The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-01
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, FROM THE FIELD. .


chic No. A. There ! turned my pc
gassus out and spent the night. The
next man | found was Irwin Smith.
who was tickling the bosom of mo-
Their earth with some kind of agri-
cultural implement, but | have for
gotten what. Mr. Harwell lives on
our old home place now owned by
r. n. Couch of Waxahachie / went
to the old well for draught of its
thirst quenching fluid but was dis
appointed, for instead of the old
bucket and rope | found a pump
and hose. J. C. Ellis lives at Naugh-
ton homestead. Mr.. and Mrs. j. H.
Hickman gave me a good dinner and
| enjoyed a talk over old times in
Texas. l.. O. Wilson was at home and
| spent while with him | am 60
ing to spend the night with him and
get our talk out sometime There
are trees Is inches in diameter
which have grown up in his yard
since he settled there. Lee Wilson
was resetting his pasture fence. He
said he had recently sold his cotton
at a loss of SIS but stated that he
had the use of the cotton while it
was going down in price.
A. A. North told me Mrs. n. has
been quite sick for some time but
was better. Frank Hosford at Ster-
rett was waging unrelenting war on
some Bermuda and Johnson grass
and | hope he may win. He trusted
me with $500 while | went to the
store Tor change. There | found J.
H. Kemble, the accommodating Ster-
Tett merchant, with one of the best
and incest kept country stores in the
county. w. F. Simpson, who has re-
Gently moved from the Red Oak
community, Joined the good govern
| ment club. At Red Oak c. r. Gibson
made a speech His subject was
something about man named Bail
| ey w. A. Robinson on Red Oak No.
| l was marking off some of the
straigtest rows l ever saw. l like
straight rows. They say a crooked
| one has more in it but it does not
| look we'll. l.. NJ Butcher, a very old
settler, has moved to Fort Worth
! to send to school, but was at his ele-
| CANT home moving and rebuilding
an cid house. / found Mrs. Mollie
! HinklC at home and ready to cheer
! fully renew her subscription to the
greatest country weekly paper on
earth w. c. Hinkle is engaged in a
heroic struggle for supremacy over
! Johnson grass and is making good
progress. | found ]. T. Ham, Mrs.
| Ham, good dinner and a dollar all
at home. | got off with two of them.
| Mr.. Ham has a farm in Runnels
county and says he likes the coun-
| try. ]. F. Pitts, Mrs. Pitts and that
/ fine 4-months-old boy We're at
home In the yard | saw some fine
| White Wyandotte chickens and
COW in the pasture that looked like
she would give a barrel of milk. At
the residence of Mrs. Mary Criddle
/ found Judge John Haskins and
Burney and Cullen Criddle busy
hanging paper Back at Red Oak, R.
Hooks, the head of the firm of R.
Hooks & Co. and an all around good
fellow gave me the price of the pa
per Back to Waxahachie to another
speaking, out to Boyce next morn
ing and a campaign from then to
| Trumbull by Palmer whole days
work without incident. At Trumbull
| found Mrs Pace, our correspond
ent, taking care of those twin boys
and sewing on the machine. One ba-
| ny, VI OuS uidCUIllt Is a Job Jul IVY
babies and machine is lot. On
the way from Trumbull to Ferris
! found Everett Lloyd, editor of the
Vagabond, He is an Ellis county
boy and tells me the Vagabond is
| flourishing.
R. N Couch of Waxahachie will
soon take his family to Southwest
Texas for the summer. ]. r. Willis
on Red Oak 2 was in Waxahachie
Saturday and set his date in good
shape.
| Dr. w. P Sims of Boz, after
| long illness, was in town Saturday
and renewed. Doctors people miss
him very much when he is not able
| to be with his patients. G. r. Wat
son on Waxahachie 5 said sent it to
me- SO did G. R. Whitfield. There is
! a minister in this country who pub
| fishes his appointments. He has been
on the circuit since November. few
days ago one of his members who, |
suppose happened to drop in to hear
him preach, after services asked him
| if he was filling the appointment for
Bro. -, meaning the pastor last
year and seemed very much surpris-
ed to learn of the change. Moral:
Either go to church or read your
county paper, and both will not hurt
you Sometimes to say something
nice about a man gets the neighborS
on a fellows back. | have had such
experience already. So hereafter !
believe | will let the neighmor speak.
/ | was about to forget to mention that
B. w. Williams, one of the owners
of so many fine horses, had the pa
per sent to his brother, J. l.. Will
liams at Houston, Miss. The farm
ers were a little hard to find last
week, as only a small part of them
were at work. Though good many
were planting cotton and VIII Pat
ton on Ennis No. 3 told me he had
planted, | believe 80 acres. Mrs. J.
| w. Hill on the same route was work
| ing in a fine garden.
| 1t looked gloomy but If there is
not too great a precipitation or
dampness | shall try to visit many
of you this week. BILL COX.
Notice.