The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-03-04

4 0nI8y40 MMH TAXING machine
furnished amusement for us. Mr.
Timmina 10 large and fieshy and If
he stands the July and August suns
all right viii pat him On the back.
j. ID. Edmundson also owns b
farm close by and had IL ploughed up
in fine shape. He subscribed for
my paper and now he and bis fami
ly will read the news of Ellis county
and the world. Judging from the
looks of Mr.. Edmundson's farm
will say he is nice farmer.
Mr.. Solomon is an old settler in
here with q good farm. His vito
was packing water to him while he
ploughed and she said to me he was
not able now to work, but he would
work and get sick. The old gentle
man said to me that j had told q
falsehood in my paper; said he:
You called lobe EdmondsOn
good farmer in your paper and If
you think him good farmer you
ought to come down here when the
cocklebuTrs and grass is growing
and you would change your mind. F"
l thanked him for the information
and told him | would correct 1t by
coming for myself next summer and
see. | caught Tobe one summer
pIoughiug with his coat, shoes, hat
Il like to have said and breeches
OFT and came to the conclusion he
was a good farmer, but it seems |
am mistaken. Mr.. Solomon's son,
j, II. Solomon, was planting corn
on the road side; said he sub soiled
his water furrow and made corn
plenty the two dry years, made 20
/ to p bushels to the acre when some
of his neighbors did not drive their
wagons into their fields 1 drove
by lobe Edmundson' He was
away from home. His son, who
has been sick so long, is improving
/ did not have time to look at Mrs
Edmundson's flowers, but will later
ia the season She has the finest
collection of flowers in Ellis county.
l next meet Mr.. j. w, Huckeba
who rents on Anderson's ranch;
took him 10 my buggy and proceeded
through the ranch to Jno. Abbott's,
who formerly lived near,Alma; went
to the Territory, did not like 1t, and
after making q crop hurried back to
Ellis. Jim Simmons and his
brother, Buck, both rent on this
ranch and were planting corn and
Mr.. Huckeba said both were good
farmers. Bud Jacobs came from
Georgia with the Anderson's when
they first begun improving this four
thousand acre ranch 20 odd years
ago and he has remained on the
ranch ever since and said be had
made a living and paid his debts.
J ack Jacobs, brother, who rents
on this ranch, and is good farmer
and good citizen, and Mr.. n. ID.
Gnff un6 RnFfan alGn N fhIu
fine ranch and most all OF them
were through planting corn with
their cotton land all bedded and
each and every one had from 40 to
100 acres planted in wheat and it
was looking nicely. Mr.. Huckeba
said every man who lived on this
ranch was first class except himself
and J. 7. Muse. "If we could be
drummed OUT said he, "this would
be a fine community When we
had finished seeing everybody on
the lower end of the ranch, i wanted
to start home, but Mr.. Huckeba
promised me fatty bread and butter
milk for supper and this weakened
me on home so / went and devoured
plenty of ii for him. HI is a cripple
from rheumatism but he and his
sons are fine farmers and they do
say Mr.. MUSES. son is among the
best farmers on this ranch. | spent
a pleasant night there. His son
who has been in Fort Worth under
going treatment has recovered suf-
ficiently to return home. Back to
Forreston and over east OF that
place Mrs A. T.. Young renewed
her subscription. The fact is, on
this trip | renewed fifty odd sub
scribers. Mr.. w. b. Winn was
ditching his farm and throwing up
embellishments in places that looked
like railroad dump. This black
land needs dItching the same as
sand bills to protect il and | see
more of it done this spring than
ever before. Galloway Tate fed me
and and my mustang our dinner.
His farm is good one. He sub
scrIbed five acres TO work under the
government directions and says he
will follow their advice TO the letter
j. w. Mccoy owns 90 acres in
here and he is putting several acres
liz orchard, and blackberry plants
Me likes this kind of work and
then there is money in 1t. Walter
Park, the successful June corn
raiser and farmer, was next seen
MS UuOtuoE, WuO now TebiuSs al
California, has been visiting him
since September, is getting ready to
go back. She says Los Angles Ia
the most delightful city on earth In
which to live. She has two more
sons and brother residing there.
Her husband was at one time q
merchant in Waxahachie and SAYS
she and her sons read every word
in the Enterprise in their far away
California home.
Uncle Tom Johnston was digging
in bis garden, but his daughter, Mrs
Lowe, renewed their subscription
and on L went to Mr.. Varnell's who
rents the Whitefield place, and had
it in fine shape. Next, to Mr..
Newcomb's, who rents the Hamblin
farm In here, and he, too, Is a rnst- |
Ter. L called a few moments to see
the widow of my friend, j. T. John |
ston, who died recently. His life
was In aurad for &Snn0