The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-07-21

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Owing to the eneryating influence
of the excessive heat and the further
fact that the protracted meeting, the
road question the Chautauqua and
the dry weather are abroad in the
land and claiming the attention of
my congregation. there will be no
sermon from me this week. | am in
subjects. / hope the windows of
heaven may be opened and that
thirsty old mother earth may drink
her fill. | hope the Chautauqua may
be well attended and that all will 60
away wiser and better, well satisfied
with the entertainment and prepar-
ed to take up life's duties with re-
newed energy and with hearts full
of song go ioyfully on in full har-
mony with all the good surrouding
them. | hope the voters will become
so thoroughly imbued with the spir-
it of progress that they will boldly
and cheerfully march up to the vot-
ing box and cast their ballots for the
bond issue so that our drouth strick-
en- neighbors may have employment
near home, our people viii be raised
up out of the mud and Ellis county,
the banner cotton county of Texas,
will also have the distinction of be-
ing in the front raiks of progress and
civilization. ! hope the meetings may
leave in the minds and hearts of both
the laity and the ministry that meek
ness of spirit which will cause them
when smitten on one cheek TO turn
the other also and at the same time
to pray Lord, firgive them they
know not what they do. | hope the
year 1909 may be long to be remem-
bered as the time when sin and sell
fishness was banished from our Dor
better Chautauqua, better roads,
better religion and more of ii. Come
on and let's pull together.
/ am glad to see so many of our
correspondents coming each week
with good newsy letters. Our Noun
tain Peak correspondent congratu-
lated himself last week that one had
subscribed for the Enterprise to get
the Mountain Peak items The fact
is. you all assist the paper and are
about the only class / know of that
underestimate its importance. If not
too great a task | would like to see
a letter from every correspondent
for the first issue in August, the 9Th
of August, | believe | want to show
our readers what we can do when we
try.
One day last week | got to the
residence of the Widow Flavius
Davenport at noon and took dinner
with her. Mrs. J, p. Davenport and
Miss Alma Davenport Mrs Dayen-
port has a good farm and it is well
improved. After dinner Miss Alma
showed me her poultry yard where
she had several hundred young
Langshangs, She said she could have
raised more young chicks had she
had a man about the place to make
coops. From the conversation |
caught the fact that there is an old
gentleman on the place who looks
after the bees, sells cotton seed and
markets butter and eggs for the
family w n Woodland was not at
home but Mrs. W. renewed her al
legiance to the paper She has just
begun raising Rhode Island Reds
and White Leghorns. She had about
10 very fine young specimens. One
of the best chicken and dumping
feasts | ever had, Mrs. w cooked
last year At Rankin W. C. Goodwin
extended me the hospitality of his
home for the night, where I spent
very pleasant time. The man who is
insenslble to and ungrateful for
good food. a good bed and a hearty
"clCOIue "oulu tuio" ioSho at '''
grandmother but for the criminal
law At DR.. J. L. Rains drug store
| met him, Steve Seabolt and sew
eral others aud played several inter-
esting games of forty-two. Starting
out of Rankin, w. A Lyon and son
overlook me, took me in the buggy
II fn1y To h
where Mrs. Lyon fried chicken and