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Walnut Grove - Rhea Mills - Prosper
ON THE WING
McKinney Weekly Democrat Gazette, April 11, 1912
Thinking that Walnut Grove would prove easy picking we ventured over and pitched our teepee on the banks of Stover Creek. Brandishing our tommy-hawk the first victim was T. C. Lovelady and with his scalp dangling from our belt, J. D. Settle D. C. Bryson and J. B. Hays jumped over each others shoulders to get on the band wagon of the Democrat-Gazette paying in advance the usual fare of one dollar each for a round trip ticket.
Miss Ollie Jordan, W. M. Brakebill, J. W. Ruttledge, J. A. Duncan and C. C. Scroggins are also valued additions to our big weekly in that splendid community, and Mrs. Rebecca Kerr will keep posted on the happenings of each day by reading the Daily Courier-Gazette.
Your field man's appetite was appeased in the hospitable homes of T. C. Loveday, John Jordan, J. W. Ruttledge, J. B. Kerr and C. C. Scroggins.
While in the Walnut Grove school district we stopped at the school house and found Miss Myrtle Harris, daughter of Rev. M. C. Harris pastor of the Walnut Grove Presbyterian church, in charge and was informed by her that the school was progressing without friction and the average attendance was about thirty.
We are sorry to report that J. W. Rutledge, one of the trustees of the above school lost a fine mare last week for which he had refused $300. She died from unknown causes.
Before leaving that community we called at the home of H. H. Bryant and in his absence had a brief interview with Mrs. Bryant. She is a daughter of the late F. L. Cunningham who, thirty five years ago came from Bowie county, east Texas, and stopped for three years on the Darnell farm near where L. B. Brakebill now lives after which he bought 260 acres of land in the Walnut Grove community establishing the homestead on which he raised a large family of children and died near Prosper, July 1906.
Leaving Walnut Grove with regrets and many new friends, we removed our teepee to the Bloomdale district in order to reconnoiter before attacking the enemy next week. As we approached the home of F. M. Neely north of Bloomdale, he recognized us although eight winters had vainly tried to frost our head, but a cordial invitation to remain for dinner and especially since it was the 53rd birthday of our host, met with a prompt acceptance. Mrs. Neely is a model housekeeper, splendid cook, considerate hostess and a most lovable woman.
Easter with its lillies, johnny jump-ups, colored hen fruit, pretty girls, spring dresses and mystifying pieces of head gear, is here and now listen for the chime of wedding bells.
The strongest evidences of returning prosperity is in the fact that since indications point to a bumper wheat crop for north Texas, the farmers of Collin county have invited the stork to begin his annual visits and in almost every home one can hear a squall.
D. W. Leigh
McKinney Weekly Democrat Gazette, April 11, 1912
Thinking that Walnut Grove would prove easy picking we ventured over and pitched our teepee on the banks of Stover Creek. Brandishing our tommy-hawk the first victim was T. C. Lovelady and with his scalp dangling from our belt, J. D. Settle D. C. Bryson and J. B. Hays jumped over each others shoulders to get on the band wagon of the Democrat-Gazette paying in advance the usual fare of one dollar each for a round trip ticket.
Miss Ollie Jordan, W. M. Brakebill, J. W. Ruttledge, J. A. Duncan and C. C. Scroggins are also valued additions to our big weekly in that splendid community, and Mrs. Rebecca Kerr will keep posted on the happenings of each day by reading the Daily Courier-Gazette.
Your field man's appetite was appeased in the hospitable homes of T. C. Loveday, John Jordan, J. W. Ruttledge, J. B. Kerr and C. C. Scroggins.
While in the Walnut Grove school district we stopped at the school house and found Miss Myrtle Harris, daughter of Rev. M. C. Harris pastor of the Walnut Grove Presbyterian church, in charge and was informed by her that the school was progressing without friction and the average attendance was about thirty.
We are sorry to report that J. W. Rutledge, one of the trustees of the above school lost a fine mare last week for which he had refused $300. She died from unknown causes.
Before leaving that community we called at the home of H. H. Bryant and in his absence had a brief interview with Mrs. Bryant. She is a daughter of the late F. L. Cunningham who, thirty five years ago came from Bowie county, east Texas, and stopped for three years on the Darnell farm near where L. B. Brakebill now lives after which he bought 260 acres of land in the Walnut Grove community establishing the homestead on which he raised a large family of children and died near Prosper, July 1906.
Leaving Walnut Grove with regrets and many new friends, we removed our teepee to the Bloomdale district in order to reconnoiter before attacking the enemy next week. As we approached the home of F. M. Neely north of Bloomdale, he recognized us although eight winters had vainly tried to frost our head, but a cordial invitation to remain for dinner and especially since it was the 53rd birthday of our host, met with a prompt acceptance. Mrs. Neely is a model housekeeper, splendid cook, considerate hostess and a most lovable woman.
Easter with its lillies, johnny jump-ups, colored hen fruit, pretty girls, spring dresses and mystifying pieces of head gear, is here and now listen for the chime of wedding bells.
The strongest evidences of returning prosperity is in the fact that since indications point to a bumper wheat crop for north Texas, the farmers of Collin county have invited the stork to begin his annual visits and in almost every home one can hear a squall.
D. W. Leigh
