The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-06-28
THE FARMERS TO MEET
Anausl fleeing Of Texas farmers Cong
resS viii Be Held in July.

The Texas Farmers Congress
meets July 25 at the Agricultural
and Mechanical College at College
Station ana will be in session three
days Although 1t is nearly one
month off, still IL Is time to begin
thinking about the trip and max
ing ready to attend. | guess now
that will not be able to attend this
year, but | hope every citizen of
Ellis county who can do so Will go.
For the last two or three years I
have conducted a carload of excur-
sionists from Ellis county down
there. and we have all been benefited
both physically and mentally by
these trips No outing know of
offers more pleasure and profit 10
farmers than a trip to the Farm
ers Congress. AS has been the Gus
tom for the past few years the En-
terprise will look after the matter
OF low railroad rates for all who de-
sire to attend from Ellis county.
Heretofore We have had farmers go
with the excursion from every sec
ton of the county. and have fire.
qnentiy heard them remark that
some particular speech was worth
all the money and time it cost TO
make the trip. I see from the pa
pers that the session soon to meet
will have the largest attendance OF
any previous session. Several hum
dred tents have been ordered for the
accom- mediation OF those who attend
Heretofore the buildings occupied
BY the students have been used by
a. ala h. in T..
ficient this year The farmers OF
Texas are studying their business as
they never did before. Whenever
they can make any Improvement
over the manner In which their dad
dies farmed they proceed 10 do so.
A great many OF the most success
full farmers OF Ellis county have
gone with me each summer 10 the
congress, and 1t is 10 be hoped that
they viii attend this year.
Mr. Finch. who is well known 10
many citizens of Ellis county. is now
connected with the Daily Light and
Weekly Enterprise He came from
Kentucky several years ago. He Is
from the same ueighborhood from
which Jumbo came. and was proba-
hly made from some of the same
Kentucky dirt. When he gets
81 Stfa}ghtened out he will make our
papers bigger and better No scrubs
can work for the Daily Light
and Enterprise None but thorough
breds like Jumbo and Finch from
Kentucky and myself from Arkansas
can find a place with these papers,
am for the present knocked out,
but I'll soon be all right again. As
this salt water chases itself over and
through me | can feel the old Nick In
me rise and try TO assert himself
above this trouble that is keeping
me down here. II has been our aim
10 make bigger and better papers
for our subscribers each year, and
this we have succeeded in doing. Ny
partners write me every week that
business is splendid and II II keeps
! increasing like 1t has for the past
twelve months We will be compelled
to buy another type setting machine.
| The one we now have Is kept busy
day and night and still they say they
are behind with the work. This is
certainly encouraging news TO me,
| who. (: looks Ike must stay away
from home and business In order TO
| live NV letters from down here
have had the effect OF giving me
great deal of correspondence and IL
| now begins TO look like | am to have
plenty of Ellis county citizens Tor
| company ] know there are nun
dreds up there who go away each
summer hunting rest health and rec
reation. and | think ! am somewhat
| of a Judge of good climate and good
living. and | believe this place mis-
the bill In the first place visitors
here can go into this salt water ana
| Thoroughly cleanse themselves and
thar is what a great many OF US
need Then we are ready TO absorb
and enjoy the heavy laden salt
breezes which blow constantly, This
I il the greatest place / have ever
4 struck to steep and eat and every
H one who comes here and goes haih-
Il ing comeA out of the water hungry
Il When YOU are not eating you teei
/ like aleeping. | have an old friend,
= rnm Woodbridge. who moved here
Il from Limestone county a few wears
1 AGO and lives ten miles southwest OF
h coruus Christi on the gulf. | spent
II ~everai days with him last week.
IT'S wife is one of the finest COOKS
y | ever ate after There was a pro-
+ traeted meeting going on IN 1ls
Il uelxhborhood and To this ! went al
Il usght. and saliagea over the SAT
rounding country IN day time !
stopnsa with ranchers and farmers
aud ate watermelons. canteloupes
and fried chicken 20 my heart ana
anptftes content one farmer sna
ranehmnn oat there gathered ana
sold ssf worth of caenml'"rs tf"m
thre.-auarters ~ an acre uf sf"uhu
ii has beeu gnlse ssasonabtr hvf"
Ithe past winter and spring and the
syleias from truck patches have been
~normaua small farm - All iha'
Is needed here and they Keep plant
llsx ana gathering all the year. cnF
nan from Mississippi one from
= tfxala. county. one from san Antoniu
snd myself chartered sail boat tasi
Asnsaav and crossed Corpus Christi
nms and then sailed do~n through
asnrpaa Chrtssi pass inin the Shlt 81