The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-02-27

| Ions of lard last year and has |
| supply of porkers to make his meat |
| for another year He believes in !
| first supplying home and raising |
plenty of feed to run the farm. Then |
| if the price for his products suits
him he sells the surplus. He makes |
cotton his money crop. Mr.. Wheat |
| ley is a widower and just himself
| and son and niece, Miss Loucile
| Heath, who goes to school at Ray. |
constitute the family. He is an cpl
cure, as we'll as an entertainer, for
| he served as desert as fine canned
teaches as could be had in any mar
ket, and they were put up at his
| home. Here | met J, r. Gross. who
the road and saw W. NJ Marshall at
/ his home. He was staying in that
| day, as he was not very well. and
suffering with a touch Of lagrip He
takes the paper. On down Il little
| further saw J, D. Beasly, who was
| EloWing in his oats. He will plant
cotton on this spot. | finally reach
ed Ray about 3 o'clock in the after
noon. met here B. G. King who
| lives on West Marvin avenue in
| Waxahachie. He was having some
land cleared up and saving the
wood for the market. Ray is quite
a pretty little town and has grown
considerably, From Ray l crossed
over to Golfers Chapel, that pic
turesque spot in Ellis county AS
| arrived at the crest of the hill over
! looking the Ray community,
checked up my racer at the beauti-
| full home of w. Il. Eobson, Hho is
the possessor of a fine farm as we'll.
| He takes both the Daily Light and
| Enterprise. From here ] rode over
to ]. Henry Millers farm and learn
| ed he was not at home. He has
| lately built for himself a beautiful
Japanese bungalow. 1t consists Of
six rooms, and its equipments arr
modern. When he finishes the walks
fencing, etc, this home will vie
| it'll any as an ideal country place.
| ]. Henry takes the Daily Light and
CT course keeps daily posted GA cur
rent events | saw w. T Park, who
recently subscribed with me for the
! Enterprise He lives just across
from j. Henry Miller and has q pref
ty home. From here | spurred up
my steed for home, as it was get
ting late, only stopping long enough
TO greet a few new found friends,
whom | will mention in another let
ter. | pulled up my reina long
enough 10 greet J. w. Freeman, who
had just come in from his field. HIS
hand is getting along nicely and
soon will be we'll. | was about not
to mention ! met p. II. and j. l..
Marion, who were putting up stove
wood on ]. D. Portertields place.
| r. H. Marion is a new one to get on
the list.
| On strolling along toward home a
| few evenings since ! had the pleas
ure of meeting my long forgotten
| friend, Sam II. Moses, whom had
not seen for years, waiting for an i'll
terurban car to take him to his home
! six miles south OF the city. In ear
~ days | frequently met SIR. Moses
| at the Enterprise Office, for he was
particular friend TO the paper and
the editor, E. + Yeager, nov de
| ceased. In those days the paper
vas printed on G. Washington
hand press and it was four-pase,
eight column publication. | held
the responsible position as press
| man. Now if you think you have
hard job splitting rails you should
try pulling the lever of hand press,
| But this arduous press work had Its
bright side, for it has been the max
| ing of the field man, who has the
Drawn and sineW' OF ID VII!
leave that for you to Judge. but i
| ! find | am digressingD Mr.. Moses
has been a constant subscriber 10
the Enterprise since first he LANDED
in Ellis county and will continue
taking the paper, no doubt, antil be
! is called to his Just reward lie clted
with pride the great improvement
the old Enterprise had undergone
and said it was keeping pace with
the marvellous improvements the
county had made since he first arrlV-
eG. Twenty-Five years ago Sam
packed up all of his earthly belong
i.gs in Pulaski. Giles county, Ten
ressee, and headed for Texas and ar
rived in Waxahachie with just
enough money to pay for a night
lodging for himself and wife and
babe. The next morning he tried
several grocery stores for supplies