The Brinkley argus., 1910-01-21
FROM DOWN IN TEXAS.
Ex-Brinkley Han Writes From Texas. Hasn'tFor
 aOtten Brinkley.

Perhaps as you have not heard
 from this section of Texas, and as it would be quite a job to write each of my friends I es- teem it a privilege to use the columns of the ARGUS through which I may communicate to my old friends back in Arkansas.
 Now to say we are having some real cool weather would be putting it mildly. Our oldest settlers say we are now having the coldest weather in east Texas that we have had for several years; and while it is right cool with us an Arkansasan as 1 am knows what cold weather is. However we are glad to see cold weather in east Texas as that means a good fruit year. Our last year fruit crop was short ened considerably because of the warm Winter. Now, so far as I am individually concerned, the Winters are too cold for me yet. as 1 am a lover of warm wealth CT, fruits and flowers, and ours is land where all kinds of fruits do we'll, from the delicate fig to the hardest fruits of our north ern states. Vegetables of all kinds do well with us. 1 am sure my old friends would enjoy eating fresh onions, lettuce and radishes even new which can be had fresh from our gardens.
 Jacksonville is no mushroom town and we do rot consider ourselves OH a boom at all, yet there has not heen time in the last twenty-seven months that their could not be seen from five to dozen houses either being remcdeled or built new. And l have gotten my share of build ing in these two years that we have been here. am now build ing one of the best resident homes which I have under con- tract. 1 have built some of the best homes since Icing here. And in the meantime l have put up a splendid cotton gin house and modern steel gin outfit.
 By the way let me say that t he steel gin is a marvel of the age, first because of its compact ness or little space required. With this modern improvement outfit, you can have three or four gin outfit with engine, press and scales in space not to ex- ceed the old fashion lint room. Two men can operate the whole plant from the scales to the wrapped bale of cotton, and the customer scarcely gets his wagon unloaded and drives around to the press room door in time to get out of the way of the next man. I call that going some, 7 don't you?
 Well it has been well said: "Old things are passing away and the new or more modern are taking their place. These conditions are not confined alone to the financial world but they have found the gateway into the spiritual realm. Now 1 am not an old fogy, by any manner or means, and believe in keeping pace with the modern ways and mean so long as in doing so we do not injure the cause of our Lord and Heavenly Father. Modern inventions are alright for the financial and physical world, but to my mind the plan of salvation wrought and taught by him who bowed his head in death and shame on the cross and said, Tt is finished, 7 which plan is repentance towards God and faith in Jesus blood to cleanse and keep.
 We'll we now have our church building complete which is among the best in east Texas. We held our annual Texas con ference in our new church and we had a great time. Our Pres byterian brethren have a beau tiful church building nearing