The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-10-24
nlLflN OUT IN THE WET
But Spent . Few Happy Days IN TIE
Milford Ceuairy.

the country east of there. | did not
get through as it rained and / pulled
back for home On my way down
there ! stopped along as would find
house that was not getting our pa
per and got them into line.
j. E. Harris is a thresher man and
takes our paper. | was at his ma
chine on one of my trips last sum
mer and he remembered me- S. n.
B. Williams is a fine book keeper
and has always done that kind of
work till now. He is now on his
farm and takes to the work readily.
The day | was there he was fixing a
wagon for his cotton pickers. His
little grandson. Herman, had his
thigh broken two weeks ago, but the
little fellow was getting on nicely
under the skillful treatment of DR..
w A. Palmer
r. Fl. Bate formerly lived at
Trumbull but is now near Italy. His
wife told me she knew he would
subscribe if | would only see him
| found him away off in his cotton
patch and he took our paper again
and was glad to get the old Enter
prise again.
DR.. w. A. Palmer was away but
his good wife found a dollar and they
too will get the biggest eoun-
~ paper in Texas this week.
DR.. Palmer does fine practice
and runs a farm too From
here | drove to Milford, but when
got there it was raining. | stopped
for a while, then drove on to Mr.
Charlie Ramsey's. He has lived there
for so years or more and is an old
time Texan of the true blue stripe.
| He used to know many people I'm
Waxahachie and asked me many
questions of the old timers here. His
wife told me not 10 say a word about
! her in my write up and | won't ex-
cept to say that | like her because
she treated me nicely and invited
me to come back again. Mr. Ramsey
has a Tot of old time guns, has his
fathers old squirrel rifle that is
over a hundred years old. He also
has a brace Of pistols that saw ser
vice in the civil war
j. d. Williams is another old tim
er with us He was used to seeing
Innocence but invited me 10 call on
him just any time ! came his way
G w Cook and T. r Cook, two
brothers, own good farms and are
well fixed up. ate dinner with T.
F, Cook, which was prepared by his
little girl and was a nice one. His
wife was away visiting in Cherokee
county and he and the children were
keeping house
Tom j. Green had just moved
said he used TO be- regular subscrib-
er and We were glad to have his com
pany again. He and his boys were
stacking sorghum and his women
folks We're cleaning up the house
and yard
B. F. Sandifer owns a fine place
near Flat Rock school house and is
doing we'll, His cotton Is OPENING
slowly but will come finally. He has
a lot of the biggest dogs / ever saw.
but they are friendly.
Mcdaniel is d station on the / Il
c. n Railroad and has one nice
store owned by Mr. Miller They do
fine business. / saw them and like
them and their clever ways. They
also have a gin but they were not
running the day / was there. as the
cotton comes in too slowly 20 keep
them running all the time The
last night / stayed with Mr.. Whatley.
He was not well, but had been sitting
up with his neigh Dor MIR King, who
died the day I was there Mr. King
was a we'll respected citizen Of his
community and his death win be a
loss to his neigh borhood His wife
died eight wceHs ago. -Four children
survive them. MILFI$. 81