The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
FROM THE FIELD.


week the statement was made for
at least one out of ten of these noisy
! fellows have a kind of a dreamy
idea of the issue" meaning the
goods-box whittier, sidewalk and
street orators, some of whose wives
are probably at home washing for
the daily bread of what should be
the head of the house. The statement
| has been challenged as reflection
on the intelligence of the people. The
| Lord knows | would never so far
stray from the path of truth as to
charge or even intimate that these
! public nuisances represent the hard
working, silent, earnest, thinking
people of the country. So, Bud, don't
take any of that to your self unless
| you are guilty
| The smiling face of old Sol was
never much more welcome to the til
lers of the soil than at the present
time, for corn has begun to turn
yellow and the weeds are getting
fine start. A small per cent of cotton
has come up to good stand but
much will have to be planted over
The hardware men are having a good
hoe trade and the melody of the ne
gro song will soon mingle with the
medley of the hooking bird and the
coo of the dove. Ten days dry wealth
er will restore the green color to the
corn blades and the farmers will get
crops in pretty good condition.
The first lucky man to meet me
Monday was ]. w. Broadhead, who
directed the Enterprise sent to Miss
Sallie Ralston at Weston, w. Va. A.
F. Dahnke on Ennis No. was at
Boyce and renewed R. L. Feds, the
Boyce gin man, placed his name
good for another year. j. R. Dooley
on Ennis was also in town and re-
newed. w. J. Patton was the only
man | found at work on the farm.
He was using a shovel caring for his
bitches. He tells me that by careful
attention to ditching he has not only
/ been able to hold his land but has
filled up washes which were likely to
damage his farm. The time is not far
distant when we are going to see
some worn out hills in Ellis county
unless farmers give more practical
attention to the saving of their
lands from these washing rains we
some times have. A. G. Goforth had
dropped off the roll but is now
member in good standing. J. B. Gas
ton, a good farmer who lived several
years on Waxahachie No. 4, now
lives near Boyce. did not have time
to wait for the train so | walked to
| Waxahachie from Boyce. found Mr.
G. grazing his stock on the right-of-
way of the railroad and stopped and
talked to him awhile. | found him to
be reader who thinks. Boyce is one
of the most enterprising and has as
good citizenship as the county con-
tains, and about as hard a crowd to
handle in general joshing match as
you will generally find.
! J. w. Mcdowell farms on No. 2,
Midlothian, ard gets the news from
the Enterprise AMI tie Dallas News.
A. G. Hobson on Waxahachie No. 7,
is wear TO the cod Rev. S. A. Co
mer, a popular minister of Waxaha-
chic, gave me dollar and said he
could not get along without the En-
terprise, or words to that effect. Fri
day was the close of school at Beth
ell. Prof. Harmon and Miss Sealy
have taught a very successful term
and it could be easily seen from the
confidential relations existing be-
! tween pupils and teachers that they
mutually appreciated each other.
! Rev. R. F. Wilkins and Bill Cox de-
/ livered the best addresses on practi-
| cal education | have heard for many
days. (They were the first I had
heard for some time.)
| D. R. Rumsey had dropped off the
| list but | met him at his mail box
and reinstated him.
( j. H. McCarter was in Waxahachie
Saturday from his farm on Waxaha-
chic No. near Howard. Those Nc
Carriers are all good fellows, each
of the three brothers takes the En-
terprise and one of them sends it
to their father and another to a bro
Their at Blue Springs, Miss. O. F. Far
rar and wife from Italy No. 3 were
in Waxahachie Saturday and renew
ed. ODE said not to say anything
stating that considering the fact that
he held several positions in the
shade in{ Waxahachie for several
years, it is complimentary to him
that he has the grit to go back to the
farm and become tiller of the soil.
Especially when he could have con-
tinued to hold a position. Very few
of us when we fall from the high es-
tate of tiller of the soil ever re-
form. Now, ODE, you see what you
have brought upon yourself by not
! wishing any notice.
w. T. Dyas, who lived several
years near Maloney, but now lives in
Jones county, was a witness in the
| district court last week.
! 1t is remarkable what influence a
mans circumstances have on the
minds of the people. l have gone in
to Waxahachie hundreds of times
without ever attracting any atten-
ton unless | happened to fail to
dodge bill collector. have gone in
on horseback and foot. 7 have been
there for years without ever attract
ing any attention. But ten years ago
it was thought for about four hours l
L was elected to the legislature and