The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-18
fayh THE fiELD.


Was not during the past TWO months.
| have refrained from noticing such
statements publicly until | had OPP
portunity of getting all the evidence
obtainable bearing on the case. Hay
ing talked with many old settlers l
have been told by all of them that
1t is always more or less hot in this
country during July and August and
generally far intoSeptember. would
further state that after | have walk
ed few miles in the sunshine these
days it is not necessary for you to
tell me of the heat; for | have al
ways discovered it before reach
you.
Now that Waxahachie is to have
a new Katy station the streets lead
ing from the square to it will look
worse than ever, but something
seems to whisper that the city dads
will get busy. They certainly never
leave or approach town by those
two streets or they would have done
something long ago.
| forgot to mention last week that
ten pigs and six kittens came to
Nestor Newton's house at Forreston
Sunday, the 9th inst Last Monday l
met E. w. Sweeney from Waxahachie
No. 7, and got a dollar, the price of
one years reading. Monday evening
and Monday night, wrote my field
notes. Tuesday l wandered from
Waxahachie to Forreston and spent
the night with the widow lady with
whom | board when at Forreston
Wednesday morning | took the road
for Italy and at noon stopped at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs j. H. Nc
Whittier where | ate some more fried
chicken. | have eaten SO much
chicken lately that l cackle and dart
under bush every time l see a
hawk, but l don't mind it. Come on
with the chicken. Out the road to
! Avalon the first call was made on the
family of w. B. VIM where l drank
! water and exchanged anecdotes with
w. B. Stops at Matt and Levi Wards
VIII Carsons and Mrs. Windham's
and across Chambers creek | found
w. c. Helms with cold drink
stand. Stopping there awhile
got sub and went on toward Ava
Ion. John Herring was hauling sor-
ghum hay and Rev. J. l.. Greenhaw
was at home. I was sorry to learn
| that he had had very severe spell
of sickness and that the overflows
had almost ruined his crops. How
ever he seemed to view the situa-
| ton from the standpoint of philos-
opher. Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Morris
were gathering corn field peas but
he quit long enough to hand me a
dollar He had sold a bale of cotton
weighing 532 pounds for 10 cents
and his was the first dollar | got out
of the 1908 cotton crop provided it
came from that bale of cotton.
At Avalon Prof. Reeves, one of
| the Oldest and best known writing
masters in this part of the state, is
teaching class in penmanship. He
also showed me a colt l 4 months old
weighing 900 pounds and about as
near picture as any animal l ever
saw and skins over the ground as
| light as bird going all the gaits. 1t
is just as easy to get gaits with size
as to raise these little finger tails
and this reminds me that some time
ago Mr.. Curlee took me for a drive
behind Sam Grattan, a large horse,
i a fine locker and as swift as the
wind. Sam is a great horse. At Ava
Ion / also met B. F. McMorris Gun
Gle Me- who had recently returned
from an extended stay in the west.
was glad to see him for he is an
admirer of the paper and a friend to
Bill Cox Down at the stores Thurs
day morning | met several friends
and custom RS, many whom l re-
member, Mr.. VIM, AZ Hickman,
who told me he had finished his barn
and J. W. Muirhead who joined the
band
Out from Avalon | found young
DR.. Grant Thompson, and taking the
temperature of A. w. Mcfarland,
who said he had lost the day before
on account of being delirious with
fever. ] hope he is up before now.
His daughter, Mrs. l.. B. Balm and
children were visiting him from
Ethel, Texas. j. ]. Riddle and VIII
keplinger were both at home. c. E.
Barfield and brother were at work
on the dwelling of j. G. Maloney
dined with Mr.. Barfield and family
and from there went to Maloney
where l spent the time very pleas
antly with j. M. Maloney, W. d.
Sanders, j. L. Daniel, Walter Green
wood and others, got my subscrip-
ton list heightened some, got in the
buggy with Joe Moore, the candy
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