The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-04-23

church with large family and be Is
educating them. Sons of his child
rem are now of at college. Mr.. L.
w. Armstrong was blowing bis corn
and shivering with the cold. He Is
somewhat aged, but works like q
Turk and Is happy and contented.
Prof. o. s. Hollabaugh teaches the
| Enterprise school and he is Cous-
ms man all over He is a fine
young man. raised in this commun-
ity. w. II. Hayes owns fine farm.
He rents out, but when l saw him
he was In trouble. He had en-
ployed to a gentleman who rents
from him to help plant cotton and he
was tired and foot sore and his en-
ployer would never say stop and rest.
/ AT OZro there are two stores j..
n. Newman and H. j Skipper.
I Both seemed TO have a good trade.
This is a thIckly populated country
and people must have hacker and
goods. / chew hacker and hate nv
self for the filthy habit. j. B. Brig
man owns a fine farm close to Ozro
aud he and his good wife fed me
and my horse for dinner. He has
in his barns twelve or fifteen hum
| dred bushels of corn aud fat hogs
curl their tails high over their backs,
A fine young orchard close by his
home all make this home an inter
esting place TO stop. w. j. Gather
rents a farm of I25 acres which H
| Cert of Waxahachie owns out here,
deep well on it affords plenty of
water, and after looking round l
| decided Gather pretty good farm
er. He takes our paper and pays
for ii. He - Jolly good fellow and
i ii is good for the blues TO meet him.
/ Over by Mr.. Sanford's, who moved
+ from Osilla and bought a farm out
here. He had the humps and was
was lying up nursing them, and on
west / struck 8. H. Nicely renting
/ from Mr. Sisk. His wife said she
/ liked our paper and If / would GO
/ over where he was blowing she
1 thought he would take it, and of
course / went and now that good
| lady reads good paper. The /. d
q. n. railroad runs up the creek
valley over here between Italy and
Maypearl and across ii and over a
DOGGY branch / strike /. A. Slddall.
an Arkansawyer, who rents from
Joe McQaatters OF Waxahachie.
Slddall's wife has been in poor
health for a long while. He has
rented from McQuatters for several
years and rustles bis dirt. Mr.. Sisk
who still owns q farm near Italy,
owns nice farm over here close TO
the Johnson county line. He and
hts good wife take our paper, as does
w. W. Benson close by him Both
he and Sisk have recently bailt nice
new homes on their farms and this
away 81 country looks prosperous,
Benson owns l35 acres over here
and he knows how 10 rustic it,.
Along this ridge, on the county line,
had not trav eled for several years,
but Mrs W. NJ. Mayfield knew me
and invited me tn. Mr.. Mayfieid
and bis son, J. D., own a fine farm.
t,nnla Tommy sharp and his uife,
both aged people, are down with
slow fever and their lives despaired
OF. W. h. Ashford, who rents from
1 Mr.. w Woodland over here, is an hon
4 est man II owed me several dol
lars on back subscription, his paper
having stopped a year or two ago,
but when | got 10 him he cheerfully
/ paid the debt. 1t il said an honest
man Is the noblest work Of God.
Burk brothers rent over here on the
/ Lightfoot farm. Last year they
moved To the Territory but not lik-
/ ing 1t returned and kept our paper
\ up there and bacK. Wyatt GriiiitA's
father settled out here 10 years ago
or more, raised a large family that
are now scattered. Wyatt owns a
4 find farm here and he let me roost
In his home. He and his splendid
wife are the parents Of quite a num-
Der of little girls and their friends
from the surrounding country had
| gathered there for good time and
they had IL. Their oldest daughter,
who married a year or Two ago, lives
in Cieburne, and she aud her hus
band were there also, and 1t was a
great time the little girls aud me
had. Mr.. Gritfith raises great
many fine hogs and the & q, \.
railroad which runs through bis
farm recently pat him In a switch
and stock pen and now he and his
neighbors ship their fat hogs and
cattle from his ranch. W. T. Mills,
a good friend of our paper guilty ates
Mr. artffiths land and | hope he
will get TO heaven when he dies. J
A. Woodland who lived near Nj.
Peak last year rents over here, paid