The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-25
FROM THE FIELD.


TINS week. rotate planting ana put
ting out onion sets have begun. Tur-
nip greens have begun to go to seed
Sour dock is beginning to show up
Soon tender polk plants will begin to
shoot up along hedgerows. Lambs
and kids are beginning to come. The
elms are budding. ] saw one OF Char
lie Graves peach trees in bloom last
week. Doves will soon begin to coo
and the butterfly and spring poets
and other harmless insects will fit
from flower to flower. The spring
time the genesis of vegetable life is
the most interesting season of the
year.
The first to place his date another
year ahead Monday morning was ].
H. Hamlin, president of the State
Bank of Forreston, which bank un-
der Mr., HIS management made the
best report of any bank in the state
for the year 1906. Next to join the
band was j. T. Woodward, colored,
on Forreston No. 9. At Waxahachie
j. A. Hollabaugh from Venus No. l
said send the Enterprise to my bro
Their, J. A. Hollabaugh, at Knox City,
Texas George Rosson, the horse and
jack man of Milford, gave me dol
lar and said send it to my father, w.
II
er from Ray, crossed my palm with
silver and in return | promise him
good fortune. w. c. Rocket, ma
tive of the Rocket community and
for whose family the town was NAM
ed, renewed for year. The shades
of night approaching I got astride
my Pegasus and journeyed even
to the residence of G. A. Butcher on
No. 4, Waxahachie, where | find
hearty welcome, nice home and
one of the best contented families in
the county. After devouring a good
breakfast Tuesday morning l went
forth down Grove Creek and spent
awhile at the pleasant home of Mr..
and Mrs. w. J. Lowe, where | got
large dollar Over on Cottonwood |
find F. E. Harper uperintending
some improvements on his premises.
have pleasant chat, get dollar
and new sub from John Bland
ford, colored At the home of c. E.
Jarrett | get a good dinner and have
the Gospel Grub ak and does a good
deal of general reading, having his
own opinion of what he reads and
hears. The person who goes to some
one else for an Interpretation of
what he reads ought never to have
been weaned. j. B. Baker teaches the
Prosper school. l spent awhile with
the school and witnessed some very
thorough work. Children ere smart
ter taught, for | witnessed recita-
tons of two class. J., arithmetic,
one in mt IMPLICATION, the other in
addition of flaction, ard not men,
Der of either class nace a mistake
or missed anything.
At Rocket | found three live stores
and Drs. Aldredge, Ferguson and
Wadley administering to the sick.
c. B. Neal, who clerks for S. H. Jol-
ly, after selling some ladies some
garden seed, took the Enterprise. On
the way to Red Oak ] meet and re-
new Marion Rocket and Wallace
Coffee. They are natives and both
living on the places where they were
born. Marion lives on the place
where | climbed over a bois dare
hedge to steal green apples when
boy. At Red Oak I take supper at
Mrs. Kirkpatrick's boarding house,
and take the train for Dallas. 1t
would not be of any interest to any
one for me to state how | passed the
time till the meeting of the conven-
ton of the Southern Cotton conven-
ton at the fair grounds auditorium
at 1880 O'Clock Wednesday morn
ing. The attendance was small,
there being not more than 200 dele
gates present. From Ellis county l
saw such overworked, horny hand
ed sons of toll as J. S. Davis, Flaw.
Davenport, DR.. S. H. Watson, ]. M.
Alderdice and Cal Love and wife of
Palmer. The addresses were good
and received hearty applause. The
general plan of the association SEEM
ed to be gradual marketing of cot
ton, building of factories and ware
houses and crop diversification OF all
good sound agricultural doctrine.
Back to Waxahachie Wednesday
night and out ON Waxahachie No.
3, Thursday and Friday ]. F. Ham
iltOn was finishing the preparation
of his land. Mr.. H. is a large man.
have seen some smaller, who thot
they were too large to stand walk
ing. He told me that one year since