The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-05-21
nllfiN IN the FIELD



tF#sy shoas ~ / snnses, too. ard he
s@sea ~stl epfns later. fail Fwnalsloa
and ali M .lf. haa got moving
to.n as fine art. We have tsIos.5
sa usten shs ai~ses xess sick and
puts the job oa me and The chsiar.n
The children ~ili have COMPANY and
run off ia play snd | have th~ whole
business packed onto me. Hat shat Ia
What a f.sia~ gets by havsns = fafnt
iy II ~as an old bachelor | -onia
be sitting around hotel picking my
teeth and Wishing ! did hay. fami-
ly. but Ia be happy not onIy NOV
ed thie week but had a chill to boot
can't imagine what wili turn up
next, bur am ready.
took pull this time ANYHOW
Alright, glad Ia So. YOU" new
man but he has started right and he
will get there. J C. Morrow stopped
his buggy long enough TO get In with
our regiment of 5000 ~ide-awake
souls who know what is going on
tFfHHsa tHtY EeSU. "" l. ANAAtn'f
stopped AT the fence and got In with
the same crowd. No man can afford
to live In ignorance OF the doings OF
the world whea papers are go cheap.
]. f.. Warren came back again. The
last time | saw him he had 40 acres
OF cotton as white as YOU ever saw.
He says Il made 81 bales off that
and IL can do as we'll this year III
be satisfied
W. A. B. Patton was just waiting
for II TO dry up His land was too
went TO pillow and he just had to walt
He and his son-in-law. G. Fl. Foster
both took my paper. They are new
men in here and we are always glad
to get up to them and get them on
our list. G. NJ. Williams and his son.
Ben Williams, ] found replanting
cotton. There is lots of that this year
and cotton seed is high too. The long
continued cold weather and the high
winds and the beating rains and in
some places the hail has made 1t hard
on the cotton plant. Corn, though is
will lay it by John H. Foster says.
Yes, if | don't these Williams will
know more than | do, and I'll not
stand for that at all J. Nj. Walker
is a man easy to get acquainted with
and that is the kind of a fellow
like. What is the use of being SO for
NAL about getting acquainted any
way? / remember trying to borrow
some money from one of these kind
of fellows once, and he told me that
he would like to accommodate me,
.'but," he says, Il am compelled to
tell YOU for financial reasons that
am no ational bank" / got ac-
quainted with him but got no money.
T. w. Chapman owns the old Baum
gartner farm and it is pretty place
with it's immense lawn and shade
trees. Mr.. Chapman came from over
near Bardwell but says he likes
where he is mighty well. He don't
do much work himself but keeps up
the ends and superintends. He mas
fine potato patch and I'd IKE TO get
in there some day for dinner. u. Z.
Curry. young fellow with wife
and one baby, gave me my dinner
He is of the old line of Curry's of !
this county and that insures his be-
ing the royal stuff. He has flne
mules and one Of them had Just been
irving his best on new cultlVator
and had rather got the best OF 1t. MI. /
Hobbs, another good friend of ours, /
was there and making a crop, too.
Sam c. Hilburn has one OF the I'M /
est farms and best equipped places
in Ellis county. He has $50 acres OF
fine land and he lives in stone /
house. two stories high, when mas /
ALI modern conveniences. His water
works nut water to seven MIGRANTS |
around his house and barn. He mas f
swinging gates, and has ordered an I
acetyleue gas plant and VIII soon /
have his own lights. He has two cr'ps ,
full of corn now, enough 10 make out .
ON should corn this year prove q
failure lie raises and sells from lou
10 200 poIand-China hogs each year .
and now ne has two sows with niue .
pirs each. The day ] was there ne
was not az the house. but MS 'l''''
two and one-haIf year old son, sam
HiImrn. Ir, took me 20 me na'"
and helped me hunt him np tie -
, btipht little fellow aud friendly .
and that will D., his fortune rs
puiird % rope go open the gate ihAt
l.t m. out. : got peep al "A bis Pile .
1f stove wood. enough to do me i'
wears. and my last look was az e tinr
orchard But the old stone house.
which makos uuy think VI MEDIEVAL .
s,stlo, was built there H iss- by
fohu Saion. is stul lu perfect stat"
Id pres.ryatiou and siil hc tur many
l dpV ru come
h faudcrdaio ~ a. Rau'if
and w. B.,yls. 3 found alI iu
,nnsh aud fAs, sll toak ms paper
axe Them fur to short acqusin'siie"
snl hope ra kuow fuos" ~ 'hem. 8.
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