The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-04
FROM THE FIELD.


/ benZoate of soda should be exclud
| ed from foods mention this to
sound warning to the thoughtless
and careless, of course no discreet
person would allow such stuff in the
stomach Dr. Wiley, chief of the bu
reau of chemistry of the department
of agriculture, says their use pro-
duces serious disturbance of the me-
/ tabolic functions We all know the
metabolic functions should not be
disturbed, especially when we have
so recently emerged from our Sec
ond political campaign in one year
and the submission question still to
be settled by the state convention.
i BY all means avoid the use of ben
zoic acid and benzoate of soda dur
f, ing dog days"
l met G. U. Fearis in Waxaha
chic Monday and renewed him. Mr..
| Fearis has been here almost, if not
all his life, is good farmer and
leading citizen of the county. C. r.
TREY on FoTreston 2, lives on one
of the highest points on the noun
tain range running across the west
ern part of the county. His farm lies
in the valley beneath and is very pro-
ductive. Mrs. TREY was in Waxaha-
chic but l spent very pleasant
night with the rest of the family.
Ate water melon raised on the place
| as good as one will find in the cross
timbers. Ed Williams and family on
Maypearl l were gone to the Trini-
F; ty fishing and l failed to see him.
but found his crop looking we'll
enough to insure money to keep the
Enterprise going. M. F. Gam was
at his nice home and was courteous
and liberal for he gave up the price
of a sub. Mrs. A. ]. Buckner was at
, home. Her daughter who was visit
| ing her from Italy was sick but l
hope is we'll ere this. At Maypearl /
took by usual drubbing from Sebe
Godfrey and started north. G.. A.
Griggs was blowing a fine piece of
cotton but stopped long enough to
give me a substitution. A. F. Griggs
was on his way to the field and /
held him up for piece Of money.
j. B. Owens was at the barn paint
ing his buggy. His time being about
out he went down after the coin of
the realm. S. H. Jackson is in the
same community where he settled
when he first discovered America /
found him and Mrs. Jackson milking
some fine Durham cows 1t being
about night | hung up my coat and
Merry Widow and accepted the hos
pitality of the family for the night
! Sam has one of the finest colts in
the. county and while Mr.. and Mrs.
! Jackson visited a sick young lady
near Auburn. the children, the hired
I man and ! drove $500 pair of
mules to the county line school
house where they were having the
I first old fashion revival meeting /
! have attended in many day | be-
lieve there was more genuine old
fashioned earnestness at that little
arbo, than one would find in the
( whole citizenship OF a city of $4,000
/ unless the Salvation Army should
F.! come to the rescue L. E. Eskridge,
the merchant and railroad agent at
! Griffith's Switch, was looking after
his trade which seems very good for
/ the time of the year predict; that
before many years GrifYith's Switch
! will be considerable place for there
| Is q good country surrounding 1t and
I they are making an effort l think. to
build school house. Mr.. Eskridge
is to be congratulated upon being
| the first on the ground. j.. L. Bent
ley on Venus /, and his boy were
rushing to get done blowing before
noon. but he stopped long enough to
accelerate thespeed of my pegasus.
On down the road to r. D. McCor-
mick's, where took dinner, q nap
and was well entertained. w. A. King
f.. has lived In Van Zandt county almost
| all his life but moved to Ellis coun-
ty two years ago. 1t seems 4 little
hard to become reconciled to the
poor tenant houses usually furnish
ed by landlords in this county but II
he can get good accommodations !
believe he will stay. He was almost
like kin to me for l lived in Van
Zandt once.
7 B. T. Wise was in the orchard
but ] went to the house with him
and met Mr.. McMill, who was about
to begin a meeting at Mountain
Peak. | got dollar and made for
| Mr.. Cooks at the Peak where I spent
the night. G. T. Eskridge, one of the
leading merchants OF Mountain Peak.
gave me a cigar and renewed his
subscription, He invited me to spend
the night with him but had already