The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-09-19
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lis lime ! 80 TO Sardts aud Mid
lothian | always have a fine time
on my trips there for those people
are prosperous and happy They do
not depead 30 zuch on cotton. but
diversity and have corn. oats. whent.
chickens OF the best kind. fat horg.
Jersey cows. sleek horses, plump
sheep and hea.,hy Children. lhay
think a whole lot. of themselves toe.
for they have good school houses
and churches AMI gide 10 church and
town In nlce bugglcg ana carriages
stop to see Mr.. CoIey Burns but
he was off somewhere / looked at
his big barn, then so To see r. W. Nc
Clellan and find him and his nei~h-
borS Fudge and Hawk, all together.
talking prospects, and they have fine
crops. Brooks was next but he was
gone. Sardis and Dr.. Poplin. who
is popular with his people and is do
ing fine practice there. He is a
friend TO the Enterprise in many
ways and shows it in a substantial
manner. Then there is Turner and
his shop, Joyce and Moore who do
business there, and | wind up for
dinner at my old friends, Mr. John
son. who banks on our paper and
says nice things to me His dauGh-
ter has nice yard full of roses
which she has planted herself at no
cost at all. I'll tell you other girls,
now it is done and you can have all
the fine roses you want and they
won't cost YOU cent. Get cuttings
about six inches long from rose
bushes, tanybody will give them to
YOU who has rose bushes), dig up
place in the garden or yard about
two feet square, fertilize it slightly,
plant the cuttings about five inches
deep and put an old tub over them,
which you can take off on pretty
warm days during the winter. Put
out your cuttings from November Is
to December 10, and when spring
comes, about March / TO Is, trans
plant them to where you want them
| you will have a yard full of the fin
| est roses at no cost whatever From
forty to fifty cuttings can be rooted
under one tub.
j. \. Sanford and his wife always
welcome me on my trip TO their home
Mr.. Sanford has a fine cistern o1
water and l get thirsty just as get
there Mr.. Sanford has been out
west and says crops are great in that
section He will not move out there.
| however. J. F. Cavender ! found
pushing hay into a barn. 1t was Il
hot job but he came out as cool as
a veteran and subscribed He has
been on our list for many years and
says he buys his Enterprise as he
buys his tax receipts-annually,
Nat Grimes came to Ellis county
from Tennessee just after the civil
war. At first he worked on the
farm for wages, but later bought a
farm, or rather 100 acres of prairie
land, at six dollars an acre. The
, first year he paid so, the next $500,
the next year $500 and the next year
he paid out He broke it out with
an S-inch pillow. He can now sell that
farm for $4,000, but he has a nice
/ house. big orchard, and all the
other conveuienCeS. His big barn Is
a model. and in it he has 1900 bush
/ els of oats. 500 bushels OF corn to be
nut there. and sheaf oats which he
keeps the rats and mice out OF by
sprinkling them with sulphur ]
Spent night there. and his wife, like
mine. makes a. lot of fun of her nus
4 band. but h, takes IL docilely for he
F knows who has been by his side
through am Ire years OF struggle. w.
/ q. Brown tooh my paper to try H..
he said .Hy is talking ot moving
West but may not go II ho goes il
won't hy long tin he viii nu helping
ro run THINGS out rhyI,.
Thume, Baxter and bis auud wife
live alone when drove up there
Mr- Baxter was si,e. hu. -H' told
me tu conn, ,u a- shr wanted .u -iN'
uu u rHIE. she Says luu atr -r'
uus old enough fo s,| married
assured h.r fha. h.J h"ru srN
muohN iu marimouy tnr aI ,h"s'
ast eco .yl.- O STAYED .H,t. for
SOME ume and had uush.I ot fun.
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IatE when .bD Nas uof ..c. .ai .h'
would ,ooE w, ponIoH H'. EW
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