The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-09-12
THE COTTON CONDITION
The Crop in Ellis County is Something of
A Puzzle Just Now.

! nave heard IL said that nobody
but fools and new corners ever pre-
dicted weather in Texas. simply
from the fact that you can't tell much
about 1t. II is just about the same
with a cotton crop; you can't tell how
it will turn out as to price or yield
either until you have got both. The
cotton crop this year is something
of a big question for us all. Some
crops look fine anc some are not
much. People are continually ask
ing me about the cotton for they
know | see a great deal of it. If
! had TO answer now I'd say that
the crop is spotted, some good and
some bad, but as a whole IL lis the
sorriest crop | ever saw and / have
been in Texas seventeen years.
Mark Alsup lives on the Dad to-
ward Ray and Is a good looking
young fellow and talks Ia good spirits
and hasn't a drop Of melancholy
about him. He sees the bright side OF
everything and laughs like he would
not swap places with any body. He
has four fine mules to sell and As
acres of cotton that looks right now
like II would make three-fourths
Of a bale TO the acre. Frank Camp
bell used TO know Mr.. Mcknight Ia
South Texas and says he is very glad
we got him for he knows him to be
a fine newspaper man and pointed
writer. He says: Just turn Me.
loose and he will interest your read
ers, for I have read after him and
know"
G. W. Marshal is the proud owner
of a Is months old Rather Brooks
colt. X is a deep bay with black
name an tail and is worth $500. /
am a lover of fine horses and when
a fellow shows me q fine colt t does
me good all over. There is money
and pleasure both in fine horses aud
the time is not far In the future when
the broncho and the mustang will
have gone where the long horned cow
and the AZ back hog are browsing.
j. y. Meharg and his ueigbbor. Dix
on. were burning a bolsd arc fence
and had q hot smoky Job. Mr.. Me
GarE went IA the house and sent his
little boy back with a dollar to keep
the Enterprise coming A. Gof0rth
was gathering IN his crop OF corn.
J had quite a talk with him and he
VIII read our paper for another
cycle.
Ray is "a nice little village aud it's
shade trees invite a fellow To stop
and talk With it's good people. Brown
Bros do a general business. J. W.
Bland has groceries. John GofoFth "a
barber shop, a. r. Turner and jim
Wheat nave blacksmith shops. while
she Ra} Gin Co. is managed by j
Henry Miller.
J. g.. Wheafloy was fixing up his
neero shack ANA getting Yeady FOR /
bis cotton picking, He has $50 acres
tt#f Wltl make au average Yield and i
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