The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-08-17

TWO KINDS OF MILK
Drawing The Lines Of Competition
BY JUMBO

promise here l come. / am now at
Paddcah, Kentucky. / have been
here for several days. / have been
sick most of the time since my ar
rival.
This town is just about such a
place as Fort Worth, Texas. TWEEN
ty-one years ago / came to this
town a boy. l was then seventeen
years old / was out of money, out
of friends, out of clothes, out of
work and out of doors. l had not
where to lay my head" This
town then was just about what Wax
abachie is now except it had not such
modern improv ements as has Wax
ahachie today. While Waxahachie
has court house worth, including
grounds and fixtures, about $500, 600,
this town has a court house worth e,
including grounds and fixtures,
about S25 900. would not give 5000
for it and be compelled to bring it to
Texas. The boys of Ellis county
would drum me out of the county
for bringing such a thing there.
Twenty-One years ago there was
not an electric light. an electric fan,
street car nor telephone in this
town. Now it has all of them. This
town has some fifty miles of as we'll
regulated a system of electric rail-
way as you will find anywhere.
Just think of the improv ements in
this old world in the lapse of twenty
one years. Then there were not five
miles of electric railroad in exist
ence. now it bids fair to rival the
steam RAILWAYS.
AS ] wrote from here once before,
this is one of the best electric lighted
towns / ever saw. All the thorough
fares are well lighted and you can
even tell where the limits OF the city
are by arc lights. Think of reading
a newspaper at midnight on a dark
night on the city limits of dear old
Waxahachie. The lights are turn
ished here by private corporation,
but they furnish them very cheap.
We need more lights, if not cheaper.
There are few crimes committed
under the glare of an electric light.
Anything in the world sells well
here from a turnip up to a hogshead
of tobacco or a barrel of "eye
water" 1t IS one of the best market
and milk and butter towns in the
world. When | first came here |
drove one Of the first milk wagons
in the town, in fact, / drove one Of
the only two wagons in the place.
Now there are over twenty milk
wagons doing a good business. OF
course there is strong competition
between some of the milk men in
same parts of the city. Where an
other milk man and myself use TO
have it all to ourselves with no com
petition, now a score Of them
strive with the strongest rivalry for
the same trade.
Two Of the leading dairymen, Pete
Rock and Dave Roman have for
years been strong competitors in the
same part OF the town. Pete has
forty Of as fine Angora goats as
ever saw and Dave has twenty as
fine jennets as any breeder in Texas
could show, For a long time they
run down each others milk by tell.
ing little innocent lies on each other
They kept going from bad To worse I
as Is usual in such cases. We long .
since learned that when rivals begin /.
telling hard things on each other .
here is a cyclone coming. SO It .
vas with Pete and Dave. One +
morning Dave circulated II all over .
be contested community that the
.easou Pete had so much milk on
iAud was because he was milking
bose goats and vas selling IL 20 his
.ustomers, This story raised such
storm Of Indignation among the
NIX CON AlAtIN RE AtlAN AVNN a. was
.ever known before. A mob was in
family formed for the purpose Of
urnug poor Pete AT the stake.
sext morning Pete drove iu bright
nd early studying what he would
ell eu Dave aud his milk, bat
ot dreaming az a mob. When mat
ugust body told him 10 make peace
rith '.s God and prepare o. meet bic ,
oam Ee told them be vas pre-.
AIRED tu <u. lhat bee VAS guilty, but
elt .t was better to sell goats milk I
ban ta sell milk from isnnots. That
Dave Roman had been selling them
girk from twenty ola sennsts for e. e ,
ast i've years. Won ought to have
cen thas storm nf Indignation u
sanity furu tn wtfft sind 2
Fratb Some Hf tar men Hnd Hv
rophanis. rart re ease eaIIireu faint
n auH tsl tN# w"urH vumitest trying
/. ar4rH milk fHve had drank ave