The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-07-01

party at the home Of X. Il. Rotten
sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Griffin.
Nh and Mrs. Dee Rotten, MIR. and
Mrs. Herman Finley. !. l.. Goodwin
and "ye scribe" In the evening the
party was joined by Rev. Williams,
J. T. Ferguson and Henry Ramer,
and a pleasant evening was spent In
conversation and mutual exchange
of ideas on different subjects.
There was large crowd of citi-
zens from the surrounding country
and neighboring towns in Mountain
Peak Saturday. being called out by
the announcement that a good roads
convention would meet. There was
great interest manifested in the
meeting The meeting was called to
order by j T. Daily and Judge Dun
lap was the first speaker. He made
a strong speech showing why every
man should support the good roads
movement and stated that there
could be no sound reason given
against the proposition. J. w. Single
ton of WaXahachie was the next
speaker He was born and raised at
Mammoth Springs, near Mountain
Peak. and stated that how he stalled
with ten bushels of wheat while
crossing west fork of Waxahachie
creek which is now spanned by a
good steel bridge and whore he could
60 with 100 bushels just as easy as
he could go with the ten in the years
gone by, and this bridge was built
at the expense of the county. He said
that good roads We're sure to come;
that if the present move did not sue
coed that there would be some other
way devised Mr. Spalding, county
and manner of constructing public
highways that was very interesting.
r. X. Erwin of Waxahachie made
strong argument for the movement
and said that every man should give
it his hearty support. He referred in
a beautiful manner to the Appian
Way, near Rome, Italy. the finest
roadway in the world, being over
1000 years old paved with marble
and lined with shade trees over
which the great armies of Rome
marched and the beauties and at
fractions of which We're enjoyed by
the Apostle Paul, and 10 which coun-
try we look back to for our civiliza-
ton Prof. Alderdice closed the eX-
ercises. He was the most conserva-
tive of the speakers, and while he
said he thought that the Lest thing
work for the movement, no mistakes
should be made in the way of using
improper material, that in this way
a large amount of the money might
be squandered and said that white
rock gravel was not suitable road
material. Questions were asked and
answered by those present. About 40
voted for the movement but there
were good many present who failed
to vote at all.
J. L, Poe and wife of Oklahoma
have been on visit to Mrs. Poe's
mother, Mrs. Burns at Mountain
Peak, Mr.. Poe lived for many years
at Mountain Peak. He is second
cousin of Edgar Allen Poe. author
of that famous but melancholy
poem, "The Raven"
Mr. Godfrey, the enterprising
merchant of Midlothian, was at
Mountain Peak Saturday.
Buck Brown of the Midlothian
Argus attended the Good Roads con-
vention Saturday.
Ed Busby of Midlothian was here
Saturday looking rather fleshy for
such hot weather.
r. X. Erwin stated in his speech
at the good roads convention that if
the proposition was voted dairyinS
and truck farming would grow up
and people would have better
chance to send their children to
school and of course the cotton
acreage could be reduced.
John Buchanan and family left
Mountain Peak Thursday for Okla
bona where they Will make their fu-
ture home
Bob Allen recently moved witt
his family to eastern Texas.
DR.. Shytles of Venus was on pro-
fessional business near Mountain
Peak ThursGay.
Mountain Peak now has an up-to-
date iron bridge across the creek
near the gin.
LONE ELM.