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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-10-24
Catholic Church.

There will be mass at the Catholic
church tomorrow at 1890 a. m.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. All are
cordially invited to the services. ].
NJ Byrne Pastor.
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First Presbyterian Church.

Sabbath school at 9:45 a M w.
Z. Mcknight. Supt. Preaching at II
a. m. and 1880 p. M, by Rev. ]. c.
Williams of DeQueen, Ark.
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IterQay afternoon.
| All tooth brushes bought at Fear
is are just right. 80
Anything you buy at Fearis you
will find just right. 80
! The song and picture at the En-
pire are both extra good. ia
| large crowd went from here to
the fair at Dallas today.
Miss Jessie Davenport is visiting
for a few days in Dallas.
| A boy was born this morning to
| Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. B. Shelton.
| All kinds of grain, feed stuff and
hay Waxahachie Grain Co. tt
Mrs. R. R. Hendricks and son,
Homer, are fair visitors today.
If you miss the picture at the En-
! pire you will pass up the best. TIA
! Buy your pumps from +. S. Cronk
Co. All kinds. Prices way" down. IT
| When you want your trunk haul
ed to or from the depot phone 40. tt
| Buy your floor oil from F. s.
Cronk Co., and keep down the dust.
Get your prescriptions filled at
Fearis' 1t will be done Justrite. 80
Our bulbs are all here now. also
a fine lot of gold fish. Bird Forrest.
IA
| There will be fun for everyone
Saturday night at the Skating rink.
IA
II. D. Timmons has handed in
$1.00 for the Bryan-Kern campaign
fund.
Go to Fearis' for everything in the
drug line You will find them Just
rite. so
Skating rink will be open to e
ladies and children Saturday after
noon. IA
Mrs. C. o. Hill of Commerce is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. w. l.,
Acker
| T. H. Barrow left last night on
| business trip up the Fort Worth and
! Denver.
When you need & plumber, call
Bunkley, with F. S. Cronk Co. Both
Phones 81. tt
When you want any toilet article
go to Fearis. The goods and prices
are Justrite 80
| Plenty of carnations in all colors
Plant your bulbs early for best re-
suits. Bird Forrest. "A
Who makes plans and builds mod
ern homes? See S. J. Erwin, con-
tractor Office phone 400. tt
The Waxahachie Livery and Trans
| fer Co.'S cabs and transfer wagons
/
meet all trains. Phone 40. tt
Shive & Keys have plenty of good
wood, coal and feedstuff. Phone them
your orders. Both phones. If
Tried and not found wanting
SherwinW Williams and Harrison's
Paints. Sold only by w. b. Reymul-
Ter If
School Children-We have draw
ing paper, drawing books, map tab
let's, etc Blotters free. Southern
Printing Co. If
A. n Edmiston of Roby, has
been in the city several days on bus
mess. Mr.. Edmiston formerly lived
in Ellis county
Think before you speak; look be-
fore you leap. Try and Judge right
and secure the best. Mrs. c. E, Jack
son, photographer. tt
Tamales in the shuck can be pur-
chased at the Gibson building Mon
day afternoon from to 6 O'Clock
for 5 cents per dozen. ia
The Ladies Aid Society of the
First Presbyterian church will meet
with Mrs. G. NJ Supple Monday af-
ternoon at $50 O'Clock.
The ladies will serve tamales in
the shuck Monday afternoon from
8 to 6 o'clock at the Gibson building,
price 5 cents per dozen. ia
Rev. j. G. Williams of DeQueen,
Ark is visiting in the city and will
preach tomorrow morning and even
ing at the First Presbyterian church.
Shucks will be on the tamales
Monday afternoon at the Gibson
building and don't forget to make
your purchase at 8 cents per dozen.
174
| Foley's Honey and Tar cures
| coughs quickly STRENGTHENS the
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FOR RENT-Will rent from one to
three years, beginning the LIST of Jan.
1909. our office building next door
to Matthews Bros. See J. ]. Nc
Quatters, Pat H. Wilson or John
Phillips. If
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Sunday school 10 a. m. Preaching
II a. m. and p. m. by w. F. Led
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LOST-Ladies hunting case watch
Elgin movement, diamond set on
back, name Miss Nell McManus,
inside of back lid. Finder return TO
this office. 174pd
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ESTRAYED-One sorrel pony. Fin
der will please phone Cole Bailey at
Jolesch & Chaska's. II
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STENOGRAPHER: Miss Lola Cur
lin, Office with G. C. Groce, Citizens
Bank Building oktf
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WAXAHACHIE Hot Mineral water
delivered daily. b. S, McCourt, old
phone 461. tt
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A SNAP-That nice lot 100X132
feet, Z room house, close in. Price
1900. O. p. Lumley. lisp
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Licensed to Wed.

A. 0. Reece and Della Bracket.
C. NJ. Harrell and Susie Marcia.
Lee Warren and Nora Fielding
J. G. Anderson and Halle Spark
man.
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A YOUNG COW-First calf, six
weeks old. Jersey for sale. Walter
Crow ia
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R. u. McCOMBS. Fire. Life, Accident
Tornado, Plate Glass ana Live Stock
Insurance. If
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Daily want ads pay most for least
money.
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FOR RENT-Three rooms suitable
for light housekeeping, at III
Kaufman street. Apply at 40l East
Franklin street TIA
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blocks from square See DR. keplin-
ger tt
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w. L. P LEIGH & CO., Insurance
Agents, Fire, Accident, Plate Glass,
Livestock Lowest Rates. tt
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PHONE H. A MCMILLAN at the
Daily Light Office when you want
printing done Of any kind. The best
cork guaranteed. tt
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NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS
for page and half-page ads for the
Weekly Enterprise should reach this
office not later than Monday. tt
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WANTED-Your orders for cord
wood, coal and feed. Shive {; Keys.
If
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IF you want your fall suit made at
home see Mrs. G.. J. Griggs. 1872
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HAVE Mrs. G. J. Griggs order your
fall suits. 1872
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Rev. j. c. Williams of DeQueen,
Ark. is visiting in the city and will
preach tomorrow morning and even
ing at the First Presbyterian church.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-10-24

Foley's Honey and Tar cures
coughs quickly, strengthens the
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ORDERS TAKEN at the Daily Light
ONCE for engraved calling cards. If
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Shucks will be on the tamales
Monday afternoon at the Gibson
building and don't forget to make
your purchase at Is cents per dozen.
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WEATHER-Ton and Sunday
fair. frost Sunday morning. Max So;
Min, SO.
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FOR SALE-Milk COW four years
old A. L. Barr 176pd
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The ladies will serve tamales in
the shuck Monday afternoon from
8 to 6 o'clock at the Gibson building
price Is cents per dozen. ia
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Westminster League.

Subject: Life of David.
Opening Song.
PRAYER
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The Ladies Aid Society of the
First Presbyterian church will meet
with Mrs. G. NJ Supple Monday af-
ternoon at $50 o'clock.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-28
World
II. s. GIvLER, Pub.
What the Harvest Has Done.
KANSAS

The harvest of the great wheat-rais-
Ing states has been well up to the av-
erage, and, with the high prices, is
to return more money to the farmer
than in many years. While the coun-
try's total wheat crop is estimated at
100000 bushels more than last year,
1t is yet 6O.0OO.0 900 bushels below that
OF the previous season, and the farmer
has little reason to fear material les
SEEMING of values. The corn is promis-
Ing well in the interior states. and
lessened yield in some of the older
settled ones may make this likewise a
remarkably profitable year for produ-
GERS of that cereal. Contracts are
being made at this writing at prices
giving abundant return for the farm
er's toll Minor crops have been gen.
erous in the prairie states, with good
prices. Altogether, declares Charles
Moreau Harger, in the American Re-
view of Reviews, it has been a goodly
year and one that has given the farmer
feeling of independence. His stable
position is certain to have effect on
every sort of industry and enterprise.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-28

An English suffragette leader who is
on this side says that American WON.
en- are more timid than their English
sisters In demanding their rights, an d
urges them to make equal suffrage a
burning issue in "a fire of revolt" The
lady is mistaken in her main points.
American women are not timid; they
are not as aggressive or as violent as
their English sisters because they
have no need to be, and as for start
Ing a fame of revolt that is not nee
sssary, either. The moment the WON.
EN- of the country in any considera Bile
majority demand equal suffrage the
men will give it to them The women
Of this country have confidence in the
men to do them justice, and the men
have respect for the women, which is
state of affairs the English suffra-
gette sentiment does not as yet seem
to have penetrated.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-28

Gold, silver and lead mines are, it is
said, to be worked extensively in the
bleak district of Innishowen, county
OF Donegal, Ireland, overlooking the
Atlantic. and experts have expressed
the belief that 1T is almost impossible
TO estimate the wealth of the min
erals. Specimens of the ore were
shown at an exhibition in New York,
and some American financiers decided
to take the matter up if subsequent
investigation proved satisfactory. A
mining expert examined the mine. and
after his report a syndicate was
formed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-28
A Merry Heart.

Why do you wear a harassed and
troubled look? Are you really in trou-
bic, or are you allowing the little wor-
ries of life to grind burrows in your
face? Take a glance at yourself in the
mirror and reform-that is, reshape
your face into the lines of comfort and
good cheer which it ought to wear.
Take an honest inventory of your trou-
bles, and decide whether or not they
are really worth advertising in your
countenance, urges the New York
weekly. 1t may seem a little thing to
you whether or not you wear smil-
Ing face, but it is not a little thing.
serene look informs the tired and
troubled men and women whom YOU
meet that there is peace and joy in
at least one heart And there may be
among them some who had begun to
doubt if peace or joy existed at all.
"A merry heart doeth good like a med
icine.'
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-28
SEVERE HEMoRRHoips
Thought an Operation Necessary
-Cuticura's Efficacy Proven.

81 am now so years old, and three
years ago l was taken with an at
tack of piles (hemorrhoids}, bleeding
and protruding. The doctor said the
only help for me was to go to a
hospital and be operated on. tried
several remedies for months but did
not get much help. During this time
sores appeared which changed to
terrible itching eczema. Then I began
to use Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and
Pills, injecting a quantity OF Cuticura
Ointment with a Cuticura Suppository
Syringe 1t took a month of this
treatment to get me in fairly healthy
state and then I treated myself once.
a day for three months and, after that.
once or twice a week. The treatments
I tried took a lot of money, and it is
fortunate that I used Cuticura. J. H.
Henderson, Hopkinton, N. Y. Apr.
&c, 1907"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-28
GEORGE ON THANKSGIVING

Thanksgivin' day comes once year because the
Pilgrim band
Was thankful that they had the sense to leave
their native land
And the sea to find stern and rock
bound shore
Where they would never haft to bow to bosses
emmy more,
Where thieves would break in and steal and
trusts would never try
To gobbe everything and let the little dealer die
We celebrate Thankssivin' day because the Pill
grims
In search of freedom where they knew that they
would find the same,
Where men would be brothers, where the
strong would aid the weak,
Where Iibburty would raise her flag on every
crag and peak,
Where biIIionaires would never dare to cheat
for profits sake
Or break the laws that other men were not al
lowed to break.
We celebrate because the hopes hoped by that
Have all true, because there's not an evil
in land
Because we have wealthy rosues to plan and
plot and scheme
To make the Ibburty we claim vain and empty
dream,
Because our nagnates 90 to church and teach
And everywhere from sea to sea the Christian
spirit rules.
We keep Thanksgvin' day because the man who
To be an honest citizen is honored by the rest;
He may not have share of stock or own foot
of land
But all our wealthy senators are glad to shake
his hand
And hear his plea and guard his rights with all
the jeus
They ever give the interests of any millionaire
We keep the good old day because no idle rich
ignore
The pressing needs of those where Want Is
scratching door,
Because freedom the pIIoriry,.
wished to claim,
Because we never oppressed and never
splotched with shame,
Because we've frightened Greed away and raised
standard hiqh
And kept the faith fer which >sr sIres were NOT
afraid 70 DIE.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-28

Warnings have been issued in Egypt
to look out for a bigger food in the
Nile than has appeared for a quarter
Of a century. When this was written
the water had not risen at Khartoum,
but nearer the sources of the river the
banks were swollen to overfiowing.
Fears are entertained for the stability
OF the Assuan dam that was built to
tmpound the floods and preserve the
water for irrigating the lower valley.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-28

suing proclamation of a prblie
Thanksgiving day. The invitation
was accepted, and in November
1882, Plymouth colony am
Massachusetts Bay colony erele
brated Thanksgiving day to
gether in a manner pretty
much the same as their de
scendants of to-day, in re
ligious service and feasting and
funmaking. The one noticeable
omission was the great football
game which marks the day in our
generation.
From 1852 until 1877 the New
England records show that % diff
ferent dates were set apart by the
various governors as days for pub
lie Thanksgiving, and that with the
exception of the two colonies men
toned no two held the day on the
same date. The celebrations, how
ever, were held in October or No
vember
In 1877, as other denominations
had crept into Plymouth colony,
over which the Puritan church had
no ruling, the governor decided
that it would be well to have the
power of fixing public holidays,
whether for feasting, praying or
funmaking,' vested in civic au-
, thority. Accordingly in that year
the first printed Thanksgiving day
proclamation was printed. Thanks
giving day proclamation was print
ed, setting November 25 as the
festival
The law reads: .'That it be in
the power of the governor and as
sistants to command solemn dates
of humiliation by fasting, etc, and
also, thanksgiving as occasion shall
be offered"
This shows that the law called
for only occasional" Thanksgiving
days and SO the holiday was buff
feted about hither and yon, from
October to November, according to
the pleasure of the rulers of the
colonies and there never was any
feeling of certainty as to the holi-
day.
That it was held annually with
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day opened in this water-locked land with great
ringing OF bells and over every shining doorsn
there stepped into the crisp morning air the house
holds full number. Each Hans or Gretchen clasp
ing s11verbound prayer book, walked sedately to
the various places of worship and there lifting up
thelr sweet Holland voices, harsh, perhaps, in
speech, but full and round in song up musical
praise for the freedom of their land and the good
things of the earth.
Church over, the entire population for the nonce
broke through their usual stolidness and there was
general scampering of young feet in game or
dance and gathering of older tongues friendly
gossip as neghbor visited neighbor or father well
coined his large flock of grandchildren
The great event of this Dutch Thanksgiving day
was dinner, at which was served central dish
queer stew of meat and vegetables which they
called Spanish hodge-podge For once in their nrac
teal lives the Hollanders became facetious and
over this hodgepodge they made merry and cracked
jokes at their old-time enemy-Spain The general
hash-like' appearance of the hodge-podge was sup
posed to represent the condition of the Spanish
army when the Dutch had vanquished it, Even
the children entered into the fun and kent their
history fresh by gleefuy slashing into potato or
turnlp and chucklfng as they swallowed the NOR
sells. This is General So-and-So-ahI Me eat him
sol" 49,
Well, the Puritans heartily approved of the early
rehglous services of the morning and their healthy
appetites could not fail to appreciate the Spanish
hodsepodge, however much they may have dis
approved of the sentiment which favored it, so they
entered most heartily into the Dutch Thanksgiv-
ing of October 8. In 1923 these Pilgrims held Oc-
tober as day of Thanksgiving in the New World
and here we have our first true American Thanks
giving day.
This day has passed through many vicfssitudes
since that date There is not festival on the al
manac, fixed or movable, which has had the strug-
gle for existence that November holiday has
endured.
IN America in various months some of the Pilgrims
keeping to October and other colonists holding
different day by order of the governor
In 1880 the people of Massachusetts, were s1ffer-
ing for food and clothing Gov Winthrop hired
the good ship Lyon return to England for sun
plies. For many days the vessel Law stranded off
the Isle of Shoals, but finally put out. Winter came
On apace, and nothing heard of the ship The
colonists were nearly disheartened when on Feb
ruary e. 1881, the Lyon sighted, and the gov
ernor ordered that the day be given to feast
ing and thanksgiving This is the first written
record of Thanksgiving day in Boston; it can
stfI be found in the Colonial Records of Massachu-
sets 1t is an interesting fact first Bos-
ton Thanksgiving held on what is now one of
our most patriotic holidays Washington's birthday
The nrst record of joint celebration of Thanks
giving day is given in the Colonial Records of 1922
when Gov winthrop OF Massachusetts bay asked
the governor OF Plymouth colony to join hir, IN S.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-28

A Lady with a talent for statistics is
plaintin in lawsuit in Cambridge.
Mass She is suing the proprietor of
q manufacturing plant for the loss of
her hair, which was caught in the ma
chinery. and she wants $4,000 dam
ages. which. she alleges. is lat the
rate of one dollar for each hair de-
stroyed-" That seems to be a case
where hairs of the head were mum.
bered
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-28

fore the timber for the Mayhower or the Anne was
planted 1t had its origin in antiquity when the
Romans and Greeks held a fast dav in October
which they dedicated to the goddess of agriculture
and followed the day of fasting by of feastfng
and royal frolcking, day on which the chase and
all sorts of rustic sports held sway
Going even further back into the remote ages of
NOT our country, alas-but of the world we find
the early Egyptians setting aside day for general
thanksgiving and burning of incense md offering
sachces to their divinity of the crops the Goddess
Isis S
Iapernacles' was, centuries ago, held during the
seventh month, which is November and after tbo
conipietlon OF Soiomon's temple the people that
year neld 14-day festival which was time of
thanksgiving, and during which time thew gave
thanks 1or the abundance of their land. Living in
booths they decorated their entire homes with
branches of the palm and of citron trees and +ban
showed that it was for the yield of the season as
were giving thanks.
Coming forward century or two we find Thanks
giving day being held in England under the name
OF harvest Home This day usually early in
november ana 1t opened by church service which
was followed by day of gayety and Teasing
Inanks were given in the churches for the benefits
OF the season and then the masses" focked tn the
srounds or the classes, to which they were all
invited Here squire and gentry entertained the
peasantry with free and easy dances in the barns
prizes given = $3.50
In the evening harvest songs were sung by the
nght or the moon, over the beer and ale which
moved Ireeiy. A dinner, such only the earfv Eng
iish knew how to prepare was served to these Great
crowds of thanksgfvers. and the Harvest Home dav
enoed IN repietion both of appetite and merrymak-
ing. ~
before the reformation special day was set
apart IN england for giving thanks, and after the
reformation the custom was continued with added
iervor out after ALL it is not from English an
cestors as We might suppose, that we received the
inspiration for our first Thanksgiving day
Neither did the idea originate with the pilgrims
themselves They merely continued a custom with
which they had become familiar and of which tbeir
natures approved, when they were living with their
Dutch cousins " ~
10 dlgress just a fttle 1t has been claimed nv
some investigators who stopped just little short
OF the beginning in tracing backward that the first
resi thanksgiving day of true American meaning
was heid by the Popham colonists of Nfonhegan
but as they were Episcopalians and gave thanks
seiy weeh IN their regular church ritual this must
DC oiacADaiied and cast out of our calculation.
ana now TO return to the Pilgrims and the ems
toms they absorbed while protected in Holland The
pious Dutch. before the Pilgrims hocked to their
peaceIul land. had set apart October on which to
sIve thanks for their harvest but more especially
tor their dehverance from Spanish authority The
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-28

British suffragettes are posting their
bills on monuments and public bu;,d.
fngs and the doors of those who ara
In power The London police are be.
ginning to think it is impossible to
keep good woman-suffrage move
ment down
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Undoubtedly.

would you run after me and poster
me in this fashion if you had a nail
Hon?"
81 should say not!''
''I thought as much"
'If I had million dollars. wouldn't
need to. you'd be running after and
Fostering me-