Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-01-29
1T IS G BEAT IN MANY THINGS
Texas Wonderful Expanse and Big
MISUNDERSTANDING and
Charming Women

WACO, TEXAS, Jan. 8, 1918.
OLD CoMRADE: ''If, from General
Sheridsn's viewpoint. up yonder, like
some of our courts, he would reverse
his opinion of Texas, he would now sell
hi and keep Texas. 1t is certainly a
mighty state; great il square miles,
mighty in possibilities; wonderful to
behold the immensely of expectations,
idealists in all ideals. in all things to
come to Texas She tore herself away
from Mexico to become republic; the
republic soon to bankrupt, and to es-
cape destruction, became a state in the
Union-to which she sold to the United
States half of New Mexico, to pay her
revolutionary obligations. The seces-
sion ordinance was welcomed by the
people as an opportunity of the peo-
pie to keep up a row with some one.
They fought well, and now the few vet
Grams, loyal to the old flag. as any
Union soldier, speak with pride on new
er having surrendered; having been
west of the Mississippi river, they Just
scattered, some going home, many to
Mexico TO support the Empire The
Empire fell and they rejOiced to once
more live under the old flag they had
fought against, and rebuild the ''Lone
A new generation is here now, native
sons; hundreds of thousands have come
from east of the Mississippi, while the
northern states have, for thirty years,
been coming to cultivate the soil. to
build the cities, and to add to the cities
all the public improvements. The
great lines of railways are owned by
northern capitalists and managed by
them
This place is in the cotton district.
and the brokers' here, as we'll as the
growers of cotton, have made their
millions. The bi-products meal, oil,
huils -are valuable assets of recent use.
Land is advancing in value; manufac-
turing is slowly increasing, and the
population growing rapidly with an ell
ement from the north which is making
Texas great. The colored person is
here. and with few exceptions, at a
standstill, in the greatest of zones,
with the mightiest of possibilities.
The weather has been clear and de-
lightful. but it is not all sunshine, nor
is 1t at all times delightful. Some ugly
northern breezes come this way, chill
led by the snow capped mountains,
| sweep under the houses, up through
the floors of the poor and chill the
under clothed. 1t takes the loose earth
of one county and deposits it in anoth-
er. Such a one, yesterday, but it tir-
ed out and only lasted short time.
attended New Year g reception at
one of the old homes, where they have,
for more than half a century, invited
their friends to come and partake of
their hospitality. The company was
charming; made up Of the young, gay
and venerable in years. The girls were
well dressed, very decollete, and happy.
The crowd was large, and the girls
pushed. elbowed me and rolled me in
many ways, all of which delighted me.
Did you ever have the girls push you
around at New Years reception? IL
is just jolly. Their elbows don't hurt
mush | got pushed to the punch table
where | hung onto the post, and the
girls handed me several glasses of
punch. then pulled me to an eggnog
table, where the nog was SO palstabe,
and the surroundings so charming, and
the music so pleasing, and the stars
and stripes so gloriously spread over
the table that yielded to a pretty
girls wish and took an eggnog II
would have been ungracious in me to
have refused. They tried to put me, a
Yankee, under the table, but failed.
! finally turned up at lemonade table,
hut that was too thin for New Years.
When | found myself at the punch
bowl with beautiful girls insisting on
southern hospitality. If you could have
been there and seen me, you would
have been proud of your old comrade.
We will, after few days. go to San
Antonio Mrs Rogers is at the sani-
tarium trying to cure violent bron-
chiaI cough She is much improved.
With kind regards to all.
r. M pocEpc