The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-23
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Oak, on our Way to Oyitla, Our
first stop was 1t Ed. slaydens, but
he was away We next saw ]. 7.
Ham, and next wv. NJ. Payne, W. NJ.
Robinson, and A Crouch. all near
Red Oak, who baye nice homes ana
are repreSentatte citizens of the
county.
About 100 o'tlock We hitched our
'ToDsey at Ind gate post Of T. A.
Conner. who owls a fine farm and
beautiful home near Oyilla. We
found Mr.. Conntr in poor health,
which dates baca several months
He is we'll knoWt in the county and
has many friend3 Though in feeble
health. he was tull Of life and his
conversation wasifuil Of sound logic,
with a bit OF Wit (which made US feel
the better for haSing visited him.
Though they had finished dinner,
mis- splendid wife hnd daughter, Mrs
Batzelle, Of Red tOak. prepared Il
lunch, as they called it, for us, but
hat was set befdre US consisted OF
fresh pork turniIs, stewed chicken,
with dumpEngs, egg bread, biscuits,
sweet potatoes, cre4m potatoes, pota-
to salad, pickles, Iapple butter and
milk and butter. This meal consist
I ed mostly OF homh product and is
one of the ordinary meals at this
home, Mr. and Mr. Conner are
blessed with seven children, and have
two married
After bidding out host and hostess
/ good bye and thanking them for the
splendid dinner and courteous treat
ment, ! drove on 10 pvilla. Improve
+ ments are going on b. this town, not
: withstanding he hard times we hear
talked b. c. Woops is putting on
8 new roof and fixing up his house
+ generally and / noticed Bob Treece
7 had adedd new room to his house
The merchants OF Os.illa are having
+ a good trade, for this time of year
+ We visited the stora OF J. b. Big
/ ham, but he had code 10 Dallas and
his fine manly son twas conducting
/ the business. We HeXt saw |. n
/ Curry at his general merchandise
store. He was in aEgood humor as
usual and doing business. He will
send US an order far job printing
soon, next visited W. d. Lindop.
who runs a confectionery and patent
medicine store, Heks a fine fellow
and has a good patronage. He will
send US an order soon for job print
ing.
While in Oyilla va saw f. L. Oar
nell, of near WaXaimchie. who was
hauling load of sesd oats home, to
sow on his farm, Mr Darnell has a
host of friends in the Oyilla commu-
nifty as we'll as Waxahachie.
We next visited CURRY & Odom, the
general blacksmiths land woodwork
men at Ovilla. NH Curry was in
Dallas that day.
We We're pleased 10 meet Miss
Pearl Harris, OF Oviila, while there.
She told US she haa just finished
reading the Enterprise and the field
letter and was well pleased with the
paper. We had the pleasure of
meeting T. H. Johnson, an old pio-
neer and good citiAn Of Oyilla.
On returning fromk Oyilla to Waxa-
hachie we passed IL Mr.. Keesee's
farm, where we san his son, r. s,
keesee, blowing. Ha said they would
cut to about forty fper cent in cot
ton, that all cotton Eould be reIegat-
ed to the has beens' and they would
go into raising mote feed Of all
kinds, together with live stock.
The two days spent in the country
last week, the voi4 of the farmers
generally was divasification of the
!, crops. Already thfre are hundred.
OF acres of wheat and oats up and
looking very well id the Red Oak and
Ovilla country. Astson as the wealth
er permits there Will be thousands oil
, acres of oats and wheat, too, sown In
this part of the county.
While at Red Ok tho Field Man
had the pleasure 3of meeting Lara
Satin and bride. j Lara found his
bride in Oak cling and was married
there about w9ek ago. He is 5
son of O. f. Satin of Sterrett,
J The following aetter from Chilli
[ Gothic, Texas, will he read with inter
| est by the friends bf the writer:
Chillicothe, Te4., Jan. II, 1915.
J. A. G. Kepble. Waxahachie
; Texas. Dear Sir:sI notice a "blue
mark on my "ENerprise" this week
which I suppose tmeans | will have
TO dig up If I read The best pa.