The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-02
from the field
BY BILL cox.

| the said snobs and Snobesses are
conscious of the fact that they ignore
our existence. My heart of course
is broken because of the slight and
| know all others in my class are
distressed for ii is always a shock
to a sensible person 10 be ignored by
a fool. | have frequently heard you
snobs criticized privately, but this
is the first time | have seen you held
up to yourselves and If | can succeed
in even partially reforming one of
you. shall feel that this effort has
not been entirely lost. In your
present condition you are not worth
sanity would be as good as any other
ransomed soul.
|, N. McCarter, who lives in town
and farms in the country. was the
first to call forth from my pencil
words of commentator. One day
last week | went out toward Patrick
Chapel. My first stop was with Mr.
c. Hudson. | found him in the cot
ton patch. | picked my first cotton
of the season with him. He made
me feel good by telling me he enjoy
ed my letters and told me to go to
the house for the price. | went on
to the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. T.
Miller's and found him repairing his
pasture fence. He is about so years
of age but still active and | do not
remember to have ever found him
idle, though financially able to BIZ
idle, however idleness is not rest,
and | am sure Mr.. Miller is prolong-
ing his days by keeping busy On
my way back | stopped at the house
and Mrs. Hudson gave me a renewal
for their son, Houston She said
there YVES always such scramble for
the Enterprise that she sometimes
was almost persuaded that they
should take copy for each member
of the family. The remainder of
the week | spent at home
f. T. Mitchell, one of the incest
farmers in the county, was in from
Waxahachie No I, being reminded
that his time would expire with the
month said he would pay while he
had the money A " Cox from
Waxahachie 7, handsome and smil-
ing, ordered his date set forward.
j. D. Griffin from Ennis 4 told me
he would live near Forreston next
year T. A. Witherspoon, an old
settler and good citizen from near
Ovilla, was here and gladdened my
heart. T. l.. Bentley from Waxa
hachie 3 gave me some of the pecu-
MARY propulsion so necessary for the
acceleration of the speed of the
| female equus.
! J. NJ. Sullivan, the blackberry
| man from Waxahachie 4. was here
| Saturday and got good to Sept I
1912 ]. J. Bearden from Waxaha
chic 5 was in town Saturday. ]. /
Lewis. colored. from Ennis hat
| been without the Enterprise foi
! about month and said 1t made hin
| lonesome. J. r. White from italy
4 was here and got on my reading
list. Joe McCanless, one of the fin
est looking and best fellows in the
country, renewed for himself and
Mrs. Nellie Shoemate of Bunger,
Texas Mr. Davis of Waxahachie z
gave me dollar for the subscrip-
tion of his wife, Mrs. Jane Davis H..
r. Hamm formerly OF Ferris 3 was
here. He tells me he is now on Nc
Kinney Z. q
Saturday morning the drill team
of the Waxahachie Woodmen Circle
went to Forreston to do some initia-
tory work for the Forreston Grove.
All dressed In white they were as
pretty an aggregation OF feminine
lovelness as have seen In many II
day. They reported fine time and
think | would enjoy being invited
out again.
We have had glorious rains since
my last letter and farmers are cor
respondingly cheerful Cotton prices
were down today but that Will oc-
cur every time it thunders south of
| the Mason and Dixon line at any
| time before frost BILL COX.