The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-12
FROM THE FIELD.


| btllS SuDJett Win ou1A llLtit apparent
effect on the public mind that furth-
err discussion of the subject seems al
most a loss of time, but all progress
meets with conservative indiffer-
ence and even resistance. 1t took
| several centuries to convince people
| that the earth was round and a be-
lief In witchcraft was very common
in the time of the childhood of our
| grandmothers. So we may at least
confidently expect that by continued
agitation of the question our grand
| children may be induced to make a
fair trial of as simple and cheap a
continuance as the split-log drag. But
this is not what | started to say
my intention was to state that if
| those who have no faith in the split
log drag would travel over road a
few times which has been dragged
they would at least decide that a
| trial of it would not be flying in the
face of Providence.
| At Waxahachie on first Monday,
! the first to greet me with a renewal
was T. H. Johnson from No. 2, Mid
| lothian. Next came J. E. Powell from
| Red Oak No. ! and got the Enter
prise and News. E. F. Phillips, the
| gin man of Red Oak, gave me dol
lar, SO did Rev. c.. E. Lindsey, pas
tor of the Methodist church at Red
Oak. J. H. Headrick on Red Oak No
2 also paid dues for the ensuing
| year. Will Britt, from No. 5, Waxa-
| hachie, cultivates lao acres of land
on the Davis farm. At Forreston |
found DR.. z. N. Thornton busy with
| la grippe patients but he had time
F.! to invest a dollar in the great ex-
| ponent of truth. w. S. Cox was In
from Nash, and from him l was sor-
| ry to learn that they had lost young
| infant, and that Mrs. Cox was not
we'll. Tuesday l found Dr. W. D.
Mahan at home but he gave me a
prescription for the price of subscrip-
| ton. G. L. Lyon, cashier of the Red
| Oak bank said his bank went thru
| the panic all right and showed me
| a congratutatory letter from the
| Bank Courier. On the way out from
Red Oak I met t. j. Hamm, w. c.
! Hinkle and Mrs. NJ. c. Hinkle. Night
! overlook me at Tom Connor's and |
| turned in. Mrs. Conner is an old
many years. l spent a pleasant even
| ing. Tom takes 5 or G papers and
knows what is in them, but l found
his land all prepared and saw no
hired hand about the place. l find
| fellow occasionally who tells me has
not the time to read one paper. =
At noon | rounded in at the resi-
Gence of Mrs. Belle Rocket, where
l got joked numerically and GAR
red off an awfully good dinner. A.
J. Stoker ON Red Oak No. was
busy with his chickens, having re-
Ct nifty mated them. E. L. Darnell on |
Midlothian was finishing burning
cotton stalks. J. F. Bryson looked |
as comfortable and contented as one !
could wish. | spent the night with !
w }. Pollock anu family. | shall not |
tell the circumstances under which |
/ first met Bud 81 years ago but he
has changed since then.
l found T. ]. Bryson on Midloth-
ian at home. l left there with a
new sub. The Brysons came to Ellis
county more than Eve years ago and
Allen was on his way from the
house to the field. D. II. Witherspoon
of Midlothian has moved his house
and was busy, but stopped to renew
Mrs. WIS paper. J. M. Stephenson
has set out some trees and has one
of the most attractive homes in the
county, Mrs. e. T. Rape told me |
would know him because he was the
handsomest man in town. | always
was a blunderer. | thought | had
found the man who answered the
description and it was some one else.
| had not seen Mr.. r. then though.
At Midlothian | spent a pleasant
night with the family of my old
friend, r. l.. Naylor, one of the pio-
neer r. F. d. men of Ellis county.
Out on Route 6, Midlothian, |
found j. w. Mcmillan sowing oats.
He will soon begin the erection of a
handsome dwelling. w. A. Few was
at the house, his mother being very
sick. | hope she may soon recover.
| passed over about mile of road
which Mr.. F. keeps in condition
with the split-log drag and it is all
right Miss Ella Coward on No. 6,
Midlothian is one of the Enterprises {
best friends. At Mountain Peak !
.ook w. H. Prices sub and spent the
night with Mr. and Mrs. Cook. On I
he way to Waxahachie | stopped in ,