The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-10
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the price and to give me the news.
Monday morning Levi Ward of Italy
took me up and we soon arrived at
Waxahachie where ! met ]. r. Piper
of Avalon, who invested some of the
coin of the realm in good reading
matter. r. T. Shaw of Waxahachie
said renew for Mrs Matte Bell at
Cedar Bluff, Ala. NJ. A. Beard on
WaXahachie 5 set his figures ahead
from Venus and made me smile. B.
F. Lynch, the South Italy merchant,
said he had been borrowing the En-
/ terprise and had become interested.
Tuesday morning | took the train for
Red Oak. There Mrs. H. C. Kirk
| patrick gave me a dinner that enab-
| led me to proceed. Leaving Red Oak
| was sorry to hear of the death of
Mrs. G. l.. Lyon the next day. Out
on the road l found Mrs. S. w. Fry
! down with. the grippe. Down toward
Henry l found H. C. Orr still con-
fined to his room from the effects of
paralytic stroke. l found at their
nice home Mr.. and Mrs. R. T. John
son busily engaged in gardening. l
| found G. L. Mcdonald crippled from
having gotten an ankle broken a few
weeks ago. l spent the night very
| pleasantly with him and his estima-
BILE family. L. V. Cole is an old Tex
an and has been about some. He was
planting corn. Three of his children
were sick, though not seriously. l
found John Pratt busily engaged
watching some work. At Rocket l
met Bud Gibbons, who took me in
the buggy to the residence of his
| brother, l.. L., where | got dinner
and saw some blooded colts. | don't
| know whether they are thorough
breds or not, not knowing what a
| thoroughbred is. | have heard, but
have forgotten. The first | met after
| dinner was Buck Farrar, who was
! doing something to a pillow. l don't
| think l had seen him for thirty-five
years, but time seems to have dealt
gently with him. Jesse Harris was
not at home but Mrs. Harris was
glad to see me for she feared her
time would expire. E. F. Nash was at
work in the field on Palmer No g,
and gave me a cordial welcome and
a renewal. R. L. Epp was at home
and ready for me. At the home of
w. B. Rutherford | spent a pleasant
night, got sub for the daily and
saw some fine chickens, hogs and
| COWS. c. NJ. Owens was at home and
renewed. l did not go in and inspect
the place but l saw beautiful child
in the yard, SO | presume Mrs. o.
is good looking. H. F. Pierce was
ditching his farm ]. H. Burleson is
a new reader. R. n. Jones and R. P.
| HUMPHREYS were working the road
but stopped long enough to keep
| J.
! NJ A. Tate at his home on Palmer
No. 2 and enlisted him. At the resi-
dence of Lambert Pace | met his
family and good dinner. His
daughter-in-law, Mrs. j. M Pace,
was there with her two fine twin
| boys. Back on Waxahachie No. /
| nd ~
ready with the needful. | spent the
night with c. e. Jarrett and on Fri
day morning l found J. H. Brooks
husily engaged in the perusal of Ro-
man history. found Mr.. B. to be a
close student and a thinker and his
neighbcrs tell it on him that he is
a good man. Hughes Smith was
burning cotton stalks and kept me
walking while / talked to him, but
for himself and subscribed for J..
]. Smith at Hooker. Okla. l will bet
Mr. Smith is a worker. j. P. Adair
has some as fine Berkshire hogs as
one will generally find L. C. White
was driving fine 5000 Missouri
itrotting mare which he had recently
purchased. At Uncle Joel Dixon's
found dinner and Mrs., James Dix
on very sick. hope she has recover
ed before now. l met there Mrs. Jno
! Verheyden. G. L. Matthews was
planting corn, think, have forgot
ten. F. F. Wilson and family were
at home. There | saw some nice
chickens and two Doroc-Jersey pigs
recently shipped in from Missouri
j. w. Shull was at home and joined
the family At Boyce | spent the
| night with Messrs. D. d. and Tom
! Kent, father and son. w. r. Coun-
tryman was grubbing bois dare
stumps from a hedge row. Back to
| Waxahachie for Saturday evening I
met and renewed ]. L. Carroll, No. 6
| Waxahachie, Mr.. Banks on Waxaha-
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