The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-06-01
MOUNTAIN PEAK.

dTOuHu MOuLldln ISdk ana the STU
alton is growing more serious each
/ day as it passes by. Not only the
! farmers but all other occupations and
professions are feeling it's effect.
! Now, we have no prospects at all for
rain soon, as a cool norther is now
| blowing and the sky is clear. The
they were in early spring The early
corn crop is not expected to make
much. but farmers are preparing
to plant late corn and some sorghum
for forage Rains are reported in near
by localities and crop prospects good.
An automobile from Cleburne be-
longing to John Belcher passed
through Mountain Peak Tuesday en-
route to Dallas. The occupants were
John Belcher and son of Cleburne,
and ]. E Walker and G. c. Hayden,
business men of Prairie Valley. Their
machine punctuerd a tire at Noun
/ tain Peak and was delayed some
!
Mountain Peak learned quite a lot
about automobiles as the travellers
we're clever men and free to answer
Questions They said with a clear run
tain Peak in about one hour and
half Mr. Walker said he was going
/ to Dallas to buy a machine. He said
the worst trouble they had was with
teams on the road. That if they stop
ped and gave the road, some teams
would tear things up any how
The writer went with party Of
fishers and hunters to Trinity river
and Sand Lake, going by way of Pal
mer and coming back by Ennis, thus
seeing lot of Ellis county with
which he was very favorably i'm
i pressed. The crop prospects were far
ahead of the western portion, being
quite flattering and some of our
company have gone back there to
chop cotton. While at Ennis on the
/ return We saw as fine a rain fall
as one would wish to see, but when
we got to Mountain Peak we found
Idry dirt.
/ The county farm is nice place as
| regards landscape, improvements and
! tillage. but sad to see so many able
/ bodied men in bondage, mostly all
negroes There looked to be
about 100 at work under guards. The
scripture is here exemplified where
lit says, THE way of the transgressor
! is hard
! Grove Creek is pleasant place of
! nice groves and cool shades which
makes any one from the prairies
desire to live there. The crops i'm
proved from here to Trinity river
/ Palmer is a nice town and here
the writer first learned that Palmer
and Farmer were one and The same
name We were also a. rrfatol, where
timber is extensively Cealt in, We
/ came back by AlsdoIf Ennis and
Ray, Ennis is a booming town right
along after Waxahachie
Ellis county as regards territory
and fertile and beautiful landscapes |
is hard to excel.
Trinity river was very low and |
muddy but a two foot rise came !
down while we We're there.
Sand Lake is narrow body of !
water at times more than mile |
long, through which the river flows !
in time of high water and abounds |
with fish. 1t is said that there has |
been more people thert fishing this |
season than ever before, caused by |
tn long continued dry weathr. The |
people along the river are confident |
Of a naYigable stream when the |
locks and dams, in course of con-
struction by the government, are /,
completed. The old keeper of Trini- |
dad Ferry, near which we were |
camped, told the boys when the owls |
began to boot in the dark bottoms !
that Waxahachie dentists would give |
$500 apiece for owls gizzards, but
Will Morgan and Jim Meredith can !
tell all about this.
There was a general singing at
Griffith Sunday and large crowd
present, there being vocalists from
different parts of the county and
some first class vocal music is re-
ported and good dinner on the
ground. The writer failed to be
present
w. ]. Free of Griffith visited T.
c. Meredith Friday.
Jack Eskridge and wife visited at
Griffith Saturday.
There will be unwilling ceremonies /
at Mountain Peak Sunday over the
grave of w H. Boothe, deceased.
Members of w 0. w. camps from
Venus, Midlothian, Wyatt and Crit
fifth are expected to be present. 1t is
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