The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-08-22
hILFlN IN THE FIELD


8 ao ! Nas and she told me so call
again hen hur father sas uoy sway
+. His place looks mighty dice and / am
told br has melon patch Don't
yug love 20 epe q melon patCh agth
the old striped fellows IlcIng there
jua; waiting for you H. makes a
fellow think If his early days tn
Georgia. Tennessee. and Alabama.
W Il Aired Was riding mower cut
ting weeds Ne says weeds are an
ishomina,ian Ia his sight aud be Is
against them He Says he can stand
"a little grass but that no common
weeds can stay around aim \. a.
North told me so unhItyh and feed
I that dinner would he ready In few
minutes His wife had been wash
+ Ing that day hut she had good din
ner anyway 81 big dish Of fried
chicken When my wife washes We
. don't have any dinner. the kids and
/ / just eat what is left from breakfast.
Charlie Allen came over while I was
there and took my paper for he was
out He is son of w r Allen and
brother TO Tom Allen, both Of
whom are pretty we'll known. K. E.
+ Dodson said the boil worms were
playing havoc with his cotton, but
guess he will still make plenty. He
. and his wife had been 10 preaching at
Red Oak | stayed there for quite
/ awhile Tor he says, Don't be in such
! a hurry. it's too hot to drive much. ~
( But August is the time for hot
weather.
! Col Tom Yates has 500 acres of
/ land and is wen fixed with house.
/ barns, orchard etc. When | got there
I the Colonel was not at home but his
son. Armon. greeted me cordially and
had me to take out and stay all night
/ The Colonel came in later and we
talked election. etc. till bedtime
next morning we looked at his young
orchard. and he has nice one too.
We walked through his cotton fields
and discussed the worm problem.
/ Col. Yates was a delegate to The
state convention. | told him | was
going, and he said he would see to it
that | got a seat-somewhere in Oak
Cliff Col. Yates has three children,
WILL who is jailer under Sheriff Min
nick; Armon, student of Trinity
University: and a daughter who
keeps house for him. He has had
quite an experience in this life and
| ! only wish | had space to tell more
of him.
met B. B. Reasonover in the road
near Rocket He says: You won't
ask me to take your paper; here, /
want to subscribe and he threw me
a dollar He is a young man with
4 wife and one baby, fine crop, and
! is as happy as | am. He told me to
20 to see his father, l.. J. ReasonoVer,
and did When | got there his wife
and two daughters, Misses Ethel and
( Myrtle, were ready to start to church
at Chapel Hill. | stayed with him
and ate watermelon. He had fine
one hid behind screen in the fire
place. He says: 1.-TWO Methodist
preachers stayed here last night and
slept in this room, how do you
recon they missed this menon? But,
he says, my yellow-legged plymouth
rock chickens are no more Jerry
and | are both Methodists and can
talk about our preachers II we want
to. j. W. Watson raised about fifty
bushels of onions this year and Will
sell them when they get higher, He
is diversifier in practice an not in
theory only. | saw the training track
, of Henry Miller and he has a couple
of fine colts out there that he is
training how to go. Mr.. Miller Is
a fine morse trainer and is always
busy at his business.
l. w Couch lives between Rocket
and Red Oak and has a beautiful
home. His house is a new one-a
large twO-stOry. He has a large
> lawn with shade trees in front and
tat. sleek horses out there nibbline
the grass. With such a home as this
i ] can't see why anyone should not
be content. and. think Mr. Couch
appreciates his home. too bud lone,
} was carpenJering the day / was there
He and his boys have done great
deal of work this year. He has ;
big drove of hogs that ne has raised
ON alfalfa, and he has cut the alfalfa
regularly TOO.
now drive mp ru Red Oak am,
J spend the evening ate dinner Wit
%. p. C3yitt and we talked over ol,
, times. for 49,. oame from The sam,
place Jart Jordan COL Hooks th,
lIguus. Andrews and Whiskcr-. aI
looked natural o. p keuuyr ha.
moved uur foo tlr RyHuu farm vhioi
ay hH. auuEhr lui-U uask.u- Na
uuf uf town bur haas retired from th.
Judiciary up There. uud IuiIc d. -
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