The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-09-23
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~ found at our ONCE and also at
several grocery stores In waxahac.
bic number Of pumpkins brought
In by my friends from different Sec
tions OF the county and 1t IL an Ar
kansaw feast have been enjoying
ever since. One man came in and
said of the seed furnished him last
spring only one pumpkin showed up
on the vines and my reply to him
was, ''I must have half Of that
one" He has not as yet shown up
with that half.
Getting back on the trail again
last Tuesday l started out south and
stopped at Mrs. Banks pretty home
on the Howard road. Her oldest
son, whom | met at Corpus Christi
with his family, was visiting her
For more than twenty years she had
not see him and his was a pleasant
visit TO all Mrs. Banks family. She
Is seventy odd years old and quite
stout for her age. Cotton along this
Howard road is good and to a man
raised on a cotton plantation as
was there is something about q fins
cotton crop that is interesting es-
cially when that cotton is worth ten
cents or close to Ii as Ii is now.
This side OF Howard three miles /
Robertson Bros. and J. Henry Miller !
own "a splendid gin and written In |
large letters on the topmost front Of /
that gin is its name: shake. Rag /
Gin" don't know what possessed I
them to give IL such common name 1
for IL is situated IN a fine section Of I
country and doing very fine bust
ness. J. Henry Miller, who owns a .
fine, well improved farm close by,
Shake Rag gin IL the manager OF il. /
On south | roasted for the night I.
with J l.. Byrum. He came here
on White League many years ago
aud worked for wages. bought him a
little piece of land and has kept add
ing TO 1t till now his farm consists
of nearly three hundred acres and
be said this crop woald nearly get
him out OF debt. fine fat hogs wal
low In his pens aud Mrs. ByFnm, whe
visited her old home la MississippFi
this summer, gave me fried chicken
from yard full she raises every
year.
Howard now has swo two. story
general merchandise stores. r. Ri 4
Bale owns one and Moody Il Go. /
own the other Both carry good
stocks and have splendid trade.
school hoase aad black
smith shop and gin owned by Rob
ertson Bros, Il CO. w. r. Wood,
who owns fine farm close by is
manager of this White League gin.
and ID. BassingeF. Of Nash. ts book
keeper serving bis second season.
MIR. Byrum says cotton don't dts on
this White League country. no aka
lai in the soil. So6th OF Howard "a
mile or two excessive raAas ia the
summer injured the cotton and mr..
Wells sold City acres OF cotton 10
his neighbor, VIII Hendrix, tor two
hundred dollars. leak ans brothers
are the physicians for this Howard
country and have been here several
years and are popular win their
patrons. Mrs, Beasley, blind
lady, who lives with her son in-law
MIR. Lyon, near SHAKE Rag gin,
owed our paper several dollars when /
we stopped II last January. called 4
10 see this good lady and explained
to her the amount telling her at the 1
same time IL she was not able tn pay !
it / would give IL to her and take the /
claim off our books ana her reply l
was that while she could not read 4
the paper her children did and en-
ioyed IL and newspaper men had to 1
live aud pay their debts. said she; /
"Innocenee, 1 have the money, +" 4
and off che went TO her trunk aud 4
dug ap and paid the bill cheerfully I
This l did not demand Of her. but 1
said she, II have some money and 4
want TO pay this bill" Our paper 4
had about sir hundred dollars due I
IL on back dues when | got sick last /
spring aud not able 20 so GA my
rounds after IL and this trip our Old /
time subscribers are paying up nice. +
~ aud renewing. Nearly seventy z
In one week renewed aud reaub- /
seribsd.
III. A. Hiocum has rented on the 1
fempletou farm several years saat
of Howard aud II. A. Wheasiy has
also rented several years on Jordan
browns farm close BY and for the