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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-15

streets in a frantic way. A dis
patch was sent to the former hus-
band and by the time he arrived
upon the scene the couple we're
together again at the railroad sta
ton. A magistrate was also pres
ent, and, comprehending the situa
ton, asked the romantic woman
whom she would have for her hus
band. Without answering she
fell upon the breast of her husband
and the genius of Porker's Para
disc took a sneak. Ye gods! where
is Ella Wheeler Wilcox or the
author of Nick Carter9
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-15
PLEASANT HILL.

Fix them quick, Mr.. Editor! In
last weeks issue your printer al.
lowed Mr.. Dietzel's little boy and
Charlie Moss little girl to- see-saw
all over this country, in their adj
vertisement, bottom side upwards.
Please fix them before one OF them
falls off and breaks its neck. We
have been uneasy about them all
this week.
Oh, for a Joshua that could COM
mand the sun to stand and give us
light until old Rockefeller could send
us some coal oil that will not freeze.
Humboldt is to have a big can.
ming factory. Mr.. B. A. Craddock is
proprietor and is closing contracts
tor 500 acres of sweet corn for can
ming purposes. If some of our
Obion county surplus was put into
such factory it would pay.
Misses Eva and Ethel Rulings,
daughters of DIR. Rulings, ST., of
Woo1worth, Tenn, visited Misses
Alma and Bessie Morris several
days during Christmas. My! what
a Christmas gift they would make
for some worthy young man.
One day just after Christmas a
little boy about four or FIVE years of
age dropped into well-known
business house of Union City, and
the lady who runs it said, "well,
little man, what did Santa Claus
bring your He said nothing but
a train. What is them horns
worth?" "Ten cents, but you can
have one for a nickle, she replied.
The boy said he hadn't any money
and the lady said 'your papa will
give you a nickle. He said ''no,
papa does not love me and mama,
he spends all his money for whis-
key The woman said, "my God
that is the greatest temperance ser
mon / have ever heard AS /
ooked, great tears made their APP
oearance in her eyes and rolled
down her cheeks, and her lips quiz
cred as if she had chill Gentle
reader, was that YOUR boy7 Is it
possible that Union City has within !!
It's corporate limits man so de-
PRAYED and so near lost that his
own child only five years of age has
ost confidence in HIM. Just think |
# child of tender years, like that
me. losing confidence in its father
it the very age at which it should
owe and honor its father better
han anyone on earth, except its
mother, and he publicly declaring
hat his father did not love him and
lis mama and that he spent bis
earnings for whiskey. ! would not
lave one of my children form that
opinion OF me for worlds of wealth.
wish every whiskey sot ia Union
sity could have heard those words,
or without doubt that was the
rreatest temperance sermon ever
preached in Union City; the boys
ook. his general appearance, COM
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-15


According to announceme n t s
heretofore published the last issue
of the Elbsidge Pioneer has made
its appearance and that enterprise,
which wasindeed a most creditabIe
one a live, potent, influential
county newspaper and stock jour
nal combined will be absorbed
by a new weekly paper to be pub
lished at Rives, beginning next
month. MIR. j. ID. Cunningham,
publisher Of tho PIONEER, is the
promoter, and lae promises great
things to the people of that little
city and vicinity. We extend him
q cordial greeting. at the same
time want To express our profound
regrets that Col. Hardy e. David
son has abandoned our ranks. He
is a gentleman, a man of BRAN,
honor and thrift, and genuine
loss Il. she fraternity Of newspaper
writer's il thArefore sustained.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-15

bined with the words he spoke,
stirred everv noble sentiment of my
soul and aroused the tender chart
ties of my heart. It was enough to
stampede the brightest intellect,
the highest culture and the most
spotless purity of saii I in heaven.
Woesunto the father who has given
Just cause for such offense. Woe
unto him by whom such offense
cometh. Intemperance renders the
individual temporarily a savage;
destroys their social, political, e.
nancial and religious standing Of
, the individual and his family; lays
his home in ruins; wrecks the hap
piness of each member of his family.
cuts the tender chords of love that
bind him to wife and children; de-
stroys all respect for friends and
loved ones; consigns those who are
dependent upon him to penury and
want; transforms him into bar
barian. And then you tell me there
is no harm in DRAM that the sa-
loon is not curse, that prohibition
is failure. God pity the man that
is so closely connected with the
devil and hell that he can command
sufficient courage to make such a
statement. The time has come,
thank God, when no matter who
runs for an Office, the respectable
voter makes inquiry as 10 whether
he is temperate man or not. And
the man who drinks has, at last,
began to realize that he does it at
the cost of popular respect and at
the peril Of his good name, and that
the moderate drinker is barred from
employment in many lines of BUSH
ness. We await, and hail with
fond anticipation, when the social
circle and the homes wherein the
purity of young womanhood dwells,
shall close its doors to every man
who carries the fumes of liquor on
his breath. The next step for the
temperance people is to concentrate
their forces and strength and Sc
cure the suppression of the jug
trade in Tennessee. And we call
on every liberty-loving voter in the
State to use every honorable means
in their power to make the liqour
business and drink habit hateful in
the eyes Of all respectable people,
and give the dram drinking church
member to understand that they
have merited the dire punishment
Of universal contempt. A fellow
said to me recently that there is
more whiskey drank now and more
irunkards than when we had sa-
looms. dispute the statement and
the world to produce the
proof, and further state that the
saloon is not here to educate our
boys and young men up to the habit
ind that many would take drink
T we had the open saloon, who will
lever take it now, because the
is removed, and when
he last of those old educated sots
las lived out his days, and the boys !
ONE up without the saloon to edu-
ate him to drink, the jug trade
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-15

Fulton now has two afternoon
dailies. With the new year The
Daily Commercial made its appear
ance, published by w. P. Green
and j. N. Hall. Rev. Hall has
moved bis linotype machine and
fine presses belonging to the Bap-
fist Flag over to the Commercial
Office in Fulton and proposes now
to keep company with his former
contemporary. On the other hand,
Col. Mott Ayres has organized a
six thousand dollar stock company,
who will search the markets for a
plant, tho like of which has never
heen seen in Fulton, for the Lead
or, and on and upward they go
while the rest Of us small fry plod
along like the calm Of an evening
with no signs of a coming circus
or street fair.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-15
MRS. JACKSON WINS.

Our scholarship proposition
which closed the first of January
has been record breaker. On
September Is we offered two schol
arships, one in the Union City
Business College, valued at fifty
dollars, for the largest number OF
bona fide subscribers to The Com.
mercial by any person, the other
a scholarship, valued at fifty dol
lars, in the. American Telegraph
College at Memphis. L b an,
nouncement found but little re.
Spouse for several weeks. Finally
two very enthusiastic friends OF
The Commercial took an interest
in the matter. These were John
Barleycorn and our mutual friend,
Gypsy, and such another scramble
you never saw at an election or on
football field. BarIeycorn ira
versed every pig path on his
rounds and Gypsy stood sentinel
at the door of one of our main
thoroughfares, commanding every
passer-by to nnhorse and deliver
his name. These two captains of
separate tribes worked like beav-
ers, resulting in the accumulation
of three hundred good county
names in the space of little less
than three months, which have been
enrolled as subscribers and readers
of The Commercial. This record
is remarkable one, and, accord
ing to the Oldest and best posted
newspaper men in the county, has
never been equaIed. Two better
qualified or more capable solicitors
could never have been found, and
certainly we could not have secured
the cooperation of two better
friends than Barleycorn and Gypsy.
In the race Gypsy won, and in
this she deserves the eulogism
which comes to the hero of an hun
dred battles, for not only did she
engage in conflict with many who
at first declined to surrender, but
she routed the greatest adversary
the world has ever known, the
great John Barleycorn, and that
IN itself is victory to be celebrat-
ed by the children of her tribe for
years to come. Moreover, this
Barleycorn came in the cloak of a
good Samaritan, and posed as chief
and friend of the humble and poor.
He swept the country in the guise
Of q benefactor and distributed his
messages of peace and good will
with d liberal hand. Now, we
know one w. r. Morris, who is a
good friend Of BarIeYcorn with the
single exception of his name, and
Morris, you all know, is an honor
able man. But Morris used all his
efforts to assist Barleycorn to en-
Gipsy's defeat, but the
willy Gypsy measured lances with
the giant, and he yanquished like q
late spring frost. So it is that The
Commercials popularity has in
creased a thousand fold and its
name fixed as permanent iigamentl
to the business structure Of this
county. So it is that Barleycorn
iii be was defeated for first prize)
and Gypsy have helped to advance
the interests Of two of Union CiGy'sI
business institutions, the Union
City Business College and The
Commercial, and incidentally every
enterprise in Union City. In this
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-15

Mr.. Geo. E. Bowden announces
in The Commercial for re- election
as State Senator for the next SEES
sion of the Tennessee General AS
sembly. Mr.. Bowden was unani-
mously elected to this Office two
years ago. His home is in Martin,
but in that race he became known
in a general way to the people Of
Obion county. His stewardship
in the Legislature has since made
him thoroughly identified with the
people of the Twenty eighth Sena-
torsal District, composed of Weak
ley, Lake and Obion counties. His
record is clean He made himself
known as man of intelligence
and0character, and an honorable,
conscientious law-maker. With
these qualifications he comes be-
fore you again for your vote and
duence.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-15
FOR STATE SENATOR.


We are authorized to announce Geo e Bow
den as a candidate for the State Senate 10 rep
resent the Twenty Eighth Senatorial District
composed % Weakley, Lake and Obion coun-
ties in the next General Assembly of Tennessee
subject TO the action Of the Democratic party.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-15
STATE or OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,
DUcAs County

STATE or OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,
DUoAs County
Frank Cheney makes oath that he is senior
partner Of the firm of r.. j Cheney A Co., doing
doing business II the city Of Toledo, county
and state aforesaid, and that said arm will pay
the sum Of one hundred dollars for each and
every case OF catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall's CBtarrh Cure. FRANK CHENEY
sworn to before me and subscribed ia my
presence, this The Sch day Of December A. ID.
1856. A.W GLEASON,
(Eeal Notary Public.
Halls Cefarrh Cure IL taken internally. and
acts directly on the blood and mucous kurfacee
OF the system. Send for testimonials freq
Address. " J. CHENEY Il Co. Toledo. o
Sold BY Druggist, 75c
Take Halle Family pills for constipation.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-15
FOR REPREsENrATIYE.


We arosauthorized to announce DR. F.. NJ
MeResas q candidate for Representative from
Obion County in the next General Assem- bly, OF
tennessee, subject to the action of the Demo-
cratic party.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-15
FOR sHERlFF.


We are authorized TO announce Jas I Chiles
as a candidate for recollection TO the Office Of
Sheriff Of Obion county, subject TO the action
81 the Democratic party
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-15

We are authorized to announce Frank w
Pardue as a candidate for Sheriff Of ObiOn
county, subject to the action OF the Democratic
1904
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-15

Capt. Harvey q. Alexander, Of
Nashville, came down last week to
see the homefolks and friends.
We understand the young assist
ant adjutant is entertaining the
prospects Of being candidate for
railroad commissioner from West
Tennessee. If this is fact no
doubt he will be highly indorsed.
He is we'll known over the State
and such backing as would. natu
rally come from these friends
would hardly fall short Of his cleo
ton. The Captain has lots OF
warm friends at home who will
welcome with pleasure the an
nouncement of his future successes.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-15

FoR TRusTEK

8. T. HAYD0n
We are authorized to announce s. T. Hayden
- a candidate for Trustee OF 0bi0n County,
subject 10 the action Of the Democratic party
Election first Thursday In August, 1904.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
Two Winter Games.

Have you I'VE played stir the
mush?" Have one chair too few. Some
one stands in the middle of the room.
holding Il stout stick. and the others
walk around her saying, Stir the mush,
stir the musl.' and she pretends to
stir very hard with the stick. continu-
ing to do SO for some time. After
awhile. when ITO one is expecting it. she
knocks three times on the floor with
the stick and then drops It and joins
her companions. who at this signal run
for a seat. Whoever is left without a
chair is the next to stir the mush.
liking and queen is the name of an
other game. Have two row OF chairs,
the boys sitting in one row with a king
at their head und the girls facing them
with a queen at the end. The boys are
given even numbers and the girls odd
ones. When all are ready the king
calls a number the boy who, bears that
number starts up. the queen immedi-
ately calls one OF her numbers, and the
girl then chases the boy around the COM
pany. If she succeeds i'm catching him
before he gets to the king he pays a
forfeit; if not they take their seats and
the queen calls for a number.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.
Suburban Ditch Company, Principal
Place Of Business, Billings,
Montana.

Notice is hereby given that at q
meeting Of the directors, held on the
End day of January, 1904, an assess
ment of so cents per share was levied
upon the capital stock Of the corpora
ton, payable on the End day OF Febru-
airy, 1904, to ]. A. Miller, secretary,
or to Yellowstone Investment Com
pany, No. z North T~wenty-eightn
street, Billings, Montana.
Any stock upon which the assess
ment shall remain unpaid on the End
day Of February, 1904. will be delin'
ouent and advertised for sale at pub
lie auction, and, unless payment is
made before, will be sold on the 18th
day of February, 1904, to pay the de
linquent assessment, together witt
costs of advertising and expenses o.
sale.
Signed and dated this End day o
January, 1904.
J. A. MILLER, Secretary,
Billings, Montana.
(First Publication Jan. 5, 1904.-4t.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
No .Vowels. In 1t.


Many places have curious names. but
apparently there is only n place
which has a name without any vowels.
That place is the little hamlet Of VS.
near Paris. Ws being an unpronounce-
able name. the inhabitants of the ham
let have transformed it into 'd'Us." but
this change has not been sanctioned le-
gally. and on all the official records the
name Ws>still appears. The hamlet has
1T inhabitants, and its sole attrac-
tons are the Chateau d'Osny. which
has been for many years in the posses
sion of Edmond About's afamily, and
the Chateau de Vigny, which is one of
the best specimens of the renaissance
style of architecture.
So far as is known, there is only n
person in Europe at present who has
a name without any vowels. and that
is NJ. Srb. the mayor of Prague.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15

" mission. 1t would be attractive In a
big hall or in a living room. It may be
had in various effects. the toa brown
Ozark nut color being most liked, bow
ever.
The one shown is beautifully grained
and knotted; that Isl, the wood from
which it is made is, and all this Ii
brought out still stronger by the agree
able stain. The lines are particularly
good, and the seat is cushioned in an
equally admirable style, the material
which serves as a covering being old
fashioned moreen.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
Arrivals at The Elk.

Lee Dennis, Sand Coulee, Mont; M.
F. Purcell, Stockett, Mont; NJ. y.
Harrington, Harrington, Kan; Otto r.
Schoenfeld, Great Falls, Mont; John
Martin, Stockett, Mont; Pat Mullen,
Great Falls, Mont; Phil Openheimer,
Sheridan, Wyo.; Floyd Temple, Dead
wood. s. D.; David Dunnivan, Helena
Mont; X. Weis Elbauns and wife,
Emma Frages, Jennie Frages, Mrs.
NJ. WISE, Bill Lowell, Devils AUG
ton" company, New York; w. !.
Clark, Seattle, Wash; H. G. Crippeh'
city; Hon. Cal. Edwards, Gallatln
Mont; Ed Ames, Red Lodge, Mont;
Hon. W.aD. Burford, Salt Lake, Utah;
]. s. MacFee, st. Paul; G. T. Gillette
Chicago; Peter White. Omaha; M
Coyle, Newcastle, Wyo.; Joe Farms
worth, Mammoth Hot Springs.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
Stockwell's s::;::i %s"': !,
Bell phone sea: Moffett Phone ISL.
Mo CHARGE for Male Help.
No Charge for Male Help.

Help Wanted.
Waitress for restaurant.
Tiemakers, by the piece, lie.
Girls for homework, city and ranch.
Waitress, hotel.
Man and wife for ranch.
Wanted.
To rent. on north side, house OF 3 or
four rooms in good location; no ram
lily; will pay SIS to $40 per month.
Dressmaklng; all work guaranteed
first-class; 217 North 29th street.
For Rent.
Four-room house, south side, fur
nished: $40.
Three rooms, furnished for house
keeping; electric light, furnace heat;
good location, north side.
Three rooms suitable for husekeep
ing; electric light, use of bath, all
for SO per month; north side.
For Sale.
u Team of mares, with foal, weigh
1900 pounds; a bargain.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
Auntie's. Babies..


There are. three of them; bless the dar
lings!
There's Laurence inc Edith May
And the dear little baby. Walter,
Just six months old today.
And 1 think. as I rock the wee n
To sleep in his tiny nest
And kiss the smiles and dimples,
."It Is. you, / love-the best"
But Edith with eyes so solemn.
Climbs, UP on my knees to say,
''May L hold DOR fwotch?" and listens
AS it measures lives away.
I stroke. the brown, locks sunny,
The sweet young brow caressed.
And I think. "Your auntie loves you.
Dear little niece-the best"
But little arms clasp softly
My neck in q close embrace.
And a boyish cheek. all rosy,
Is pressed against my faces
IT'S auntie's little sweetheart.
An I love DO, lots. / do; (
Whole hum erd bushels. auntie:
Is 'at enough for oo?"
Then I kiss my ardent lover
And fold him to my breast.
And / think. .Of all the babies
I surely love ~you-best."
But at night. as the tiny toddlers.
Reluctant. go to rest.
I know, as / tuck them under,
That j love them all-the best.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
THE sUe.coMMlTTEEs.
Citizens Appointed to Serve on Com.
mittees Of Commercial Club.

Citizens Appointed to Serve on Com
mittees Of Commercial Club.
The following is the list of gentle
men appointed to serve on the various
committees of the Billings CONNER
cial club during the ensuing year:
Finance and. Entertainment-Chris
tian Yegen, chairman; H. w. Rowley,
C. w. Spar, P. B. Moss, Phil Grein.
Opening Of the Grow Reservation
o. F. Goddard, chairman; Paul Nc
Cormick, H: P. Vermilye, Jas. r,
Goss, G. w. Spar.
Municipal, County and School AT.
fairs-James R. Goss, chairman; F.
H. Foster,.W. M. Johnston, E. H. Beck
er, p. H. Smith.
Railroads-H.W. Rowley, chairman;
w. T. Clark, H. B. segur, O. F. God
dard, Christian Yegen.
Commercial Relations-A. L. Bah
cock, chairman; Chas. Spear, H. M
Allen, w. H. Donovan, John D. Lose
kamp.
sAdvertising-Austin North, chair
man; w. B. George, w. T. Clark, H. J
Thompson, Thomas J. Bouton.
Manufacturing-F. B. Connolly
chairman; Christian Yegen, J.. M
Broat, Phil Grein, Chas. Spear, w. r
| Sylvester.
Irrigation, Farming and Stock Rails
ing-I. D. O'Donnell, chairman; A. G
Logan, H. P. Vermilye, M. A. Arnold
Paul Mccormick.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15

ing business at the state capital.
while not familiar with the print
ing business, Mr.. Ricketts, has in
formed lawyers having business sbe-
fore the court that he is in a position
to. handle their cases in the matter OF
supervising the printing of briefs and
transcripts. This Mr.. Ricketts, does
to the great detriment of many print
ing offices located in various parts OF
the state.