The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-12-08

! have 90 tfelr com s.lant are not SUI
ncientlto bic them % do on the
ros a. the amount OF work needed for
the preservation of our pixies and to
keep ~ the indisputably necessary
work on other roads and bridges
am not INDUCING in any speouIa-
ton but giving you cold. stubborn
facts So instead OF condGmning our
commissioners court OF omission
suppose We find out how much mon
ey they have az their command. as
certain the cost OF the work needed
10 be done and ascertain how much
more they need and then all together
90 to work 20 devise some means
for procuring the amount found nee
essary TO finish the work. / have in
mind some legislative relief for The
situation. but q legislative scheme
in lone head where there are one
hundred and forty-one other heads
In one house, thirty-one in the 9TH
er, and yet governor to satisfy.
does not promise sure success. To
sum the whole matter up We are
up against II and concert of action,
| cooperative thought, not kicking at
the imaginary shortcomings of our
commissioners. will place us on firm
footing
] was down at Austin last week
and as | passed the governors Of
flee saw him moving chair. |
! do not know whether some one had
been making his seat hot for him or
! not. saw the two Graftons. one in
the educational department. the 9TH
or in the comptroller's department,
Amzi Cafothers and Homer Adkis-'
sin, all Ellis county boys and all
looking well.
Sunday Mrs Cox and / attended
en- all day singing and dinner at
| South Prong church. There were
| several of the Ellis county singers
! there and the music was very good.
The leaders, as | remember them.
were: Harvey Pigg. Sid Whitefield,
Mr.. pierson and Mr. Williams of
Waxahaehie The feature of the day
which appealed more directly TO me
was the dinner 1t is useless to try
and describe the dinner further than
| to say that it was one of those soul
inspiring appetite appeasing spreads
which none but the country wives
have the material for and the skill
to prepare. | lett there at peace
| with the world and all nature be-
side,
| On last Thursday evening Arthur
Martin led to the altar Miss Lennie
WATSON of Galveston The couple
took the train for Waxahachie and
arrived at the home ON Mr.. Martins
parents, Mr. and Mrs. w j. Martin
on the Scion farm. in time for a
feast prepared for them and thirty
or forty neighbors and relatives. The
dinner was good. the company con-
| genial, and all was merry. The
groom is a trusted employe of a ship
company at Galveston and a fine
boy The bride is pretty, bright, af
fectionate and a business girl. Here's
to long and happy life for them.
Lon Eads, the farmer and ginner
of Boyce. was here Monday. Mr.. and
Mrs G. b. Tenery came from the
farm not long scince and opened up
the Hotel Main on East Main. 1t is
good place to get good plain
meal and plenty of it but the main
thing that caused me to mention it
was that ! got a subscription. ID.
Fl. Kyle, good looking Boyee far
mer, was here Monday. IL. w. Ber-
rier of Maypearl l came in to see me.
Mrs. A. A. Stewart Will spend the
winter with her brother, w. P. Chap
pell at Ozark, Ark. The Enterprise
has gone on ahead of her. b. r.
Rogers of Red Oak ! gave me lift.
Mrs. Mollie Hampton has moved
back to her farm at Forreston, the
Enterprise VIII be regular Vlsltor
at her home.
l. w. Rollen. Waxahachie b l..
r. Owens, Boyee; ] d. Hooper. Wax
ahachie A: r. w. Sweeney, Mckin-
ney; Jim Tatum. Waxahachie A;
M O. Brannan. Midlothian 6; A.
Tinsley, Waxahachie B: A. p. Sims.
Waxahachie +. IL. w. Hungerford,
Midlothian; j. NJ Brown, Red Oak
IL: j. r. Carroll. WaXahachie r; Mrs.
Ben Alexander. Waxahaehie B. War
rem Luckey, Waxahaehie +; IL. NJ.
Mckinney, Waxahachie h; A. II.
Hobson. for b. Frank Hobson. and
]. B. Castor, Maypearl l all made
me happy. Mrs. Alexander sent the
Enterprise to her son Lee at Yuma