The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-14
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FROM THE FIELD.

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I sometimes feel that these letters
appearing every week become a kind
OF public nuisance. Yet when the
shades of night are drawn over mo-
Their earth at the close of the day
when some worship, some rest, some
! play base ball, some carouse, some
! count up the profits and losses of the
| past week, some meet in social con-
verse with friends, some stand on
/ the street corner and in the post
office and argue politics and some
vile scoudrels are laying their plans
| for bringing innocence and inexper-
! fence down to despair and disgrace,
! | cannot resist the temptation to tell
our readers something of the doings,
| hopes and fears of those with whom
| ! come in contact and to make my
weekly crop reports.
| inadvertently failed in last
weeks letter to mention very pleas
ant noon hour spent with Mr.. and
! Mrs. w. A Jarrett on the Anderson
Ranch These good old-fashioned
| Tennessee people are good entertain
ers and have one of the prettiest
| places in the country and all sandy
soil to cultivate. w. J. Huckabee, the
next man on my circuit, was plow-
| ing corn and had the first cotton up
! ] had seen.
On first Monday S. c. Williams of
| Lancaster was in town from his
fara an gave me a dollar. w, R.
! Norman, commanding officer of
| Camp Winnie Davis, also made his
date all r;eht S. Bradley. an indus
| trious young farmer on Waxahachie
Joined the ranks and took the News.
w. j. Curry from Route l, Red Oak,
also gave me dollar and registered.
d. L. Hinkle was down from Midlo-
THAN and renewed. j. N. Brown from
Venus l gave me the price of six
months good reading. Tuesday
morning | landed at Red Oak and
after dinner started toward the set
ting sun, and before | got near there
| found j. A Marsh on Red Oak l
planting cotton. Back south | met H.
| n. Buchanan and w. L. Goodbar on
a medicine wagon of a WaXahachie
company. l called Buck doctor but
he demurred. | know nothing of the
merits of the company's goods but if
they are as good as others We should
give home enterprises the prefer
ence | found B. c. Cargile in the
field at work and got a sub. B. F.
Rogers lives with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. ]. J. Rogers. With them l
spent the night. Mr.. Rogers, or I'm
Gle john, as he is called is rs years
old and began to learn to milk this
spring. | could see he was not an
expert, but he managed to get the
milk. | MIXED for him next morn
ing and he said he feared I had rob-
bed the calf.
V. A. Davis is an old schoolmate,
a bachelor, in good circumstances,
and a good fellow. Take notice mai
dens and " dows. J. NJ. King on the
Chapman farm was burning brush.
He is fighting Johnson grass and is
making pretty good speed. Mrs. NJ.
F. Burnett was at home, so was her
little granddaughter. Nova Lois. At
the residence of z. d. Dunahoe
hung up my Merry Y, dow" and
took dinner. He was planting cotton
= and had S rows up from a planting
of about month before. II said he
, was sorry he had not planted more.
At Ovilla l heard some little dis
cussion of the topic of the day but
: in about the mildest, best humored
> style | have heard lately. C. D. Bry-
son, the druggist and Dr.. g. P, Sto-
ker, both renewed their allegiance to
T the Enterprise. Charley said he had
= to keep peace at home. One of the
best evidences ! find that the paper
, is good and pure is the partially of
the ladies'. And when man says
care nothing for it but my wife
} won't do without it | always feel that
| | have found a man who does not
, live for self alone. J. NJ. Keesee lives
all alone and is handsome. Out from
Ovilla on Midlothian | found G. II
| McMullen who had come in out OF
| a shower. | spent a few minutes with
. him and his wife very pleasantly and
went away rejoicing.
T. c. McElroy is one of our old
5 settlers. | found him putting han
} die on curry comb and in posses
sion of the price of sub. r. M. Delk
and wife and son, Ewell, live in Dali
las county, but are so near the line
that they still cling to the Enter
prise. There | spent the night, Mrs
5 D. told me she had 200 little Brown
, leghorn chicks and Dick has his farm
mostly in corn and oats which looR
we'll. As | entered the gate at ]. X
= McCrary's residence | heard hin
2 say, "Mollie, do you know where the
: hammer isl" On entering ! found
their 3-year-old son, Leonard Knox
had probably been responsible fol
t the misplacing of the hammer. He
= recited poem of 4 > lines for me
. Pretty good for 3 year old
r. p. Mitchen and wife were al
home and seemed comfortable. Al
I S, II. McGouriks | fed and passed ar
t hour very pleasantly. He and his
wife have been here about twenty
years. j. |. Lovett was at MIDLOTHIAN
but Mrs. l.. was at home and renew
+ ed for the paper. Mrs L, has some
= fine white turkeys which she say,
, are more gentle than the dark ones
She told me their names but | forget
il. | was about to forget TO mentor
t that Mrs. McCrary had 100 youns
, White Wyandottes. From Mr.. Low
ett's ! went across to r B. Reeves
and spent the night with him Mrs
r. and r. B., Jr out on No.
5 passed T. J. Byrum at work in the
t field and passed by the residence OF
: d. B. Ely but as / did not see hin
did not stop. | found w. Z. Middle
ton at work in the shop and remain.
ed for dinner. +. J. Walker is 6 feet
J Z inches and WAS don HE'D nm on 2