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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-04
st. Louis Live Stock Market.

Reported by EvanStSnider- Buel Co
Live Stock Commission Agents.)
National Stock Yards, ILL.,, May
2.-Steady to dime lower was the
basis of the opening of the steer
market this week, since which time
the market has ruled dull and a
shade lower. Receipts have been
rather heavy but only moderate
supply of beef steers included as
lots of grass Texans are coming
Most sales ranged from $4.75 to
$500. An advance OF about ten
cents was noted on good heifer
stuff Monday, but the market was
over supplied and prices have eased
off until they are hardly as good
as last weeks best time. Lots of
heifers sold up to S4.75 with bulk of
cows So. IS to 81. 30 A good inquiry
prevails for fair to good grades of
stockers and feeders with scarcely
any offerings to meet same.
Hogs show a dime decline COM
pared with week ago, Best hogs
now selling at So so with bulk from
So. 40 to So As. Best light weights
are selling up to So IS with best
pigs under 100 lbs. S5.75.
EVANS SNYDER BUEL Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-04
Notice to Creditors of the Estate of
Gran Harrison, Deceased.

j. ID. Fry EFT AL. VS.. GEO. HARRISON
EFT AL.-Chancery Court, Obion
County, Tenn.
In this cause by order OF the Chan
Gerry Court at its April term. 1905, |
hereby notify all OF the creditors of
the estate OF Gran Harrison, deceased,
Of the filing OF this suit on behalf of
j. ID. Fry ct al, and all other credit
ors Of said estate, and all such credit
ors Of said estate are notified that they
are required to become parties to said
suit by petition in said SUIT flied on
or before the
LIST day of August, 1905,
and prove their claims. or they may be
excluded from the benefit of this pro-
ceedings. And on motion of COM
plainants, the institution of any sep
arate suits by any of such creditors
against the estate of said Gran Harri-
son. deceased, is hereby enjoined.
This 18th Of April 1906.
G. A. GIBBS. G. & NJ.
Pierce 4 Fry, solicitors for com
plainantS.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-04
House and Lot For Sale.

All Of the f. w. Keiser property
that was advertised for sale in these
columns few weeks ago has been sold
except one house and lot. This one
will be sold at bargain If sale can be
made quick. There are ten rooms in
the house. 1t Is located on Bell street,
one block north of Public School.
Call on or write
o. SPRADLIN,
5-tf Union City, Tenn.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-04
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Dr. 4. w. Miles is IN 81. Louis
this week.
Mesdames Parks and Wells are
in Memphis this week.
Misses Curtin and Brown were
home Sunday from Cairo.
Miss Annie Lee Holbrook has re.
turned from a visit to Dresden.
Mrs. Geo. Holman, of Harris, was
the guest of friends here Friday.
Miss Lola White has returned
from pleasant visit to Dresden.
DR.. W. A. Mailing made a pro-
fessional call to Kenton Monday.
Miss Lulu Cole, of Newborn. is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Sol
Ford.
Miss Lunsdon Winstead has re-
turned from a visit with friends at
Dresden.
Mr.. A. Martin, the city sexton,
reports that he had only one inter
ment in April.
The Union City Concert Band
will give strawberry supper in the
park Tuesday night.
Mrs. Swiggadt, formerly Miss
Ella Rosson, of this city, is guest
of Union City friends.
Miss Reggie Fleming, of Horn
beak, is in the city visiting the
family of Rev. S. f. Wynn.
Mr.. j. E. Chambers, of Dyers-
burg, has entered as a pupil in the
Union City Business College.
Mrs. Mcfarland, after several
days visit in the city with her sis
ter, has returned to Memphis,
r. L. Lockert, who has been in
the northwest buying grain for the
Hardy Grain Co., has returned.
Rev. J. J. Castleberry, this city,
will preach at Shady Grove NJ. E.
Church Sunday at o'clock p. m.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Hamilton are
the parents of very fine baby.
Mrs. Hamilton is improving rapidly.
Mrs. Mary Porter, of Springfield,
arrived here yesterday evening 10
visit her sister, Mrs. ]. ]. Castle
berry.
DR.. John Moss has returned from
New Orleans, after a term OF medi-
cal lectures at the Tulane Un1-
versity.
Mr.. Ownbv will go to Fulton FRI
day to assist in church entertain
ment and try new pipe organ just
purchased.
Mrs. Arm and Miss Dean left
Tuesday for Memphis as repre-
sentatives of John B. Gordon Chap
ter, of this city.
Miss Ella Wlnstead went to Mar
tin Tuesday to attend the funeral
of an old friend, Mrs. Williams,
who died Monday.
DR.. r. A. Napier, of Protemus,
has been very sick this week. He
and Mrs. Napier are at Mr.. Moi
fert's on Home street.
Mr.. Geo. Gibbs, Jr., who has been
spending some months in Yazoo,
Miss, for his health, has returned
home much improved.
Miss Mamie Crockett left Sunday
for her home at Hartley, Tex. She
was accompanied as far as Cairo BY
her grandfather, Judge A. J. Law
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moss, of Home
street, have little son dangerously |
III, caused by running stick in his
foot. Lockjaw is feared by his ply
stefan, DR.. Mailing.
Mr.. John Moores, from Spout
Spring, was in the city Tuesday. |
Mr.. Moores has fully recovered from
his recent illness and his wife is
also getting well, he informs us.
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Prompt Payr11ent.
Quick Paid Claim Made at Covington Tenn, by the
National Life Ins. Co., u. S. of A.
Richard Walton Examined for the Policy the Same Issued he Died and The
Claim was paid all inside Of weeks Below Is copy Of letter
commencing the National Life by Ella Walton The beneficiary
Covington, Tenn, April %, 1905

Covington Tenn, April 20, 1905.
Mr. JNo. B. WHEELER Manager, Western Tenn. De-
partment National Life ms Co., IT, s. of A. Troy, Tenn.
Dear Sir Your Company check for s. 600 has been
sented by representative Mr. H. Lindsey full
Element of claim unde Policy No S2S40 held late husband
Richard H. Walton Mr. Walton made application for this
less than six weeks tried persuade him not to be examined
for this policy but unable induce him the matter
alone fully realize my mistake Had be not made this wise
provision while he good heah day would have been in
actual need AS it is able to children education
which will prepare them for life You will please don the kindness
express entire Company appreciation for the
settlement of this claim, and tel them that they count
the number that will always remember and
praises of the Old National Life of the H. s. Of A.
Very truly ELLA WALTON.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-04
Fine Chickens.

Mrs. Anna Eberhardt received a
few days ago FIVE White Plymouth
Rock hens and a rooster of the
same breed, for which she paid $40.
The sire of her rooster sold for the
fancy price of $500.
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PRoTEMUs.

Mrs. ]. d. Cunningham visited
her daughter, Mrs. Dorrel Harris,
in Union City, last week.
Mrs. Ella McAnally and children
visited Mrs. J.. D. Cunningham and
daughter, Mrs. Baldridge. Thurs
day. Mrs. Baldridge went home
with her and spent few days.
Mr.. Frank Cunningham and wife
heard Carmack speak the 23d.
]. d. Killion was in Memphis last
week.
Mr.. Bill Martin. of Union City,
has had the old Calhoun store here
ceiled and weather boarded and a
front porch put up, and is receiving
new stock of goods. Mr.. Newt
Barnett will be salesman. We wish
Mr.. Martin the best success.
Rev. Thomas preached a good
sermon here the fourth Sunday,
after an absence of two months.
He also preached at Star of Bethle-
hem at o'clock in the afternoon.
Sunday school has been organized
here and we would be glad that
everybody who can will attend.
People say they are later than
ever before with their cops.
OREnIAH.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-04
Bob TayIOr's Letter
Nashville, Tenn, Apl. IS, 1906.

Mr.. Jas. T. Austin,
Principal Union City Business College
Dear Sir have just learned that the very excel
lent and accurate report of my speech Union City
on Mar II and published in The Commercial of
March 10, was prepared by Misses Caruthers, Dean
and Prmm, students of your institution It's perfect
accuracy reflects high credit upon your college, well
as upon the young ladies themselves who exhibited
such surprising efficiency do not recall that
ever before quoted more exactly Will you not per-
nit me to thank the young ladies and congratulate
the institution that produced them?
Very respectfully
ROBT L. TAYLOR.
These young ladies we're in school from 10 to
Is weeks and this is the record made by them
when Governor Taylor spoke in this city.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-04

Hardy Grain Co. has a large
lot of cotton seed received from
Mississippi for planting purposes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-26
ALL OVER THE STATE.
Robinson's Farm Changes Hands

Robinson's Farm Changes Hand.
Mexico-The biggest lald deal in the
history of this county was consum-
mated here when the DID farm and
training quarters of "Jim Robinson,
worlds champion bareback rider" was
sold to Morgan brothers, Of Douglass
county, Ill. The fcfm consists Of 1000
acres, and is one of the finest in
the county, having on it the mammoth
barn with its finished hardwood stalls
in which the champion stabbed his IA
vorite steeds. In the early days this
farm was the home of nearly every
species of wild animal, and in one sec
ton Of the barn the tiers of cages are
still standing. Dozens of bareback rid
ers, some still in the arena, received
their training here. The original own.
er of the place was the first to turn
a backward somersault from the back
of a galloping horse, and in recogni-
ton of his championship was presented
with a diamond ring by Queen Vic
toria, and later, in the early Cos. the
citizens of Havana, Cuba, presented
him with a diamond belt. The farm
prior to the last sale, was the property
of ]. r. Johnson, of this county, wht
parted with it for a consideration O
100000
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-26
WHAT POLITICIANS SAY.
Those Of the Republican CRATER
Stripe Want to Be Let
Alone.

The Republicans of Trego county,
Kan, adopted a platform at their re-
cent convention which contained this
and nothing more: Resolved, That
we leave we'll enough alone" The
Republican politicians of Trego must
be part of the political machine that
runs Kansas in league with the trusts
and combines, but the voters have
been kicking vigorously for reform.
It is only the other day that the
whole state was up in arms about the
Standard Oil trust and the unreason-
able railroad rates, yet these Repub-
lican politicians resolve that, we leave
we'll enough alone. Yes, leave the
trusts, the railroads, the life insur-
ance companies and all the public
grafters alone. They pay the Doodle
to the campaign fund and the Re-
publican politicians of Trego county
handle their share of it, and they OF
course desire to be let alone, but the
taxpayers and the shippers and the
policy holders are telling a different
story. Instead of leaving the graft
ers alone they demand they shall be
put in stripes.
All over the country the Republican
politicians want to be let alone, but
there seems to be a general deter
mination to turn the rascals out.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-26

systematically and without comm un-
der suspicion. A trip to Europe proved
his undoing.
MARITIME added to his income by work
as ''parlor entertainer" He got $25
a night for this, and so pleasing was
his personality that he seldom failed
to convert his patrons into ,admiring
friends. He has appeared in the houses
Of John D. Rockefeller and Grant b.
Schley. He stage managed the en-
tertainments at the West side Y. M.
G. A., where he was highly esteemed.
MARITIME, whose right name is said
to be Martin, came to this city from
Baltimore ten years ago. He is %
years old, and is known as one OF the
s'smartest dressers" in town.
In the West Side police court MARITIME
was brought to answer a charge of
grand larceny preferred by his en-
ployer, w. A. Laughlin. Edward H.
Hobbs, counsel for the ~haberdasher,
said the stealings of Mr.. MARITIME in
the five years he has worked for the
concern are not known, but he was
charged with the theft Of $500.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-26
River Gives Up Victim.

BoonviIle-A skeleton found on al
island in the Missouri river three miles
below here, has been identified as that
of Mrs. William Courtney, wife of a
shoe merchant, who was drowned by
the overturning of a steam launch at
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad
bridge, August 10, 1905. Other victims
Of the tragedy We're Mrs. Courtney's two
daughters, whose bodies were recovered
several days later, and Miss Nell Var
ney. The skeleton was identified by the
shoes, the only part of her apparel re.
naming. A diamond brooch and a dia-
mond ring, valued at $1,000, and other
iewelry are missing, and the earrings
she wore when she met her death were
not found.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-26
Guido in Age Deeds Which Usually Are
Associated with Passionate
Youth.
CHICAGO MAN TRANSFERS Wife TO SON.
Stepmother Had Won Love of Youth, and Fa-
Their Resigns His Bride-Marital Mixups of
Two Eastern M~illionaires

New York.-Three men whose re-
cent romantic stories have made their
names household words are Thomas
w. Kiley of Brooklyn, Capt. Nathan
Appleton or Boston, and Watson H.
Twitchell of Chicago.
Elderly, rich, and known as keen,
practical business men, they have gone
to greater lengths for the women OF
their hearts than aver a STRIPPING did.
They have done for love what few
youngsters would do. Between them
they make up a veritable trio of ro-
nance.
They are men of affairs, each in his
own city. Not for a moment would
anyone believe them anything but
h~ard-headed business men. Yet what
they have dared is remarkable--these
three men whom everybody believed
beyond the age when Cupid calls his
loudest.
Thomas W. Kiley married the
daughter Of his benefactor because she
loved him, and he thought his first
wife dying. Appleton met his affinity
and is now preparing to divorce his
first wife. But most remarkable OF all
is Twitchell. He gave up his bride
his second 'wife-to his son, because
he loved them both, and wanted to
see them happy.
And first, then, this remarkable 70
nance of the Twitchells.
Bertha May was a pretty little coun
try girl who lived in a quiet little
Michigan town, when Watson II
Twitchel, widower, with a son "a years
old, came there on a business visit
He met charming Miss Bertha and fel
head over heels in love with her-thls
gray-haired business man of Sc.
She Wanted to See the World.
He told the ambitious little girl from
Michigan of the pleasures of life IL
Chicago. When he asked her to mar
ry him she thought that her desire tt
see the world-that Is, what of 1t tina
can be seer in Chicago-was reall.
love. So the old mar with the grown
UP son and the unsophisticated littl'
girl from Michigan were married. Th'
proud bridegroom brought his daint.
bride back home to Chicago, and Their
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-26

thing, inasmuch as my wife and l
seemed Incompatible"
Freedom Her One Thought.
So eager was the pretty girl from
Michigan to marry her husbands son
that she made no contest, though she
had a lawyer to represent her. All she
wanted was her freedom-and her Ed
ward! She blushed as she owned up
to her love-the frank, honest blush
of a pretty girl who has at last found
out her real romance.
"We were married last December"
she said with just a little wistful
smile, land came to Chicago to live.
There | met Edward, my husbands
son. After the first week / was not
happy, | realized that | didn't really
love my husband. Our ideals were not
the same. One evening after dinner |
tainted. Edward rushed to catch me
in his arms. Then | really knew which
one | loved"
WELL" remarked the court, "tc
come to the point, you didn't care
whether your husband left you OF
not?"
The little country girl hesitated. Fol
a moment her lips trembled and two
little tears coursed down her cheeks.
"Well," she faltered, II guess | don
care much! No, l am not sorry that hi
wants to give me UP. | have been en-
tirely Indifferent to my husband, ant
I found it too hard to pretend to low
him when | didn't really care for him.
do you think you are on the RICH
track now?"
"Yes, that's it." sighed the little wife
II am on the right track now, Judge:
"All right" announced the court. "
think it would be wise to grant the di
vorce. You are sure you like the son
Edward?"
Eyes, quite sure" sighed little Mrs
Twitchell. 81 think l love him yer,
much"
And such is the omance of tn
Twitchells, father and son.
Captain Appleton's Romance.
Everybody in Boston who know
, anybody, knows Capt. Nathan Apple
ton, one of the famous Appletons. H
!, is a millionaire, a soldier, a clubmar
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-26

Appleton. II don't think 1t will affect
my suit in the slightest. | don't care
whether she joins Mrs. Appleton
against me or not, for can win out
against both of them. / hear plenty
of rumors, but they don't interest. The
suit will take care of itself when the
time comes"
There is much that is mysterious in
this shattered man of the elderly
clubman. Some of it, it is expected,
will be cleared up at the trial.
But, asks Boston, if Capt. Appleton
want a divorce, why did he wait for
IS years before asking for it? Perhaps
Miss Willis can give the answer.
The Man with Two Wives.
Thomas w. Kiley, president of the
| North Shore bank, of Brooklyn, and
| millionaire head of Thomas w. Kiley 6
| Co., hardware merchants, is well along
toward life's winter. He is to-day 81
years old. 1t has just transpfred thai
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-26
From Philadelphia.

The visitor from Philadelphia had
been taken in hand by his Pittsburg
friends and shown the sights Of the
city, from the Carnegie Art institute
to the belching furnaces of Homestead
together with other points Of semi
historical interest. The visitors was
naturally impressed with the action
and snappiness of the city.
. Now" said the visitor, gratefully,
II must try to repay you for your
courtesy whenever you come to my
town. BY the by, have you ever been
In Philadelphia?'
EYES," said the P~ittsburger, Il spent
several years therein one after
manipulating Gazette.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-26

for three years he has maintained two
homes, and in each a woman VIC
thought herself his wife. He married
the second one three years ago when
he believed his first wife dying.
She lived, instead.
Here was a strange quandary for the
man. He had two wives, each appar-
emily married to him by every right OF
law. But let him tell the story him
self; Just as he told it when it was dis
covered that he had one wife living at
No. 20l Jefferson avenue, Brooklyn,
and another at No. ZIG Brooklyn e
u
Il was called to the bankers con-
vention in San Francisco in October.
| 1908, and I asked Mrs. Flora H. Colt to
| go with me, whom | had loved when
we were young. When we left Brook
lyn my wife was extremely i'll at home,
and not expected to live. On the way
out west I talked the matter over at
great length with Mrs. Colt. Her father
had been my employer, my b~enefactor.
I had peer a bachelor until was SO
and then / married my brothers wild
ow when Flora Colts husband was
still alive.
Mrs. Colt knew how my heart stood
in the matter, and l told her that ]
wanted to marry her. We both be-
lieved that my first wife would be dead
before we got back to Brooklyn. MY
only excuse was that | was nervous
and overwrought.
Married at Hammond, Ind.
when we arrived at Hammond
Ind. we were married under our trut
names. In a month we returned tt
Brooklyn. I bought my second wifi
the house on Brooklyn avenue, ant
made it over to Mrs. Colt in her Owl
legal name. | made the agreement witt
her that we would live publicly as ma
and wife just as soon as my first wifi
died. We had not expected to com
east until her death.
But my first wife grew stronger
and soon recovered her health. Ther
was nothing for us to ds but to kee
the matter secret. / confessed every
thing to my first wife, and she under
stands everything. | have maintaine
them both since then"
To-day both women feel the weight 9
the shadow upon their lives. kiley ha
told all. And that is where the cas-
stands now-the case OF the three eld
erly persons-the man well over 81
each woman over ~50-whose loves an
:. lives have been so sadly tangled.
And now, who shall say that re
nance is only for the young?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-26
POINTED

The Democratic victories in the late
municipal elections have made the
Republicans in congress, who were
already downcast, more pesslmistlo
than ever.
Senator Tiliman has made the
constitutional lawyers of the senate
sit up and take notice, that a cornfield
lawyer, who is a Democrat and there
fore trying to benefit the people, is
some pumpkins.
THAT $100, 900 appropriation for
a private car for the president has
been side tracked until the amount
actually necessary "a be discovered,
for it has been found that however
much is appropriated the administra-
ton expends it all.
THE Republican "kid' members
of the house of representatives at
Washington, who came in on the 1904
tidal wave, are looking sad these days
on the certainty that Democrats are
booked for their places. A further
cause of sorrow is their bad luck at
the Be1nlDS TdCeS.
MIR. Cornelius N. Bliss, the treas
urer of the Republican national COM
mittee, does not care to discuss the
arrest of Mr.. Perkins for his liberal
donation to the committee of the life
insurance money, that should have
been sacred to the widows and or
phans of the policy holders. President
Roosevelt and Chairman Cortelyou are
equally mum ON the subject and have
made no move for restitution OF the
large sums to the life insurance COM
panies.
Senator Knox, the eminent
corporation attorney, who was elect
ed to represent the Pennsylvania rail-
road interests in the United States
senate, declares that the railroad bill.
as it stands, is unconstitutional. The
friends of rate regulation have more
fear of the Joker that Senators
Knox, Elkins, Aldrich, Foraker and
others will try and conceal in amend
ments, than they have that the SUI
preme court will decide that the rail-
roads are to be protected instead Of
the people.
ALI the cabinet but MIR. Moody
are said to be out Of harmony With
President Roosevelt on the control q
railroad rates, which shows how the
leading Republican statesmen arc
owned and controlled by the corpora
lions. No similar conditions have pre-
vailed under any former administra
, ton, and 1t Is safe to say that q house
30 divided against itself can hardly
, endure. 1t may come to this tina
President Roosevelt in self-defenss
will have to compromise with the cor
, porations, or II he is an earnest re
, former, he will have TO invite Demo
cratic statesmen to Join his oficia
household.