The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-10-03
THE STOCK SHOW.
Many Fine Animals We're on Exhibi-
ton In the City Monday.

In the early settlement of Ellis
county the first Monday in eacn
month was known as stray sale day.
On this day horses, mules and other
stock taken up and posted in differ
ent sections were brought to the city
and sold to the highest bidder. This
naturally brought large crowds here,
even in the days when the county
was sparsely settled The custom
then established has been continued
to the present day, and sale days are
TO the present day, and sales days are
in the state. In the early settle
ment of the county the stock offered
for sale or trade was of very low
grade, and while a great many sorry
horses and mules may be seen here
on First Monday, a wonderful inn
proyement has been noted in the
general run of stock Horses of the
very finest blood are now being
brought here for sale
Mr.. Maxwell of Boz, who owns a
splendid stallion and jack. had his
patrons assemble their colts here yes
terday for a Show. Nat Grimes.
feIoney Tune and NJ NJ Mosley were
n aected as judges to award the
rn.tzes. Among the mule colts on ex-
~sibition, Mr.. Gulledge, who lives on
Chambers creek, had two; Obadiah
Burnett, one NJ. A. Beard, two; r.
A. Stewart, one; Winfield Williams,
one. The first prize, $40 in cash,
was awarded to J. T. Gulledge, and
the second prize, $500 in cash, went
to Obadiah Burnett.
Hon. j NJ Alderdice offered me
$40 to buy the bunch of mule colts
at $50 per head, but | told him |
had heard the owner of them refuse
an offer of s125 for one pair
The horse colts were next shown.
The entries were J. G. Jacobs of An
derson Ranch, one; A. E. Nowlin,
one; ]. r. Porter, one; Jesse Caver.
colored, one. The premiums were $40
for the best and $500 for the second.
MIR. Porter won first prize and the
second was awarded to Mr. Jacobs
Colts from the horse and Jack of
Mr.. Allgood were next shown. H.
Hawks was awarded first premium
for the second mule colt and w L.
Adams received a premium for the
first best mule H. H. Hicks. who
has charge of John Wyatts Rather
Brooks. had Glenn Morris. r. T. Bish-
OPP, Jim Clark and Dave Wesmoreland
round up their colts for a show. The
judges awarded first premium to Mr.
Morris and second to Mr.. Bishop
The prize winning colts are almost
evenly matched and will some day
day make a valuable team. One
man should own the two. Both are
bays. Mr. Bishop also had on exhi-
bition an older colt from the Hicks
horse that is a beautiful iron gray.
The man who raises fine colts ana
brings them here for exhibition.
whether he wins a premium or not,
shows that he has energy and enter
prise about him. 1t is not always
the colt that wins first premium
that makes the best horse
C. E. Youngblood had seven
teen months old colt here which took
first premium at Joe Meharg's colt
show the first Monday In September
He sold the colt TO Mr. Meharg for
$3.50 He is a beautiful bay D. NJ
Johnson from near Midlothian, took
a premium here a year ago on gray
colt from Nat Grimes horse. Mr.
johnson had this colt on the streets
yesterday and was asking $50 for it,
Fine colts like the ones shown
here yesterday are wealth producers
10 any man who engages in raising
them. INNOCENCE ABROAD.