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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-25
No Wonder.

(Kansas City independently
The Moke-And so you believe in protec.
ton?
The Man-You betl I'm a zanzibar.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-25
W. e. Huhhard & Co.
Christmas Money.

Mines, dividend paying and invest
ment stocks. 70 w. End So. Tel. 17a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-25

Stocks bought now will make you
Christmas money. See Cole & Higgins
room Az D. f. Walker building, Salt
Lake City Phone 339.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-25

All parties holding shares in the Nor
gan Mining company of Park City, pre-
senting their stock to G. L. Rood. sec
rotary, at the Ontario Office. will re-
ceive pay for the same.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-25
Special to the Ladies.

Grand Millinery and Cloak opening at
n. G. NJ. l., Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-25
Last Work of All.

Entering towns, building and organ
izing exchanges and connecting the
same with the trunk lines are the final
operations though generally carried on
simultaneously with the wire-string-
ing. Formerly towns were entered on
poles, but the time is undoubtedly com
ing when burial of wires will be in
sisted upon in all municipalities, and,
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07
AS TT IS IN KENTUCKY.

Man born in the wilds of Kentuc-
ky is of fued days and easy virtue.
He fisheth, fiddleth, tusseth and
fghteth all the days of his life.
He shunneth water as mad dog
and drinketh much whisky.
When he desireth to raise hell he
planteth neighbor and 10 he reap
eth twentyfold. He riseth even
from his cradle to seek the scalp of
his grandfather's enemy. and bring
eth home in his carcass the ammu-
milton of his neighbours wife's cou-
SINS uncle's father-in-law, who
avengeth the deed
Yea, verify his life is uncertain
and he knowetli not the hour when
lie may be-ierked hence.
lie goeth forth on a journey
half shot" and cometh back on a
shutter, shot.
He riseth in the night to let the
cat out and it taketh nine doctors
three days to pick the buckshot
from his carcass.
He goeth forth in JOY and glad
ness and cometh back in scraps and
fragments.
He calleth his fellow man a liar
and getteth himself filled with
scrap iron even to the fourth gen
Grafton.
A cyclone bloweth him into the
bosom of his neighbours wife and
his neighbours wife's husband blow
eth him into the bosom of Father
Abraham, before he hath time to
explain.
He emptieth demijohn into him.
self, and shot gun into his enemy,
and his enemy's son lieth in wait
on election day, and 10, the coroner
ploweth up a forty-acre field to bury
the remains of that man.
Woe, woe in Kentucky, for her
eyes are red with bad whisky, and
her soil is stained with the blood OF
damijits. Selah.-Ex.
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07
T.. i. GRISSOM

While the city is we'll supplied
with meat and vegetable markets,
Grissom's is the only thing of the
kind east of the Mobile & Ohio rail
road, though he does not depend
upon his side of the town for trade,
as his delivery wagon daily visits
all parts of the city, delivering fresh
meats and vetegables of all kinds
and descriptions, besides every
thing i'll the grocery line. 1t is Old
and trite say that "some are born
great, some achieve greatness
while others have greatness thrust
upon them, Grissom has achieved
greatness i'll the grocery and mar
ket business by keeping only the
best of everything in his line. GOu
can order by telephone or send your
child to his store with the full as
surance that your order will be fill
ed as acceptably as if you went in
person. He has just pat upon the
market the Thompson Il Taylor
coffee, mixture of genuine Mecca
and Java, the best thing ever
brought to this city. Connoisseurs
of this delectable drink will have
no other after trying the Thompson
u Taylor brand.
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07
SCHMIDT 4 ODONNELL.

From the time of Vulcan, the
husband of Venus, who forged the
thundcrbolts of Job, according to
Greclan Mythology, the blacksmith
business has been one of the most
honored of mankind Schmidt 81
ODonnell, the representative of
Vulcan, have been in the business
in Union City the past five years,
and in that time have built up a
business that many in the same line
would have been proud to have at
tanned in twice five years. They
not only shoe farm horses and mules
in the most perfect manner, but are
competent to put On any fancy
trotting, pacing or authorizing
shoes to the entire satisfaction of
an expert in such work. They also
do all kinds of wood work and are
makers of the celebrated Clipper
wagon which is acknowledged one
of the best wagons ever made. They
also manufacture the very best
double and triple harrows. See
them if needing anything in their
line.
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07
MORGAN & HARDY BROS.

Brummell & Hardy began the
shoe business in Union City in 1887,
and about 1890 Mr. Hardy Geo. S.
bought out the interest Of his part
ner, Mr.. Brummell, and associated
with him his brother Chas. P.
Hardy. In 1887, the same year in
which Geo. S. Hardy opened his
shoe store, ]. r. Morgan embarked
III the clothing business. In 81
Hardy Bros. boughtout an interest
in the clothing firm of J. r. Morgan
and the style of the clothing firm
was Morgan & Hardy. In 1898 the
two businesses were consolidated,
but the stocks were kept i'll differ
ent houses. In 1898 the two houses
were Joined under the firm name of
Morgan & Hardy Bros, and has
continued so until the present, and
/ their business has increased with
each successive year. The firm oc-
cupies $4,000 feet of floor space, and
every conceivable spot is covered
with the latest and most stylish de-
signs in clothing, boots, shoes and
gents furnishing goods. It matters
not whose assignees stock is on the
market, or who is selling out to
quit business the above firm ALWAYS
meet the prices with the freshest
and latest goods. Morgan s Hardy
Bros. claim the happy distinction
of selling more goods in their line
than any firm in West Tennessee
outside of Memphis, Jackson not
excepted. Fortune seems to have
emptled her cornucopia into the lap
of this firm and their business
causes many competitors to turn
green with envy. But in business,
as in a game of marbles, every play
er wishes to knock the 'middler.
and Morgan & Hardy Bros. have
a reputation as extensive as Obior
County of ''plumping the middlers'
of the clothing and shoe business
of the county, while their competi
tors occasionally knock out a corner
man. They are the clothing anC
shoe dealers of the county, who viii
save you money on every purchase
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07
UNION CITY FISH co.

H. c. Briggs, the manager of the
above named Company, is an old
Obion County boy, we'll and favor
ably known, not only by the people
OF Union City, but by nearly every
one i'll the county. especially those
who have ever wet a fish hook or
fired a gun, He is authority on
everything pertaining to hunting
and fishing in this section, and
when the fish run. the squirrels
play or the duck and geese flight is
on, Henry is sure to be able to tell
you all about it. And lie should be
a competent authority, because for
the past four years his company
has shipped more game and fish
from this market than any firm has
ever shipped from Union City i'll
the same length of time. The
Union City Fish Company controls
the catch of some 900 or 700 nets on
Reelfoot lake. and in the many fish
boxes in their warehouse can al
ways be found nearly every species
of fresh-water fish, frog-legs, ducks
etc This Company is also propri-
tors of the Biggs & Curtin grocery
on First street. presided over by
Mr.. w. ]. Briggs, the father of the
manager of the u. c. Fish Com
pany. The grocery is we'll supplied
with full al d we'll selected stock
of staple and fancy groceries.
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07
T. C. HALE.

Mr. I. c. Hale has been in the
grocery business in Union CITY
nearly 10 years He is a native of
Obion County, and was reared on
one of its fertile farms. BY cour-
teous treatment, fair dealing and
strict attention to business lie has
built up lucrative trade. He owns
a nice little home, is member of
the Baptist Church and the Golden
Cross. His young son, Homer is in
the house as clerk and bids fair to
become one of our best business
men. In The past sixteen years,
many, with big pretenses, have en-
gagged i'll the grocery business in
Union City. But they past out
their glamour has gone, and 7. {.
Hale is still going on in the even
tenor of his way, constantly making
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

" our Aunt Martha bears her.
self like a woman who had known
some remarkable experience in
life.
Yes. she tainted once and man
had to carry her three flights of
stairs. Detroit Free Press.
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

The present year has been equally
prosperous, Though inclement
weather and various other obstacles
have prevented those Interested
from doing as much active work as
was done last year the 4inancial
condition of the library has been
very satisfactory. A donation of
500 from Andrew Carnegie was a
welcome gift.
The attendance i'll the reading
rooms still continues good and the
circulation of books has doubled
within the year. New books are
still being added, and the associa-
ton is doing all in its power to
make the institution a source of
beneSt and ItPleaspre to the ,inhabi-
tants of The town.
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07
j. R. THOMPSON.

The main thing in compromising
prescription is the purest drugs
and no substitution. Thompson,
the druggist, uses only the best and
purest drugs, and if he hasn't an
ingredient that prescription calls
tor, and cannot obtain it IN the city
lie is honest enough to say 50. Mr..
Thompson is a registered pharm-
acist and has had ten years eXper-
fence in the business.
He was born and reared in this
county, first seeing the light in
district no. ? on January %, 1872.
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

plantation. Bob has made a sue
cess Of tile drug business and is sa-
tisfed with his present-occupation.
The eighteenth day. OF last April
lie was united il the holy bonds Of
matrimony to Miss Lane Neftzer,
one Of the prettiest and most cul-
tured young ladies Of Metropolis,
Illinois,
The J. r. Thompson drug store,
corner Mary and Depot streets, is
replete with all that constitutes a
frst-class establishment of that
kind. He caters especially to the
ladies in the fancy druggist sund-
ries line, a better assortment
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07
\ TRUE STORY.

Charley Rocks. editor OF the Som
erville Journal. was i'll town Satur-
day night on his way to Gibson
Wells.
Why don't you" said he to Il
Sun reporter. write true story
every once in a while and get your
paper talked about? ! have come
to the conclusion that the publica-
ton of a fact i'll a newspaper every
now and then doesn't do any harm.
Il heard story the other day
that had the merit of being out of
the ordinary and at the same time
containing the necessary elements
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07
THE UNION CITY
PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Union City Public Library,
as possibility, was first discussed
at the Presbyterian manse after a
meeting of the University Club. A
preliminary meeting was held few
days later at the residence of A. j.
Lawson in which ways and means
were fully considered.
This was followed by a public
meeting in the parlor of the Palace
Hotel. The newspaper reported of
this meeting:
IA number of ladies and gentle
men met in the rooms of the Palace
Hotel for the purpose of organizing
library association. H. c. Keg-
ley presided, w. H. Griffin acted as
secretary.
'The name decided on was
Union City Library association"
and organization was perfected by
eleCllhS John L. walker, president;
H. c. Kegley, vice-president; It. L.
Bransford, treasurer and w. H.
Griffin, secretary. An executive
committee was appointed consist
ing of Mrs. ]. c. Reynolds, A. ].
Lawson, Misses Nell Hughes and
Laura Kroger.'
The next newspaper notice is as
follows:
AT dn adjourned meeting of the
library association at the Presby-
terrain manse, Tuesday night, Pres.
Walker presided; committee report.
ed; good progress.
A board of control was created
consisting of the president, vice.
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07
SUCK Err BITE.

A man who smokes four cigars
day and chews twenty-five cents
worth of tobacco a week, said he
was too poor to take local paper.
He is a smart man, too. And econo-
mical, should smile. This saving
fellow was getting a Maine story
paper, and found that by sending a
dollar he could get cure for drunk
enness. Sure enough he did. 1t
was take the pledge and keep it. -
Later on he sent fifty twO-cent
stamps to find out how to raise
beets successfully. He found out.
The answer came, Just take hold
and pull" Being single he wished
to marry and sent th1rty-four one
cent stamps to d Chicago firm to
learn how to make an impression.
When the answer came it reads,
"sit down in pan of dough- That
was a little tough, but he was
patient man and thought he would
yet succeed. The next advertise
ment lie read "how to double your
money in six months" He was told
to convert his money into bills, fold
them and he would see his money
doubled. But he was bound to get
some useful secret that lie could
make money so lie sent SIS to find
out how to write without pen and
ink. The answer was. "try lead
pencil" Then he sent a dollar to
learn chow to get rich. '-''work
like the devil and never spend a
cent" This was discouraging, but
he decided to try just one more anC
sent a two-dollar bill to learn how
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

For some time after that it used
to flop around the yard with the
chickens. 1t appeared to like grass
and kept my friends yard moved
down as evenly as a moving ma
chine could have done. He also
taught it to jump over sticks and
bring his lunch to the office every
day at noon.
"One day it followed him to the
woods and while trying to cross a
creek on a foot log fell in and was
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

president. treasurer, A. J. Lawson
and <. e. ktiser.
The work was all the time being
carried on as rapidly as possible.
Funds were solicited. and the diff
ferent committees directed their
energies to the furnishing of the
rooms and the collection of the
books belonging to the old library.
On December II, 1897, the news
paper comment runs thus;
THE public library is a certain
ty. About $500 has been subscri-
bed. and about one-half of it collect
ed. Rooms over Porter 81 Rade-
baugh's have been rented and will
probably be opened in January 10,
1898. 1t was intended to have a
formal opening on the following
Friday evening but the inclemency
of the weather prevented.
The first year was a very success
full one. The attendance in the
reading rooms which had at first
been abnormal, sometimes reaching
as high as thirty-five a day, de
clined to more healthy average,
the circulation of books continued
to increase, and the secretary's re-
port at the end of the year shows
the following encouraging facts.
cash on hand -. . SIT %
Other solvent resources. . 80 o.
Liabilities. w -
No. of books at opening Of the
library DECENTRALIZATION. 81
Added by donation. .... %
Added by purchase. -. ..... 116
Sixteen magazines and papers
were subscribed for during the year
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

The rate of pulsation is 120 per
minute in infancy, 80 in manhood,
and 90 in old age.
Lord Kelvin, in lecture, stated
that as a result of recent investiga-
lions it was estimated that the earth
had been the abode of life for about
30,000,000 years.
Science has calculated that an
average puff of cigar smoke sets
free over 100000 tiny particles, a
Whit from a pipe liberates over
1,80O,000,000 of these particles, and
one from a cigarette starts 2,900,-
100000 of them flying through the
surrounding atmosphere.
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

has had considerable experience i'll
the business. The laundry is one
of Union Citv'S MOST prominent Gu
tcrprioeS, doing one of the LARGEST
businesses in its line of any similar
institution in West Tennessee.
There trade extends from here to
Cairo, 10 Memphis and to Nash
vile, embracing nearly every town
within a radius of 100 miles. Not
withstanding Jackson has two fine
steam laundries, the Union City
Steam laundry sends its work right
through Madison county's capital
to adjacent towns.
One of Uncle Sans Alaskan
islands can boast the largest stamp
mill III the world. 1t has $40 stamps
and brushes quartz enough daily
to give SIS, $40 i'll gold, which the
other mills in the plant increase to
$4,000.
The Department of Fisheries of
Newfoundland has at present TWEEN
ty-eight hatCheries in operation
Every year these give life to $50,
000, 900, and, during seven years
there have been placed in the sea
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

drowned"
"All that's the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth?"
asked the reporter.
"Why if you doubt it in the least. "
said Mr.. Rocks vehemently. IF you
entertain the least particle of doubt
as to the truthfulness of that touch
ing narrative, l can carry you to
Nashville and show you the very
spot l was standing on when my
friend told it to me-" And who
could say any fairer than that"
Jackson Sun,
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

The average number of horses
killed in Spanish bull fights every
year exceeds 5000, while from 200
to l, 200 bulls are sacrificed.
The output of sardines on the
Maine cost is likely to be increased
from 100000 cans in 1898 to 2,000,-
600 this year, in consequence of the
introduction of the new canning
machine.
A philosophical statistician cal
culates that in. the year 1000 there
will be LOO, 100000 people who
speak English, and that the other
European languages will be spoken
by only 100000 people.
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

friends by keeping one of the best
and freshest stocks of groceries,
both slap e and fancy, in the city,
and treating everyone fairly and
Squareiy. His business house is on
First Street two doors south of the
{. B. A. Building
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

OF which can
pro ba b " b e
found at his
store than any
drug store III the
city.
His prescrip-
ton department
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07
UNION CITY STEAM LAUNDRY.

Some six years ago, S. w. God
win, as an investment, built a neat
and cOmmodiouS brick building on
Church street, just east of the Mo-
bile and Ohio railroad depot, and
equipped it with the latest and
most perfect steam laundry mach
inery. The business was then con-
Quoted by S. w. Goodwin and w. r.
Andrews, who failing to see in it
money-maker turned it loose in a
short while, and it then passed into
the hands of Messrs. Chitwood &
WOosley, whose bright golden
dreams of fortune failing to ma
terialize prompted them to relin-
quish their claim to the property.
w. II. McRea, of Madisonville, Ky.
then invested some of his wealth in
the business, and having bad ex-
perience and being familiar with
the workings of steam laundry he
made money from the start, and
soon after getting control of the
business be disposed of part in
terest to c. H. Sheriff. & Co. On
account Of bad health and a desire
to charge his location. Mr.. Mckee
disposed of his interest in the bust
ness to his partners and the busi-
ness was continued under the own
er>hip and management of c. H.
Sheriff. 81 Co. until about the begin
ming of this year, when the bust
ness passed into the hands of its
present owners, G.. L. Waddell &
Co., with G. L. Waddell, manager
The latter was manager for the
old firm of {. Fl. Sheriff. & Co. anC
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

of truthfulness to make it Of inter
est
The story was told HE bv d
newspaper friend of mine. He said
he went fishing not long ago and
captured a fine trout alive. He had
long held to 4 theory that a fish
could be trained to live out of water
if one went about it right. So he
carried this one home. At first he
put it in rather a good sized puddle
in the back yard. He reduced the
water supply very gradually and
one day when the puddle dried up
he was delighted t. find the trout
alive and apparently enjoying ex-
existence.
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

The first seven
teen years of Mr..
Thompson's life
were spent on a
farm, but he be-
lieves that a
farmers life is
more prose than
poetry; and no
dreams of the
whistle of Bob
White, the berry
patch and the
swimming hole,
brings a long
ing in his breast
to return to the
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07
A. B. CAMPBELL.

A. B. Campbell is one of Union
City's most prominent, popular and
successful young business men.
He first saw the light in Bedford
County, Tenn, May LIST, 1870. Both
of Mr.. Campbell's parents died when
he was three years of age, and he
was taken 10 raise by an uncle.
About IA years ago Mr.. Campbell
came to Union City and worked in
Beck's furniture factory eight years,
when he embarked in the livery
business in which he has been un-
usual successful, having a natural
aptitude for the business, and being
a great lover of the horse, of which
he is one of the best Judges in the
country. His stable. on Washing
ton Ave. is one of the incest, neat
est, most commodious and conven-
ientlv arranged in this section. Mr..
Campbell personally superintends
his business. and sees that his own
stock and that of others left in his
care is given the best of attention.
Attached to his stable is an elegant
ly furnished waiting-room for ladies
which is a great convenience and a
source of pleasure to those of the
fair sex who come Unattended. Mr.
Campbell keeps the most stylish,
gentlest of horses, and the most
elegant vehicles Of all kinds, and
pays special attention to the hitch
lug and feeding If stock.
Cuba and Porto Rico used to buy
annually S., 000,0 900 worth Of shoes
of Spanish manufacture, and {
clumsy article they were. A mucl
better grade of American shoes i:
selling in the island now for 50 PEE
cent. less.
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

The people living along the line
of the proposed electric railroad
between Lynchburg and Wartrace,
on the n. {. & st. L. railroad,
have subscribed $751; of the S20,
600 bonus asked by the promoters.
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

An elevator boy at Lookout Inn
thought he saw burglar one night
recently. and fired a pistol at the
robber. The man was shot. but
turned out to be Taylor Broughton,
an employee of the hotel.
The commercial courier. (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?, 1899-09-07

to live without work and was told
To fish for suckers as we do" He
takes the home paper now and IL
happy.