The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-09-17
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deep black wasy and always comes
up IL anywhere does They have gin
ned some at Rocket and Heury.
| Heury has q brand new gin and ex-
/ poct 10 do good business consid-
| ering the crop Ferris was pretty
busy and that lively little town is
| once more getting a move on. They
have always prided themselves on
! their schools and brick yards. They
have fine schools and Ferris's brick
are famous all over Texas They
have two banks, the Wheel" and a
! thousand other good things
Red Oak Is lively too. because she
| has a lively population. They know
me and take special pleasure in tell
ing me OF everything / ever did that
! don't care to publish, The day
was there my boy was with me. He
| is eight years old and can talk and
can tell all the family secrets and
takes great pleasure in unloading on
| me. When we left home that morn
ing | told him that We would get
chicken for dinner and that he
should have the gizzard and liver,
| too. He clapped his hands and says,
| Bully, whoppee, you are fine old
| daddy" Well, We didn't get any din
ner but got good wet drink out of
! a we'll About O'Clock | says, Son,
III don't like chicken anyway, do
you?" NO, daddy" he says, but |
think a piece of raw dog would go
pretty well to me right now and
he put his hand on his little stom-
| ach. | then drove into Red Oak and
| got him dinner at the store. George
+, Lyon can catch on as quick as any
| body, so he got the boy back in the
! bank and the little scamp told 1t all
and even put the flourishes on.
Pretty soon Will Rocket came and
| there | was. They told it and retold
it, and the mischief of it all was, ''it
was So" 1t didn't take me long to
get a plenty of such medicine as that
so | started for home. When ] got
there the boys mother and sister
asked him about his big dinner and
he repated his pyrotechnics with ex-
ira flourishes. They are laughing at
me yet, but the boy says chicken is
all right, but the promise of chicken
is not worth going after.
Col Hooks and Reginald Wilson
the two jolly bachelors, are still
holding down their store The colon
Ell smiles at the young ladies' AM
Reginald smiles only at the eIderf'
ones. Dr. Mahan is always busy
when ! am there. but stops Ions
enough to ask a few questions about
| Kentucky. He does a fine practice
there and does good business in
his drug store. Col. r.. E. Orr told
me that he still had good red ham
year, which was something that but
few did Mr. Wilson and Ernest Phil
lips are buying cotton and got sew
eral wagon loads while | was there.
W L. Goodbar. Lee Stamford, c. r.
Powell and F. A. Smith took my pa
per. ] saw Hardee Harrison In his
drug store but he was busy filling
prescriptions. bud Jones, W. H..
Rice, Mr Reed, Mr.. Roark and 9th
er, were good company Red oak
now has q telegraph office which has
been needed for long time. though
missed the genial face of Mr.. An
ders. who has been the efficient
agent there for sixteen years.
Now my good friends. with this
issue uf the Enterprise my conncc-
zion with that paper ceases. For 90
months G have driven over th" gouu.
frt aud now know every school
house. farm. bridge. creek. church.
aad town Boa be. hsye enjoyed The
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