The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-13

now are good farmers. They had just
cut their meadow OF prairie grass
After paying expenses and keeping
tons they got $1,000 out of s acres
of land and will probably have ano-
the most valuable in this country but
it is too late to say anything about it
for those who have it know it and
those who have not know they can
not get 1T. T. H. Hart lives on Red
Oak 2 and enjoys the distinction of
making the best cotton in Ellis coun-
ty last year. A. l.. Connally was
driving four mules to grader ditch
ing machine He had made more than
a mile of ditch in three days. ] be-
lieve it would pay our commission
ers court to investigate that ma
chine for it will make roads. Mr.. G.
subscribed for his son, Fred, who
lives on Waxahachie on his faith
ers' farm. Ollie Andrews and crew
of hands were baling hay on the farm
of Mrs. Farrar. At the home of j.
M. Tollison l found him, Mrs. Tolli-
son, 80 acres of berries. peach, plum,
pear and sevral varieties of the for
est trees and dollar. I thought ber-
ries were fortune but finding them
well cultivated on inquiry l found
| hot ofh h.,cj ic oil
profit. My appetite struck - and l
struck the home of C. r. Graves at
the same time found hearty well
come and a good dinner. Further
comment is unnecessary. Charley has
one OF the most attractive places in
the county and gets about as much,
quiet enjoyment out Of 1t as any one.
His 500 peach trees which he put
out in the winter all lived but about
100 and are doing we'll. At Rocket
met several Of the boys. among
whom were w. L. Douglas, DR.. Wad-
ley and Roland Roberts and Miss
leila Douglas passed through. Miss
leila had just returned from Uval-
da and Bandera counties, where she
had visited the families of Judge
Douglass and Mrs. Kate Valentine.
She brought some fine ferns which
she proposes to try in this soil. Out
on Waxahachie, l found e. L.
Mitchell and family in the cotton
patch but he quit long enough to 60
to the house and get me dollar. He
Invited me to stay but had planned
to 60 further but never forget an
Invitation. see C. E. Jarrett in
town frequently and he reports on
his crop but hearing is not as i'm
tpressive as seeing SO l visited his
farm and incidentally stayed all
night. promised not to report con-
ditions and l won't but will state
that some one had been at work on
the place. Josiah Marshall celebrated
his 10th birthday on the Bird. He was
born in Smith county Tennessee, and
moved to Obian county in 1845 and
to Yell county, Arkansas, in 1855,
and he did not blush when he told
about living in Arkansas. Enlisted
| In the army in 1851 md served 4
4 years. After the war married Virginia
Bell, daughter of Jno. Bell, an Ellis
| county pioneer, and settled where he
4 now lives in 1875. Arch Prude and
son, Dave, overlook me and ! went
home with them. Mr.. and Mrs. Prude
only have twelve children and some
of them are married and gone so I
managed during the heat OF the noon
hours to partially relieve their lone
illness. Down in what was once the
elm thicket, but now one Of the fin
est farming sections in the county,
ID found D. M. Marshall cutting the
weeds out of his corn. On the farm
of H. W. Hamm found where the
worms had finished gathering fine
crop OF alfalfa and had about COM
pleted the destruction of several acres
Of cotton. / found Mr.. Hamm At the