Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-08-24
ENJOYING COOL WEATHER
MIR. A. G. Burton Writes Interesting
Letter From Manistee, Mich, the
Scene of HisNVacation.
Manistee, Mich, Aug. Is, 1910.
Editors Daily Herald,
Palestine, Texas.


having a good rest from our trip COM
ing, no mosquitoes or heat to fight up
here, breathing and being famed by
the cool, crispy breeze of Lake Michi-
gan, we are feeling fine 1t is not so
cool as it was two years ago when |
was here They tell me here this is
the warmest weather they have had
in many years, but l think it is de-
lightfully cool now. We have to sleep
under from two to three pieces of
cover every night. My wife is out
this morning and is wearing her wrap.
1t looks queer to me to see the ladies
sitting out on their porches here in
the afternoons with wraps on-now
the middle of August. Peaches, plums
and apples are just now getting ripe
and being put on the market No
watermelons or cantaloupes ripe here
yet The berry crop is just about
gone. This is great mining and
manufacturing state. There is one
mining company in the northern part
of this state working twelve thousand
men in their iron and copper mines;
nine thousand factories in operation
within its borders, working three hun
dred thousand men, besides large
number of girls and boys. The larg-
est salt works in the world is located
here, and has a capacity of four thou
sand barrels of salt per day, of ESQ
pounds to the barrel. 1t has it's out
put sold for six years ahead at SOC
and SIC per barrel, so you see salt is
cheap up here. The population of
this state is very mixed one. To
give you an idea: There is a school
in the northern part of the state that
has five hundred students in attend
ance, and there are forty-one nation
alities represented in this school.
l was very sorry to see the notice
of the death of Mr.. ]. @. A. Caps of
Neches. He was one of Anderson
county's pioneer citizens, having lived
in the county continually since 1853.
My father moved to Anderson county
the latter part of December, 1855.
Palestine was then a nice little vii
lage of something like twenty-five hun
dred people. The county was at that
date fairly well settled up. Now out
of all the men who were living in the
county, including the town, that were
the head of families at that date, |
can only recall to memory three who
are now living, Col. ]. F. Taylor, Mr.. |
E. V. Douthitt Of Palestine, Mr.. ]. H
Gee of Hubbard City, Texas. Nearly
all of Anderson county's old pioneer
citizens are gone-passed to the
Great Beyond" We who were boys
in the "fifties" are now growing to
be old men, and we, too, in few
more years at farthest will be called
upon to join the procession to cross
the great divide.
The people l have met here are
very nice and sociable, but seeing
hundreds and not finding single ia
miliar face, l can't help but feel
little lonesome and a long ways from
home.
It's great to say good morning."
It's fine to say "halloo,"
But better still to grasp the hand
OF loyal friend you know.
When we were up here two years
,go, thought wife had me dressed up {
o a finish, but the way she had me
dressed up then was not a marker to
he way she has got me dressed now. |
Fell my friends, John Kelley, Bill 7
Caldwell and Warren Latimer, if they 6
.ould get birds eye view of me try
ng to put on style up here it would /
muse them more than a moving pic g
ure show with three good vaudeville
cts attached. Listen; tell them wife {
las got me dressed up this trip in a v
fifty and sixty dollar suit of tailor t
made clothes, black, stylish, hats, o
hirts, ties and socks to match each
uit of clothes. There is nothing to
tt am a swell-looking long horn"
p here among these short horns"
Wife has lived up here among +
hese short horns so long | think she
yould like to convert me into a short
orn, but when an old long horn has
cen running on Texas brush and v
rass for more than half century, a
here is nothing doing. Wife is quite Il
swell dresser for sixteen-year-old o
ut some days she has me dressed I'M O.
j | look so coltish | have to pinch Il
lyself to see if it is me. | think g
life is trying to make me as hand 81
ome and as stylish looking as Mrs. o.
ed Morris has got her husband look C;
lg, but my, hasn't wife got a job on 81
err hands, for Ned was a good-looker
efore his wife put the finishing tc
)uches on him. S
Well, for fear | will tire all of the W
erald readers, | will ring off a,
Very respectfully, ii
A. G. Burton. CT