The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-10

days work was done. He sold his
crop and lives at Maypeari. w. r.
Daniel was at the Maypearl gin with
cotton. A. w. Dowd of Maypearl had
been doing jury service at Waxaha-
chic but got home in time to pay me
a dollar. l,.
F. NJ. Mitchell from Maypearl /,
was in town selling cotton. His cot
ton is pretty good, but he said the
price did not suit him. | got to the
residence of J. N. McBrayer on We
nus / just as Mrs. McBrayer raised
the dinner flag. SO ! stayed for din
ner. Mr.. Nc is in the boil worm dis
trict and his cotton was cut little
short He told me his brother, w. B.
and Miss Mamie Bromley had mar
ried at his house at $3.50 p. m the
previous Sunday. Rev. Harris of
Maypearl, officiating. | saw the bride
and do not blame the groom for TAX
ing her r. D. Mccormick had just
returned from the gin. | met R. z.
Rotten in the road and held him up
| for a renewal. Coming to Mountain
| Peak | met and renewed G. M. Beck
ner from Midlothian /. DR.. j. T.
| Shytles of Mountain Peak is popular
| as a man and as a doctor but contem-
| plates leaving on account of his
health. ]. r. Ferguson, the jolly and
busy merchant renewed. | spent some
time looking about the store of my
friend G. T. Eskridge Mrs. McCook
gave greens for supper, good bed
and a good breakfast. | met there
DR.. Harris, rising young physician
of the place. After supper | went to
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. w. II.
Boothe and spent pleasant hour
and Mr.. B. spent very pleasant
dollar. Ere the great king of day in
his resplendent glory had shown him
self above the eastern horizon | be-
gan my journey down the road to-
ward Waxahachie. Soon coming to
where young Mr.. Conner was hitch
ing up to go to his fathers near Ava
Ion | accepted seat in his wagon
and we drove to town without acct
dent or incident except that we met
Jack and Mrs. Beall and Tom and
Mrs Thompson and Joe Singleton
land family who l suppose were out
for an outing. My first victim was j.
T. Solomon from Forreston 2. D. w.
Humphries of Waxahachie had been
off my list for some time but made
haste to get back. J. V. Vincent, a
good feeder from Waxahachie 2, was
! in town and responded to my cry of
distress. r. T. Shaw was in from his
farm on Waxahachie. 3 and gave me
a dollar. | stopped at his house in
melon time and 1t is a good place to
stop any. time for entertainment and
feed.
d. A. Hamlin has had his address
jchahEed from Forreston ! to For
reston, as he will move to town soon.
I'D. N. oliver was in from the farm
on Waxahachie No. and renewed
| J.. F. Campbell from Blooming
Grove No. 2 has rented his farm AMI
will move to Elmer, Okla. w, w.
Pogue, on Midlothian 4, came to me
and reminded me that his time was
lout. P. A. Chapman, moving
young man, farmer and a native of
the Oviila country, was in from Mid
lothian 4 and renewed for the En-
lterprise and News. ]. L. Ingram from
ForrestOn reminded me that he
was about to run out of reading mat
ter and had his figures set ahead for
the Enterprise and News. W. T. Por-
ter on Waxahachie gave me a dol
lar for another years reading.
spent the night with him and family
last spring when he and his wife
were telling me of some kind of a
contrivance by which to learn music
by machinery. l told them then they
would not get anything out of it. The
other day he told me it was failure
| have known several to try the thing
and have never seen. any satisfactory
results. I do not know where the
fault is, whether in the system or the
learner, but I have yet to find one
who has profited by it. | tell of this
Iwonder that my readers may learn
to Thoroughly investigate all new
tangled concerns before investing
anything in them.
1 l met A. K. Smith from Waxaha-
chic with an arm full of cotton
samples, later with a pocket full of
money and Il got mine" George
Hawkins, colored, who was raised in
this country was in from Forreston
g. handed him sample and he
handed me the price. L. J. Paul was
in from his farm on Waxahachie 3
and was hunting for me. We soon to-
i gether got, the dollar he had he now
has not. ]. w. Boring from Waxa-
hachie 5 was in town with cotton
samples and divided the proceeds
with me. w. C. Miller from Forces
ton l, after his weeks work was done
/ to Waxahachie came and now my
] list has his name. l met Cullen KEEL
/ ley, who lived so long down Waxa-
/ hachie creek but rented out his farm
and now lives out near Rocket, Sat-
urday. He remarked to me that 40
years ago the 22d of this month he
i first, saw Waxahachie That N. G.
/ Wise and S. H. Overstreet were the
only grown men in Waxahachie at
that time who are living in the coun-
i ty now. 1 did not ask Cullen where he
came from but probably 1t his been
! SO long he has forgotten. The cleo
| ton is over, Bryan is defeated and it
looks to some of us that nationally
/ the democratic party is dead How
ever If such is the case the politicians
will keep enough of us southerners
herded together to elect them to Of
ce. BILL COX.