shows how well she Ia
succeeding. Miss Alma is also
quite an artist and several paintings
In her parlor are just splendid and
her fancy work with her needle
shows her also an artist in that line.
Eighty five acres IN wheat and oats
are now looking well on this Grimes
farm and his good stock show Sp
well and his Young orchard Ia just
splendid. MIR. Skipper, just across
the fence, also owns good farm |
and he and his good wife are SPLEEN |
did farmers too, for they have |
raised twelve children, clothed and |
fed them well, and sent them TO
school and ii takes good manage |
ment to do ali Of this on "a small |
farm and keep out OF debt, and that |
is what Skipper aud his good wife
have done. On roundIto Sardis the |
splendid church building and lodge /
room has one coat OF paint on it and !,
the carpenters are fast finishing II |
up. Mr.. Patton and Mr. AL Curry |
both have stores there and enjoy "a |
good patronage. Capt. Carder who |
lives right at Sardis said he and his |
sons bad eighty odd acres in wheat |
and oats and IL was splendid. On |
round by Mr.. Frank Reeves farm !
and his grain was looking well. /
Lots of grain in all this western |
part of the county aud aimee the
rains it looks promising. One dol
lar per bushel makes farmer look
at it with pleasure. Uncle Snort
lives out here west OF Waxahachie
and his neighbors come In and put
him up good house quick after his
burn out. Uncle Snort says bis loss
was near two thousand dollars, but
be and his good wife are cheerful
and say it 10 all right and that they
will make fortune yet. Almost
all their house hold effects were de-
stroyed by fire together with q good