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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-07
WHY Store Coal Now

When we will deliver YOU the very
best grade McAlester Lump Coal
either in October or November at ~
per ton. Phone us your order-pay
for coal when delivered WaXahachle
Ice Works, l3a
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-07

FoIey's Honey and Tar Compound
Still retains its high place as the best
household remedy for all cou his ana
colds, either for children or grown
persons. Prevents serious results
from a cold Take only the genuine
FoIeys Honey and Tar Compound,
and refuse substitutes For sale by
Curlln's Two Drug Stores. d&w
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-07
500 McAlester Coal.

| will book you big lump Meal
lister coal at $500 per ton. But this
coal will not be the best quality. II
you want quality as well as big lump
it will cost you SIS per ton deliv-
cred. Both phones rs. d. II, Thomp-
son. Is
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-07
BEFORE Your Reach the Limit

of physical endurance and while
your condition is still durable, take
Foley's Kidney Pills Their quick ac-
action and positive results will de-
light YOU For backache, nervous
ness. rheumatism, and all kidney,
bladder and urinary troubles For
sale by Curlin's Two Drug stores.
d&R
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-07
ANNOUNCEMENT

Beginning with September the Saturday issue of
the Daily Light will consist of not less than eight pages
columns to the page The news service for this
issue will be complete and it will be effort
make it an especially readable end of the week publ
cation The Saturday issue of the Daily Light will
carry live reading matter than is usually printed
in weekly editions.
AS advertising medium the Saturday issue of
the Daily Light will offer the merchants unusual
opportunity for announcing special sales for Monday
Tuesday of the week following or for the regular
advertising of their business The circulation of the
Saturday issue of the Daily Light is guaranteed be
greater than that of any other paper published in Ellis
county except the Weekly Enterprise.
The Saturday issue of the Daily Light will be
mailed to regular subscribers for S1OO per year,
we will combine 1t with our weekly edition, the old
reliable Enterprise for 81 so per year all subscrip
tons payable in advance. To those now taking the
Enterprise will give the benefit of the fifty cent
rate This feature issue of the Daily Light will be
more of a newspaper than you have before been
offered for the price It will contain more matter
than is given in the average weekly and by taking it
in connection with the Enterprise you get news
papers both as good experience and money
production less than either of these publications is
really worth
Featuring the Saturday issue of the Daily Light
will in no way interfere with either the Enterprise
or the other week day issues of the Light. These
papers will be kept up to their usual standard of
excellence improving as business justifes and
always heading the list of Ellis county publications
This is indeed an opportunity
for readers and for advertisers
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-07
Institute Notes.
enough

Miss Dora Warner, the secretary
of the institute, will teach this year
at Berry's Chapel.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-07

Buy your pump from F. 5 Cronk
%. All kinds Prices way down II
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-06
AND THE FARMER

Railroad companies get much
ana alleged eshness that is concentrations 10 90
anS they make the
oher industries railroading
prosper the road can enjoy prosperity
territory the railroad cannot
interest would justify railroads they can to promote b ~
being and prosperity of its -,
view TO take OF things they 0 to do
The Central of Georgia has which
a railroad may be Of material serves ousa ~
us regular line and to its benefit
announces that 10 model farms
stations will be established the company Each LII
consist of 40 Of tiab WI
under the supervision of '
The farmer furnishing the cultivation will he g
anteed against loss, and he will all the profits
These farms be charging and increa.in 49,
emciency OF hundreds of others to daon
what can be done with land along lines Central and ~
De inc means adding growth every contiguous farm
Inc IDEA adopted has been applied by Mr. RaInb
Peters road for nightly in bunip
up waste places on that earth which shoots
off diagonaly from city ~
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-06

ray in charge of the work to the
splendid advantages offered bv Ter
reII county 1t is conceded that Ter
reII county is one of the most pro-
gresslYe counties in Georgia along
agricultural lines, and the progress
made during he last fifteen wears
has been almost phenomenal. Orr
farmers are wide-awake to the sub
Ject OF improved conditions, and are
making strenuous efforts along these
lines. Terrell county is today. it's
area considered, the banner cotton
county OF Georgia, and with one ex-
ceptlon the banner cotton section of
the United States. During the last
several years it has raised more cot
ton, when it's area is considered, than
any county east of the Mississippi
river. During the past rew years our
farmers have made wonderful prog
ress in raising corn, oats and other
feed stuffs. One of our farmers last
year raised 161 bushels of corn on
one acre, and 1,243 bushels on ten
acres. We have several farmers this
year who will make over 100 bushels
of corn to the acre.
I'VE recite these facts simply to
show that our farmers are appreci-
atiye, wide-awake and are in a posi-
ton to be greatly benefited by the
intelligent demonstrations which we
believe will come from one of the
farms in charge of the Central of
Georgia railway which they propose
to establish.
For the above reasons the Farm
ers' Union of Terrell county, in meet
ing assembled, respectfully urge and
request the authorities of the Central
of Georgia railway to locate one of
these farms in Terrell county, and
we pledge our hearty cooperation to
make it a success.
Therefore be it resolved. that we
send copy of the above to the agent
of the Central of Georgia railway in
charge of the farm demonstration
work.
Passed unanimously in open
meeting this 3Oth day of August,
1911. ]. A. FERGUSON Pres.
&c. F. SMITH, County Sec"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-06
SLAYER OF DEPUTY FAIN KILLED IN SWAMP
A THRILLING RESCUE AT SEA
HippO's Sneeze Put Cook of Ocean
Liner Overheard Two Days Out.
Was Finally Rescued.

NEW YORK.-Perhaps thou
sand or more passengers on board
the neutrality-suspicious. line steamer
President Grant saw the crew figure
in a thrilling rescue in mid-ocean
when the vessel was two days from
port. A lesser number witnessed
the peculiar mishap that caused the
sudden cry of man overheard" and
sent two lifeboats rowing about in
the wake of the ship.
On the open deck forward, say the
chronicles-the aforesaid lesser
number of passengers-was hippo
potamus housed in a big box. Max
Harvest, one Of the cooks on board,
finding his quarters rather hot last
Monday, came out on the open deck
and incautiously seated himself on
the rail near the hippo's box for a
breath of air.
All at once, the passengers say,
the animal gave a mighty sneeze,
the force or surprise of which caused
Harvest to topple into the sea.
Almost instantly life preserver
was thrown overheard and two boats
were lowered as the steamship slack
ened her speed. Harvest, being a
strong swimmer, reached the life
preserver and chung on. After Is
minutes he was picked up by one
Of the boats.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-06
PHOSPHORUS AND THE SOIL
Fertilizer Has Been Wonderful Sue
cess in Illinois, and Made Agri-
cultural History,

When the University of Illinois
threshed it's wheat on an experiment
field the other day agricultural his
tory was made. Upon the plots on
which phosphorus was one of the
fertilizing ingredients the crop was
more than doubled, a record believed
to be without precedent.
When the complete returns from
the experiment field are published
the advocates of soil fertility in IlIi-
nois will have another powerful
weapon forged for them in their bat
tie of education. The farmer of that
state will be told that on the ordi-
nary land in the Illinois corn belt
the increase in ten years has amount
ed to $81.47 an acre, with a net
prRtit of 200 per cent, while the
land is made richer every year. The
total cost of the phosphorus fe-5il-
izer for those ten years was $25.
Side by side, fertilized and infer
tilted, the ten plots of the expert
ment field have been watched since
1902. 1t was in 1905, according TO
the policy of rotation, that the wheat
crop was first raised. Again the ro-
tation, and in 1911 came the figures
that meant so much to DR.. c. G.
Hopkins, leader in the Increment for
soil fertility in Illinois.
The story of Plot 1O4 Will be an
important one in the report that is
soon to go out. This plot was treat
ed with lime and phosphorus. In ten
years the total value per acre Of the
crops on this plot has been $229.37.
Plot l04 will be compared with Plot
lO2, merely treated with lime. For
the same length of time the total
value of it's crops has been $148.75I
an acre, margin of $S0.62 to the
credit of the phosphorus. The per-
tunctory part that limestone played
is shown by the total of the crops
for the ten years on Plot 1O1, which
receives no fertilizer They totaled
$14Z90.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-06
FARMERS WANT TEST FARMS
COUNTY UNION HAVE
ADOPTED RESOLUTIONS.
Commend the Central Railroad. and
Urge the Location of One of Its
Model Farms Here.

The farmers of this section are in
terested in the announcement that
the Central railroad will establish
fifteen test farms along its various
Mines, and have Joined The News in
an effort to secure one of these mod
eel farms for Terrell county.
AT the monthly meeting of the
Farmers Union at Pleasant Hill on
Thursday resolutions were adopted
strongly commencing the establish
ment of these experiment stations.
and urging that one be located in
the banner agricultural county of
Georgia.
The object of the test farms will
be to provide an opportunity for
practical tests of the farming meth
DDS advocated by the State College of
Agriculture. The Central railroad
has agreed to guarantee the fifteen
farms against loss to those who are
selected to make these tests. The
test farmers will be announced in
few days.
The resolutions that were adopted
by the Farmers Union are as fol-
lows:
we notice with pleasure that it
is the purpose of the Central of Geor-
gia railway to establish along it's
lines fifteen experimental and demon
stration farms for the purpose of
aiding and assisting the farmers in
the efforts now being made to inten-
sify and diversity the system of
farming. We believe that this is
step in the right direction, and shows
the broad-minded spirit of the Off
GERS and agents of the Central of
Georgia railway, and we pledge them
our earnest cooperation in this laud-
able undertaking. What the farmers
need in this section is more accurate
information as to what crops can
be grown successfully in this sec
ton.
I'm this connection we desire to
call the attention of the officers and
agents of the Central of Georgia rail
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-06
TWO CROPS FROM ONE PLANTING
Last Years Stalks on Six Acres Yield
Farmer Nine Bales.

A Moultrie dispatch says: T. H.
Parker, Ordinary of the county, on
his farm north of the city has dem
onstrated that it pays to bury the
roots Of cotton plants in the fall and
harvest two crops from one planting.
He pursued this course with six acres
of cotton last fall, and in the early
spring drew the dirt away from the
roots and permitted them to sprout,
and this six acres he says he will
gather nine or ten bales of lint cot
ton, The plants seem to be a great
deal harder than those planted this
year, and stand wet weather a great
deal better In the same field with
this last years roots is cotton of this
years planting, and with the abnor-
nal rainfall of the past three weeks
his new cotton shows a great deal of
rust and willing, while no shedding
or rust is apparent in the old patch.
He says he will leave a much larger
acreage this year and prove the
worth of his experiment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-06
MIR. ARBUCKLE is HAPPY.
Millionaire Has Been the Means of
Furthering Many Marriages.


Millionaire John ArbuckIe is han
Ply. The more he thinks of it the
heartier he laughs. Some three years
ago he bought the schooner Jacob A.
Stemler and fitted it out as a float
ing hotel for working men and wo-
men, arranging to provide board,
lodging, laundry and other things to
worthy young people for $3.50 a
week.
To begin with he had come to the
conclusion that the failure of many
similar charitable enterprises could
be traced to the separation of the
sexes. A simple way to overcome
this, he figured, would be to provide
accommodations for both men and
women on the Stamler.
Meantime Mr.. Arbuckle's friends
insisted the project would be rank
failure, but he just sat tight and
sawed wood. The result was the old
wind-jammer was not in commission
day before young Dan Cupid took
passage, and scores of romances
have blossomed aboard the old boat.
Now applications for accommodations
far exceed the number that can be
granted.
The father" of the Institution
takes a great interest in the boat and
makes weekly visits of inspection.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-06
MARCH OF THE BOIL WEEVIL
THE GREAT PEST WILL BE IN
GEORGIA IN SHORT WHILE.
one Oh the Demonstrators Employed
to Tour the Boil Weevn District
Warns the Farmers.

Unless the farmers of Georgia
heed the warning of the coming of
the boil weevil to this state the cot
ton tragedy of Mississippi will be
repeated in two years. This is the
opinion Of j. D. MCGEE of Knoxville.
Ca, one of the sixteen demonstrate
ors named by the United States bu-
reau of plant industry to tour the
boil weevil belt this summer and re-
port the progress of the. ravages of
the pest.
The demonstrators met in Merid-
ian July 16 and travelled over the in
fected regions of NJ ssissippi, visiting
Natchez, Jackson, Port Gibson,
Vicksburg and many smaller towns.
In speaking of the ravages wrought
by the boil weeyil in Mississippi and
southwestern Alabama and the like
lihood of it's reaching Georgia with
in two years Mr.. MCGEE says:
Il want to issue a solemn warn
ing to the planters of Georgia, those
who have not needed the approach of
the boil weevil and even to those that
have.
IF the farmers of Georgia do not
diversity their crops and do not take
all the precautions possible to be-
gin a fight on the weevil the moment
it makes its appearance on the Geor-
gia line the tragedy of the Mississip
pi cotton grower will be enacted
again.
They didn't think that the boil
weevil would ever get to Mississippi,
and the result was when it came
number of small farmers were
wiped out. Some of them have turn
ed to corn and early cotton, but the
majority are still bankrupt
The farmers of Georgia should
begin right now to plan for the d.
yersification of crops and for plant
ing early cotton and for using the
most approved methods in fighting
the weevil. 1t is the only thing that
can save the state and the small
grower from going the way of the
Mississippians.
/ cannot speak too strongly upon
this subject. I have seen the condi-
tons and the rest of the demonstrate
ors have seen them and they are Sc
rious."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-06
LOSS BY SHORT WEIGHT.
American People Are Thus Defrauded
of 100000, 900 a Year.

The American people are de-
frauded of $2O,OOO,OOO a year by
short weights and measures" saws
Isadore Wulfson, Inspector at In
dlanapolis. That is not very start
ling. They thought it was nearer
$1OO,O00,OOO. Mr.. Wulfson proba-
bly, underestimate the extent of the
evil but it must have been exagger-
ated by the muck rakers, who would
put all grocers, butchers, bakers and
packers under suspicion. There are
some exceptions, as no one will denv
out' as a rule, the baker, grocer and
butcher are honest as well as hard
working, and do give their customers
honest weights and measures. Those
VINO graft on the householder must
be exceptions, for women spend most
OF the funds for household expenses
and everyone knows who deals with
them that most of them are shrewd
traders and get the worth of their
money.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-06
AND STILL THE errors COME
SMITH SIGNS BILL GIVING $500
TOO MUCH TO VETERANS.
No Help for 1t Now, and Governor
Must Honor Warrant of PEN
sion Commissioners.

ATLANTA.-A blunder has been
discovered now in the appropriation
bill, making the fourth measure af-
fected by clerical error, which ran
the gauntlet of the engrossing COM
mittee, the governors secretaries and
Governor Smith himself without de-
lection.
In the section relating to pensions
the original bill gave $4,000 to
manned and disabled soldiers" The
engrossing clerk wrote it $127,5OO,
and it so stands in the measure
signed by Governor Smith,
This means that the additional ST.
500 will go to this class of pension
ers, and the governor must honor
the warrant of the pension commits
sioner for the increase when it is
drawn.
This further emphasizes the neces-
sity for expert proof readers, en-
bodying the plan of Clerk Boifeuillet
of the house. This genial official is
distressed very much that so many
serious blunders have crept into vital
acts, the first of moment he has had
in his thirteen years of service as
clerk of the house.
With an increase, of $44,000,00O
in tax returns this year the state
will get 1920 900 additional reve-
nues. This means that there will
not be anything like the deficit Gov
ernor Smith constantly asserted
would exist if there were any in
creases in appropriations. In fact,
it will come within about $4,000
of caring for both general and special
appropriation bills, which largely
justif1es Chairman McElreath's con-
tention right along.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-06
CHATTY'S w. & A. TERMINALS

that raised last
Joe that deal for certain lands Cha
Aooga railroad terminals?
One of assigned for the governors course was that
there money to make the purchase.
howl claim that the
ougng
the Chattanooga Times claim that Hoke Smith
again we will terminals" that
NcI We quote from memory
the Atlanta Journal Paul Tramme
Newt Norris patriots?
Well all down and out the proposition
expedences of the
Change tune and the
criminals short Special the sub
% The the and cut the prooke
the administration
though without session to cut down by adding
expenses
1t would funny if it were not so tragic.
Oh consistency thou woud be jewel il thou weren't
the Georgia political neutrality-suspicious. Telegraph.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-06
POSTAL SAVINGS BANK SOON
Uncle Sam Will Begin Receiving De-
posits in Dawson on Wednesday,
September 10th.

AONAe
Dawson will get a postal savings
bank in the next two weeks. This
city will not be left out of the saving
system longer than September 18th,
that being the date local postofice
has been advised it will be put in OPP
Grafton.
The general plan for these banks
prevailing in similar postoffices Of the
ffrst-class will be followed in Dawson.
Because the banks have proven so
successful in other cities it is believed
the one here will.in time accumulate
quite bit Of the savings of Daw-
sonians.
1t is stated that Dawson was left
out of the list of banks for some
time because of the superior record
Of the banking houses here.
The establishment of the bank
here will mean the designation OF
certain of the local banks to receive
the funds from the postal bank. The
deposits with the postal bank and
with the other Institutions are all
guaranteed by a certain quota of gov
eminent bonds,
IL is also probable that the present
force of the postofiice will have tC
be augmented by additional men ia
take care of the banking end of I'm
Gle Sans business However, such
matters will all be worked out in
TIME.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-06
CATERPILLARS HURT COTTON
Worms Are Doing Destructive Work on Some of the
Farms of Terrell County North of Dawson.

The News in its last issue told of
the appearance of caterpillars in
some of the cotton fields north of
Dawson, and the latest report from
the infested section is that the work
Of the worm is becoming serious.
Messrs. ]. D. Weaver, T. B. Raines,
j. w Gurr, S. Jones, J. w. Haut-
man and a number of other farmers
in Sardis community are complaining
of the ravages of the insect, which
is eating off the leaves and fruit and
leaving the stalk perfectly bare. The
old cotton is too far advanced to be
damaged much, but young cotton,
which is still fresh and green, is
being literally eaten up and will be
practically a failure so far as max
ing anything is concerned.
The area in which the caterpillar
has appeared is gradually increasing,
and it is feared that the worm will
spread over the county and still fur
Their reduce a crop that has already
been cut short by prolonged drouth.
Before this invasion it had been
many years since the caterpillar ap-
peared in sufficient numbers to cause
alarm or even attract attention.
1t is possible to protect the crop
from these worms if prompt treat
ment is properly applied by using
either paris green or powdered arse
nate of lead, busting it over the
plants. The success of the treatment
will depend very largely upon its
promptness. Some of the farmers
mentioned above are now administer
ing poison to the worms.
These moths hibernate in the very
southern parts of Texas and Florida.
In very mild winters a few of them
might go through in very favorable
shelter in other states. They are pow
erful flyers and spread quickly over
great distances, depositing their eggs
one in a place and to the number of
500 or 600 in a weeks time, so that
their offspring appear in widely sep
arated localities early in the season,
and if conditions favor their develop
ment they are capable of doing inn
measurable damage.