The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-06-15

Is. W FEARIS.
grand child who recently came to
! their son, Preach, and wife | spent
the night with John and the chill
dren At the shop at the South Italy
| gin | met j, A. Stewart and l.. A
| Orme. They both invited me to din
! ner but j. n. Pittman came I'D in
his buggy and | turned the other
two down and went with him to din
ner and made for Forreston again.
| On the way | found D. NJ. South
on Forreston 3 finishing piece of
hoeing Out on Forreston the next
morning | found NJ. J. johnson plow-
ing cotton. He gave me sub, re-
marking that he had to renew or
/ hunt another wife. At w L. Burton's
came in contact with good dinner
and proceeded to devour it. w. H.
Henderson was finishing chopping
cotton for Mr. Spurlock on Waxaha-
chic o. He has his paper sent to
Grandyiew. Roman Aday came here
about 81 years ago a poor, inexper-
fenced boy but by industry and fru-
gality has secured one of the most
desirable farms in Ellis county and
has home of modern style with all
the conveniences. | spent the night
him and family.
J. H. Crawford and wife out on
WaXahchie 7 have a boy about one
month old of which they are Justly
proud. At A. DodsOn's | took dinner.
Mr.. D. is an old Tennessee Confeder-
late Veteran and his neighbors say
he is true as steel. His son, Sam,
showed me fine two year old stall
lion that looks like a goer and fine
young colt, / can talk to a man and
finds out what a neighbor thinks of
man speaks highly of them they have
the same statement to make about
MIN? T. NJ. Sadler colored, is a pros
porous law-abiding citizen and |
have never heard one say aught
against Uncle Tom. 1t is so easy for
white or black to be respected All
that is necessary is for one to respect
himself. J G. Cox came to Ellis
county about thirty-five years ago.
Lived west of Palmer many years but
he and Mrs Cox now have a nice
home at Boyce. | was sorry to find
him in bad health.
Friday evening | drove up to the
home of j. ID. Kuykendall on WaXa
haChie No. /. Two years ago he fail
ed on account of dry weather. Last
year went to Grayson county and
got drowned out but is back on some
prospect for a crop and | hope may
come out all right He and George
are both takers and enjoyed my
stay Saturday morning | started
for WaXahachie and had not gone
far before | was overtaken by Dave
Prude and rode with him to town
He was out looking for a school. |
hope he may find good one and
that his labors may be mutually ben
eficial to pupils, parents and teach
er. J. II. Dykes. a good farmer on
No. 7, was in town and
got back into school n c. Buck tills
the soil out on Waxahachie No g. He
was in town Saturday,
This morning before leaving home
w. d. Smithwick gave me one dol
lar and seventy-five cents and will
now read the Enterprise and Dali
las News
On the train | met G. G. Brumley
from Maypearl l. Last year the hail
ruined the corn in his country and
cut cotton short but he was cheerful
and readily renewed his subscription,
He said he had taken the paper most
of the time since his brother-in-law,
John Haynes, and c. r. Gibson pub
lished it. If | get to attend the col
ored peoples barbecue at Forreston
next Saturday my next letter will
probably discuss freedom, physical,
mental and moral. | learned this
that Jeff Kirk, near Sardis,
had a mare killed by lightning yes
terday 1t would not have been so
bad if he had gotten a good rain buk
that was even denied him.
BILL COX. T.
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