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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-11
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last night
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Dallas lase night
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today attending court
L. c Gould OF vernoa was IN
SEaxehaehie to-day
Mrs. Wfi Munroe OF Kosse is visit
Ing friends IN the CITY
Miss Jamie Hess Of nsiIas is VS.
jtine ffiends ia the CO
Mrs. Annie HALEY # Fort Worth
is visiting Mrs, Harry. ozark
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here last night on business
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tor "a tae aty last fright
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ford were hose Yesterday
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visitor IN lhe citx yesterday.
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ford Nere hers iata Wednesday,.
attorney Wing z. Booth d Fort
WORTH 9as mere today "a legal oasls
ness,
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g 1to city Today
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pending ibe8 day ia tho eity. Tie
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Mr. and j n. G Johnston visit
ed the Haas Ramsey revival meeting
at Ennis g. alght
walter fPrlaeAere, Batuey AIe
Kay aoaECari Taa6erstey attended
tine Majestic ln paHa laee rieat
Mrs . a. G. Nem.}e veut To DAB
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A. Ttals and aer Sister, Airs Alice
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stepAea of Fora Worth.
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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-11

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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-11
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Questions for the lesson from ODD
Spain IN New America" for The Mis-
#on study class Of Central proah}-
tcr.au church.
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location ot somsfm,saienary Of the
roatb@est osA these from praver
Caienlar1
Wi< states comprise the south
west?
glow many Mexieans In this INT
q kstates a. the Last census?
4. name }4pr hindefing conditions
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-11
Retail Merchants 70 Mect.

Retail merchants are called TO
Hseet al Chamber OF caaierce rooms
Thursday a. 7;lspr III. Business
Of Importance.
Wlt.f MOORE. President.
ROY C0NNALLY. Secretary.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-11

Jake aineer of Dallas i IN the
city for the express purpose of at
tending stonewasl hodge No. Il.
/ knights OF pythfas, tonight. Mr..
afineer ls apsbneer member Of the
/ lodge nare and his presence no doubt
usi lAslase very mneh appreciated by the
sry5nrnb ars of Stonewall
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-11
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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-11
Eixlne Comfortable pnnrlers.

Fl. G McFadden is very grateful
"a ~ G. McClain and otheLs WHO
are today building him sheet iron
apartment 10 the aiieywgy between
the Maffin-simmona sI!ys store and
the Western Union qffice Hereto.
fore SIR MeFaddegsF~ho operates q
little fudt and Fpcorn stand. has
been oui Ia VI cold IN his effort TO
pick up 4sN@ pieSles with which
20 pay ~ expenses but kind friends
haN rpw provided him comfort
abIplaee.
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Moved down st~lFs. Come see
Tucker the sssrter. Job printing.
That <sf Phone (Ady.)
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
REFUSES fUR UNE LEFT
BY HIS MOTHER-lN-LAW
Former Diplomat Prefers That Money
Should Go to His Wife.

New York.-Charles III. Sheriff. min
lister to Argentina when Mr.. Taft was
president and organizer of the great
preparedness parade here, has refused
to accept 100000 bequeathed to him
by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Bar
ker Gibbs, who died last May, leaving
$564, 720 TO Mrs Sheriff.. His declina.
ton became known when announce
ment was made from the state comp
troller's office that an official appraisal
had placed the net estate at SSS5940.
Mr.. Sheriff. told reporter over the
telephone from his home in Sixty fifth
street that while he was deeply moved
by the bequest he preferred that Ii
should go to the residuary estate and
become part of his wifes share.
The former diplomat seemed to feel
that 1t was thing of no consequence
to look 100000 i'm the face or faces
ana then turn a cold shoulder
1T really wouldn't interest any
body" he said OF his refusal 81 don't
like to discuss it; it's rather too per
sonal for discussion. | simply felt that
Id rather have the sum go into the
residuary estate and revert 70 Mrs
Sheriff."
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
SEEKS CROESUS' WEALTH.
Professor Butler viii Dig For Treasure
Buried In Sardis.

Peekskil. n. Y.-Croesus, king of
Lydia and the worlds first great fnan-
cier, escorted committee of his sub
jects through his palace one afternoon
In February. II, and after the commit
tee had looked at Croesus' heaps of
gold one of the visitors, the first muck
raker evidently, said it was wicked that
any one should have so much wealth
and that something was going TO hap
pen. 1t did Half an hour later most
Of the big mountain overhanging Sar
dis buried the city, and when the earth
quake was over Croesus' wealth was
buried below mining depth.
Professor Howard Butler of the de-
partment of art and archaeology in
Princeton university announced that he
was going over to Asia Minor very soon
to resurrect the buried treasure. In
1909 Professor Butler headed an expe-
dition TO Sardis, and, though he found
only bronze statues, his excavations
were of great scientific worth. His de-
cision to return was made following
the receipt of message at his home in
Croton Falls sent by Consul George
Horton at Smyrna, which asserted that
Professor Buffers old excavations were
unharmed Notwithstanding war opera
tons.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
HE "MINES" MUSHROOMS.
Expert Uses Deserted Coal Mine as
Farm With Success

Morgantown. w. Va-The queerer
the place selected for mushroom
garden the finer, it seems, is the
growth of this popular table delicacy.
The last word in mushroom farm,
however, is such garden placed in
the depths of deserted coal mine,
hundreds of feet below the ground.
Not far from Morgantown there Is
located this old coal mine, known as
the Pittsburgh coal seam, in Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia. Theodore T..
Imbach, an assistant in the state agri-
cultural experimenting station at Nor
gantown. obtained a permit from the
owners of the property. He encamped
on the first level and made chemical
analysis of the rocky soil.
He found it was rich in moisture and
it's constituents exactly those needed
by edible fungi for their quickest and
most luxuriant growth. He therefore
started mushroom farm and found
the spot was ideal for his purpose.
This mushroom mine" makes large
shipments weekly to the city markets.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
ALL TRANSIT LINES IN
new YORK GREATLY TAXED
City Traffic Increasing at Rate of
More Than lOO,OOO,OOO
Annually.

New Aork.-In November the subway
carried an average of 1,199,623 passen
gers day and the II" 1,0l4.S a to
tai of 2.2l4,50G according To state
ment issued by the Interborough Rapid
Transit company
Public Service Commissioner Whit
ney estimates that city traffic is in
crcasing at the rate of more than
l00,000,000 annually. More than 325
miles additional of subway and ele
waited lines are being built
In 1872 total of 1922, 1876 passen
gers were carried. or 147 rides during
the year for each person in the city
In 1889, the first year of the Il" $50
510,S32 passengers We're carried, or 2l5
rides for each person in the city. In
1906, the first year of the subway.
S36,G6E206. were carried. or 29S rides
for each person.
Under the caption OF Struggling TO
Keep Up With New York" the Inter
borough officials say:
Each year the problem of handling
the millions of New York traffic grows
increasingly difficult. The struggle is
hard, not to anticipate the city's fu-
ture needs, but merely to keep up with
the present Extensions of transit ia.
cilities, no matter how rapid, do not
seem able to keep pace with crowds
and congestion.
lin September the subway carried 4
daily average of 100000 passengers.
BY November this average was in
creased 20 I 100000 daily.
IAN this traffic. too, it should be re
membered was on lines designed orig
inally To care for 100000 passengers
daily.
always 1t is the same story. Nc
matter how fast rapid transit lines are
built in New York city. the transporta
ton needs of the population seem to
keep ahead of them"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
WOMEN LAWYERS TOO
KIND FOR BIG FEES
They Can Make Hit, However,
by the Free Defense of
Criminals.

Chicago. Pretty women lawyers by
the score met in the rooms of the
Bro wnleigh club to hear Clarence Dar-
row encourage them In their profess
sion. but when he got through they
were much discouraged.
You can't be shining lights at the
bar" said Mr., Darrow. because you
are too kind.
"You can never be corporation law
yers, because you are not cold blood
ed You have not high grade of in
tellect.
you can never expect TO get the
fees that men get | doubt if you ever
make living.
"Of course you can be divorce law
yers. That is useful field. And there
is another field that you can have sole
iy for your own. You won't make a
living ut it, but It's worth while, aud
you'll have no competition. That Ia
the free defense of criminals"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
HELPING THE IMMIGRANT.
Los Angeles Plans Methods of Practical
Assistance.

Los Angeles, Cal. - Fifty thousand
clubwomen of Los Angeles are coop
Grating with the Federal immigration
Commission and the school board In
initiating new standards of education
for the foreign population. Instead of
teaching the alien patriotic hymns he
will be instructed how TO call doctor
in an emergency, talk to the corner po-
liceman and similar usages.
The first step will be the opening of
eighteen night schools for the foreign
population. The general movement Is
the outgrowth of social survey made
of the city under the direction Of the
State Commission on immigration and
Housing, the first scientific analysis of
the kind made by western city in this
country. The new night schools will
he maintained the year round.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
CELL COSTS S2.45 NIGHTLY.
No More Free Police Lodgings In Bal
timore After Jan. I.

Baltimore. e.-The high cost of living
has struck the western police station
and after the first cf the year men ar
rested more for safe keeping than for
punishment will not get their lodgings
free. The announcement was made by
Magistrate Johannsen while hearing
the case of Charles McCauley on a
charge of being drunk
Il warn you that the rates have gone
up because Of the high cost of living"
said the magistrate "Police stations
cannot afford to put you up, and after
Jan. | the rate will be $2.45 night.
That does not include a bath. unless
the guests condition requires It
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
LEFT FORTUNE TO SERVANT.
Relatives of Dead Woman Fight the
Bequest.

Carlyle. Ill. = Kate Mulcahy, gray
haired and rheumatic, Is heir to an es
tate between 100000 and 5000, 900, left
by her mistress. Mrs. John McCabe,
but relatives of the dead woman are
going to try to break the will
Kate served Mrs. McCabe forty-one
years Mrs McCaDe's husband was a
prosperous physician when Kate came
TO work for them. He died, leaving lit
tie property. Kate left for time, but
Mrs. McCabe's urgent pleas caused her
to return at financial sacrifice
Mrs. MeCabe said Kate should be the
sole heir to the mistress property If
Kate would stick by her till death.
Then oil was struck on the McCabe
property, making Mrs. McCabe the
richest woman In Clinton county. She
Kept her promise TO Kate just the same
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
WHITE MICE SET FIRE.
But Then They Give Alarm by Scam
pering Over Sleepers.


perins Over sleepers.
New York. = Some practical joker
turned loose twelve white mice in a
Brooklyn store AS result there was
a fire. Twelve families were hurried
to the street, and one man was nearly
suffocated.
The first floor Is occupied by James
Rigsby, a cigar dealer. He slept in the
rear Of the store. When the mice.
scampering across beds. awoke sleep
ers women screamed and ran into the
halls. Somebody outside heard the
yelling and summoned policeman. 1t
was then the fire was discovered. Rigs
by was found unconscious. He was
revived by DR.. Harper of the Brooklyn
hospital. The fire did $500 damage
The police believe mice gnawed q box
Of matches "a the cigar store.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
BUFFALO HERDS INCREASING.
Number of Animals on Government
Reservation Grows.

Washington-Th buffalo, once threat
ened with extinction. is increasing In
numbers on government reservations,
according to the annual report OF the
biological survey. Five big game pre-
serves and siXty-seven bird reserva-
tions are maintained by the survey.
The report urges that more tracts OF
land not suitable for agricultural pur-
poses be converted into breeding
grounds for birds. Many thousand
acres OF marsh land. IT declares. could
be turned easily into breeding grounds
for waterfowl
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
CAN'T FIND ANY POOR.
Utopia (FIushins, N. W Hasn't One
Person Who Is In Need.

New York.--Utopia is just nine and
seven-tenths miles from Manhattan.
1t Is sometimes called Flushing.
In this Utopia is a Jefferson Demo
cratic club, which looks after the
wants of the poor in its vicinity
around Christmas.
The members contributed $500, and
a committee was appointed to hunt
out the needy that they might be sup
piled with holiday baskets.
The committee, after investigating
reported there were no needy In
Flushing, and the Democratic club has
$500 on its hands with which II
doesn't know what to do.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
HURT MAKING WOODEN LEG,
Cuts Artery In Arm While Whiting
Artificial Limb.

Cumberland, Md.-John w. Dean, a
legless man, barely escaped bleeding to
death few days ago from having cut
an artery in his arm while working ON
the opening, which fits tightly, when
the knife slipped. There was no one
near at the time and Dean lost blood
rapidly. He became so weak he could
not utter cry.
His sister who was absent from the
house, returned and summoned DR..
George l.. Paulman, who stopped the
flow of blood. Dean lost both legs in a
fall from a freight car while in the en-
ploy of the Western Maryland railway.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
TO LIE NEAR HER FIVE
HUSBANDS is LAST WISH
Mrs. Van Sickle Had Personally Erect
Cd Tombstones to Thorn.

La Crosse, Wis.-To be buried In her
own private cemetery In q corner OF
her farm near the graves Of her Eve
husbands was the last wish of Mrs
Emma G. Van Sickle. who died re-
Gently.
Over the graves of her husbands are
tombstones erected by the wife's own
hands One has this verse inscribed
upon 1t:
Clintie. my heart clings to thee, love
In heaven l hope to meet above.
You was ever kind and true to me.
So was TO you. Emma c.
Another reads:
Peter. died Jan. II. 1854. aged nfty-thrss
years BY Emma"
The other three stones are small and
the inscriptions brief One reads ID
G. w." another "P. d. c." and the
third "P. E."
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
WOMEN RUN TOWN
They Hold All the Offices In Una
tila, Ore.
TOOK CHARGE FIRST OF YEAR.
Executed Campaign Coup Which Left
Men Gasping-Elected Mayor, Four
Members of Council. Recorder and
Treasurer-AIl New Officials Are
Married--Prorise Many Reforms.

MarrIeG-promts Many reforms.
Kansas ity-Woman has come into
her own in Umatilla. Ore. says the
Kansas City Times. Umatilla now has
woman mayor, four councilwomen,
woman recorder and Il woman treas
urer. They went into Office Jan l.
The only thing left for the men is the
Office OF town marshal, and he or she
is appointed by the mayor The men
are hoping for the best.
A campaign coup which has left the
men gasping swept the women into
Office. 1t was not until o'clock the
afternoon Of election day that the men
realized the women had a ticket in the
field. Down at the town hall. where
the destinies of Umatilla are shaped,
the politicians laughed at the 'rumor.'
1t was joke. The smiles vanished
when the ballots were counted, and
the men still are wondering just how
1t happened
The women won't tell. They won't
say whether it was framed" at some
sewing circle, bridge club or church
social. All they will say is:
Nov we're going to show the men
what a strictly business and econom.
ical administration really is"
Il. L. Starcher. who was running for
reelection TO the mayors office was
defeated by his wife by twenty eight
votes All efforts TO interview Mrs
Starcher have failed However, after
conference in the kitchen Mrs Star
cher came To the door and gave out
this statement:
''As yet the women have nothing to
say as to their future policy or as to
why they desired control, but from the
best information we are able to obtain
they were dissatisfied with the past
administration, claiming inefficiency
and general lack of business ability
so far as the running of the city was
concerned"
Umatila is railroad town. All
morning election day the women re
NAMED at home, busy with their daily
duties. In the afternoon they put on
their bonnets and began whirlwind
campaign They met the trainmen in
the yards as they came in from their
various runs, buttonholed them and
carried them off to the polls. Despite
the fact that Mr. Starcher il chief dis
patcher at that place. he did not swing
the labor vote.
All of the officers are married. Out
Of a possible 200 votes ia were cast.
The defeat was decisive.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
Dog Stars In Motion Pictures.

Carlisle. Pa.-BiA. bank messenger
bulldog and pet of Carlisle, will 60
down in pictorial history to future gen
erations He is starred in motion
picture drama performing his daily
task of carrying the hotel deposit to
the bank and returning with the pass
book. Among other popular tricks that
have been filmed is that of smoking a
pipe.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
TRAIN ROBS HOLDUP MEN.
Mail Carrier Beaten by Thieves When
Hook Snatches Letter Bag.

New York.-Alfred Lorenzo, Yon-
kers mail carrier, notified the police
that a pouch filed with registered mat
ter had been saved from two thieves
by the projecting hook on the mail car
OF an express train used to take mail
bags on the fly, which grabbed ii from
his hands as the train few past AT
forty-fve miles an hour.
Lorenzo was at the depot putting the
pouch in position on small crane for
the train to take 1t. Two thieves beat
the mail carrier on the head He held
the pouch tightly far above his head
Presently the train came along. saved
the situation, and the robbers fed
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
GETS LICENSE ON CREDIT.
Has the Time, the Place, the Girl. but
No Money

Macon, Ga. Simon Cox had the
nerve and the girl. but not the money
TO get married ON.
Cox took his troubles to Attorney Hu-
bert Il. Rawls, who stood him in good
stead in city court few months back,
and Rawls agreed to stand good for the
marriage license.
Together Cox and the attorney went
to the ordinary's office, and after ex-
planning things Rawls got license for
Cox and Miss Ella Hardy Of East Ma
con.
"Ill pay you in a few days." Cox told
the ordinary as he walked out of the
Office with the license in his hand
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12
GUARDSMAN, JlLTED,
ENDS LIFE IN UNIFORM

New York.-Jilted on his return 4
) from the Mexican border, Ezra
b. Naylor, Jr., a New York ma 4
tional gusrdsman, put on his full 4
) uniform, plugged all crevices In 4
) his room, turned on the gas and 4
} threw himself on his bed, with
) his former fiancee's picture, and 4
) died. On table was the letter 4
} giving him his release and telling 4
} him another had supplanted him. 4
4
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12

Stock Raider First Seen In Western
New York State In Seventy Years.

New TUTK State III SSVtHty TedTS'
Rochester, n. Y.-Edward Andrews,
farmer living near Naples, shot and
killed large gray timber wolf In the
woods on his farm. The wolf Is the
first specimen OF it's kind seen In west
ern New York In seventy years. 1t
was more than seven feet long and
weighed 100 pounds.
During the last month the depreda-
tions OF the animal had been enormous.
Cattle and sheep were killed In Onta-
rio, Yates and Steuben counties. Stock
valued at $400 was killed on the west
side Of Canandaigua lake.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12

New York.-An offer Of 80 cents for
1000 worth of Brazilian diamonds
was the best Washington Force could
obtain. He admitted stealing them
from the steamer Vasari last week, the
New York police say. Disguised with
failure to find a buyer, he left the
gems In laundry and wrote the com
pany. He Is held i'm 5000 bail.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-12

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-17
GET PINK CARDS
These VIII Notify Accepted
Draft Men To Join Units.
1881 Men i'm Kansas To Go on
the First Call.

Kansas will send 1881 men to the
first training camps for the conscripts.
Pink cards announcing that the men
shall report to officers at Fort Riley
will be mailed by local registration
boards within the next ten days or
two weeks. The men will begin active
training at Fort Riley early in Sep
TENDER.
Under the plan as Announced from
Washington, one-third of the con-
scripts under the first call will be di-
rected to report at training camps not
later than September 5. This call will
bring 1881 Kansans to the colors.
The states quota of men-in addition
ITO the regular army, navy and ma
tional guard enlistments-is 6.439 un-
der the first call.
Each local board will call at least
five men in addition to the quota
assigned. This action is taken that all
district boards may provide required
number of men. If man fails to re-
port, he will be subject to military
action and orders Mailing of the
pink cards automatically puts a man
in the service and no excuse will re-
lieve him from service at training
camps. Cards are mailed merely as
conveniences to the men selected for
service. Under orders by Provost Mar
shall Crowder, men are in the service
as son as their names are posted by
the local board.