The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-03-04
INNOCENCE ON THE 60
Makes q Visit to His Country
Neighbors.

| have not complained so much
this winter as usual but, neverthe-
less, that fearful grip l have sui
fered so manv winters with has
been constantly with me. l have
baked my skin and delicate frame
round stoves in our office and at
home till the moss has almost
covered me, but the spring time,
gentle Annie, thank the good
Master, has come again, and last
Wednesday il was so exceedingly
warm the heel flies tackled me, and
all we Texans know what effect
heel fly has on an old, poor brute.
1t moves them, and that warm day
| got a move on me. The winter
has been cold so long, keeping me
at home, / have almost forgotten
the roads.
For several years, now, | have
( been sending my fine Jersey heifer
calves to Ernest Hines pasture at
Forreston and two of my Jerseys
dropped calves down there this
spring ana>of course they must be
sold. The mother of these heifers
has been nourishing me for several
years with flow of four gallons of
milk a day. Ernest Hines has 100
! acres of wheat and it is looking
splendid. A. J. Dixon, who rents
from him, has taken good care of
my cows. His wife and daughters
understand the management of
mich COW. Ernest has a splendid
lot of Berkshire hogs and last fall
planted II or - acres of alfalfa and
it is now growing nicely. He and
his mother own fine farm on
Chambers creek and since he quit
the grocery business and went on it
he is making money. A. J. Dixon,
who cultivates part of this farm,
made a fine crop last year off the
shines cc::ccc t:c planted. !c.s SC
well pleased with it he will plant
his whole crop with Shines seed
this year. Mr.. and Mrs. Hines
own a nice place in town, but they
stay most of their time down here,
and she raises Barred Plymouth
Rock chickens and Bronze Turkeys.
A. Null, who rents Walter Tim
Minis farm, joining Hines, made
last year the best crop in the For
reston community. Null surprised
the people He had traded in cattle
so long people had gotten to believe
he would not work. He fooled them
/ anu say he VIII this year Iool tIehi
again.
w. &. Brooks, who own farm
close to Forreston and takes our
paper, subscribed and had me send
it to son at Collinsville, Texas.
Forreston is constantly improving.
The citizens of that place and sur
rounding country have just COM
pleted splendid new Baptist
church and w. n. G. Phariss bought
out his partner, Mr.. league, in the
family grocery business, and Mr..
spurlock, the gin man there, bought
Mr.. Dorsey's general merchandise
store. Mr.. league will clerk for
him. DR.. +. H. Cook, who moved
from Waxahachie to Forreston
several years ago, has a splendid
practice and is we'll liked by the
people. Uncle Mark Alexander,
who recently moved from the Pan
handle has opened a blacksmith
shop at FOrreston. Uncle Mark is
an old timer in WaXahachie. When
the war broke out he marched with
his company and fought Yankees
for four wears.
When | am rustling in the spring
time, or any other old time, my
appetite gets keen and / had not had
good hungry on before tor some
time and l remembered that John
Timmins had moved to his farm
close by Forreston, after many
years of residence in town. Last
summer he and his wife visited her
father in Middle Tennessee, and the
good, thick, juicy hams with the
gravy thrown in, and other goodies
Mrs. Timmins' father and mother
there gave them for her parents
they do say are among the best farm
ers in Middle Tennesseei made
them both long for the farm again,
and now they are located on l25
acres they ownI down here and he
and his sons, with The help of Mr..
Vaughn, young man employed by
Mr.. Timmins to oversee him, are
rustling that black dirt like the heel
dies were after them. He was al
derman in Waxahachie for several
years and in the grocery business
several more, and l believe he will
make "A good farmer. His boys and
Mrs. Timmins have an incubator
full of eggs and they will have such
delicacies as fried chicken with
turkey on the side. A good dinner