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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-09-29

COUNTY CORRESPONDENTS 1
OVIlILAA.

Ovilla, Sept. 27.-As it has been
some time since any news has been
reported from Ovilla, perhaps 1t
would be well for the correspondent
to let himself be heard from.
The distressing drouth has caus-
ed an almost total failure in crops.
Our gin only runs two days each
week and then some days is not very
busy Many of our citizens are away
seeking work.
Already some are making changes
for another year
Since we last reported, Mr.. Clay
ton Stoker has moved from our
midst and is now a citizen of Waxa-
hachie.
Mr.. Pugh is in the Stoker house.
We are sorry to report that I'm
cle' Hamm Harris is not doing well
but seems to be gradually sinking.
Mrs. f. F. McAlister, who has
been sick for several weeks, is up
and much improved.
Rev. Luther Jenkins of Maypearl
preached at the Baptist church Sat
Iurday night and Sunday.
Dick Myers, wife and mother Of
Waxahachie. visited Ernest Darnell
last week.
c. D. Bryson and ]. f. Bigham
made a flying trip to Dallas Mon
day.
Mrs. p. w. Trees and Miss Maud
Hamm entertained their Sunday
school class at the home of the for
mer last Saturday evening. All the
children report a delightful time.
The Sunday school at the Metho-
dist church is enjoying wave OF
renewed interest. They have lately
organized a Baraca and Philathea
class with large mem hership in
each
Mrs. E. R. Patterson is expecting
her sister, Mrs. G.. w. Music of
Searcy, Ark, to visit her this week.
Several of our young people at
tended services at Long Branch Sun
day night.
Mrs. Donahoe left for Arkansas
Monday on a short visit,
School at this place will open the
18th Of October with Prof. Jones
as principal
The Shiloh Cemetery Ladies are
preparing for an ice cream supper
at the school building next Friday
night.
Ready Vincent happened to quite
a painful accident last Monday by
sticking nail almost through his
foot, but he is getting along nicely
at this writing.
Bob Rust's baby is very sick
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GOLFERS CHAPEL.

Golfers Chapel Sept. 27.-The
click of the cotton wagon is the or
der of the day.
Health of community is very
good at present.
Mr.. Ira Cheek of near Ennis spent
Saturday night and Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Collier.
Mr.. Jim Collier returned home
Saturday after an extended visit to
Kaufman county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hickey were out
visiting Sunday.
Mr.. jim and R. A. Fileds were pas
sengers to Dallas Saturday.
Mrs Mamie Ham, Mr.. Claude
Ham and wife and ye scribe were
shopping in Waxahachie Saturday.
The Woodmen Circle met in due
order Saturday afternoon.
Mr. c. T. Ham and wife spent
Sunday afternoon with the latter
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Penny.
Mr.. Dauer Knox had business in
Dallas Saturday.
Sunday school at the Chapel every
Sunday afternoon. Everybody en-
pected to attend.
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TKt MBULii.

Trumbull Sept. 27.-Rev. Saw
yers of Palmer preached here Sun
day.
,fGan Lowell went to league Satur-
day to AXE his son to Bolton where
he entered school.
Abner Johnson was in Dallas
Saturday.
Mr. Bruce and son have returned
TO their home in Mississippi, after
a weeks stay with b. b. Bruce, who
has been very sick, but is improving
Mr.. Granthem and family visit
ed relatives in Ferris Saturday
Claud Newton and Eddie Moye
are attending school at Ferris.
Mesdames Reete and Johnson of
Palmer We're in town Friday.
Arthur Chester and wife are re-
joicing over a new girl at their
home.
Mesdames Smith and Geaslan
were in Ennis Sunday afternoon to
see Mrs. McKeever, who was oper-
ated on last week.
Prof. Dow Tate, who is teaching
at Ennis, was here Saturday His
mother. Mrs V. b. Tate of Waco, is
moving to Ennis where they will
live during Prof Tate's school.
Mrs. Lillian Stanley of Waco,
who has been visiting her sister,
Mrs. Welcome cobb at Mckinney,
spent a few days here and attended
the Littlepage-Stanley wedding in
Dallas Monday night
Joe Tate of Boyce was here Sun
day night
Uncle Billie McKeever preached
here Sunday.
Little Marie Tate, who has been
visiting in Waco, returned home
Tuesday, accompanied by her
grandmother, Mrs. V. b. Tate.
Mr.. II. Brown visited relatives in
Palmer Saturday and Sunday
Josh Tate entered school at En-
mis- Monday.
Carrie Porch is visiting her sis
ter. Mrs Reeves, in Ferris this
week.
The gin at this place is kept busy
but the cotton season win soon be
a thing of the past.
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country. The cotton crop will soon
be gathered. Most people are nearly
through now.
Rev. and Mrs. Terry are spending
few weeks in Hill county with their
daughter, Mrs. jamie Foster.
j. X. Price is getting over Sc
we're spell of appendicitis.
There has been two weddings
since our last report. Mr.. Hamilton
and Miss Terry and MIR. Fuller and
Miss Carrie Wood
p. NJ. Southland of Kemp, Okla,
was a caller at the home of j. K.
Price yesterday. Mr. Southland was
called to the bedside of his only
brother Alex Southland, who died of
typhoid fever Saturday evening at
Rankin.
Mr.. Webb Sperrier has gone to
Jones county on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Hatley visited
their daughter, Mrs. Inez Sperier,
Sunday
w. F. Price of Corsicana visited
his broaher, ]. X. Price, last week.
Health of community very good
at present.
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Discussing the fate of protection
if real democracy gets in control
Leslie's Weekly says: "Authorize an
income tax and, with the democratic
party in power, the first thing it
would do would be to levy an in
come tax and reduce the tariff, on
the ground that customs duties were
not necessary for the support of the
government. This is already an
nounced as the program of the par
TVS discredited, but not discarded,
leader William ]. Bryan" Yes, Les
lies is very SOLICITORS. With the
democratic party in power our Am
erican protected monopolies would
have to compete with the markets of
the world. The manufacturers prof
its would be cut to reasonable mar
gin and the consumer would be
great beneficiary.
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MAY PROVE FATAL.
When VIII WaXahachie People
Learn the Importance of 1t?

Learn the Importance of 1t?
Backache is only simple thing at
first;
But when you know It's from the
kidneys;
That serious kidney troubles fol-
low:
That diabetes, Bright's Disease
may be the fatal end,
You will gladly profit by the fol-
lowing experience.
'Tis the honest statement of a suf-
ferer who was cured.
II. i. Anderson, electrician, Kauf-
man, Texas, says: For ten years |
was subject to attacks of kidney
complaint. The pains in the smau of
my back were so acute at times that
I could hardly arise from sitting
position and when STOPPING, my back
felt as II it were going to break. On
several occasions | was practically
helpless and obliged to quit work.
The kidney secretions were irregular
and accompanied by scalding SEN
sation in passage. | spent much mon
ey doctoring and trying various
medicines but it was not until
used Doan's Kidney Pills that | OBJ
tanned relief. They helped me at
once and for three years | have had
no return of kidney trouble. | take
pleasure in endorsing Deans Kid
ney Pills"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Milburn Co, Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name--Doan's-
and take no other. d&W2
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Does This Suit Tou2

Hood 4 Curtin, the cnrerprlsing
druggists of Waxahachie. Texas, are
having such large 1un on HINDU
PO," the new Kidney Cure and
Nerve Tonic, and hear it 50 highly
praised that they now offer to guar
antee it In every case to cure all
forms Of Kidney Troubles and Ner-
vous Disorders.
They LAY for 1t II it does not give
you entire satisfaction.
II you use 1t, 1t is their risk. not
yours. A 50-cent box sent by mail
under positive guarantee. WITT
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DO you know or anything like
this The Cleburue Enterprise says:
There is a city ordinance which
says in SO many words that you
shall not let waste water run out in
yards or streets, that there shall be
connection with the city sewer-yet
there are some who are disobeyins
the law and in a serious manner,
100. These people are creating dan
ger spots, which breed mosquitoes,
disease and uncleanliness which is
dangerous not only to the health Of
their own households, but greatly
discomfitiug to neighbors, some
times making a siege of fever which
endangers the lives of a whole COM
munity Can 1t be that these people
realize the gravity of the situation.
They may claim they cannot afford
sewerage, but they will find it cheap
compared to a Doctors bill--and in
addition not run the risk of paying
dearly for the violation OF an ordin-
znce."
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You cant get around the fact, re-
gardless of your position towards
the city administration, that the
purposes for which it is proposed to
issue additional bonds are placed in
the light of actual necessities, and
careful consideration of the city's
best interests recommends the pro-
posed issue to your endorsement. Be-
sides, the tax levy will not be in
creased by this new issue.
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Says the Mansfield Sun: Spunk'
the free list No man now has an
excuse for not having plenty OF
'spnnk. But, having been assured
by the only living authority that re-
moving OF reducing the duty does
not cheaper the article to the con
sumner, "spunk,' even though it Is
on the free list, will be out of reach
for a great many people.
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To avoid buying summer clothes
comes Corpus Christi with recon-
mendations for further economy. The
Caller says: THE veXed question of
when to put on ones winter under
wear doesn't bother us much in
southwest Texas. Unless one is pune
tilious as to the seasons styles, he
can wear his linen buster or bob
tailed alpaca straight through.
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BUENA VISTA.

Buena Vista, Sept. 27.-Health
of this community is very good at
present.
The farmers are trying to pick
what little cotton they have.
new house is being built for the
use of our school teacher for next
term.
Mrs. NJ. A. Partin of Birmingham,
Ala, is visiting her nephew, Mr.. j.
G. Alexander.
Rev Harris of Maypearl filled
his appointment at this place Sun
day afternoon.
Miss Annie league visited at
Dixon's Chapel Saturday night and
Sunday.
Mr.. c. NJ Hooper and family have
left this part and will make their
future home near Dundee, Texas.
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Pocketbook pessimists who view
with alarm the almost daily change
in millinery fashions are stand-pat-
tiers in the north pole of prejudice.
A slide back to the zone of the sim
pie life in grand old Texas would
is still the real favorite. Why
crouch when it's so easy to GRIM
Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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W. A. OWNBY City EditoI
Residence Phone. Bell No 2s9l

Ellis county has a total of about
LOO sheep. Being so enormously
involved in the wool industry ii is
easy to understand why protection"
should recommend Itself to
this people At least that is about
the most logical reason why some
of the politicians are urging the
people to forsake true democracy
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clear your complexion Of pimples
and blotches like Foley's Orino Lax
alive, for indigestion, stomach and
liver trouble and habitual constipa-
ton. Cleanses the system and II
pleasant to take. B. w. Fearis. d
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There will be special meeting
of the w. O. w. Lodge Thursday
rangements for the Big Woodmen
Day. LEM WRAY, Clerk.
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The Enterprise Publishing Company IL
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Warn1ng.

Do not be persuaded into taking
anything but Foley's Honey and Tar
for chronic coughs, bronchitis, hay
fever. asthma, and lung trouble, as
It stops the cough and heals the
lungs. B. w. Fearis. d
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DR.. Abernathy, the great English
physician, said, "Watch your Kid
neys. When they are affected, life is
In danger" Foleys Kidney Remedy
makes healthy kidneys, corrects
urinary Irregularities. and tones up
the whole system. B. w. Fearis.
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Vendors hsa notes at the DAM
Lisht ONCE.
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LONE CEDAR.

Lone Cedar, Sept. 27.-Dry wealth
or continues in this part of tho
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Read what the advertisers ~
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-18
$685. IN NEW SHIRT WAIST
This Brooklyn Woman Paid Ninety
Eight Cents and Got a Sure
Enough Bargain,

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-One good
thing about a shirt waist that a
young woman bought for ninety
eight cents in Mrs. Anna Wasser-
mann's dry goods store, No. 879
Grand street, Brooklyn, yesterday,
was $685. that was wrapped up in it.
Shirt waists, as Mrs. Wassermann
herself said last night, do not come
that way this season as a general
rule, and the young woman who
paid the ninety-eight cents seems to
be we'll pleased with her exceptional
BILE bargain. She has not been back
for alterations or an exchange, and
last night Mrs. Wassermann became
convinced that to continue to expect
that she would come back was to
place an unjustifiable strain on hope,
and asked Captain Dooley of the
Bedford avenue station to try to find
the young woman.
Mrs. Wassermann had a sale of
shirt waists yesterday, and she offer
ed some really remarkable bargains.
Among them was a China silk waist
worth $2.2o of anybody's money but
for one day only marked down to
''ninety-eight cents" A young wo-
man who was a stranger in the store
appeared yesterday afternoon and
fell in love with the ninety-eight
cents bargain at once
When Mrs. Wassermann wrapped it
up she wrapped up with it 1896 that
she had placed on the counter prepar-
atory to placing it in a bank She
fears that the bargain hunting young
woman has placed it in a bank her
self by this time.
Shirt waists, the regular value of
which is $2.25, bear such a family
resemblance to one another that the
policemen who are looking for the
one in which the 1896 went home
think they have a difficult task.
One of the shrewdest of the seek
ers said last night that he considered
it within the realm of possibility that
when the young woman reached her
home and found that for her ninety
eight cents she had bought not only
a good waist, but $685. besides she
had gone forthwith and bought sew
eral expensive waists, in any of which
she might now be giving the towns
people treat.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-18
TREATED FRIENDS TO sTINGs.
Gave Them Bees Instead of Beer, and
Had to SkedaddIe.

The meanest trick yet was per-
petrated near AspinwaH, Pa, by a
man named Stephen Swatz, who.
when last seen, was heading for
Pittsburg with great speed, a few
rods ahead of an angry crowd armed
with clubs.
Swatz had a swarm of bees enter
an empty beer key. He placed a
plug in the keg and later in the
afternoon telephoned for some of his
friends to join him under a large
tree just back of the town, where
they would have some beer.
The gang came quickly, to find
SWatz sitting by an innocent-look-
ing key, which had large block of
ice on top of it. When the crowd
had gathered and lay about the grass
Steve excused himself for moment.
AS he went he managed to pull the
plug from the keg, and two minutes
after he had fled there were about
two pecks of mad bees in the air
around the key. 1t is said Swatz's
score of friends" were terribly
stung.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-18
SOME GOOD FARMING IN CLAY
Twenty Bales on Ten Acres Is the
Record Mr.. Green Expects
This Year.

An Albany dispatch says one of
the most remarkable object lessons
in the cultivation of cotton ever pre-
scented in this section comes from
Clay county.
Mr.. w. T. Green several years ago
determined to make exhaustive eX-
periments in cotton growing on the
intensive plan.
He selected a measured patch of
ten acres of land of the character
best suited to the successful cultiva-
ton of cotton, and planted the best
seed which he could procure in the
south. He fortified literally. In
the fail he ginned and sold ten bales
of an average weight of 500 pounds
from the measured ten-acre patch.
That was in 1907, In 1908 Mr..
Green planted the same ten acres in
cotton again. Again he secured seed
which the Georgia experiment sta
ton had declared produced the most
prolific cotton grown, and again he
fortified highly, using a good deal
more to the acre than he mad put
down the year before. In the fall
Mr.. Green ginned and sold fifteen
500-pOUnd bales of cotton from his
measured ten-acre patch.
But still Mr.. Green was not salts
fed, and this year he planned and
planted for two bales to the acre.
He used the same ten acres which
had produced so abundantly in the
two proceeding years, and was so
fortunate as to secure seed of new
variety, not yet on the market, but
known to be wonderfully prolific.
lie put down even more fertilizer
than he had done in 1908, and
knew exactly what sort of fertilizer
to use. He has cultivated the field
with great care, and the present pros
poets are that the yield will be fully
two bales, or 1000 pounds, to the
acre. The field is said by those who
have seen it to be the most wonderful
in Georgia, and many are prepared TO
wager that it will yield twenty bales
or more. Whether Mr.. Green will be
content with two bales to the acre
remains to be seen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-18
DIAMOND REMAINS MYSTERY.
The "Sparkler" Is One of the De.
spairs of Science.

SpalrS of Science.
AS substance the diamond is one
of the mysteries of nature, one of
the despairs of science. Nobody
knows whence it came nor how
whether it is a spark from a comets
tail or a crystalized drop squeezed
in some horrible intensity of fiery
CONFUSION from the white hot heart
of the earth. Nobody knows much
about it at all, except that it doesn t
belong to this world.
Some known black diamonds lit
orally were from the skies. They
came imbedded in meteorites cast
upon Arizona and Chill by an uni
IDENTIFIED star. One does not pros
pect for chips of stars. As well
search for the end of the rainbow
Neither is it practical to hammer ali
sorts of eruptive rock and conglom-
crate wherever come upon Earth
quake or volcanic upheaval districts
are not necessarily the most promis-
ing, for often diamonds that seem
to have had volcanic origin occur
thousands of miles from the prob
able place of extrusion--carried
thence it is assumed by glacial drift
in some far back geological time
Everybody's Magazine.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-18
MISSOURI LEADS IN FARMS
TOTAL NUMBER is 284, 1886, AND
AVERAGE SIZE 100 ACRES.
Some Interesting Information About
Farms and Farm Affairs in the
Middle West States.

COLUMBIA, Mo.-Missouri has
more farms than any other state in
the union. Within her borders are
284,8S6 farms. which average 12O
acres to the farm. The improved
land to each farm averages rs acres,
or 621a per cent. These figures are
based on the last census report. Ac-
cording to the report of the depart
ment of commerce and labor the
farms of Missouri are worth S34.75
an acre.
Among the states of the middle
west Missouri has smaller farms than
many of them. Ohio is an excep-
ton, where 276,OO0 farms average
only SO acres each. illinois has
264,000 farms of 124 acres each.
Iowa has 228,0OO farms of 151
acres; Kansas, 10000 of 2SS acres.
In the United States farms average
146 acres, but only so per cent. is
improved land.
F. B. Mumford, professor of ami
NAL husbandry in the University Of
Missouri, has prepared some inter-
esting facts about the amount of live
stock there is on an average Mis-
souri, farm. This is considered a
great mule state, and yet there are
four times as many horses as there
are mules in Missouri. The equip
ment, as Professor Mumford gives
it, is Is cattle, horses, 1 mule,
26 hogs, sheep and a fraction OF
a goat.
Fully one-third of the states pop
ulation depend directly or Indirect
ly upon animal products for their
! existence, said Professor Mumford
in discussing Missouri as a live stock
state. The income from animals
and animal products is $130,00O,0OO
annually. Fifty-five per cent. of the
farmers have their principal income
from live stock"
Missouri stands third in the mid
die west as the state having the
largest number of renters on the
farms. Illinois farms are titled by
siXty-one per cent. owners and thirty
nine per cent. tenants. The per cent.
OF the tenantcy in Iowa is 349,
while Missouri has only three ten
ants in ten farmers, which means
that seven farms out of ten in Mis-
souri, do not pay rent, but have the
title of their farms resting in them
selves. The per cent. of tenantcy
in Ohio is 27.5, but in Michigan it
drops to 15.9.
J Missouri does not get so much re-
turn from her lands per acre as do
many of the other states in the Sec
ton. According to the last census
report the money made on each acre
of improved land in Missouri was
1888. This is not much less than in
any of the best states surrounding
Missouri. The return an acre in
Ohio was $13.36; in Michigan
$12.42; Illinois, s12.48; Iowa,
$12.22.