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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-16

in the presence of thirty-one
members and two visitors the
Shakespeare Club held its first SEES
sion since the holidays on last
Tuesday.
This was their second lesson on
Browning and with Mrs. J. e.
Leigh as their enthusiastic leader
these have proven 10 be very profit
able sessions.
Miss Louise Groee IN a rythmi-
cal happily worded paper showed
the analogy bet~ cen music and
poetry as revealed in Browning's
poem "Abt N0gler' Each is a Ian
eua2e Of the soul but she consider
ed since poetry needs no interpre-
ter as does music there is q perma-
nent pleasure derived from its
study which may be enjoyed by all.
Mrs J. s. Herring in a paper on
Womanhood in Browning admir-
ably delineated character which
revealed the jealous woman, the
political woman. while not neglect
ing other types. As a general OBJ
servation she noted that beauty of
soul and intellect meant more to
Browning than physical beauty.
In a concise, clear manner Miss
Kathleen Gibson presented the va
riety and range of Browning s
imagination as designed in his
works.
Browning and Shakespeare were
compared as writer's by Mrs. Ljy-
ingstoue She APPLY proved their
points in common, each portraying
largely feminine traits. mentioning
the ease with which they fit eharac-
tiers into their plots.
PROSPECT the poem in which Brown
ing anticipates death as the fruitioa
of life WIS beautifully read by Miss
lnez Singleton followed by a gener-
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-16
Thursday bible Class Meets.

Mrs. T. J. McDade was hostess
this week for the Thursday Bible
Class at her beautiful home on Old
ham avenue. The class considered
for the lesson THE Call of Gid
con Mrs. Richard Lewis read a
splendid paper, THE Prophetesses
of the Bible" Miss Jewel McDade
gave Two vocal numbers, 1.-The Ro-
sary' and Because | Want You. =
Special guests were Mesdames j..
T, Norman, Bert Stands and
walker Mrs. s. III. Watson con-
Quoted the lesson In her usual cred
table manner. The decorations
We're carnations and Chinese lilies.
Misses Jewel and Margaret McDade,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-16

In view of the approaching dis
trlct meeting of Federated Clubs to
be held in WaXahachie during the
spring months We will quote from
time to time extracts from the
state presidents letters
There are citizens interested in
the work this body of unselfish la
borers are hoping to accomplish.
Since compulsory school attend
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humorous selection:

humorous selections:
The hand that rocks the cradle, but
there is no such hand.
1t is bad to rock the baby, they
would have US understand,
So the cradles but a relic OF the
former foolish days,
When mothers reared their children
in unscientific ways,
When they jounced them and they
bounced them, those poor dWarfs
of long ago,
The Washingtons and Jelfersons ana
Adamses. you know.
They warn us that the baby will
possess a muddIed brain,
II we dandle him or rock him, We
must carefully refrain,
He must lie in one position, never
swayed and never swung.
Or his chance to grow to greatness
will be blasted while he's
young
All, to think how they We're ruined
by their mothers long ago,
The F'ranklins and the putname and
the lGamiltons, YOU know.
Then we must feed the baby by The
schedule that is made,
And the food that he is given must
be measured out or weighed,
He may below to inform us he
isn't satisfied
But he wouldn't grow to sreatne IS
if his wants were all supplied.
Think how foolish nursing stuntcn
those poor Weddings, long ago,
The Shakespeares and the Luthers,
and the Bonapartes, you know.
We are given great mission, We
are here, today. on earth
To bring forth a race OF giants, ard
to guard them from their birih,
To insist upon their freedom from the
the rocking that was bad
For our parents and their gcra n bin ,
all the brains they had.
All, if they'd been fed by schedule
would they have been stunted 50?
Tho Nnhctprs and tho Dc1i1ts md
the Booseyelts. you EncY.
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FOR MEN AND WoNtN

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Drug Stores.
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MONDAY MEETINGS.
Episcopal Guild.

The Woman's Auxiliary of the
Episcopal church met Monday after
noon with Mrs. Richardson, at the
home OF her daughter, Mrs Bernard
lice, on Rogers street The discus
sion of the afternoon was The Why
ana How of Foreign Missions"
Mrs. Charles Graft Of Dallas with
Iel mother. Mrs. Anna Griggs, were
visitors. A salad course with hot
coffee was served. The next meet
Ing will be with Mrs. Nj. B. Ray,
with Mrs. s. II. Watson as teacher,
An interesting feature Of the aft
ernoon was the business session CON
Quoted on the plan of the board OF
inquiry. illustrating the plan of the
church court.
Mrs Maxwell was admitted as L
new mem Der
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City Federation.

To formulate plans for the enter
tainment of the Federation Women 5
clubs which will meet in Waxahachie
this coming spring all the club Wom-
Ell of the city are asked to meet
at Sims library next Wednesday aft
ernoon at O'Clock.
The Bay View, Shakespeare and
Music clubs have voted favor
ably for the organization of a city
federation and full attendance
from these bodies is desired.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-16

Miss Marie Smith entertained the
Five Hundred Club last Saturday
afternoon. Miss Lillian Cloud of
Dallas was presented with the fav-
or, silver picture frame. The
guests were taken to Curlins for
refreshments, where they were
late
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-16
Active in Social Service Work.

A sewing school for girls founded
six years ago in Muskogee, Ok, by
former WaXahachie lady, Mrs.
Callie Locke now bears the foun-
der's name, the club being christen-
ed during the Christmas holidays
at q meeting of the United Chart
ties at Muskogee. The school is
called "The Callie Locke Sewing
School, Mrs. Locke is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. n. A. Thompson Of our
city, and during her young lady
hood spent in WaXahachie. she was
a social favorite.
1t has been suggested that the
Waxahachie club women. who rank
high in the list of self-culture clubs
in Texas clubdom, might enter more
progressive work, and organize a
social service department. Already
an Individual club woman OF the
city has organized an embroidery
club of ten girls, which meets week
y, and as they sew the leader in
structs them in some work Of good
| literature.
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The Sick List.

Mrs, n, G. Gould is quite sick at
her home on Rogers street
Miss Pauline Watkins, one of the
teachers in the City schools, has
been kept away from her duties
during the week, owing to severe
sore throat.
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II you are "beliaking" about your
printing try j. T. Tucker, Job Print.
ing That's All" at the Daily Light
office. II ADJ nd
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CITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

All announcements made unt
this head are subject to the art
of the white mans primary
For Mayor
81 RTON PRINCE.
w. G. MeCLAIN.
For Alderman. Ward /
A. l., ROGERS.
c. A. PETTY.
For Alderman Ward
r. w. RUSHING
r BOEliBE
For Alderman Ward
j. T. ANDREWS.
A. N. GUTHRIE.
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daughters of the household, served
refreshments, consisting of cheese
and ham sandwiches, olives, minis
and coffee with whip cream. The
w. G. McClain on Oldham avenue.
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Entertains With Evening Dinner.

Mr.. and Mrs. G.. C. Groce enter
tanned Monday evening honoring a
few friends with an evening dinner
The table center piece was a hand
some basket of deep red carnations.
Guests We're DR.. and Mrs. c. w.
Simpson, Mrs. C. w. Clarkson and
DR.. d. G. Thompson.
Mrs. W, c. Proctor Of Dallas, who
has been the guest of Misses Louise
and Halle Groce, has returned
home.
c. w. Clarkson of Fort Worth is
spending the weekend with Mrs.
Garrison. who is the guest OF
Misses Groce, on Williams avenue.
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ence cards. Croqucttes, followed by
pineapple cream and cake We're
served.
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{. y. Mission Society.

The regular session of the mis-
sion society of the Central Presby-
terrain church, was conducted Mon
day afternoon.
Mrs. G. H. Hogan led the consc-
Grafton service, using as her subject
At the business session it was an
uounced that the annual dollar So
cial will be held February % and
the place will be named later The
study class is now reading In Red
Mans Land" The next meeting will
be with Mrs. w. l.. McEiree, on Pat
rick street,
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The only pleasant aspect about
war Is that no straw votes are taxi
On.
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First PreSbyterianS.

The Home Mission society of the
day with Mrs Ed Williams at her
home on West Jefferson street The
fair day brought large attendance,
Home mission work as exemplified
in the life of the Indian and the
Negro, was the discussion of the
afternoon. The ladies are contem-
plating a new study book for the ne"
ypar
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Will Keep Open House.

Honoring Miss Clara Boyd, who
Will leave next week for an extend
ed visit to her sister, Mrs. Frank
Barber, at San Antonio, Miss Marie
smith viii keep open house to-
morrow afternoon, from 8 to six
O'Clock.
Mrs. III. A. Carr of Fort Worth Is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. C. f.
Cough, on Main street.
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KEEPING Up WITH FRIENDS.

From the Austin american ~e
learn that Miss Belle Works, a
Waxahaehla young lady, vino is at
tending school at the State j'niyer-
sity. has been pledged to the ln
Delta sorority.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-16

Miss Palma Anderson. Who was
at the head OF the piano department.
of Trinity University, rcsisning her
position two years ago 10 pursue
her studies in Berlin, has been fore
ed to leave the musica' center OF
that country, and is now in Chica-
go. continuing her studies. This in
formation comes to WaXahachie
friends in personal letters from
Miss Anderson. She writes that the
war conditions did not discourage
her, but that her family's a2pre-
hension for her, made her conclude
to return TO the homeland,
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Gives Forty Two Party.

Mrs. p. A. Chapman entertained
the AZ club at her home in Trinity
addition Tuesday afternoon. TIE
floral scheme was characterized in
poinsettas and white carnations.
Mrs. Barr Cunningham and Miss
Ruth Chapman, daughters of
the hostess. served refresh
ments, consisting of salad
course with hot coffee Guests
were Mesdames p. p. Smith, r. NJ
Rocket, II. l.. williamson, ]. T. An
drews. j. G. Jarrett, Phil Bertram,
G. NJ. Supple. T. A. Owens, c. C.
Cooke, Sid Farrar and Boyd Gounah.
. Mrs. ALI Crumley of Ennis was the
guest OF her sister, Mrs. Montgomery
Middleton, on Rogers street.
II. b. Edwards, who spent the fall
months with his brothers at Lewis
Vile. has returned to Waxahachie.
.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Bisland of de-
Ridden. La, returned to their
home yesterday after visit to Mrs.
j. s. Herring on Brown street.
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At the Christian Church.

In the parlorS of the First Chris
tan church, the members of the so
ciety organized for local work, met
Monday afternoon and elected the
following officers: President, Mrs.
Y D. Kembe; vice president, Mrs.
r. A. Ferris; secretary and treas
urer, Mrs. Jack DunaWay
The study is now confined to the
mCnthly magazine. "A Child in the
Midst" will be their next study
C1nrSe
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Gus Mouldner, who was in the
cotton business in Waxahachie in
the fall Of 1913, writes friends here
that he is enlisted in the army OF
his native country, Germany, and
that he is feeling the effects and
hardships Of war.
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With the Methodist Ladies'.

An ali-day session was held Mon
day by the Ladies' Missionary So
cicty OF the First Methodist church
The morning devotional service was
led by Mrs. |. NJ. Williams, inter
spersed with prayer and songs The
object of the meeting was to ehristen
the beautiful new mahogany piano,
purchased by the Home department
of the society.
During the afternoon the following
program was rendered:
Piano solo, Mrs Roland Harrison
Vocal solo, Mrs. Walter Grow
Piano solo, Miss Vera Crisler.
Vocal solo, Miss Barcus.
Piano selection Miss Halle Groce.
Mrs. Boyd was accompanist for the
vocal numbers. By special request
Mrs. Crow gave a fayorite transcript
ton of Gottschalk's Last Hope"
Refreshments We're served in the
dining room. The table was set with
basket OF polnSettas and ferns,
Baptist Ladies Meet.
Monday afternoon the BAPTIST
ladies' met at the church for their
Monday session. The lesson was on
the Training school which is located
at Fort Worth. Mrs. J. c. Lump
kins conducted a round table dis
cussion, on the progress of the school.
Mrs. Clyde Winn read a paper con-
corning the activities of the school.
An interesting and unusual feature
was the reading by Marian Lump
kins, the five-year-old daughter of
Judge and Mrs. j. c. Lumpkins. Civ
iEs the second chapter of Matthew.
Elizabeth VIM, the little daughter
OF Mrs. Clyde Vim, sang a solo.
A report from the group teachers
brought the information that $125
had been paid on the new carpet.
during the week. AS a study book
these ladies are using the popular
mission study, "A Child in the
Midst
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Miss Louise Groce will leave
Wednesday for Marshall where she
has been elected as professor OF
English in the High school Miss
Groce Will be in the home OF her
aunt Mrs Dr.. Rosboroueh, and
having frequently visited there she
enters the work with special en-
thusiasm.
Americus times-recorder., 1915-04-30
AMERICUS.
GEORGIA

eastward, and finally back to Memel
the route led, with the picture always
the same, the devastation varying only
in degree. Yet not one house and not
one village showed the effect of gun
fire or fighting. Each had been sys-
tematically plundered and then fired.
AS the correspondent left Memel,
bound for more southerly scenes of
the same or worse character, Rus
sian prisoners were just completing
the burial of their III comrades who
had had a part in the destruction of
the district. Every hundred yards
there were teams hauling fugitives
and their few remaining belongings,
fleeing from possible future invasion
or because. there was nothing left for
them to stay for.
Americus times-recorder., 1915-04-30
SCHOOL KIDD|ES NOT
TAKEN FROM BOOKS
TO WORK FOR SOLDIERS
(By Associated Press.)

LONDON, April 30.-The suggestion
recently made in some quarters thar
children be taken from the public
schools and allowed to assist in farm
work, has apparently not met with
any very general adoption. The re-
turns made to the national Board of
Education under the compulsory edu-
cation laws, show that only 1.4OO
children of school age have been ex-
cused from school attendance for this
reason.
The average pay of children employ
ed in farm labor is given as $3.50
week, although in many cases board
and lodging are supplied in addition.
Americus times-recorder., 1915-04-30

| the Russian troops swept into Memel
AS terrified villagers gazed from theiI
windows, the soldiers marched through
Memel's main street, smashing in the
store windows, stopping only long
enough to help themselves to tobacco
liquor and food.
Memel, however. had "a hours no
tice, and had utilized the time for par
tial flight Terrified villagers from the
outlaying districts had come painting
into town with stories of dwellings
looted and burned, relatives and
friends seized and borne off to Russia
by Russian civilians following the
wake of the soldiers, and of atrocities
too terrible to mention.
Eight thousand of the towns popu-
lation, thanks to one final stand of
the Landsturm at the Karlsbrueche
with machine gun, succeeded in get
ting out of Memel, with a few belong
ings, and onto the long strip of sand
dune known as the "Kurische Neh-
rung" that runs in a curying direc-
ton southwark toward Koenigsberg.
Few of the fugitives had had time
to bring any food, and on the narrow
strip of sand there was nothing on
which they could subsist. The bitter
winter weather that had made the
fight so terrible, however, proved to
be their salvation, for it froze the
sheltered water between the sand and
the mainland so that supplies could
be sledged across in sufficient guam
tity to keep soul and body together.
Ignorant of the fate that might have
befallen those they had left behind,
suffering terribly in the bitter wealth
er, the fugitives waited, hoping des
'perately that the reinforcements for
which they had appealed so earnestly
had arrived to drive the Russians out.
There they remained a week, or for
four days after the invaders had been
expelled with great losses.
For three days the Russian troops
camped about the town. Their swoop
on Memel seemed to have been in
spired by no tactical reasons, for
they did not sink the ships in the land
locked harbor, nor fortify themselves.
Germany's threat that Russian towns
would be destroyed if they continued
to burn down German villages is be-
lieved to have restrained them from
destroying Memel.
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province had been carried off to Rus
sia, that IL civilians had been killed,
that one woman took poison when she
was attacked by Russian soldier and
that another died from such an at
tack, that the second mayor of the
city had been dangerously and per-
haps fatally wounded by a bayonet
stab in the abdomen, and that Is
German soldiers had been killed in
dispelling the Russians.
The Associated Press correspond
ent was able to retrace the route TAX
en- by the Russians as they advanced
on Memel from the nearby border to
the north and to the east, and to see
panorama of desolation such as now
is common in East Prussia, and no
where else in Europe Belgium is
shell-riddlsd East Prussia is burned
down and devastated.
The route led up along the Baltic
coast to the remains of the little viii
lage of Nimmersau-a typical town,
the principal building in which had
been the inn. 1t had been the objec-
tive of the Russians as they swept ov-
er the border from Polangen; they
had stayed long enough to all but
wipe it off the map.
The few inhabitants of the village
who had mustered up courage to stay,
or who had returned, told pitiful tales.
One old man, with one ragged suit Of
clothing, a battered hat and broken
umbrella as his sole remaining pos
sessions, had left Nimmersau with
his two young sons when the Rus
SLAMS appeared, leaving his wife and
five young daughters behind.
He came back to find parts of the
walls of his home still standing, the
interior smoking ruin, and his wife
and children gone. The tears rolled
slowly down his cheeks and froze in
the bitter cold as he told the story.
Not far from this scene of devasta-
tion was another, this time the re-
mains of what had been a more pre-
tentious inn with the euphonious but
mocking name of "Kurhaus Nimmer-
saat"-(Never Satisfied). The smoke
still eddied through the ruins of the
walls, and in what had been an Ital-
ian garden, now a mass of wrecked
marble tables, there stared out the
sign please do not pick the flowers
Again to the southwark, then to the
Americus times-recorder., 1915-04-30
LITTLE PRUSS|AN VILLAGE
GETS FIRST TASTE Of WAR
MONTHS AFTER WAR DECREE
wr ESSIs
d ~sf K@Is

to get its first direct impression of the
gigantic conflict. In the days that fol-
lowed it was to get other and more
terrible impressions.
While officials frantically appealed
for help from the military authorities,
the little band of landstrum slowly
fell back from one defensive position
to another before the oncoming Rus
slams, made one final but ineffective
stand at the outlaying village of Al
thof, and on Thursday night, March
IS, were forced to let the Russians
enter.
Burning and pillaging as they went,
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Instead they cleaned out virtually
every delicatessen store, every pro-
vision market and every wine and
liquor establishment in Memel. Indi-
vidual soldiers, prowling about, enter
ed the homes of inhabitants and added
to their fear by their depredations and
their threats.
On Sunday the Germanu reinforce
ments began to arrive, and the Rus
slams began to leave. A few hours
later a trail of dead bodies from the
center of the little city to Althof-or
its remnants-told the story of the de-
parture. When the last Russian had
gone and the inhabitants ventured out
of their homes, III corpses were
picked up and piled together prepara-
tory to burial in a common grave.
This gruesome work was still in
progress when an Associated Press
correspondent reached Memcl.
One of the first to reach the scene
was Ober- President Won Batocki OF
the province of East Prussia, and he
began at once to sift out the truth
from the mass of rumor and hearsay
regarding the invasion. Shortly he
determined that between 500 and 60a
persons in the Memel part of the
Americus times-recorder., 1915-04-30
(By Assoc ated Press.)

MEMEL, East Prussia, April 30
For seven months and half tie war
had been little more than rumor for
the inhabitants of the little city of
Memel, tucked away in northernmost
East Prussia on the Baltic. Beyond
the mobilization of 600 of the land
sturm" to take the place of the reg
uIar troops things had gone on much
the same as usual.
Then, suddenly, on the 18th OF
March, there came the report that the
Cossacks were coming from the
North and the East, and Memel began
Americus times-recorder., 1915-04-30
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