The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-30
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FROM THE FIELD.



Oh, pshaw, l do not feel like tell
ing any thing this week but will try
to review the rambles of last week.
E. R. Davis, an old Ellis county boy,
I don't mean an old boy,) but an
old settler, now gets his mail on
Route 4 Rusk. Walter Watson on
Route 6, Waxahachie, renewed for
the paper and the News. D. N. Oil
yer is working land on the S. H.
Overstreet farm on No. 6. At w. A.
Gothard's | rested my ponies and ate
turnip green's. At Ray I met E. n.
Hagler, an old settler. J. A. Davis
was listing ground. l spent the night
with Mr.. AMI Mrs. Emmett Reagor
Emmett and | could not agree on
anything. Finally I found a subject
we were together on and we got
along all right. G.. M. Boren, Ennis
4, was doctoring lame spring seat
A. c. Cato was busy turning the
soil. j. D. Hens was at the house
incoming but called me by and cast
a ray of sunshine into my soul by the
dollar route. d. S. Ross of Boyce
Joined the good government club.
w. Davis was about done gathering
the remnant of last years cotton
crop. H two daughters ar teach
ing school. ? found j. f. Chapman
and wife ,t home. J. F. is MP with
his work and was roasting his shins
by good fire. This is one of the
incest FAIR. residences in the coun-
ty. with a system of acetylene lights.
At G. T M;ller's | met bull dog
that refused 10 be frien .ly. Mls
Miller had t. take him and faster
Inn up oelore she thought it safe
for me to enter. ] suppose the dog
suspicioned that l was after my
dinner. Mr.. Millers mother is over
so years of age and has recently re-
turned from a visit out west Mrs.
Miller's father, Mr. Evans, showed
me machine he has invented and
named STEAK Masticator." 1t is in
tended to prepare steak for cooking
and seems to be good for the pur-
pose. found ]. A. Williams, No. /,
Waxahachie, blowing up patches of
wire grass but he was in a good hui
NOR. c. l.. White was finishing the
of his ground. ]. B.
CASTOR was linkering with his plow
d. A. Freeman took me in his bug
gy and brought me to Boyce c. F.
Wiedman is busy with his fine chick
ems and his bees. l did not see his
chickens but | remember he fire.
quently comes off with the blue rib
bon. On No. 4, Waxahachie, I found
c. B. Brown turning over the dirt.
Mr.. Brown came to Ellis good
many years ago but spent a few
years in Oklahoma and is now back
here on home of his own.
Lee Jeffers and Mr. McAlister
were making a ditch with go-devil
and he told me since that they had
made a regular canal. There is not
near enough ditching in this coun-
try. If bitches were closer together
water would not gather such impet-
us chat word is intended to mean
the same as force), and the soil
would not wash SOY badly.
At the home ON J. A. Dixon /
landed on the play ground of my
childhood. l saw the same apple
tree that furnished me with green
apples and collie when | was boy.
1t is still bearing. At the stable l
found the stallion Bob, the grand
son Of STRAIT, purchased thirty-five
years ago. found a Chester White.
hog about 3 feet, inches high and
believe as large as Tom Yates hog
II he was as fat. Uncle Joel settled
where he now lives in 1857, will be
80 eyars old in June and climbed
over fence equal to man of SIS.
He told me OF a letter that was plac-
ed in his box on the 18th of this
month which was posted at Jasper,
Tenn, Nov. %, 1894, postmarked
At Waxahachie, Dec 2, 1894, hay