The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-08-25
hiLFlN IN THE FIELD



farm and as dinner time comes {
am in front Of C. " StrourH 4
uuhi,ch aud feed nay horse and ms
self aud after a pleasant chat ~ith
Mrs Strong and her pretty dauRh
ters, Misses Sadie and Matte Len
am again In the buggy and off !
lind " Goforlh at home. the
Parks King place, aud he II my first
subscriber for this trip Then | go
TO see Lon Tate hut he is not at
home. aud pay my first visit 20
Uncle Sid Smith, lie is - years old
and Is quite feeble Tie Is good
tsIker and great reader and loves To
have people so TO see him Were
YOU ever unable to leave your room
If so were YOU would know how 10
appreciate COMPANY ] NJ Taylor
and T h, Bayless both read after Us
from now on They both have good
crops and viii come out flying this
fall
r \. Gamble has an orchard full
OF peaches and water melons too.
7 knew all this and stayed a night
with him He Is a funny old boy
and ] enjoy his company. Next day
/ went by to see Jimmie Farrar and
while | was sitting on his front porch
NJ l.. Bate came along He was GO
/ ing TO see a sick man He is great
hand in sickness and never fails to
do all he can for his distressed
neighbors W. NJ. Hawkins was
ditching his land These heavy rains
sometimes do great damage to crops
and bitches are necessary.
J. II. Reed has big lot of hay
which he was trying TO save, but 1t Is
raining so much he is having a hard
time of il. c. G Marmon came
back to us. but ! knew he would
first chance. Roy Stewart told me
10 put him in the same category and
and to keep him there.
j. H, Willoughby lives on the
Adams place and has 46 acres of
cotton clean and in fine fix, and he
has done all his blowing with two
little mules He is a good farmer
and has a good crop. J. W. Jones,
just below him, has a fine crop too,
and was lifting few big lunches of
grass, then he will be through.
Trumbull. generally called Ghost
Hill. was so called because it used
to be ''hanted by an Irishman who
was killed there when the railroad
was being built. He was buried on
the right of way but some how the
place didn't suit him and at night
when trains would come along he
would rise up in front of them and
the trains would have to stop till
he chose to get out of the way. He
used to take a seat on top Of the
depot and sit there for hours while
Jim Smith, Jim Callens and Frank
Hancock threw rocks At him. One
night a train came through with
President Roosevelt on board, the
Irishman got a-straddle of the engine
and rode out of town and has never
been seen since
G. NJ. Barnett has cantalOupes by
the wagon load and sent me word
to come. 7 came, | saw, and | ate
a dozen. Mr.. Barnett will move tc
Palmer this fall after crops are gath
cred w. T. Johnson has a farm
over there. but as he had just had al
alteration with a mule he was lalC
up with a broken finger, He looked
like he had been through a film
mill and III tell you, Tom, you haC
better go slow win Baalam mex
} time.
w. NJ. Wooley will make rs bale
, of cotton, so his neighbors say.
: went through his crop and it is
: fine one. He has everything else i
; proportion and says he lives at HON
! as far as he possibly can. too
dinner this time with J. NJ. Callen.
t Everybody in WaXahachie knows Nj
= Calleus for he used 10 live here II
loves his friends and he and his nobl
n wife know how to make YOU feel we
e come He has two fine colts. and the
= ar, good TO look at, too He has
. watermelon vine that covers half {
his garden and has half a wagon {
melons on b. He told me they wer
NOT ripe. but never mind, ! may fin
.ut about that tor myself. g. "
r HamW was there and be and Nj
raleu- were going ro Chapel Hin Z
ID .ug Mr. Hamm TOOK my paper Wit
q .. silver dollar and here ls mE thanks
o. F. LETTERS and alI the uth,
.Iuftrr- always have good crops. raj
Too. .U rain The. know how ru uaf